Cheese's Q&A profile

• SQL Server ODBC Destination in SSIS

  Hi! I have a problem that stops me from using Integration Services as THE ETL tool. My goal is to load a data warehouse type of a database. The database is MaxDB (former SAP DB), but this is not the point. Let's take ANY ODBC compliant DB and assume all I have is ODBC driver - no OLE DB driver. I figured out how to read from ODBC source (using Data Reader and ADO.NET provider for ODBC). Now my question is how do I output/write my data into ODBC ...Show All

• Visual C# Type-safe Collections and Duplication

  Is there any way to write type-safe collections for different types without repeating code The best way I know of is to just write separate classes deriving from CollectionBase and add the required methods but this leads to a lot of code duplication. In C++ there is no such problem because of templates. Is there some way to get the same functionality in C# It calls "Generics" and it's a feature of C# 2.0: h ...Show All

• .NET Development Compatibility Framework 2.0 and 1.1

  I developed and deployed an application under Framework 1.1.  It also runs under Framework 2.0 but its installation on a client station requires Framework 1.1 whereas only Framework 2.0 is installed.  Isn't the upward compatibility assured   Do I have to ask the users to installs an old version of Framework whereas they more recent installed Thanks. Hi, Kosta, Yes, I changed this line of SetUp.ini but there is n ...Show All

• Windows Forms VerificationException?? why??

  Why am I getting this exception   LoadEvent Exception: System.Security.VerificationException: Operation could destabilize the runtime.    at Rebif.RandomMove(Int32 movingSpeed)    at Rebif.LoadEvent(Object sender, LoadEventArgs e)- this is the code void RandomMove(int movingSpeed) {   int&nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Date/Time of compilation

  C gives me the constants __DATE__ and __TIME__ so I can time-stamp each build (easier to decipher than the version.) Is there anything equivalent in VB.NET I don't want to use any file timestamps. I want to embed the current date and time at compilation. ---Mike   Well you can get it in VS2005 but it’s a little work and I used the File system object. It’s quite possible that the fileinfo cl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Publish tab for Project displayed with errors in Visual Studio C# Express

   Hello, I Just downloaded Visual Studio C# Express Beta 2. I wanted to use ClickOnce deployment, but ... I have problems with publish tab  in Windows application project properties. It shows: "The error occurred trying to load the page. The publish components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to publish your application." I tried reinstalling but that didn't helped. Also the error is displayed when i try to right ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can I start instalation a Windows Vista os

  How can i start instalation of Windows Vista OS. I burn a DVD image, but i can not open it. I can read only a README file. What shall I do What does the Readme file say ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET XML Serialization Question

  Hi Folks I'm running .NET 1.1. I've a quick question regarding xml serialization: Is it possible to flag properties with an attribute to specify "Always Serialize". Especially read only properties. Explanation: I am using xml serialization to produce xml from objects for consumption by my frontend, which is displayed via javascript and xslt. I obviously would like all my public properties to pull through in the xml. The ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Someone help me make this dll project in c++ able to be referenced in vb.net?

  I have this c++ dll project but i cant figure out how to get it able to be referenced in vb.net it always says it cant be referenced. Please Help and post a link to the project you edited or send me a copy of it at josh@winmxunlimited.net The Project source - http://www.winmxunlimited.net/source.zip   did you try registering it with regsvr32 Do you have source code for the project Here's something else that may help. Get a co ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) December CTP Installation trouble

  I've VS2005, WinFx Runtime Components 3.0 - Beta2, and WinFx Extension for VS2005 installed. I believe Extensions are December 2005 (version 8.0.6). It did not include Cider though. Now that I am trying to install " Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview - WinFX Development Tools "  I am getting following error almost at the end of installation. " A network error occurred while attempting to read ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cell Borders

  I can't seem to get the cell borders in my table to show up when I run the page.  I get the outline of the table, but not the borders for the individual cells.  When inserting the table, I have checked "border, cellpadding, cellspacing" and set them to 10 pixels and it doesn't seem to work.  Also, if I select an individual cell, I don't even see "cell" specific commands (border on or off, etc.) that would let me set it ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem installing SQL Express

  SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or Remove Programs to remove these components, and the run SQL Server 2005 Setup again. Loaded DLL:C:\WINDOWS\system32\msi.dll Version:3.1.4000.2435 Product "{2AFFFDD7-ED85-4A90-8C52-5DA9EBDC9B8F}" versioned 9.00.1187.07 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least versi ...Show All

• Visual C++ 64 bit porting Issues

  Hi Albert! We are planning to port our COM, mfc applications to 64 bit platform. Any pointers to the resources for 64 bit porting issues, guidelines, casestudies, newsgroups and forums would be of great help. See: Porting 32-Bit Code to 64-Bit Code http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vccore/html/vcgrfPorting32BitCodeTo64BitCode.asp See: Overview of the compatibility considerations for 32-bit program ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce API Memory Leak

  Hi,   Has anyone noticed a memory leak when using the ClickOnce API calls.   Each time I call the CheckForUpdates method, my application's memory increases my 300K.   This memory is only released when the application stops   I think that it's a bug within the  System.Deployment.Application assemble Regards, I have the same problem. My application inceases to 300M in a week. J ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Designer Preview

  Hi, how can I obtain the information, the current instance of a Control class is running in the Designer preview I didn't found a member that supplies me that information in the Compact Framework. Thank you! Yes, it's supported in CF 2.0. See the code below. bool designTime = false; if (this.Site != null) { designTime = this.Site.DesignMode; } // If "designTime" is true at this point // then ...Show All