New Data Flow Source items in VS 2008's SSIS Designer

The items shown in red rectangles are new items that you will find in Visual Studio 2008's Toolbox. The ADO.NET Data Flow Source can be used to extract data from a relational data source using a .NET Provider.

Note that the DataReader Source is removed from this group

Refreshing my acquaintance with Dojo Tool Kit

This is an excellent tool that I liked very much. Due to other things I
became interested in, I was out of touch. Recently downloaded the dojo -release_1.0.2 and placed it on my localhost's web root,



and tried out a few tests. Voila! The items I tested worked the same way in both Firefox 2.0 and IE 8.0 Beta.

I just tested the following items,

/dojox/gfx/tests/test_text.html

/dojox/gfx/tests/test_resize.html

/dojox/gfx/tests/test_linearGradient.html

They looked the same except that the sizes in the first html file came out different in the two browsers.

In FireFox 2.0

In IE 8.0 Beta

Opera 9.24

Graphics failed to show up.

I am sure there is an explanation.

New HTML 5 tags and IE 8.0 Beta

I tried some of the HTML 5 only tags and did not see any difference. It could not play audio and Video. The browser was not using the IE 7.0 Emulate switch.

One thing did happen: My Blog editor went crazy. Lost the place holder for Title and the formatting buttons on the editor lost control. This was posted using FireFox 2.0.

Can the new tags be used in CSS rules?
<article><aside><audio src="http://localhost/bing.wav">Can you hear this?</audio>
<canvas><command>
<datagrid><datalist><details><dialog>
<embed><event-source>
<figure><footer><header><m>Local News>/m><meter>
<nav><nest>
<output>
<progress>
<rule>
<section><source>
<time>Monday March 31, 2008</time>
<video src="http://localhost/WHIDBEY_03.wmv">Do you see this displayed?</video>

Panorama: SQL Anywhere 11's BETA is out

I down loaded 'Panorama' and installed it on the same machine side by side with others SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10G Xe, IBM DB2 and also SQL Anywhere 10.

Initial findings extremely encouraging...

* The installation was uneventful, easy and smooth. A very positive feature

* The document installation was easy

* Visual improvements many, especially the dialogue boxes for connections [ the only one I evaluated in detail]

* The installation updated the .NET related items that you would see on VS 2005, namely, the Sybase Central and ISQLAnywhere.

* Ás per my original wishes, SQL Anywhere queries can now return data in 'JSON'

* Here is a quick view of the 'Demo' database's overview in Sybase Central 11.

Strange behaviour of Data Link File

Problem started here...
I removed an instance of SQL Server 2005 (evaluation edition) but some how parts of it remained. I tried to clean up to remove the existing SSRS and in the process the ability to create a UDL file presented a problem.

The Problem
In the Data Link properties page when I try to refresh the server I get the 'Microsoft Data Link error "Error enumerating data servers. Enumerator reports Únspecified Error". Normally it would reveal all available servers.



My troubelshooting begins...
I associated this with the MS Ole DB errors (bad guess) and tried to repair the MDAC 2.8 which in itself was another tedious web search followed by a final repair. Apparently this is not straight forward with Windows XP SP2. You need the original CD's and also know where the files are(see tags). This was a good resource I found on the web.

http://www.macropool.com/en/download/mdac_xp_sp2.html

And now..
However this did not solve the original problem. Probably there was no error with the MS OLEDB but something else that the Wizard is doing. This is the problem with the Graphic User Interfaces.

Now instead of hitting the Refresh button on Data Link Properties window, I directly enter the local server with a [.] & enter the credentials. Now the connectivity test succeeds.

I still do not understand what caused the problem.