What plugin would you really like to have for Visual Studio 2005/2008
In a brilliant world what would you love to have a plugin to do in VS2005/2008? One answer per post please, and use voting to agree/disagree with ideas. ...
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How to pass all Visual Studio 2008 "Macros" to Python script?
[NOTE: This questions is similar to but not the same as this one.] Visual Studio defines several dozen "Macros" which are sort of simulated environment variables (completely unrelated to C++ macros) which contain information about the build in progress. Examples: ConfigurationName Release TargetPath D:\work\foo\win\R...
Integrated Version Control for Visual Studio
What version control systems have you used to manage projects developed with Visual Studio (2005)? What would you recommend and Why? What limitations have you found with your top rated version control system? ...
Automatically stop Visual C++ 2008 build at first compile error?
I know I can compile individual source files, but sometimes -- say, when editing a header file used by many .cpp files -- multiple source files need to be recompiled. That's what Build is for. Default behavior of the "Build" command in VC9 (Visual C++ 2008) is to attempt to compile all files that need it. Sometimes this just results i...
Sounds for build error/success in Visual C++?
On long Visual C++ builds, it would be really helpful to hear some sort of (optional) sounds for such build/compile results as: individual compile error file compile success/failure build success/failure batch build success/failure Does anyone know how to enable sounds for these kinds of build occurrences in Visual C++ (especially Vi...
How to change settings for a Visual Studio 2005 Deployment Project
I have a project containing at least one DLL along with the executable output. I have added a Deployment Project to this solution, which asked me for a name and working directory upon creation like all projects. I named this "MyProduc_Installer" and have been able to modify all aspects of the installation process except for changing th...
Why won't Visual Studio 2005 generate an Xml Serialization assembly?
Why isn't Visual Studio 2005 generating a serialization setting when I set the project setting "Generate Serialization Assembly" to "On"? ...
What's required for a clean uninstall of Visual Studio 2005
Due to continuing crash problems, I'm about to uninstall and reinstall my copy of Visual Studio 2005. I know that just running the uninstaller leaves a lot of resources and settings on my machine and would like to be able to reinstall from a pristine state. Is there any way to completely uninstall VS2k5 from my machine so that it's as i...
In Visual Studio, when would I want to use the Test View?
For managing unit tests in Visual Studio, I use the Test List Editor. There's also a Test View which looks similar but more limited. When would I want to use the Test View as opposed to the Test List Editor or any of the other test windows? ...
How to have a LinkClicked event using an ArrayList of LinkLabels in .NET
I'm working on a form that will display links to open different types of reports. This system has different types of users, so the users should only be able to see the links to the types of reports they can access. Currently, the way I have this set up is that I have an ArrayList of LinkLabels, but the problem I'm having is how to have...
How do I remotely debug a stored procedure within the same domain?
What are the steps needed to successfully be able to remotely debug a store proc (SQL Server 2005) from within VS 2005? Again both client and server machines are on the same domain. I have never done this so step by step instructions would greatly be appreciated. ...
Weird MSC 8.0 error: "The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call..."
We recently attempted to break apart some of our Visual Studio projects into libraries, and everything seemed to compile and build fine in a test project with one of the library projects as a dependency. However, attempting to run the application gave us the following nasty run-time error message: Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The valu...
What do 'Delimiter' and 'InheritsFromParent' attributes mean in .vsprops files?
I can't seem to find any useful documentation from Microsoft about how one would use the Delimiter and InheritsFromParent attributes in the UserMacro element when defining user Macros in .vsprops property sheet files for Visual Studio. Here's sample usage: <UserMacro Name="INCLUDEPATH" Value="$(VCROOT)\Inc" InheritsFromParent="TRUE...
Visual Studio 2008 Express MFC Support
As may be known by many, the Express versions of Visual Studio 2008 don't include support for MFC and a few other packages required to compile a lot of windows programs. So, here's my problem: I have the full version of Visual Studio 2005. I've been using this to compile a project that a friend of mine was working on, so that I could ...
Good Visual Studio 2005 tutorials?
Hi I guess this is quite a self-explanatory title. I need some tutorials showing the cool things of VS, but almost everything I find looks like being "How to conect a Web-app to a DB" kind of video-tutorial or a list of features and advertisement text. I am going to use it for C++ game programming. I'm new to this IDE but I heard it has...
How to improve link performance for a large C++ application in VS2005
We have fairly large C++ application which is composed of about 60 projects in Visual Studio 2005. It currently takes 7 minutes to link in Release mode and I would like to try to reduce the time. Are there any tips for improving the link time? Most of the projects compile to static libraries, this makes testing easier since each one als...
Cannot find the Create GUID tool in VS2005
I have Visual Studio 2005 Professional ENU installed and want to create GUIDs using its Create GUIDs utility. However, I cannot find it under the Tools menu. What should I do to get this utility? Thanks ...
Deploy a Desktop Shortcut to a Device running Windows CE 4.2 (VS2005)
I have an application written using VS2005 in C# targeting the Compact Framework 2.0 SP2. As part of the solution, I have CAB deploy project which deploys to the device without a problem. What I can't do is create a shortcut to my application on the devices desktop. I have spent several hours reading various bits of documentation (why i...
In Visual Studio when viewing a changeset, how can I change the view of cs files?
In Visual Studio with TFS as source control, when I view the history and double click a cs file, the file is loaded in notepad. How can i change the application to be notepad++? I also would like the OS's default application for the file to still be visual studio ...
Convert nmake makefile into Visual Studio 2005 project
We have some old C code here that's built with nmake. Is there an automated way to pull the Makefile into Visual Studio 2005 and create a project? Some searching on MSDN indicates VS6 could do this, but it looks like VS7/8 dropped the feature. If necessary I can build the project from scratch using the project.mak file as a reference, ...