LJames's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQLAgentMail and 64 bit

  According to KB908360, if you are using 64 bit, the only way to get jobs to send notification emails is to configure SQLAgentMail in outlook express. I followed all of the steps in the article but I still cannot seem to get it to work.  My jobs all get stuck in the "Performing completion action" phase. SQL Mail is enabled in the surface area configuration and the sqlagent properties.  The test of the MAPI profile in sqlagent properties successfully starts the MAPI profile.  I can use the account/profile I configured from inside Outlook Express to successfully send email.  I have restarted the SQLServer and SQLA ...Show All

• Windows Forms Don't show form

  Hi, I'm trying to write an app that doesn't open a form when run, but puts an icon in the system tray, which when double clicked, opens the form. I can do everything except stop the form from opening.  I've tried adding a this.Hide(); to the Form's load event, and even tried setting the WindowState to Minimized and then adding this to the Res ...Show All

• Visual C++ Poly-Threaded C++ Applications

  I have a few programs that I am converting to be threaded. At present I have a couple of programs, computer chess engines, that are threaded and work fine with Microsoft's C++ compilers. When the SMP.H #define's detect _WIN32 || _WIN64 it calls up process.h functions but on other platforms it need to use a bit map in ASM to manage the threads properly. Other considerations include inter-process communications etc. If threads dont need to speak to each other then the situation is simple, if not then some form of signalling is needed and the program becomes more complex. One program I use computes end game positions for chess, usin ...Show All

• SQL Server DataStage Vs SSIS

  Hi, We are in a process of migrating a process running in Ascential Data Stage to SSIS. The database server is ORACLE 9i. We need samples/guide on the following datastage equivalent features. 1. Calling a function/script/routine from task's Data Flow transformer as Before/After Stage event. 2. Complex XML parsing and loading into sequential files. 3. Creating a batch & based on the condition calling the tasks. For example, if condition=YES then call task 'A' or call task 'B'. 4. Any shared container concept. (A portion of activity will be used by most of the tasks) 5. In the Data Flow Destination, is we have feature like insert ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Bug in Error Window, VC# Express

  I have a new installation of the Feb05 CTP VC# Express with a Mar05 CTP of Avalon installed.  I am checking some older XAML code and have received some errors (not unexpected).  However, when I make changes to the size of the column headers in the Errors list, the listbox, headers and all, goes into some strange oscillations and settles on a wierd configuration.  If I click the Warnings or Messages windows, I may also get the error messgae in one of them and they disappear from the Error window.  By going to the Output window and back again, the Error window will repaint to normal.  This seems to occur ever ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I raise an event from a DLL's worker thread?

  I have a c# DLL that a VB6 app is making a call into. That DLL then starts a thread and returns immediately. I need for the DLL to raise an event when the thread completes. I can't use the BeginInvoke technique to start the thread, because I need to override the apartment mode to STA, as interactions with COM objects was failing with "QueryInterface failed". Therefore, I am using an explicit thread creation, which doesn't seem to provide a callback mechanism. I can raise a message from the main thread just fine. I can't raise a message from the worker thread; I get "Object does not match target type". Is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Beta 3. When?

  When TFS Beta 3 will be released I read Somasegar's blog that points TFS Beta 3 will be released simultaneously with VS2005 RC1. At this time VS2005 RC1 already is released but TFS Beta3 is not. new blog, TFS Beta3 will be out about 14 days out... still in September ^^ http://blogs.msdn.com/rickla/archive/2005/09.aspx Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:37 PM Currently I think we're about 14 days out on those bits so we're very close. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing a Web application with Active X Controls

  Is testing web applications with ActiveX controls supported, if so how would one go about doing this.  The application being tested was not developed in house so we do not have any code just the application.  We are trying to load test the application but ran into problems recording due to the Active X controls being used. To save a fiddler recording as a web test use the File->Save->Visual Studio Web Test. Note that you may have to make a selection in the request list to get the menu item to enable. Then add the web test to an exisint Visual Studio test project using "Add Existing I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce can't find System.deployment assembly

  I am uning .NET framwork 1.1 and try to do the clickonce deployment as described in the walkthrough below link http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_fxdeploy/html/6ff5691f-6768-4b1e-aeb2-b1272341bc55.asp Select your Windows Forms project in Solution Explorer . Add a reference to the System.Deployment assembly, and a project reference to the OnDemandAssembly project. I can't find the reference for System.deployment.dll Is there any way I could do that Khan   Khan, Can you confirm that you're running Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 (.NET Framework 2.0) You should be able to reference System.De ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error Tooltip Glyph using WorkflowDesignerControl

  I am playing with the tutorial Lab 10, Embedding the Workflow Designer. I changed the PromptActivity to include [ Designer ( typeof ( PromptDesigner ), typeof ( IDesigner ) )] [ ActivityValidator ( typeof ( PromptValidator ) )] [ ToolboxItem ( typeof ( PromptActivityToolboxItem ) )] [ ToolboxBitmap ( typeof ( PromptActivity ), "IPML.ICO" )] public partial class PromptActivity : System.Workflow.ComponentModel. CompositeActivity [ ActivityDesignerTheme ( typeof ( PromptTheme ) )] public class PromptDesigner : ActivityDesigner class PromptValidator : CompositeActivityValidator ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to add items in the listbox?

  Hello All Forum Members, I have a access database contains tables I want to add thoes tables in listbox as the items .. How can I do that in VB.net 2003 I am very greatfull to you people for answering me this question and resolve my issue ... thank you very much ... Fatir Siddiqui Hi! Do you want to create list of tables from database or you want to add values from some table to your list Common scenario is to fill dataset and bind it to the list or grid controls. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration Links not working

  In about box, clicking on Register Now brings up IE, but nothing displays. Same for Visit Microsoft Registration Site.   Cp1der wrote: After I signed into NET.Passport, & filled-out a Form; I re-clicked on Link & it mysteriously worked I also Closed, than Re-Opened the Program while I was Signed-On. ...Show All

• Windows Forms NUnit and Team System

  I'm watching a webcast about VS.NET 2005 Team System and the presenter mentioned something about "rumors" of a conversion utility that takes NUnit tests and converts them to Microsoft's format.  Does anyone know anything about this One of the reasons why I am NOT using NUnit today is that I know it will be built-in to VS.NET 2005 so I figure ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom connection manager development sample?

  Does anyone has code/sample/tutorial/pointer to developing custom connection manager with a custom UI. And then developing a custom task with a custom UI that can point to this custom connection manager... and passing values during runtime from UI to the custom class. TIA, Nitesh I assume you mean a custom UI for the component not connection. You follow a similar pattern to tasks, but inherit from IDtsComponentUI Interface . Developing a User Interface for Components ( ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.SQL.v2005.en/dtsref9/html/10b829a1-609b-42e3-9070-cfe5a2bb698c.htm ) A sample is available from here, Ch 14 & 15 - Wr ...Show All

• SQL Server Default SQL Server 2000 Collation

  Hi Can you tell me what the default collation is as part of the install routine for SQL Server 2000 Thanks ...Show All