"visual studio is busy"

I keep getting this balloon message along with 'please contact microsoft if you continue to get this message' when using SSIS

Here's the news: I continually get the message so here I am 'contact MS'

There is no link in the balloon indicating quite how I should contact MS.

Any one else have this problem?Id be more than willing to help, but would need some more info. does this happen when you first open up the package? Sometimes this is caused by a long validation. If you can better explain the package this happens with/ when it happens maybe I can help|||

The package under development is very simple:

open an xls and put the data in a table

there are about 4 connection managers

that's it, the whole thing is only about 200k

|||Make sure that there isn't another window open that got sent to the background.

"visual studio is busy"

I keep getting this balloon message along with 'please contact microsoft if you continue to get this message' when using SSIS

Here's the news: I continually get the message so here I am 'contact MS'

There is no link in the balloon indicating quite how I should contact MS.

Any one else have this problem?Id be more than willing to help, but would need some more info. does this happen when you first open up the package? Sometimes this is caused by a long validation. If you can better explain the package this happens with/ when it happens maybe I can help|||

The package under development is very simple:

open an xls and put the data in a table

there are about 4 connection managers

that's it, the whole thing is only about 200k

|||Make sure that there isn't another window open that got sent to the background.

"Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt" missing from SQL Server 2005 Express Toolkit insta

The program shortcut "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt" seems to be mising from the "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt" Start menu added by the current Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit. Where is it? How to workaround?

I am trying to do Download details SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (April 2006) -> GettingStartedWithSQLSamples.htm which says "a. Open a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 command prompt. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, point to Visual Studio Tools, and then click Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt." but I can find no such command prompt within "Visual Studio Tools", only "Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger{, Configuration Wizard}".

What's wrong? How to fix or workaround? I'd install .NET SDK 2.0 to get it's Command Prompt but that's about 570MB merely for a command prompt!

Thanks for your help, -Mike Parker

I believe that the toolkit does not come with the command prompt and the instructions for the samples were written before Advanced was shipped.

What are you trying to do with the samples? If you don't have a copy of VS installed its going to be pretty hard to do anything with them. If you just want accesst to the SQL Server samples I don't think you need a command prompt.