I have been shuffled around at work. Can anyone recommend a quick book/site to get me up to speed on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Additionally; I have the following books available, a quick rating would be handy. Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan and Dave DuVarney...
I just saw this mentioned in this thread and didn't know it could be done. I'm a VS newbie, so how do you do it? Is there a separate debugger for Javascript? I know how to work the one for code-behind pages... I usually use Firebug to deal with debugging JS. EDIT: I'm using VS 2005. ...
I have a .NET 2.0 windows forms app, which makes heavy use of the ListView control. I've subclassed the ListView class into a templated SortableListView<T> class, so it can be a bit smarter about how it displays things, and sort itself. Unfortunately this seems to break the Visual Studio Forms Designer, in both VS2005 and 2008. The pr...
I have a number of macros written for Visual Studio 2005, but they have since stopped working once I installed Visual Studio 2008 on my computer. No error is returned by the macro when I try and run it, and the environment merely shows the hourglass for a second and then returns to the normal cursor. Currently uninstalling one or the oth...
When I process a cube in Visual Studio 2005 I get following message: Process succeeded. Trace information is still being transferred. If you do not want to wait for all of the information to arrive press Stop. and no trace info is displayed. Cube is processed OK by it is a little bit annoying. Any ideas? I access cubes via we...
Bounty: I will send $5 via paypal for an answer that fixes this problem for me. I'm not sure what VS setting I've changed or if it's a web.config setting or what, but I keep getting this error in the error list and yet all solutions build fine. Here are some examples: Error 5 'CompilerGlobalScopeAttribute' is ambiguous in the namesp...
I run an ASP.NET website solution with a few other projects in it. I've known that MSBuild projects are capable of this, but is it the best way? Are they easy to create? Is nAnt, CruiseControl.NET or any other solution better? When I build the site (using Web Deployment Projects), can I automate part of the build so that it does not cop...
Is it possible (in Vb.Net 2005), without manually parsing the dataset table properties, to create the table and add it to the database? We have old versions of our program on some machines, which obviously has our old database, and we are looking for a way to detect if there is a missing table and then generate the table based on the cu...
Is Boost the only way for VS2005 users experience TR2? Also is there a idiot proof way of downloading only the TR2 related packages? I was looking at the boost installer provided by BoostPro Consulting. If I select the options for all the threading options with all the packages for MSVC8 it requires 1.1GB. While I am not short of space,...
Alright, this might be a bit of a long shot, but I have having problems getting AnkhSVN to connect from Visual Studio 2005 to an external SVN server. There is a network proxy in the way, but I can't seem to find a way in AnkhSVN to configure the proxy and doesn't seem to be detecting the Internet Explorer proxy configuration. Is there an...
In the Visual Studio designer, how do you move a menu item from one menu to another? I would assume DnD would work, but it seems to only work within a menu for me. I usually resort to editing the .Designer.cs files by hand. ...
Debugging asp.net websites/web projects in visual studio.net 2005 with Firefox is loads slower than using IE. I've read something somewhere that there is a way of fixing this but i can't for the life of me find it again. Does anyone know what i'm on about and can point me in the right direction please? Cheers John edit sorry rob i ...
I have seen Solutions created in Visual Studio 2008 cannot be opened in Visual Studio 2005 and tried workaround 1. Yet to try the workaround 2. But as that link was bit old and out of desperation asking here: Is there any convertor available? ...
I'm trying to bind the following shortcut: Ctrl + W to close tabs How can you customize VS to add/change shortcuts? Also, what are the most useful shortcuts you guys have found? ...
Hello, I have a solution in Visual Studio 2005(professional Edition) which in turn has 8 projects.I am facing a problem that even after i set the Command Arguments in the Project settings of the relevant project, it doesnt accept those command line arguments and it shows argc = 1, inspite of me giving more than 1 command arguments. Trie...
Hello, I know the colours are changed in Environment > Fonts and Colors but I haven't found out which Display Item the object is. Can someone please tell how I can colour the following code: lblMessage.Text = "You have successfully answered my question!" I have the string coloured pink, I would like the lblMessage purple and the ...
Using VS2005 and vb.net ... I have a project that is an api for a datastore that I created. When compiled creates api.dll. I have a second project in the same solution that has a project reference to the api project which when compiled will create wrapper.dll. This is basically a wrapper for the api that is specific to an application. Wh...
I get the following error when building my Windows Forms solution: '"LC.exe" exited with code -1' I use 2 commercial Windows Forms Libraries: Infragistics and the Gantt-Control from plexityhide.com, that's why I have licenses.licx files in my WinForms Projects. We also use Visual Sourcesafe as our Source Control. When the licenses.li...
Have you guys had any experiences (positive or negative) by placing your source code/solution on a network drive for Visual Studio 2005 or 2008? Please note I am not referring to placing your actual source control system on that drive, but rather your working folder. Thanks ...
What is the best way to go about upgrading TFS 2005 to 2008? Also, what about the Team Build scripts ("Build Types"), are those compatible with Team Build 2008 or do they need converted/migrated somehow? ...