visual-studio-2005

Dynamically creating a project in VS2005 using C#

Is it possible to progmatically or dynamically create a project in VS2005 using c#? If so could someone provide some ideas or links on how to accomplish this? ...

C#: Move Controls From Form to tabPage in VS Form Designer

I decided to change a utility I'm working on to use a tabpage. When I tried to drag various controls from the form to a tab page on top of the form, it made copies of the control, giving it a different name. It's easy enough to just remake the form on top of the tab or just edit the source code in the designer to have everything be add...

JavaScript tools for Visual Studio 2005

I need to find if there are any tools targeting both Visual Studio 2005 and JavaScript. I'm interested in plugins which will increase the quality of work done in VS2005 with JavaScript oriented development. ...

Debugging .NET assemblies built outside of Dev Studio

I have a .NET project which references another assembly that is built outside of the solution. I have all of the source code to the other assembly - but I can only add it as a ".DLL" reference rather than adding the actual project as a dependency. The problem is that when I step into the external code, the debugger "steps over" it. Ho...

Unable to create temporary files while compiling

I find increasingly now when I am building a large project, I get the following error. fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler intermediate file: 'C:\Temp\SYS\a03132ex': Permission denied It occurs in Visual Studio 2003 and VC6, and I have investigated the potential MSDN reasons and drawn a blank. There is plenty of space ...

Show a loading screen in vb.net

I need to show a screen or something, saying 'Loading' or whatever while long process are working. I am creating a application with the Windows Media Encoder SDK and it takes awhile to initialize the encoder. I would like for a screen to pop up saying 'Loading' while it is starting the encoder, and then for it to disappear when the enc...

Trying to add a ToolStrip to a ToolStripPanel side-by-side with an existing ToolStrip

I'm using .net 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005 and I am trying to add two different toolstrips to the top of the form such that they show up side-by-side. I want it to be like Word 2003, where you can add multiple toolstrips to the same row and have them show up in line with each other, rather than dedicating a row to each toolstrip. So I ...

Differences between Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Hello lads I would like to find out what is the most significant differences of MS Visual Studio.NET 2005 Pro and MS Visual Studio.NET 2008 Pro? I was given a copy of Visual Studio.NET 2005 Pro as the previous person who used that has left the organisation. Therefore, I am considering upgrading this version to VS.NET 2008 Pro. At my or...

Does Team Explorer integrate with VS2005

I have both VS2005 and VS2008 installed on my machine. I was able to install Team Explorer 2008, but could not install Team Explorer 2005 (it kept throwing some error number 2337 which I could not resolve). Currently, I am having to launch the VS2008 IDE for using source control, and VS2005 for working on the source code (as the project...

VS2005 - Automatically requesting checkout of form on open, with "View Designer"

I'm trying to integrate our Source Control(SourceAnywhere) with VS and are getting a lot of push back because of this one issue. Almost every time we open some of our Windows forms using 'View Designer' it edits the file (* appears beside file name). Nothing has yet been changed, I've tried comparing the before and after files and th...

Could not load file or assembly 'xxxx' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Inside VS2005, our whole programming staff gets this error message sporadically and it is always on the BeneControls project. This error message happens multiple times a day and it occurs when going into DESIGN mode for a control. Normally rebuilding the BeneControls fixes the problem but somtime the whole solution has to be rebuilt. H...

Visual Studio ‘Go To Definition’ menu option behaviour - Why is it inconsistent between C# and VB projects

When developing in a VS2005+ with C# project and I right click on a framework method/property/type and select ‘Go To Definition’, by default we get a new locked tab with code that has been generated from the framework, labelled appropriately [from metadata]. However when we do the same in a VB.NET project, you get taken to a new tab wit...

How do I navigate to the source for a method in an external reference in Visual Studio 2005?

I have a C# project in VS 2005, with a reference to Foo.dll, a library of C++ .NET code, at c:\Foo\Foo.dll. It shows the reference in the Object Browser properly, but for a given object + method, I can't figure out how to navigate to the source for it inside of Visual Studio. I've built Foo.dll myself from source on my local machine, a...

What should I look out for when migrating a project from VS2003 to VS2005

In the very near future I'll be migrating some web applications from VS2003 projects to VS2005 projects. What should I watch out for? Anyone done this in the past and have it go bad? How much time should I expect it will take to migrate a project? I know this is more than one question, but please provide your experiences with anythin...

.Net WSDL command line utility error

I'm pointing the .Net command line WSDL utility that ships with Visual Studio 2005 at a web service implemented in Java (which I have no control over) and it spits out the following error: WSDL : error WSDL1: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Xml.XmlElement' to type 'System.Web.Services.Description.ServiceDescriptionFormatExtension...

output window to file (visual studio 2005)

in visual studio 2005 how can i save whats written to the out put window to file (i cant change the code writing to the output window and it writes a lot i just want to save the output window content to file) thank you Arik ...

Visual Studio opens upgraded web application as a web site

I recently upgraded a 1.1 web project to a 2.0 web application. After going through the upgrade wizard and performing the "upgrade to web application" operation, everything looked fine. After closing and reopening Visual Studio, however, it insisted on treating the project as a web site, not a web application, and the "upgrade to web a...

Can you make Visual Studio 2005 provide command line arguments for your startup program?

For testing purposes, is there some place in the Visual Studio IDE where you can specify the command line parameters that you want sent to your startup project when it's launched from the IDE? Thanks in advance for all your help! ...

compiling openttd with VS2005 - linker errors in freetype

Well, here's a nice obscure one. I'm trying to compile the latest open transport tycoon source in Visual Studio 2005. (It's a C++ app that uses zlib, dx8 and a few other fairly common libraries). I get a few linker errors to do with the freetype dependencies: Error 1 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol @FT_Done_Face@4 fontcache...

VSS bug on Vista?

I have a VS2005 solution which uses Visual SourceSafe 6.0 source control. I am using Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I keep getting this error when I close a file, and seeming more often when the file is not actually under source control (e.g. afxwin.h or something like that). Does not happen 100% of the time though. Any workarounds? Hasn't...