Just-A-Nerd's Q&A profile

• SQL Server How to stop a package

  Hi, In one of my packages, I have a script component to do a transformation and I am inserting the output to table. Within that script component, if the data does not match my requirement, I have to stop the job. For that, I am using 'componentmetadata.fireError' to raise an error. The problem is, now even when an error is raised, the job completes by loading the remaining records and then aborts. But I want to abort the job as soon it raises ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDIForm

  How can I activate a MDIChild form after closing a non MDI form because all the commands in the Childform_Activated event after closing a non MDI form was not working Childform_Activated Dim i As Integer lsvBacBus.Items.Clear() i = 0 SQL( "SELECT * FROM Course" ) Do While Not Rs.EOF lsvBacBus.Items.Add(Rs.Fields( "coursecode" ).Value) lsvBacBus.Items.Item(i).SubItems.Add( "1" ).Text = (Rs.Fields( "coursename" ).Value)lsvBacBus.Ite ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem upgrade from TFS B3R to RTM at system health check

  I have follow the instruction step by step in the upgrade guide for TFS B3R to RTM. At the Step 9: Install TFS RTM Single-Server installation at the system health check I received an error database version mismatch. Can anyone give me a pointer on how to fix this problem Thanks, Vinh, Can you execute the following proc on TFSIntegration database and tell me what it returns Exec GetTFSVersion ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Please help me...

  Dear Experts, I am creating a Word Document project using Visual Studio 2005...However, when I tried to "Run" for the test...there was a warning which is said like this: "The assembly must be granted full trust before the solution will run." What should I do know in order it works.. ...Please help me... Thanks, Jennifer Hi, Well I'm not realy an expert but I had the same problems when I sta ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC vs C# Winforms (was Can C++ develop web-based applications?)

  I'm in a convo with someone who's continuing to use MFC when he has the opportunity to use C#. Could someone point me to the literature that talks about MFC's originator having second thoughts about it Brian ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Load / Save

  I Have three questions about loading and saving!  1.   How do you load a file like a .txt file into your program and then edit and save it as another file like .doc   2.  also how do you open music files and/or picture files    3. And is it possible to convert files like mp3 by opening them and them saving them in another format like wma Thanx in advance ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Icons/Glyph Designers on Windows Vista

  I know this is weird question/request...but is there anyway I can be put in contact with the design team working on the icons/glyphs for Windows Vista, I have so many questions I wish I could get answers to... please just one designer on the team, he can email me at emdubu@hotmail.com if you can post the persons email directly here. PLEASE! i beg :) best Michael just seeking a few answers i know i wont get here... Ask your questions here s ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I use the timer properly??

  To decorate my WinForm App,I used a timer to make the opacity of the form graduately transform when closing...but it did not work.,.wy Some one can help me You're close.  What's happening is the form is closing before you have a chance to "dim" it.  Try this... private void timer_Elapsed( object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e) {     if ( this .Opacity>0)        this ...Show All

• Visual C# Is this the best and fastest way to access MS Access database?

  Hello, I am wondering if the following is best and fastest way to access MS Access database (for read only)             OleDbConnection Myconnection = null;             OleDbDataReader dbReader = null;             Myconnection = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLE ...Show All

• Windows Forms Menu inheritance for forms

  I'd like my base form to have some common items on its menu, like File->Close, Help->About, and possibly the common edit items. Then on derived menus, I'd loke to be able to add appropriate other items, like Export, Load, Save, what have you. Is this possible in .net with WinForms. It looks like when you inherit a form, the parent settings get cast in stone. Mike [last post] you will have to programaticaly add menu item yourself. That ...Show All

• .NET Development Floating Point Epsilon

  Why does the .NET framework provide Double.Epsilon and Single.Epsilon as the smallest value greater than 1   In all my experience to date, the floating point epsilon has been defined as the smallest value such that 1 + epsilon > 1 If the exponent produces a very small number, that number cannot be added to 1 without losing the significant digits, as the exponent for 1 is not small. ...Show All

• .NET Development Authentication options

  I'm working on a project that will use a web service over the internet. We'll control the endpoints. I don't know that it will be important to identify the actual user when authenticating. What I will need to do, is to determine that the message has not been tampered with. We may be able to use VS 2005. I'm looking for suggestions to impliment a solution that allow me to determine if the message has been tampered with. ...Show All

• SQL Server Deleting Files using SSIS Scripting Object

  I am utlizing a scripting object in my ssis to combine two text files into one final file, and then I want to delete the original files. To do this I am utilizing the FileSystemInfo namespace and associating the file names, then utilizing the DELETE functionality. The creation of the final file works perfectly...unfortunately, my base files do not delete, and I do not get a failure message or indictator. Here is my code: ' Microsoft ...Show All

• Visual C# typedef in C#: Visible in separate projects

  I saw that you could get around the absens of the C++ typedef feature by using: namespace NameSpaceCS {   using Handle = System. Int64 ; or using Handle = System. Int64 ;   namespace NameSpace CS {   But this is only visible in one file. How do you make it visible in other projects. I have added the reference and the  using NameSpace CS ; in my other project but it still seems to ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating tables from other tables

  Hi, I have a table of data and would like to make an exact copy of the table (structure and data). Are there any ways to do this without having to first run a create statement (that would have been based on the original table being manually scripted) and then select insert for the data. The reason being that this initial table may change and that would mean I would have to go and change my create statements. It would be nice to h ...Show All