JohnStallo's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Merge Replication Questions [SQL2k5 non express]

  I can choose synchronization direction for articles: a) Bidirectional b) one way 1) Is that possible somehow to replicate the schema only of an article but no synchronization / zero direction :-)/ 2) Same question about columns, I should replicate schema only for few columns, but without data synch. These columns are freely updateable at anywhere (publisher and subscribers), but the data changes shouldn't be replicated. Thanks for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop support in VSTS

  Managed Code Analysis feature in Visual Studio Team System - 1. Is library support present for writing cusom rules 2. How are custom rules applied on target projects 3. Are all the features in FxCop like reporting supported Hariharan, Yes. See FAQ: How do I integrate custom rules with Visual Studio The same as normal rules, rule selections are scoped per project, custom rules are enabled by d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Working in disconnected mode

  Hi, Can one work with the Team Project in disconnected mode Let's say I'm in the middle of the work and need to resume it at home. How can I do that Regards, James. The "working offline" story in v1 is pretty minimal. Actually coding offline is easy -- just do it -- but there's nothing built into TFS to detect your changes when you return. It's worth trying our PowerToy tfpt online . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms Designer Bug?

  I created a custom combo box which extends the standard Windows Forms combo box.  In the constructer (Sub New), I set certain properties such as the Items collection.  For example: Option Strict On Public Class ClientCategoryComboBox     Inherits ComboBo ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Help" button/utility

  Hi, I want to make a "Help" button in my application that opens up help documentation in the msdn format. I want it to have a side panel, with index, search, documentation etc. and the main panel with the actual documents. Is there so ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Visual Studio Tools

  When I installed the MS Visual Studio C++ , there was an option to install a set of tools (some tools for login, documentation, etc...) but i didn't install this. Right know I have a problem because I don't know from where I can download this, maybe any info (link) from somebody who knows where it is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions code of vb 2005

  As I work in vb 6. and dont know much about VB 2005. i need a connection code to connect my application with SQL 2005. i had used SQLConnection SQLAdapter SQLCommand to connect it had been connected but i want to reterive fields from table the code i write is Dim conn As SqlConnection conn = New SqlConnection( "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Car_Golf_db;Integrated Security=True" ) conn.Open() ''Dim i As ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form Distortion

  I have three VB.net forms on my desktop - One program only runs Monarch which opens it's form on top of the forms. This causes distortion in the other forms.(part of the Monarch Form imprints on the vb.net forms) Is there a way to prevent this from happening Make sure when Monarch is ran that it doesn't suspend the thread. Can you post the part where Monarch is launched ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how can i play a sound file ?

  hello . how can i let my program on my pocket pc play any sound file wav , mp3 , wma i tried every thing , searching in msdn ... the system.media is not found . also microsoft.devices.audio and my.computer.devices.audio is not found .. so , what's the solution .. regards ,, You can P/Invoke PlaySound() or you could use sound classes from OpenNetcf.org. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System the request failed with http status 404

  when I tried to open the team explorer I got the following error the request failed with http status 404 Could you provide more information   Was this Beta 3   A single or dual server install   Did you follow the TFS Installation Guide ...Show All

• SQL Server casting integer to month

  Hi, in the database that we use for learning reporting services a month is saved as an integer in a column. In the report I would like to have the month fully written istead of the numbers 1 to 12. Is this possible with the CAST function or the CONVERT function, I can't find the exact information in the msdn. greetings My post was TSQL syntax, if you want to format that inyour code (VBScript) you have to do some ...Show All

• .NET Development Game development with .Net

  Hello, I am looking for samples, articles, guidelines... to write .Net games with .Net. I don't want to use DirectX or, if with DirectX, not using 3D. The category of game is Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros... the ultimate goal being to make a game both for WinXP and WinMobile. Also, I'd like to find help on a 3d-iso game like age of empire or StrongHold. Thanks for any help, Claude There's a good start !! The URL ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing AS400 Data

  I've been trying to use the integrations services to access AS400 data with almost no success.   Any suggestions or help you can give me would be appreciated.  Some of the issues I can't make sense of are the following. 1.  When I set up an OLEDB data source for the AS400 (using IBM's Client Access provider) I always get a warning message about "Cannot retrieve the column code page information from the OLEDB provider". & ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Pixel width "Thickness" for shapes

  Is it possible to draw shapes with a single pixel width I am working on an engineering program in WPF and need to scale drawings. The current thickness of 1 is more than one pixel (presumably anti-aliased) and is very "fuzzy" - that's an engineering term! The same drawing drawn with GDI looks much crisper - another engineering term. Ideally there would be a special thickness, say 0, which would always draw at one pixel width no m ...Show All

• Windows Forms replacing a column of the dataset

  Hi, I want to replace a column of a dataset with certain string depending on the numerical value returned in the dataset. When I try to replace that column cells with appropriate strings, it says that I cannot store string in the column that is ...Show All