j_o_h_n's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio visual source safe 6 and 2005 beta 2 differences

  What are the differences between these. Can I use vs 2003 with source safe 2005 beta2 Will I be able to migrate source safe 6 to 2005 final release. The webcast you send me doesnt exist. Please check. More questions. 1. Can I make an automated backup of SourceSafe Database and files 2.  If I begin using sourcesafe 6 or sourcesafe 2005 beta 2, and in november when I got the final release willl I be able to install it without problems ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a way to get more detailed scan results of FxCop?

  Hi, We are making a tool that displays the data generated by FxCop. However we couldn’t get the total scanned rules of FxCop, FxCop Analysis Report only contains the details of failed rules. (Screenshot: http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/BetterSoftwareSuggestions/images/FxCopAnalysisReport.gif ) Is there a way to get the data to make a report that shows more information like SSW Code Auditor report (Screenshot: h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio crashes running web test many times

  I have built a web test with the view to running as part of a load test. For the most part I can run the test fine from Visual Studio and have done so with up to 250 cycles of the test (i.e. fixed run count of 250). As I had it running so well I decided to increase the run count and leave it running while I went on holiday so I set the run count to 10000. So it would be like a single user running this process over and over. In addition I figu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "HELP" 2 array questions for a VB Learner?

  i am having problems putting text from 8 tb's on a dialog form into an array and  passing the data back to a mainform as a single object, i then want to put this object into an array of like objects and be able to display each of the values/references from a selected object in the mainform array of objects.  NE help would be greatly appreciated as i have read all the articles on arrays i can find and am still having trou ...Show All

• SQL Server Handling a double or float value for inserting into DataTime field.

  Hi, I was trying to enter the non-normalised exponential format of double or float value into the DataTime field in my data base. It is allowing to store any kind of data passed to this field. If the same non-normalised exponential value for eg: 4.235E-329 is passed to float or double field we are getting a TDS error but when same thing is used to store in DateTime field it is simply inserting the value. Now my concern is that SQL Server 2005 s ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ = .NET Framework 3 ?

  WinFX is now .NET Framework 3.0, does this mean Linq is also 3.0 or will it be 4.0 or ... that's why I'm asking. because vista will include .net 3.0 (old winfx), does it mean it will include also linq ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is the purpose of the standard categories of checkin notes?

  I can understand why a developer might want to add some notes to describe a changeset, but I can't see the purpose of the standard categories of: Code Reviewer Security Reviewer Performance Reviewer If you make it mandatory to provide these three types of notes before check-in are you envisaging that three different people will have to call by your desk and type-in some comments before you can submit your changeset Hopefully not! It would mak ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Merging of files which have not been branched

  Hi, Consider 2 projects, which are independent of each other (i.e. no project has been branched from the other project). If the projects have some files in common (i.e. with same name, path, and also (more or less) the same content), can I run a Merge on these files My current understanding is, that I can only run a Merge on branched files. Is this correct Or is it possible to run the GUI merge tool manually in this situation Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6: Application limits

  While creating multiple windows forms with ActiveX Controls is there a limit on number of total controls that are created & Active at one time . If so is there a way to adjust these limits Is there a reason you need this many controls   If the controls are just for displaying information, you might consider replacing them by just form.print "info" rather than creating a label and displaying it.  If you need user-interact ...Show All

• Visual Basic Combobox and printers

  How to fill a combobox with all the printers avaible Do you know also how to fill a combobox with the network interfaces installed on a computer assuming there is 1 or more networking interfaces on the same computer Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom Editor

  I am currently trying to integrate a custom editor (for an in house scripting language) within visual studio. The editor itself has been build as a seperate windows application. However, i wanted to convert it into a VSPackage. I have read whatever is available in the VSIP sdk, but that's not much! I have also looked into the basic edit sample (provided with the VSIP sdk), but i somehow feel that it might not be the best way of getting things do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie: tyring to use numbers in a textbox

  Ok, I am kind of stuck on how to accomplish the following: I am using 8 texboxes that will contain only numbers (ranging from -50 to 50, no decimals) Textbox 1 will contain the sum of all of the other texboxes. I can fill the other 7 textboxes with the numbers, but how do I add them together, and make it so that text box 1 will constantly add the sum of the other 7 text boxes (incase the values change later) Thanks in advanced. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DragDrop with 2.0 in Custom Designer Problem

  Hi, I wrote a custom designer that worked great in 1.1.  I recently upgraded to 2.0, and now I notice problems related to drag and drop events not getting raised. The DragDrop and DragOver events no longer seem to raise for any form that's inside a designer.  This is a problem because I cannot drag from my toolbox into my designer.  Did this change with 2.0   I put my IRootDesigner's view into a UserControl.  ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express and SQL Server 2005 Side-By-Side OK

  Thanks in advance for any help provided. I attempted a search for this answer but did not find it. I have one machine that I am using for my development. As a result, it is my webserver and my test client machine. So, can I have SQL 2005 Express and full SQL Server Developer edition installed on the same machine without issue I have a client application that will use SQL Express for some data. This client will interact with webserver (whic ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Excel Binding a dataset from a webervice

  Hello,  Can someone point me to some sample code on how to get a dataset from a webservice and bind it to a sheet via the code If the dataset is quite large is there a way to parse it out onto different sheets Thanks in advance. John When you say "bind the dataset to a sheet", do you mean binding the dataset to a ListObject on the worksheet If yes, here are the steps to do this: 1. Create a new VSTO2005 E ...Show All