smv's Q&A profile

• SQL Server DTC - Transaction context in use by another session

  Hi I have a master package that executes a series of sub packages. The master package is run from a SQL Agent job. The packages are reading from and writing to two databases on the same instance of SQL Server 2005. If I set the Execute Package Tasks for the sub packages without any precedence constraints between them and set TransactionOption = Required at the master package level (and supported from there downwards) I get the following ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance - Slow load times for SSIS Packages

  Is there any information around what the SSIS packages are doing in the first 5-10 seconds of execution, and ways to speed this process up Validation then Pre-Execute are the first things to happen as I recall. You can see all the events being raised prior to the Execute event itself in the BIDS Progress or Output windows. You can also capture lots if information including this through logging. DTEXEC can also dump all this information to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with TransactionScope when running Unit Tests

  Hello, we are having a bit of a problem here. Three of us are running Unit tests daily. One of us have installed an English OS and the tests are running excellent. Two of us have Swedish OS and frequently run into this exception: Failed Test method UnitTest.CompanyTest.UpdateCompanyTest threw exception: System.Transactions.TransactionManagerCommunicationException: Communication with the underlying transaction manager has failed. ---> Syste ...Show All

• Visual C++ A probable wrong example in the c++ reference in msdn

  Hello, when I recently checked the msdn, I found a possible error in it's example. The example is in "Unnamed namespace" section in C++ reference. It can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclang/html/_pluslang_unnamed_namespaces.asp The example indicates there are two errors, yet the 2nd error doesn't exist in theory and in fact. I compiled the example, only got the 1st error. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums MS Office document and image writer print driver

  Besides removing this feature from Office during setup, is there a process to remove this virtual printer from 300 users with roaming profiles on an active directory network We are having an issue with this printer assuming the "default printer" selection for our users. As a work around we have changed their default printer, but after they reboot or log off / on it has defaulted back to the MS Ofc doc and image writer printer. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Assembly problem!

  I have a problem ask for your help! I'm puzzled by it several days. Maybe it is easy to you. Then,please help me! Thank you! In my project, there are Scene1.xaml, Scene1.xaml.cs, Page1.xaml, Page1.xaml.cs, and Application xaml, Application.xaml.cs, etc. Scene.xaml define a main window where I define a area to display Page1.xaml. In Page1.xaml: < Mapping XmlNamespace="uc" ClrNamespace="HyperBar" > <Grid x ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 CTP with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Manager?

  I installed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Manager and connect to SQL 2000 normally but when I connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 CTP, I failed! when I open SQL Configuration Manager, I find the SQL Server had been running, after I opened "Attribute" window, I find "This account" box had been checked, and "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" was displayed in Account Name edit box, "**********" was displayed in "Password" edit box. I think that t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to make tests run directly from build output directory (instead of a copy) ?

  Hi, I've recently started using the testing tools available in Whidbey. Having used tools like JUnit and NUnit in the past, I have to say, test integration within the IDE is pretty nice. However, I'm not sure I like how everything is copied to a separate directory in VSEqtDeploymentRoot each time a test run is kicked off, because I am actually trying to test my VsPackages, and those make use of a number of hardcoded paths in the registry. Is the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS RC1 Install - Account Related Errors

  Hi There, I've been trying to install TFS RC1 for several days and must confess to be running out of strength having encountered (and to some extent) solved a number of different errors. Environment is: Fresh Install of Windows Server 2003 SP1 Followed by a fresh Install of SQLServer 2005 (2 attempts) Windows Share Point Services SP2 (3 attempts) TFS RC1 (many attempts) We are running a Samba Domain server with L ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Will DLinq fully support objects-first development?

  Microsoft: 1. Will DLINQ be able to a parent-child relationship without having to write a ParentId property in the child class 2. Will DLINQ be able to map dictionaries (not just sets) 3. Will DLINQ be able to map nested classes properties in the same table as the class 4. Will DLINQ support all inheritance mapping strategies (class table, single table, concrete table) and be able to mix strategies at different levels 5. Will DLIN ...Show All

• Visual C# Dll Help

  Sorry for the Double Post i accidently posted this in the Wrong section. Hi, i have my mainform referenced in my dll proj. I am wondering how i can call the dll file to read a text file and send the text to a textbox on the mainform: On the mainfrm it isn't giving me the option to add the delegate "TextSender". Once i get that i should be fine with the app part of it. What i would want to put here is textReader.TextSender = Proce ...Show All

• Visual C# why we did not declare Int32 in C#???

  As we know c# datatypes are object by inheriting the CTS classes. When we declare int anyVariable=anyValue; Exactly what we are doing . If we are creating an instance object of type int or what Please give me some detail idea.... Thanks in advance... Ashok An Int32 inherits from System.ValueType which in turn inherits from System.Object. Anything that inherits from ValueType (ie Int32, DateTime and any other ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Interface Guide

  I've posted the updated user interface guide for the upcoming release.  I won't link to it directly until the rest of the documentation is ready to go, but thought you guys might like to take a peek.  Let me know if you find anyt ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Data Form Wizard - AddNew() adds new row but doesn't clear out databound controls

  I'm usedthe Data Form Wizard in VS 2003, Visual Basic to create a Windows Data Form to display/edit/delete a table in a Microsoft Access database. The data loads into the dataset just fine and the binding context works except for when I click on the "Add" button the dataset indicates a new row is inserted but the databound controls won't clear out and the current record doesn't appear to change. See attached code: Try 'Clear out t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Menu Help Please

  I'm dynamically creating a menu from a database table and don't quite understand how to add the click events for each menu option. I can add a single click event that handles the click event for for all options, but how can I make each&nbs ...Show All