Michael Brooks's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Errors loading a text file into a Sql Server Destination

  I am trying to load 14+ million rows from a text file into local Sql Server. I tried using Sql Server destination because it seemed to be faster, but after about 5 million rows it would always fail. See various errors below which I received while trying different variations of FirstRow/LastRow, Timeout, Table lock etc. After spending two days trying to get it to work, I switched to OLE DB Destination and it worked fine. I would like to get the S ...Show All

• Visual C# MultiSelect in MonthCalendar

  How can I disable the MultiSelect in the MonthCalender ...Show All

• Windows Forms Notification when component deleted?

  I have a designer for my custom control. How do I get notified when the control instance is deleted from the designer Is there a designer event or method I should be looking at Phil Wright http://www.componentfactory.com Free user interface controls for VS2005 ComponentRemoved event of the IComponentChangeService will help you achieve what you want. HTH. Alan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Something about FlexGrid(old thing but i have to use it)

  I am trying to show the result on the FlexGrid with fill the cell colour flexible, but i don't like FlexGrid. Is there any alternative to use  I try to use the DataGrid failed, spend money to buy 3rd party package is not in my mi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) design question regarding generated proxy classes/DataContracts

  Hello all, I have a design question not neccessarily directly related to Indigo: Let's say I have two services dealing with Customers, both will use a (or the same) Customer class as arguments in a servicemethod like == [Serializable] [DataContract] public class Customer{ private int _id; [System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute(Name = "Id")] public int Id { get { return _id; } set { _id = value; } } == Now users of the service ca ...Show All

• Visual C# Casting an enumeration that has a defined type..

  public enum foo : ushort { foo, bar } ushort test = foo.bar; Cannot convert from 'Test.foo' to 'ushort' Sure, I can make variable of type foo, but I'm encoding the value to a network stream, so I want it as a ushort. The thing is, I specifically told the compiler the enum is of type ushort, so why do I have to typecast it You need to cast it :-) ushort test = (ushort)foo.bar;  Oh - you sai ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Open form 2 close form 1

  Hi   Ive tryed for some time now to work out how to close form1 and open form2 as im moving from vb6 to C# 2005 im finding it rather strange and a bit of a learning curve that i seem to be getting rather well im just not sure how to do what the title says, can some please provied the help/code to do the above.   Thanks Hi Dan,   Thanks very much for the info its helped a lot!, t ...Show All

• Visual C# C# socket programming help

  Yeah, I know the subject is vague, so I apologize :-) I'm basically learning c# in my new job during the past month, and I'm feeling fairly comfortable with ASP.net, etc.  I was given the task of making a basic socket listener that would basically listen on a specific port for data, and then write that data to a file.  Eventually the data will be coming at any particular time, and won't be having any sort of header or footer or anythin ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 works for one 2000 server but not the next

  I have several SQL 2000 servers I need to setup transactional (non updatable) replication with. The structure is: SQL Server 2000 as Publisher/Distributor SQL Server 2005 Standard as Subscriber The connection is via the Internet with snapshots using FTP. I setup the first set (2 databases at location A). They work wonderfully. I created the publication and then subscribed using MGMT Studio for 2K5. II am setting up the same sc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Creating an Outlook Pane similar to Clipboard Viewer/Action Pane

  I want to create an addin for outlook that creates a pane on the right similar to the Clipboard Viewer and Action Pane. So far from what I've read, Outlook doesn't have action panes, but I was wondering if someone knew of a way to accomplish something similar to this using a toolbar (possibly with the pane or custom control which I have not been able to find any examples/documentation on). Thanks, Nick [Edit] After looking some more, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Refresh Problem?

  I have the follow problem: The first time i draw the image I get a blank screen( The image stay only a half second) but the next time the image is good drawn. I have looked for a refresh method but i didn´t find it. Any  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS and named instance of analysis server

  Can TFS access analysis server if it is a named instance if so is there any documentation on this cause I am told that it has to be default instance for analysis server... The reason I ask is we have 2000 and 2005 on a server and we need both versions of analysis server. Thanks much. Refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/29/sql_named_instance.aspx Swamy ...Show All

• Windows Forms catch ENTER Key in my textbox

  i have two textbox in my form i want change focus between two textbox with Enter Key help me please thx us for your ans. One way of going about it create a custom control inheriting from TextBox control and put up the following method in the class protected override bool ProcessDialogKey( Keys keyData) { if (keyData == Keys .Enter) return base .ProcessDialogKey( Keys .Tab); ...Show All

• Visual C# server -->client gets disconnected

  hi i developed a class server and also a client everything goes fine i connect the clients and after 4 minutes of inactivity of the clients automaticly disconnects them why every client has a separetly socket in my server.. Why is he disconnecting the clinets is there a option or proprety to be set .. or something.. You can set the KeepAlive flag of your Socket: socket.SetSocketOption( SocketOptionLevel.Tcp, SocketOptionName.KeepA ...Show All

• Windows Forms Remote server is running my .exe rather than allowing it to be downloaded!

  Hello, I just built my first program in C#, which I'm excited about. I want to offer it for a download on my site. When I click the link to MyApp.exe in Firefox, it downloads just fine, but when I click the link in Internet Explorer,& ...Show All