Is there a way to stop the path showing in a source code tab in Visual Studio 2008? Currently when developing an ASP.NET site, I get the path from the root plus the filename - truncated when it gets too long. So something like: MyDir/MyPage.aspx for a short path and filename, or: MyDir/MyLong...yPage.aspx for a longer path a...
Is there any way (maybe directly editing resource files) to configure a Tab Control (add/remove tabs and their captions and contents) at design time with Visual Studio 2008 without SP1 (I heard that SP1 has such feature)? P.S.: I use c++ with wtl ...
Can someone please explain how to remove the background/borders off an embedded CrystalReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2008. I'm trying to remove the light gray (below the "Crystal Report" heading) and then the darker gray underneath that. I want to be left with only the white box and the report inside this. This is the output I'...
Specifically, in VS 2008, I want to connect to a data source that you can have by right-clicking on the automatically-generated App_Data folder (an .mdf "database"). Seems easy, and it is once you know how. I just figured out how to do this. I'll post my answer below, which will include the one thing no tutorial on MSDN included that ha...
I have been trying to get around this error for a day now and have not had much luck. I have a VS 2008 project that uses the embedded Crystal Reports which of course runs fine locally, but when deploying to my remote server the reports will no longer run. I gathered that it was because I didn't have the right Crystal Reports component...
What tools are out there that compete with this product? CodeKana I know ReSharper has improved syntax highlighting. Is it comparable to this? ...
Has anyone found a way to save a FlowDocument as BAML or other compressed format? I can import XML with images to create a new FlowDocument: <TextRange class instance>.Load(fs, DataFormats.Rtf) However, I haven't found a good way to save it in a 'native' compressed format. Uncompressed XAML is easy to generate using: <TextRange cla...
I am hoping someone can help me with this. What I have been looking around for but can't seem to find is if there is someway to add an event, or anything else that will allow a visual studio plug-in to watch for an external reference to be added to a currently open solution / project? Or even better yet would anyone happen to know of a...
I have an assembly in the GAC which gets loaded when I'm debugging a web app. However, I've changed that assembly in the web app that I'm debugging but VS2008/Cassini is picking up the one in the GAC. How do I make VS2008/Cassini use the one that I'm debugging? ...
I'm not talking about a post build event for a project. Rather, I want to run an executable automatically after the entire solution is built. Is there a way to do a post build event for the solution? ...
What's the best way to uninstall SP1 and return to plain .Net 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008? It broke a few of my programs :( ...
I have a rather large and complex set of programs to port from VC8 to VC9. One of the modules has a number of layered typedefs, which cause the compiler to generate a C4503 warning (decorated name truncated). The generated LIB file will not properly link to other modules in the project. VC8 had no trouble with this, leading me to conclud...
I installed Visual Studio (Web Developer in this case) Express Edition and was reading through the EULA. One thing that did not jump out at me was what I was allowed to use the software for (private, commercial, etc). Does anyone know if you are allowed to sell/distribute the code you create in these Express editions? I know they are g...
The new awesome Ctrl +. keyboard shortcut to show smart tags has suddenly stopped working, a week or so after I discovered it :( I am missing it badly, having had to revert back to Ctrl+Alt+F10, which really just isn't the same. I recently installed F# CTP 1.9.6.2 Has anyone else installed this CTP and still has Ctrl + . Lost Ctrl ...
I am using Report Designer in VS 2008. Is there a way to display the percentages of a subtotal in a crosstab report? ...
This is a for a Silverlight project that isn't anchored to an .aspx file, so right clicking, etc. is a bit out of the question. Any ideas? Edit: Add an .html file, then click it. Really dumb. Last time I ask a question at three in the morning. ...
I really don't like the VS2008 Start Page. I don't need the RSS reader, Getting started or Headlines. The only thing useful is "Recent Projects" Is there a way to customize it or replace with a better one? It will be nice that the page contains Favorites Projects and Recent projects. P.S. I know that I can disabled it or replace it wit...
We are using Visual Studio 2008 as our primary development IDE. Our security team has set up McAfee to scan files in our \Local Settings\Temp folder. Unfortunately VS uses this directory during code builds which is slowing the developers down. We've reached an impasse with the security team on this, and wonder if anyone knows of a con...
Every once in a while, typically when I stop debugging in our UI assembly, I get the following error which requires a restart of Visual Studio 2008 and it's killing my productivity: Error 13 Unable to copy file [UI assembly] to [output directory]. The process cannot access the file [output directory][UI assembly] because ...
I'm trying to determine how to open/edit existing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005 report projects (.rptproj) and reports (.rdl) with Visual Studio 2008, without having to install SQL Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) 2005. ...