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Comment on Posting An Issue To Microsoft Connect by What is Microsoft Connect? | James Serra's Blog

What is Microsoft Connect? | James Serra's Blog — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:45 +0000

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Comment on Changing Parameter Order In An SSRS Report by Anuja

Anuja — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:55 +0000

I spent lot of time figuring that out but could not. Finally found out here ..Thanks for this post..

Comment on Calling A Web Service From SQL Server 2005 by Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:50:25 +0000

Hi Valentino,

I have another issue that I am struggle ling to get the answer for.
I create the stored procedure and assemblies and everything works fine.
When the process is accessed I get the following error, that disappears as soon
as I recreate procedures and assemblies.

Error in task sql: A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate “np_mq_send_mail”:
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘AmendmentsSQL.wsAmendmentProcess’ threw an exception. —> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
System.NullReferenceException:
at AmendmentsSQL.wsAmendmentProcess..cctor()
System.TypeInitializationException:
at AmendmentsSQL.wsAmendmentProcess..ctor()
at AmendmentsSQL.StoredProcedures.SendMail(String toAddress, String fromAddress, String subject, String messageBody)
.

Thanks,
Johnny

Comment on Loading Complex XML Using SSIS by Abhishek Tripathi

Abhishek Tripathi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:20:56 +0000

Hey Valentino,
Can you please give an example where source is a XML column in a SQL table?

Thanks,
Abhi

Comment on Implementing Data Bars In A Grouped Table by Valentino Vranken

Valentino Vranken — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:25:12 +0000

Thanks all for your nice comments! I’d like to let you know that the article has been updated recently. One of my colleague-experts at Experts Exchange let me know that the data bar on the left wasn’t showing what it was supposed to, now it does

For the updated section, look for “And then colleague-expert Mark Wills jumps in” and read from there on.

Have fun!
Valentino.

Comment on Excel Automation: the CultureInfo bug by Stephane

Stephane — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:24:04 +0000

Besides,
The same lines had a different behavior in VB.Net (with Excel automation) and in VBA (Excel VBA).
“MyCell.NumberFormat” in VBA returns english format
“MyCell.NumberFormat” in VB.Net always returns french format. Changing the CurrentCulture was the only way I found (after 2 hours) to get the english format.
Thanks again. Hard to find.

Comment on Excel Automation: the CultureInfo bug by Valentino Vranken

Valentino Vranken — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:11:15 +0000

Glad to hear that blog posts can still be useful, even when they’re more than three years old!

Comment on Excel Automation: the CultureInfo bug by Stephane

Stephane — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:25:26 +0000

Excellent,
This helped me to solve my problem with french version of Excel, when I use the Range’s property NumberFormat (or NumberFormatLocal).
Each Time, NumBerFormat gives the same as NumberFormatLocal, the french Format (with a Date)
If I write this before the new instance of Excel, it works as expected.
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo(“en-US”)
Thank you very much indeed !

Comment on Retrieving Data From Excel by mihail

mihail — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:09:33 +0000

So you are using Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0?

Comment on Retrieving Data From Excel by pepepaco

pepepaco — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:48:43 +0000

if you find a solution please post it here, since I have been looking for it for more than 5 years.

the only workaround is to use excel Activex to load the file then read cell by cell to export it to any other format.(CSV,DataSet, etc.)

good luck.