spectrablue's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SSIS Doubts

  I am having this question in my mind from when I started using SSIS.. In a package I have an OleDB source and a flat file destination. and I hook up the source to destination in SSIS and run the package.. it works .. fine.. but internally what is done does SSIS performs BCP out Going from OleDb to flat file it just reads the data. There is no Bulk option for reading data out of SQL, because it doesn't have to ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating Controls at Run time

  Hi All,,, how can create different types of controls(Text boxes, combos, grids, labels...) at run time without placing them in invisble mode at design time using VB6 and VB.Net Thank you   It's probably worth adding that in some situations you may need to add event handlers to your newly minted controls.   For instance, you may need additional code to react to user actions such as key presses in a textbox or mouse clicks ...Show All

• SQL Server BSM with SSRS(2005) on a different box

  Could anybody help provide some detailed information about installing BSM with SSRS 2005 My installation needs to have SSRS running on a different box than the BSM server. There are 2 issues involved here: The BSM Server.msi by default looks for Reporting Services 2000. I need to have the complete installation based on SQL2005. Do i have to install RS2000 and then manually configure it to use SSRS2005 In addition to this, I would prefer ...Show All

• Visual C++ Big Problem with Formating

  I have a very big project with several 1000's of source files, I need to compile it, but the compiler complains about this " Mac file format detected: please convert the source file to either DOS or UNIX format" I kind of got panic because I can't sit and manually click on all these files to convert them, however just clicking on a file VS asks if I want to convert them and does so automaticall, but I've looked everywhere and can't find a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Attacking by herbies...

  ...is that I don't like (or maybe I miss something, then I ask for advice). Herbies are trying to be Normal and Full. This is required for growth and reproduction. Now the competitor herbivore is trying to eat my plant. I am stronger or more&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Differential Backups: Pages or Extents?

  Hi All, Does a diff backup (on either 2000 or 2005) backup only the changed pages or extents There are various solid sources that provide conflicting info. Thanks Rob Actually we always backup at the granularity of an extent (8 pages). But you are partially correct: it is the change to an individual page that marks an extent for backup. Cheers ...Show All

• Windows Forms ContextMenu problem...

  How can I obtain the Parent of a ContextMenu I succesfully patched the problem in an "unelegant" manner (Added a Parent Property to my class and I've assigned it after the InitializeComponent...) that works... but sucks!!! Thank you! W ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control's Leave event handler masks move to next control in tab order

  If a dialog (VB.NET: MessageBox or a form using ShowDialog) is shown from within a control's Leave event handler, then the focus does not move to the next control in the tab order when the dialog is closed. This is a change from the behavior in VS 2003 and results in the Leave event being fired multiple times (and consequently the dialog being shown multiple times).   Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a form (Form1) with two text box controls ...Show All

• .NET Development ViewState

  I am getting a "The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted". This error only occurs occasionally. It seems to be when the viewstate is particularly large. It occurs more with datagrids than anything else. One more thing, it does not occur on port 93, but does on 80    I have seen lots of posts on this problem, but none fit my scenario and none have commented that it works on one port and not on another. Mark ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Passing credentials with Invokewebservice activity

  How do you pass in user credentials when using an Invokewebservice activity. I'm starting a workflow from within a Winforms application and it fails when calling the webservice.... System.Net.WebException was unhandled by user code   Message="The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized."   Source="System.Web.Services"   StackTrace:        at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientPro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do Tracks and Iterations relate to one another?

  I've been doing some in-depth research on MSF for a book I'm co-authoring on Project Management using Visual Studio Team System. To that end I have a number of questions about MSFv4. I'll post them to this forum, a few at a time, in the hopes of getting answers from both the MSF product team as well as practitioners in the community. This is my first question. The process guidance for both MSF Agile and MSF CMMI contains a page named Itera ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OnMediaEnded and weird MediaElement.Play behavior

  I do not want to use a StoryBoard, but wanted to loop a video. I put a MediaElement with LoadedBehavior set to Manual. MediaElement.Play is used to play the video. There's also an event handler for OnMediaEnded where MediaElement.Play is called again - to repeat the video. This has no effect - the video is not replayed. I put a call to Stop before calling Play again - no effect. *But*, if I change the Source property to a different video, Pla ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet.ReadXMLSchema question

  I have an xsd that needs to be populated with output data for the customer. The initial idea was to read the xsd using XMLDataDocument.DataSet.ReadXMLSchema call to have the .NET create a dataset, then populate it with the data and save into an xml file. The ReadXMLSchema seems to create one table in the dataset per each element in the schema and name the table after the element's name. However, the schema reuses multiple complex types in sever ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office specified cast is not valid error when tryning to create new word template project

  hello, i am trying to create new word template project in VS 2005 this is after I created few word project on the dev computer, and done some deployment practice on the same computer like : set framwork security, using publish wizard and setup project and such things. Now every word project(document or template) I am trying to create I getting this error: specified cast is not valid and the create project failed if it is excel pro ...Show All

• Visual C++ using a vb6 dll in vc++?

  is it possible to use a vb6 dll in vc++ how do i access the properties(variables) in a vb6 dll (using let and get in vb6). for example i have 5 properties defined in the vb6 dll, 4 of which having write-access and 1 read-only access, how do i put values using c++ in those properties with write values and get the value of the property that has read-only access. Are properties and functions in a vb6 dll treated the same when used in c++ over ...Show All