Keyboard not working (backspace and arrow keys) when viewing 2000 DTS packages from 2005 (ba

I know my problem is not directly associated w/ SSIS, so please forgive the post here. I figured this would be the "most" appropriate place to post this challenge.

We're attempting to edit a 2000 DTS package in Design mode from within the 2005 SQL Management Studio. To do this we downloaded/installed the following packages from the MS download site:

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components

We're able to open the package in design mode from the Management Studio (Server > Management > Legacy > Data Transformation Services > DTS Package Name). But, when the DTS designer is open, the backspace and arrow keys won't respond in the Management Studio. They begin responding when we close the DTS designer. There are no error messages when we close the DTS designer.

Does anyone know of a fix or a workaround? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mike

Do you have the Logitech MX5000 BlueTooth keyboard/mouse? I encountered this problem just yesterday and assumed it was my bluetooth connection going in and out.

That is very strange...

|||Nope, I have a wired Compaq keyboard. My colleague has the same problem w/ a different brand of wired keyboard.|||If you do a search there are a lot of people that have had problems with this component. It hosed enterprised manager on my machine and one of my co-workers. Even when it installed correctly a bunch of us still got errors opening packages. So far the only solution I've heard is to grin and bear it.|||

Thanks for the feedback, this was identified as a bug and was fixed. The fix will be in the next release after SP1

wenyang

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Is this fix out yet?

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I saw a reference to this recently which indicated it was fixed in SP2, or the associated feature pack. That is currently released as a CTP, so you may wish to risk it. I cannot find the source niow, which is rather annoying...

Download details: Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7A9AD90F-7F95-4369-A206-E84053D63FD3&displaylang=en)

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Thanks,

but unfortunately, the same behavior is happening with the CTP version of the dts designer :(