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• SQL Server using ssis to generate load

  hi. i'm trying to use ssis for something it wasn't meant for (i think)...  which is load generation. I have a table which has exec sql statements. I want to load this table, multicast the statements into x recordsets, then get x sql connections and execute these statements. so far i can load the table, and multicast it into x recordsets. But i can't figure out how to execute these statements by getting them out of the dataflow and ...Show All

• SQL Server Report task?

  Hello, I'm not sure if this one should be in this forum. Anyway... I need to build some reports in MS Word format. Is there are any way to do that It can probably can be done in Reporting Services, but how I can merge these two tools in one project (solution) for example Thanks. You can have a SSRS project and a SSIS project in the same solution. As an aside...you can also share data sources between those project ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to deploy and update ClickOnce applications using MSI?

  I am creating a product that will be installed using MSI on the customer's server and want to use ClickOnce so that they can easily deploy the Thin Clients of the system.  I have yet to find a tutorial or writeup on how to deploy and update ClickOnce applications using MSI.  Does anyone know of a good one Thanks, Adam. Hi, David your post did help us through the server install issues. I posted a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Class Libraries

  We utilize a large number of class library projects within our existing applications for our business logic. Within the Application Designer, it does not seem to allow for Class Library projects, only Web Apps, Web Service Apps, Windows Apps and a Generic App. What should I be using within 2005 Application Designer to create these Class Libraries They are not classes that I would be adding to a given application, they are complete projects. Is ...Show All

• .NET Development Access the data available on internet and use it in my web application

  Hiii, I want to list the prices of some products available on the internet everytime i open a web page in my application.. ex: I want to list all the printers available and their prices from internet in a datagrid on my page. Is it possible if so how.... There's the poor man's approach: Screen scrape the interesting web sites by loading the web pages and parsing their HTML sources. This is tedious, fragile, and error prone, be ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Events and DataExchangeServices

  I have written an application where workflows are calling external methods using a DataExchangeService. Some of these methods raises questions to the user. I have two questions related to this: How can I make sure the workflow has a waiting handler for the event in the "DataExchangeService" before I invoke the event that contains the answer to the question. I need to do this, because sometimes the question is sent via email or S ...Show All

• Visual J# J# newbie having trouble using SQL statements in J#

  Thanks to anyone who helps! I'm building a data entry windows form that requires the data to be sent to a SQL Server table (the table's name is "Local") when the form's "SAVE" button is clicked. I've built the form using the windows form designer, and now I'm attempting to use SQL statements to insert/update data into the table. There are six fields that will use SQL statements to send data to the Local table, and non ...Show All

• .NET Development Client information available to server

  Hi, I have an remoted object served by IIS.  I'm looking to find out what information I can get about the client that has connected or is making a particular method call. I saw an MSDN article saying that I could use System.Web.HttpContext.* to get some information about the client, but I'm unable to use .HttpContext for some reason.  All I get available to me under the System.Web namespace is ASPNetHostingPermission, ASPNetHostingP ...Show All

• .NET Development I've never used .net, need help

  I will apologize in advance for being a outsider coming in and asking you professionals to help me. I'm just lost at what I need to do. I had a terrible experience with a website developer company and so I was told I should just hire a programmer to create the program and then I can have it installed and a website designed for it's use. My problem is, now that the programmer has created it, they have sent me the program to install and test ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to Ignore Web Test Errors?

  I've got a fairly simple web test script that I'm building.  Unfortunately, the page that I'm testing has a bug in it.  The page refers to a .css file that doesn't exist.  The tool correctly reports this error.  Now that this is a known bug, I'd like to instruct the tool to ignore this error from now on.  Is there a way to do this Alex If your request is marked to parse dependent l ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS COLOur Settings

  How Can I change colour setting in SSIS I want change the colour of  link arrow Data Flow tab.For Example flat file source to OLe DB destination.I am a  colour -bilind and I confuse which of them green or  red. Thanks.   Sadun_Ozcelep wrote: How Can I change colour setting in SSIS I want change the colour of  link arrow Data Flow tab.For Example flat file so ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Services - File Transfer

  Hi All,      I am using VS 2005 (BETA 2) and a Web Service to upload/download files.  I am trying to use the My.Computer.Network.UploadFile and My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile methods.  In essence, I have a file (test1.exe) that resides in the same directory as the web service, and would like to save it to a remote computer when the user calls my method.  It gives me the following error: System.Net.WebExcepti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions New line in strings

  Hello, I'm a bit new to programming in VB and I need to add text to a text box, but I would like to have each piece of text on a new line. E.g. I want to set the value of TextBox1.Text to "lollipop", but I later want to add "cheese" on a new line, so the textbox appears as: lollipop cheese How can I do this If you have a couple of buttons on your form then the following does what ...Show All

• Visual C# scripting/automation in .NET?

  Hello,   I have two questions about automation support in .NET, motivated by a project we are undertaking.    We are planning to add scripting support for our application, which controls scientific equipment and analyzes the resulting data.  Our app is COM-based, implemented as in-proc servers written mostly in VC++, with the UI code mostly in C#.  We are leaning toward a solution based on Microsoft's automation recomm ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Listbox selected item error

  Hello, Im still learning this and am slowly getting it along the way but could not find a solution to my simple problem. I have a listbox that is populated with data, but when I set a variable to get a selected item from the listbox I just get the varaiable as system.data.dataview the listbox data source is setup as the bindingsource and the line of code I am using is Dim var As String = ListBox1.SelectedItem.ToString() ...Show All