My team uses Visual Studios 2008 to develop SSIS packages and we use Perforce as our source control system. When a user adds a file to a project, the project is automatically checked out WITHOUT checking to see if it is the current version. Is there a way to force Visual Studios to get the latest version of a file before it is checked ...
Does anyone have instructions on building the opensource version of QT? Now that the repository is opened up, I'm trying to build for VS2008 but I'm getting errors when it tries to build qmake. I found the question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/74521/im-looking-to-use-visual-studio-to-write-and-compile-using-the-open-source-versi b...
I have a macro to import keyboard settings into Visual Studio 2008. Before I import the key bindings I would like to reset all current bindings. I know this can be done manually through import and export settings, but I would like the macro to do this for me. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Rob ...
I know I can purchase it for $299.00, but my primary reason for upgrading from the Express version is I want to be able to use ReSharper, which is an additional expense. Are there any ways I can get a VS copy for less than off-the-shelf price? Any special programs I can join, or is there a special "developer" version :) (kind of redundan...
What are the necessary items need from creating a deployment project for a windows service? I need to uninstall the previous version of the service before I install the new version. ...
I am using regex in Find/Replace in VS IDE. I need to replace the string message="My message" in all aspx files with an empty string. The html looks like this <input id="test" message="My message"/> I am trying to use the regex to find for message="{.*}" but it doesn't work. ...
hi, i am building a solution with approximately 100 assemblies that is taking a considerable amount of time to compile. I would say in the realm of minutes per assembly. This is in contrast to another product also with 100+ assemblies that will take seconds to move through each one. In both cases there are complex dependencies and multi...
Hi everyone, I need to upgrade from Visual Studio 2008 standard to professional. Do I then need to unistall the standard version before installing professional? Are there any known issues? thanks, Asa ...
I've added a number of snippets in Visual Studio C# Express. Many are in the list double and I want to delete them. When the cursor is on the FOLDER called "MySnippets" the delete button is active. But when the cursor is on an individual snippet, the delete button is grayed out. I assume this is a bug, so are snippets saved in an XML...
Here is the situation - I developed my application in VC++ 2008, using Windows Forms/Managed Code. It runs fine. However, I need it to run on a Windows 2000 machine, and, if possible, not need any additional DLLs/installs aside from the 2.0 framework. I looked around, and most of the answers I got were about not needing MSVCR90.dll on ...
I have VS08sp1, Gallio 3.0.6.763 and TestDriven.NET 2.14. I use MBUnit framework for unit tests. When using TestDriven's Test With > Debugger, I am able to step into the code. However, I am unable to "Edit and Continue", despite this option being turned on in VS options. I get the following error message: changes are not allowed when...
I've been trying to install SP1 VS2008 and I get this error...... vs90sp1\VC_IA64Runtime.exe - Exe installer's log file/hint (%temp%\dd_VC_IA64Runtime*.txt|%temp%..\dd_VC_IA64Runtime*.txt) does not exist or is invalid. OS Vista 32 bit. HELLLLP. ...
Hey guys, have you guys run into this behavior, and if so, how have you gotten around it? Basically, what's happening is this: I'll have a VS2008 instance running, pop into another VS project in a new instance, and then close the new instance. After that, every once in a while VS will complain that "File is open in another window, woul...
How can I force the window that opens when I run a website from Visual Studio to be maximized? Everytime I run my site VS automatically resizes the window to something that seems arbitrary. ...
Package Load Failure Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml' has failed tot load properly. . . yadda, yadda, yadda. So now what? This package is somewhat important since I was hoping to do some WPF stuff this afternoon. Tried running without it and my XAML design view is gone. I already tried "devenv /resetsettings" from the command pro...
Hi, I've got a simple Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition form which looks like this: [link Screenshot of simple form][1] I need some help with a skeleton script, which checks to see if each checkbox is checked or not. I've got a set of Word templates which all contain a macro. And I want to run the macro of each template, if the templa...
Is there a way to have visual studio automatically copy files I save in a project to another location? I'm not looking for source control functionality, more along the lines of "automatic deployment". I work on my local machine but I want the files to automatically be tossed onto my dev box every time I edit them. Is there a way to do th...
Hello I want to go for Windows 7 + Intel SSD drives to speed up my VS 2008 development cycle. The areas I want to speed up are: Compile/build times Openening files for winforms/webforms General VS "sluggishnes" for windows and web I'm not interested in the startup time of VS. Also cost per GB is not an issue. I want speed. Has anyo...
I'm trying to find a way to browse a PostgreSQL database from the Visual Studio 2008 "Server Explorer" panel. I downloaded Npgsql but as I understand that's only a library for the code itself, not the Server Explorer. ...
I have a problem with a newly installed Visual Studio 2008 (new pc) and ReSharper 4.5. Edit: Issue opened at: http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/RSRP-107956. I have the following code: public static TValue GetOrCreate<TKey, TValue>(this IDictionary<TKey, TValue> dictionary, TKey key) where TValue: new() { #region Parameter...