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• SQL Server Package Configuration With TimeSpan Property Causes Errors

  I have built a custom task that exposes a few properties of type System.TimeSpan at design time.  TimeSpan is not serializable so I was forced to persist the value of Ticks on the TimeSpan when saving and loading the task through the IDTSComponentPersist interface. However, I also want those properties to be exposed through an XML Configuration file.  The Configuration Wizards errors out everytime I include one of these Time ...Show All

• Visual Basic Refactor slow and not quite stable

  1. Opening VS2005 is slower, and opening a project is slower. No big deal, but if you start opening files before DXCore is finished loading, it hangs for quite a while. 2. Cursor movement is jerky, and somewhat annoying. This is on an AMD 3200+ w/GeForce6200. 3. Several times I accidentally hit both mouse buttons and/or keyboard keys, causing an IDE crash with loss of data. I mention this only FYI; these would not be big problems if I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Deleting Rows?

  Hi, I am wondering how to delete a cell from this DataGridView named dgImage... I did something really close but this action would delete the whole data in the dataTable.... I have experimented for about an hour trying to get the current selected cell value so that it is "usable" by dgImage.CurrentRows.Remove(theValueofTheCurrentCellSelected) I have searched and everything.... Please either tell me how do delete the selected Cell at dgImage (a ...Show All

• SQL Server Why can EngineThreads property on the data-flow task not equal 1?

  The question is in the title! Thanks -Jamie There's no better answer than the pipeline engine simply needs at least 2 threads to function correctly. Matt can give a more precise answer, but I think one thread is needed for the buffer manager and the other for execution. K ...Show All

• SQL Server removing replication table

  Hi all, Can Enterprise Manager remove a table from replicating to another server I've tried looking at the article tab of the property of the publication but couldn't find a way to delete a table from the article. Any idea Thanks! Hi Alan, In SQL Server 2000, if there is an active subscription or the publication allows anonymous subscriptions, you will not be able to drop an article either through Enterprise m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot connect to TFS from Visual Studio

  I am not sure if TFS is even running.  I can get to sharepoint no problem, create new sites etc.... I can get to the report services no problem and when I browse to the TFS host machine from a workstation I get the sharepoint site.  I have tried running Visual Studio as the the tfsservice account and still I get the cannot connect dialog.  How can I tell that TFS is installed and working   Is there an admin utility What dir ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cancel from an AddNew in DataGridView

  HI All, I have a win form with a DataGRidView bound through a BindingSource to a table in a Dataset. (All VS2005 of course). The way I would like the app to work is the user clicks on the new row (the asterix row selector) on the DataGridView to indicate they want a new row. This then pops up a dialog that lets them select which of an available set of entries they want to add. The list is potentially big, which is why its not just a dropdo ...Show All

• SQL Server Possible to use Calendar control with date parameter?

  SQL 2005 on XP Pro. I want to call up a Calendar Control when a user enters a report parameter which is a date. Is this possible I am using the out-of-the-box SQL Srvr Reporting Services, not a custom implementation. Thanks in advance This is supported. A calendar control will be displayed for date parameters that do not have a valid values list. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Platform SDK & MS Visual C++ 6.0 compile errors

  Hi, I'm running WinXP home O/S and developing an application using Visual C++ 6.0 (Enterprise Edition, SP6). I want to use Windows Sockets 2. My resources recommend using the getaddrinfo () function but, having included the relevant Winsock header/s & linking to the appropriate DLLs (see code below) I was getting compile errors indicating that addrinfo struct was unknown. After some cursory web research I came to the conclusion that ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS in .NET 2005

  Hi All, I have a .NET 2005 application that uses SSIS programming class library to load and execute SSIS package stored in SQL Server 2005 (in msdb). I created the setup project that added automatically all the dlls required for that, and it is all included in .NET 2.0 as far as I know. Now, every thing goes OK on the development machine (XP SP2) against local SQL Server 2K5. But I deploy the application in ano ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error:"Currently selected property has a wrong type"

  I was working on a WF project and all of the sudden I started receiving the following error message when using the WF Designer in Beta 2.2: ''Currently selected property has a wrong type 'WF.wfEventArgs instead of 'WF.wfEventArgs' Here's the fun thing. The types are the EXACT SAME TYPE. It is expecting what I provide it and it fails. Has anyone experienced this Thanks. Peter, Did you upgrade from ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trouble with vs 2005 beta 2

  Hello. I have order VS Studio beta release 2. now it is 1 mounte over betwen installation and now. The problem is that my Compiller not to what i want. and i have nothing do befor in the settings part. The other, fathal problem is that my keyboard commands in the Source Window not correctli works. i mean: The backspace and some shortcout commands licke Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V dont work. i haven't the express edition. What is the problem. is my tra ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques

  My whitepaper titled Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques is now live on MSDN. It covers some best practices for creating web tests as well a lot of things to look for when things don't go the way you expected. Josh This is a great article! We've been getting many customer requests for information like this. Thanks for publishing it! Cheers, -Noah Coad, PM VSTS Dev/Test, Microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Scollable Text Boxes lack copy command

  In this forum for instance, why doesn't the right click context menu of selected text not have the copy menu (If I select some of this text, I will not  see a copy menu - there is a paste menu and a select all menu)  I have to use the Ctrl-C instead. I have the problem on multiple systems. I first noticed this recently using SBC Global's Yahoo web email message boxes. It started about two months ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Moving Items in the Outlook Calender and listen to the Event

  I'm developing an Outlook Add-in with VSTO 2005, which adds a CommandBarButton to Outlook.AppointmentItem. This Button opens up a Windows Forms which makes it possible for the user to order a room and service for the meeting. The Forms uses the ItemEvents_10_PropertyChangeEventHandler to catch when a property is changed on the Outlook Form. But i need to be able to know when the user moves the Outlook.AppointmentItem through the Calender, ...Show All