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I am wrining a program that has lenghtly process which si casing my UI to freeze. I now how to the solve the probelm which is create thread and let it do the processing. Now this new ground for me so I went looking for some explames on how to this and I found this link CodeGuru: Maintaining a Responsive UI , which I found easy to follow, that explains about UI thread and some of the probelms that can happen.

After writing some custom task in VB6 for a client thought it would be better if they were in .Net. So after some research finding that it can be done I start re-writing them for .Net. I started running into some issues: Could not register custom task within the DTS client. This because Regasm does not expose the DLL entry point for DllRegisterServer, to solve this I had to write some extra code that will register the task in DTS. The task then could not be use within DTS. This was because the default create interface was incorrect by the fact there was read-only function which dts does not like, I had disable the creation of default interface and write my own version. The global variables not working after the .Net custom component set the values. This was some quirk between .Net and DTS as soon as try setting the value through the objects properties The activex script task and other tasks could not access the global variable. I mange to solve this deleting the Global variable and...

I have been using reporting services for a while now and I've found it to be a useful tool for application development. The reason for this I am working on web application that had some summary data which need to be display with the option to allow detail data to be seen. Also there was a requirement to exporting the data to spreadsheet, generate some charts displays to make application look sexy and give users quick and easy status reports to read. The application is using Object Model approach so instead writing code and creating pages. I sold reporting service to the client and I manage to give all the requirements need with in matter of days. It was easy to use, Easy to install and easy to manage as well.

Here is a list of articles that makes threading sound easy to do: Multithreading Part I: Multithreading and Multitasking Multithreading Part 2: Understanding the System.Threading.Thread Class Multithreading Part 3: Thread Synchronization Multithreading Part 4: The ThreadPool, Timer Classes and Asynchronous Programming Discussed

This is a link about the futre role of a DBA. Also people thoughts about the article are at the end of the piece.

Developing Web Parts for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in .NET