Contents tagged with Visual Studio 2005
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SSIS Package - User Variables
A SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) package is very useful if you want to export data from your database. Recently I wanted to pass some input parameters to my SSIS package and had to struggle to figure out how this can be done. This really isn't very well documented and you can't find detailed instructions on the Internet so I thought I'd blog about it. Get a load of how complicated it turned out to be!
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Disgusted With Silverlight
Today I worked on a Twitter client in Silverlight. I got pretty far on this project but had some problems creating hyperlinks in the text. I tried the Hyperlink tag in the XAML Pad and it worked there but it would not work in my Silverlight project. I did some research on the Internet and found a web page with a hyperlink example. Incredibly, this example would have you handle all the mouse events and even the text decoration to make a TextBlock act like a hyperlink. This web page also directs you to "See the documentation for TextDecorations property of the TextBlock object in the Silverlight SDK".
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Document Your CSS As A Poster
I've been using StumbleUpon to find interesting web sites about web development and yesterday I found a site that will generate a poster of your CSS. It creates an image that resembles a class diagram. I think it is a great way to document your style sheets. One of my style sheets produced such a massive and confusing diagram that I think I'll show it to my client so I'll look like a genius.