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• SQL Server Validation of entire SSIS solution

  Does anybody know what causes VS to open and validate all SSIS packages in a solution when only one package is being debugged I have the impression that this problem occurs only after building and deploying the solution. I did find a workaround for it: delete the entire solution from your local disk, then get it again from SourceSafe. It therefore seems that after building and/or deploying a solution, something is stored locally that tells VS t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Policy rules execution results

  Using Feb CTP. I defined a Policy which reads its rules from XML. After Execution of the Policy it correctly maps the result of the ThenAction of the rules to properties defined in the workflows. This works fine. However, I do not want the make the code in the workflow aware of the name of the thenaction. If I have a new rule, I the have to change and compile the code again. I rather want to check the results after policy execution and loo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Read specific line from a file?

  Hi, Is there a method to read a specific line of a text file The StreamReader class does not seem to have a method to do so. The Peek method isn't what I'm looking for either. Would appreciate your help. Thanks. Will threading help If you know in advance what is the file to be processed, you can start a thread to index it first. I did a simple test program, and indeed, with indexing, reading any line is extremel ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic Compiler Error Hotfix

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to res ...Show All

• SQL Server Should I use a variable for this?

  Greetings once again! I am in the process of converting a couple of old SQL 2K DTS packages to SSIS packages but I am facing some tricky decisions with regards to logging the package steps. I have a LOG table in my database which I use to log all events which occur in my packages and stored procedures. I use a stored procedure to log these events. The stored procedure takes a set of parameters but for this example I will only be using 2 ...Show All

• .NET Development Multi-threading with UdpClient

  Hi there, I am trying to implement a simple board grame which use UdpClient to play over a network. My problem is that the game requires all the network connection and traffic to be done in a separate thread. My approach is to use a main thread to do all the user interface and game logic and use another thread to do all the network related logic. However, I run into problem when I have to pass the status of the board from the main thread to ...Show All

• .NET Development C# oriented object programming - Collection of objects

  What will be the best for me as a C# programmer to use a list of object of the same type.. EXP: Object 1 = League.cs Object 2 = Teams.cs Should i use an ArrayList in my League object to store all teams that are refered to it what will be my best array here for me in .NET framework to use to store objects !! ** I dont have any third party software and i dont want to buy any of them.. because some people have said the arraylist can do the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to access pocket Email message in Windows Mobile 5 app?

  Hi all, I have an application developed in C# which needs to retrieve Pocket Outlook for email messages. I have come across a solution using MessagingApplication.SwitchToAccount but it will only open the Inbox page of selected account without any customization to my likings. Lets say I want to display only the Subject, From, and Data received on my custom page, anyone has any idea Is it possible For your info, I'm using Windows Mobil ...Show All

• .NET Development Method can not be reflected

  Hi everybody, I'm using a Web Services that was not written by me. Anyway, when i call the client proxy (stub) i receive the follow exception An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in system.web.services.dll Additional information: Method Selection_Archive.ListEntitledSelection can not be reflected. I can't understand why i have this exception. This is the client stub's code (auto ...Show All

• Windows Forms Better practice to load Form with data?

  Hi, I have a form which suppose to load with data. There is a web service to catch the data after instantiating the form. This causes loading time to be slow. There is no problem for the slow time but i want to show the form afte ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005: Exception in Designer

  Hi, I have created a CF UserControl which among other things contains a Panel. When I add my UserControl to my application and the mouse pointer enters the area of the Panel I get the following error message in VS2005: "The control XXXX has thrown an unhandled exception in the designer and has been disabled. Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." The appearance of the Panel then becomes the "re ...Show All

• Visual C# How to take the difference of two time

  Hi all, I would like to take the difference of two time and if it is more than 30 minutes, I will take some action. I had manage to convert the time to string as follow dt1="2006/03/20 23:55" dt2="2006/04/10 10:55" May I know how to take the difference (dt2-dt1) and check if the difference is more than 30 minutes Please help If dt1 and dt2 are date times, op ...Show All

• Visual Basic Auxiliary file locations in VB 2005

  Compared with pre- .NET versions of Visual Basic, VB 2005 generates a number of additional files, mostly in project subfolders like Bin, My Project, and obj: .pdb, .resources, .cache, .vshost.exe files, and the like. So far as I can tell, they're auto-generated perhaps at build time, but because they reside in the folder tree with the source files the whole collection gets backed up, ballooning the backup unnecessarily. Is there a way to break o ...Show All

• Visual Basic Give Me A Liitle Help Here Please.

  Hi i have recently switched from VB 2005 express edition BETA 2 to VB2005 express edition no BETA 2 or what ever that junk was about. but any whoo i get a error message saying that my designer view can not be opened because the compiler is not intact i have been unistalling and reinstalling this framwork 1.1, 2.0, and the new SQL server stuff along with the new VB and all that good stuff but it still wont work VB is my job and right now i do ...Show All

• .NET Development Calling a C++ dll from C# 2.0

  We have a third party C++ dll (black box, no source code), which needs to be called from C#. The C# process, fills in some structure variables and pass it by "reference" to C++ dll, which calculates, fills the results back into the structure variables. Members of the structures are of type byte, long, double and  arrays of double type. No string members. After I call the C++ dll, I just see NaN (not a number) in al ...Show All