John Tolmachoff's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Where are my migrated packages?

  I have successfully migrated 50+ packages from 2000 to 2005. Where are they ! ! I looked through Management Studio and through Visual Studio ("SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio") and cannot find them. Note: When I open Visual Studio the splash screen confirms that Integration Services is installed.   Thanks   Kirk has blogged about it here: http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/knight_reign/archive/2005/05/05/13523.aspx Hope that helps! - Ranjeeta ...Show All

• .NET Development getcurrentprocess problem

  i am trying to get the current process using Dim currentProcess As Process = Process.GetCurrentProcess() and then getting the name of that process using currentProcess.ProcessName I am getting an exception 'System.InvalidOperationException' the exact error that i am getting is System.InvalidOperationException: Process performance counter is disabled, so the requested operation cannot be performed. at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(PerformanceCounterLib library) at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(String machineName, Boolean isRemoteMachine) at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProc ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ compiles much slower on dual core processor

  The Background:  I recently upgraded from a 2GHz AMD Athlon machine to a 3.2GHz Pentium D dual core processor, thinking that my Visual C++ (.NET 2003) compile times would decrease significantly.  In fact, it went the other way round.  One of my library projects requires 11 minutes to compile on the AMD machine, but takes 25 minutes on the dual core machine.  My entire set of projects compiles in about 4 hours on the AMD machine, but in 8.5 hours on the dual core.  The same slowdown occurs with the .NET 2002 version and VC6.  I am awaiting delivery of Visual Studio .NET 2005 (apparently Progra ...Show All

• Visual Studio Set up VSS so all files checked in before final release

  I like to know if there is a way in VSS to make sure all files are checked in before any developer can make a final release executable. Thank you in advance! J Hi J, Sorry, I do not know of such 3rd party software. But perhaps someone else on forum or newsgroups knows I suspect there should be fairly easy to write such tool yourself. I don't know for sure, but I'd expect VSIP interfaces for VisualStudio have a way to hook up a Before_build event. Then, it should be easy to use IVSS interface and check the status of the project files in the VSS database. Alin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Read profile and membership properties in a Winform application

  Hi All, I'm developing a small website with a backoffice winform application. The website has a profile section with user preferences, and I'm using the profile manager in web.config. The backoffice (winform) application needs to read some profile properties per user. I can access the membership information, but I didn't find any class or method to read the user profile, with their custom properties. I already referenced the System.Web namespace and included the membership and profile information in the app.config file.. Thank's for any help, Fabio Hi Fabio, The System.Web.P ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with SoundPlayer

  Hi, I have a problem with SoundPlayer. When I play longer .wav files they sound very damped compared to playing them in WMP. Also, if I play very short .wav's, I can't hear them at all although they play nice in WMP. Any idea what this might be Thanks, Tom lol :D .NET 2.0 has a class called SoundPlayer private System.Media.SoundPlayer player = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(); player.SoundLocation = SoundSettings.Default.DataFeedDisconnected; player.Play(); ...Show All

• Visual Basic missing components menu!

  Hi there, Please can someone help me. Im at the end of my wits with this!! yesterday, by accided, I pressed the x button to close the component menu which appears on the left hand side of the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE for VB 6.0. Well, I think its called the component menu - it has all the different objects you can place on your forms, like buttons and labels etc. No matter what I do I just can manage to get it back now, and I desperately need it to finish a project I'm doing. Any help would by HUGELY appreciated. Thanks Lor :) Yes, this was helpful but why not include something as basic as the toolbox as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Properties of Chart Object

  Are the properties of the chart object accessible i.e. Chart Title, X-axis, and Y-axis. Thanks, Bunk As mentioned in your other thread, the ReportViewer controls are based on the Report Definition Language (RDLC). You define charts in RDLC and you can set properties there to a constant value or to an expression. However, the RDLC objects (such as chart, matrix, table, etc.) cannot be directly accessed through the ReportViewer API. -- Robert ...Show All

• Visual Studio Info on BasicAsyncPlugin class

  I have a package project that is supposed to be a Team Explorer extension, that adds a custom folder to each project hierarchy. To implement this Team Explorer extension i inherit from the BasicAsyncPlugin class. As there is no documentation for any of the Team Foundation SDK classes, everything is more or less guess work. It appears to me as if Team Explorer calls the method CreateNewTree in the plugin to create the tree structure for the custom folder. In this method i have some code that creates this tree from RootNode and BaseHierarchyNode, or actually implementations of these classes. The CreateNewTree method is set to return the root n ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums read only file opening

  Hmm, it worked for me... maybe you should dim a new object for the wb and close that. Then you won't close the whole Excel application accidentally.;) But if that doesn't help, try posting some of what you do inbetween opening and closing the workbook... Dim xlApp As Excel.Application 'Note: better memorywise Dim WB As Workbook On Error Resume Next Set xlApp = GetObject(, "Excel.application") Set WB = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(sFileName, False, True) If Err.Number = 0 Then 'error checking, values are read only if Workbook has been successfully opened ' code for reading values WB.Close (False) Se ...Show All

• Windows Forms Image Button with Text

  How to add a text with the Image button    I am adding a Image button in a panel bar at run time. We can give Tooltip for that image.  But I want to give some text for Image button. Whether its possible  i.e. Image with Some text as "one Image button." Hi there, I'm also looking to place text onto my Imagebutton& ...Show All

• SQL Server Question about Analysis services configuration file

  Hi, all here, Please help: I am currently embedding my own plug-in data mining algorithms added to SQL Server 2005 data miming algorithms family. I can see my own plug-in algorithm apprearing in the analysis services configuration file. After the change of the configuaration file, I have actually restart the analysis services server. But why I can not see my plug-in algorithms available in the algorithms list when I open business intelligence development studio I have also tried to change the configuration file for other algorithms already available in SQL Server 2005 analysis services for data mining, save the configuration file, then re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Install issues with 2005 developer edition ctp

  Hi,    I am trying to install the SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition CTP that came along with the VS2005 Beta 2 Team Foundation Server.    I am not able to install the software. Setup always exits with this message. "--------------------------- Windows XP Setup --------------------------- Please go to the Control Panel to install and configure system components. --------------------------- OK   --------------------------- "    Please help! Thanks abdullah If it asks you to provide a strong password use a batch file to run setup.exe EX: create setup.bat with the following ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS diff

  I need to compare 2 VSS6.0 projects using a script. The diff command in VSS6.0 does not have the option to compare 2 projects. How do I do that I suspect you want to use the VSS command line (ss.exe) to compare 2 projects $/Project1 and $/Project2 in the database. The "ss.exe Diff" command for projects can only compare a project in the database with a folder on the local disk. So, you have 2 choices: - either use "ss.exe Get $/Project1" to get the content of the $/Project1 in a folder on local disk, then use "ss.exe Diff $/Project2" to compare the local folder with the second project (the Get pa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Studio 2003 Pro + Platform SDK = no run

  I’ve had Studio .Net ’03 Pro (MSDNAA service at school) for a whilebut I just recently installed the latest platform SDK (Server 2003 SP1) for use on XP Pro. Everything was fine until I “Registered PSDK Directories with Visual Studio”. The process seemed to delete all of my VC++ build directories (executable files, include, reference, library, and source) making it impossible to compile anything. I tracked down and restored the original paths and I can now build and compile win32 and MFC applications but it still will not compile any command line apps. Both STL and standard header files are not found even though the paths to the directories ...Show All