Mike Wentzel's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Corruption of package?!

  I have done this twice - grrrr! Simple SSIS package contains the following tasks Control Flow 1. VB .NET Script to create a file name with "sometext" + mmddyy + ".xls" 2. FTP Task - logs into FTP site, finds file name created in 1) and downloads 3. Data Flow Task Data Flow 1. Excel Data Source - connects to and maps the Excel workbook/sheet columns 2. OleDB Destination - Inserts rows using the column mappings from 1) abov ...Show All

• Windows Forms To convert pixel into inces or viceversa

  Hi, Plz tell me the exaxt method to convert pixels into inches or vice versa through C#. net. Thanks, Hitesh Converting between the two requires knowing the DPI you are currently in. Normally windows runs at 96 DPI so if you’ve got a 1 inch long line on the screen there are 96 pixels being used to display it (provided the overall resolution relates properly to the size of the monitor). With simple math you can use this value as yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem using dates in XMLtoFLFF Transformation

  I am having a bit of trouble transforming a XML (xs:date) type to the DBDATE in my FLFF. I believe the problem is because the SSIS DF (Metadeta) converts xs:date to DT_DBTIMESTAMP which becomes 01/01/2005 00:00:00 -- appending the time. So when I try to transform in my fixed length flat file, it throws a truncation error when the length is set to 10. (which is the length of date) Is it possible to (A) use some other xs format that ...Show All

• Visual C++ ActiveX Control in a Scripting Environment

  I'm trying to build an ActiveX control to expose properties and methods to a JavaScript environment under Internet Explorer.  Despite having studied COM basics and am going through a tutorial on building ActiveX controls under Visual Studio version 5, I'm having an awefully hard time making this work.  I believe there MAY be something left out of my list of what is done that causes (for instance) a property to be exposed (assignable an ...Show All

• Visual C++ code doesn't working, help.

  In Win32 project i have a code, that simmulating a left mouse click on Windows Start button and it work very well: #pragma comment(lib, "User32.lib") Add that just after the #include to <windows.h> (or anywhere else you find convenient for that matter) Alexxey wrote: In Win32 project i have a code, that simmulating a left mouse click on Windows Start button and it work very well: ...Show All

• Visual C++ For port Interfacing

  Hi. I am new to Visual C++. I've used Turbo C for controlling motors. When I wanted to send data at parallel port via simple outport commands , it didn't worked in windos XP but it easi;y worked in windows 98. Plz tell me how to do it in windows XP. And can Visual C++ be used to send data via parallel port using simple commands because I want to make a grphics interface. I'm having the same problem. I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Installing a VB 2005 App under both Old and New OSs

  I am about to distribute a new application to a diverse group of customers. Some are running XP, some Windows 2000, and some even have Windows 98. What's the best way to handle this I understand Windows Installer 3.1 that accompanies the VS package is fine for Win 2000 and more recent. I also understand that I can download a v2 Installer that will handle Windows 98. Does the v2 Installer handle Net Framework installation as well Can I u ...Show All

• SQL Server changing subtotal expression

  Hello, I'm using a matrix report to display scores for certain items on certain criteria. The items are on the left and the criteria at the top. Now I would like to have some sort of subtotal row at the end of each group of items that displays the average value of all the scores for that group and not simply adds up the scores. The built-in subtotal just adds up the scores, where I want the average value to be displayed. Isn't there an ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Any good Books on using WCF in SOA

  I have read through Dave Pallmans book on Indigo.  Its a good introduction, but tends to focus on RPC, ratehr than WSDL and Message orientated SOA solutions. Anyone suggest any decent books (apart from MSDN) which go into the depths of true contract first (WSDL) and Message orientated SOA - To help Interoperability with other Platforms. Thanks Julian Hello Richard, In your post here you imply that SVCUTI ...Show All

• .NET Development subset of XML data

  I have a XML file that has about 50 elements (columns) and about 500 records. Right now I need to get about 25 of those elements(columns)so what I am doing is to load the entire xml file into a dataset and then create a new table with just the items that I need and do a table.merge. It works but I am new to the XML world and there must be a cleaner way of doing this. Any help is apprecieated. Thanks Using Da ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums cannot save file as

  I can't save any files on any of my other drives. The message comes up as save file not responding. Also szAppname:WINWORDEXE, szAppver:11.06568.0, szModname:hungapp. Why can't you ever get help from microsoft without a fee After all this is their product. golferdrums I'm having the same problem. Did you get an answer to your question ...Show All

• SQL Server The database 'x.MDF' cannot be opened because it is version 611. This server supports version 607 and earlier??

  Hi, I have tried to attatch a database ,created by SQL server Express within a C# application , in SQL server 2005 Enterprise edition, but the following error message appears: ----------------------------- TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Attach database failed for Server 'MEDO'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink ProdName=Microsoft SQL Server& ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Reusing workflows in a State machine

  I have a state machine with states A and B. Both of them have an EventDrivenActivity which has the same sequential workflow. What is the best way to create just one copy of this workflow instead of repeating under both EventDrivenActivities Note that there are other EventDrivenActivities on each state which make them truely different, so combining the two states into one is not an option. Hi Naresh, You can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS2005, CA1802 and IntPtr

  The following line of code precipitates a CA1802 warning: public static readonly IntPtr NULL_HANDLE = IntPtr.Zero;   The documentation for CA1802 says: To fix a violation of this rule, replace the static and readonly modifiers with the const modifier. Alas, if you do that, you get: error CS0283: The type 'System.IntPtr' cannot be declared const I suppose I will just suppress the message, but it's mildly irksome that it shou ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Welcome to the Windows Workflow Foundation forum!

  Welcome  the Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) discussion forum . Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a WinFX namespace ( System.Workflow ), an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio 2005.   My name is James Conard and I am an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft’s corporate Developer & Platform Eva ...Show All