visual-studio-2005

Visual Studios - Share folders between different projects

I've got two projects, one CF2.0 project and one NET2.0 project. These projects are related to a CF2.0 application project and a NET2.0 WebService project respectively. The projects are my Data Access Layers and they are both identical, apart from the ProtoBuf Dll version. Is there any way that my NET2.0 DAL project can just reference ...

Typed parameters in Create Instance dialog

Hi all I am using Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition and am attempting to instantiate a class using the Create Instance option in the Class View. The constructor has three parameters, two of which are DateTime structures. My question is: how do I enter a valid DateTime into the Value box? I have tried the following to no avail: 28-05-20...

how to specify both /clr and /mtd options for visualstudio c++ project

Hi in my project i have enabled /clr (Common Language Runtime) support as well as /MTd (Multithreded Debug) option in code generation section. But the compiler shows /clr and /MTd are incompatable types. I need to use both. How to fix this? Thanks in advance. ...

Visual Studio 2005 - OleDbConnection throws "Invalid authorization specification" in Form Designer, how to avoid supplying a username/password?

I have a form with an OleDbConnection object on it. This form fails to load in the Form Designer with the message: One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. Invalid authorization specification ...

What is the Intellisense Trigger in VS2005 emacs emulation mode?

I've enabled emacs keyboard mode in VS2005 and so far I'm in love. The only issue I've run into is I can't find the hot key that triggers the IntelliSense menu. C-j no longer does the trick as it's mapped to something else. So what is the emacs-mode IntelliSense trigger key? Secondly, how would one go about finding out what it is? ...

Is there a visual representation of CallStack in VS .Net (instead of the in-built stacked representation)?

Is there a plugin available for Visual Studio .Net that gives a visual representation of the CallStack while debugging (instead of the stacked representation of method calls that is in-built in it)? (I am imagining something similar to an execution path we have in SQL server) This, imho, would help in visualizing the logic flow of the pr...

Error installing Windows SDK v6.1 with windowssdkver command: Input string was not in a correct format

When installing Windows SDK v6.1, following the chromium instructions (http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows) I run the following command: windowssdkver -version:v6.1 -legacy I get the following error: Input string was not in a correct format. at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyle...

why we specify /mtd /mdd options for visualstudio what is their use???

HI i want to know what is use of specifing /mtd /mdd options for visual studio. Help me in this regard Thanks inadvance. ...

what is the difference between /mtd and /mdd(in code generation property section)in visualstudio

Hi Waht is the difference beween specifying /mdd(multi threaded debug dll) and /mtd(multi threaded debug) in visualstudio?? ...

How to write a simple game using visual studio c++ 2005

I installed visual studio 2005 in my machine and i want to start polishing my c++ skills and i thought of doing a simple game eg. space invaders! What am wondering can i do the whole game using just vs2005 without any other external libraries? Any simple examples/links out there that have used plain vs2005 to create simple games? Gath...

Help needed in Visual studio project properties

Hi i hav a main project(ex: applicationsolution explorer (10projects)) which depend on 10 other projects. in those in one project i need to use /clr(Common Language Runtime) option.As i know /clr doesnot compatable with /mtd(in code genration property of linker section ) i changed to /mdd. my question is Do i need to enable /clr ...

Unable to load shared controls while building a Web Delpoyment project

I am using Web Deployment project to build and deploy my weblsite project. But when I build it, it come up with lots of errors regarding shared controls not found. But i checked all the controls are on the path. Any idea, why Using Web Deployment Projects with Visual Studio 2005 is not finding it. ...

How to resolve Link error 2005 in visualstudio??

error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >(class std::basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > *,bool)" (??0?$basic_ostream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@PAV?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits @D@std@@@1@_N@Z) already defined ...

Create Project/solution in an existing directory?

How can I create a New project & Solution in the same, existing , directory? No matter what I do, it keeps creating a new (sub)directory for the project and populating that directory instead of the one(s) that already exist. I have the "Create directory for Solution" checkbox cleared so that it will put the solution an dproject in the ...

How Do You Turn On Parenthesis Matching in Visual Studio 2005?

How Do You Turn On Parenthesis Matching in Visual Studio 2005? This is relevant to programming because there's lots of open/close parens... and paren-matching speeds things up a lot. ...

Updating a Progress Bar from Another Thread

I have a windows form on the main thread and another thread that does some calculations. I'd like to update the status bar on my form from the work being done in the other thread. What's the best way to do this? So far everything I've tried just makes things run really slowly. I'm using Visual Studio 2005. ...

Circular reference between Assemblies in C# and Visual Studio 2005

I am working hard to standardize one single way of Layered/n-Tiered design of my all applications. I am trying to make all my applications 5 tiered. Code: | UI | | | Business Object | | | OR-Mapper | | | Data Access | | | RDBMS | Suppose I am developi...

Circular reference between Assemblies in C# and Visual Studio 2005 (Again...)

Please first read the following thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/924382/circular-reference-between-assemblies-in-c-and-visual-studio-2005 Implementing interfaces is solving my problem but not fulfilling my target. My target is to work only with BO-layer/assembly from the UI layer/Assembly. So that I can maintain a clean la...

what is difference btw /MD and /MDD in VisualStudio C++?

Hi What is difference betwwen /MD and /MDD( multi threaded debug dll ) in c/c++->code generation propertis of visual studio .... ...

Visual Studio having trouble painting SSIS tasks

I've got this weird behavior in Visual Studio 2005 when working with SSIS packages. Visual Studio appears to be having problems painting/repainting the tasks. When I open a package, I see the label of the task items and the line connecting tasks, but I don't see the box outline or the icon of the task type. When I click on the task item...