visual-studio-2008

Why is element <u> considered outdated according to VS2008?

Why do I get the following message in Visual Studio when I use the <u> element? "Element 'u' is considered outdated. A newer construct is recommended" Has it aged? ...

Can't update items in parent page using loaded child page.

Hey guys, this is more something like "what to do?" than a question in fact... here it is: I have a page in which users can execute selected services.. each of these services are different full .aspx pages (there's a lot of them). the page is divided in 3 sections, as you can see in the picture: Panel A: lists the selected services...

Has anyone else expierenced markup not being saved in Visual Studio 2008 in the ASP.NET designer?

Ok, I have a custom ASP.NET control that acts as a MenuBar. This control has a collection property called MenuBarItems. This collection contains essentially a collection of buttons that will be displayed on the MenuBar. Each MenuBarItem has a collection of cascading menu items. The idea is to create a recursive markup hierarchy that ...

Quick watch window not showing the variable value in Visual Studio for C++/CLI project

I know that Visual Studio support for C++/CLI is terrible. But I am getting a weird issue when doing a Quick watch. The variable which I am watching is in the scope and it has value. But VS says, the variable is not in the scope. See the image It would be great if someone can suggest a workaround. Or is this a bug with VS? ...

How to detect current audio device volume

I want to detect the current volume for the default audio recording device of the current computer. Is there any API to use or solutions? I am writing an audio recorder and I want to let the user know the current volume for the default audio recording device before recording, so that we can avoid a no-audio-recorded issue (e.g. end user...

Test Projects Display as Folder only in VS2008 on 1 machine

I have some projects that I created on my laptop, and they work fine there. I have just added them to the Subversion repository on my home PC, and loaded in VS on that PC only to find that the test projects do not display; they just show as a folder icon, and you can't see anything under the root. There is an expand icon next to the fold...

Silverlight deep zoom image click issue

Hello everyone, I am using deep zoom composer to generate XAP and html files and they works fine for me. Currently, I want to retrieve the information about which image the end user is clicked, and I want to display the description information for the user clicked image in another Silverlight TextBox control on the same page. The descri...

Source attribute of Silverlight MultiScaleImage

Hello everyone, I learned we should assgin a .bin file to the Source attribute of Siverlight MultiScaleImage. For example, I learned from here (refers to code sample in section Anonymous Methods for Events), http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryId/410/Silverlight-Deep-Zoom-Sample-Code-Part-2.aspx But I have tried using ...

What are the various components of Visual Studio Team System each designed for?

What are the various components of Visual Studio Team System each designed for? Our company was recently accepted to Microsoft BizSpark and now I have a blizzard of options to choose from. Right now I'm just needing version control and a coding environment but I'm not sure what distinguishes each of the available downloads. ...

When I click to open a ViewPage or a ViewUserControl Visual Studio 2008 hangs for me

When I double click on a ViewPage or a ViewUserControl in Visual Studio 2008 the whole application hangs for me, I have no idea why... The only error log I can find in the Event Log is this: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506) For more information, see Help and Support Center at htt...

Two Visual Studio Post-build Event questions and MSBuild.

Hi folks, I have two questions re: visual studio 2008 and post-build events. 1) How do i dynamically list the msbuild.exe full path, to be called by the post-build event? Currently, i have the following (which works beautifully, btw):- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5\msbuild.exe "$(ProjectDir)MSBuild\MSBuildSettings.xml...

Disable visual studio's cache

Can we turn off the process of making Asp.net temporary files and project assemblies cache to be sure that the results we get are really fresh and they got all the latest changes? ...

How to stop Visual Studio from "always" checking out solutions files

For apparently no reason, every time I open my solution, Visual Studio checks the sln file out. If I compare it to the previous version there are no changes. But this is really frustrating since everybody has the solution checked out. I'm using VS 2008 and TFS 2008, both SP2. Any idea on how I can stop this thing to happen? Or is a feat...

how can i debug javascript code within a coldfusion template(a coldfusion page) using visual studio 2008

hi everyone, i know i can debug an asp.net page in visual studio 2008, because visual studio knows asp.net pages. but i'm developing coldfusion based application now, and i'm curious whether i can use visual studio to debug the js code in coldfusion pages. thank you in advance. ...

Remove border on activex ie control

For the application im building, i use an activex ie control. It works greate but i cant work out how to remove the border around it. I have tried overriding the invoke call and setting DISPID_BORDERSTYLE to zero but it looks like it never gets hit. Any ideas? ...

Steps to consume an axis webservice in Visual Studio 2008

Hi, I am trying real hard to consume a web service in Visual Studio 2008. Can anybody tell me how do I go about doing it? Or is there a link that will give me the exhaustive steps to consume an axis webservice in Visual Studio 2008? ...

How do I restrict permissions appropriately for Team System Web Access?

We're using Team Foundation Server 2008 and we have a few users that do not have CALs but we'd like them to be able to enter their own work items and view them. We have the Team System Web Access installed and once the users are in the TFS Valid Users group they can get to the site. I've seen mention of a particular view at http://server...

deep zoom image size issue

Hello everyone, My question is from the below MSDN link about deep zoom, When ViewportWidth is 1, it means the picture is never zoomed in and never zoomed out, and displayed at its original size (original size I mean the width and height defined in picture header), correct? 2. My confusion is, when we use deep zoom composer, the tota...

how do I make Intellisense work for F# in VS2008?

I am using VS Team System 2008 version 9.0.21022.8 RTM, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. I get C# and VB.NET Intellisense, but not for F# May 2009 CTP. UPDATE July 7th, 2009 I am installing VS 2008 SP1, maybe it is better than reinstalling VS 2008 from scratch. ...

How to edit and continue in Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.Net MVC?

I'm trying to get edit-and-continue working with Visual Studio 2008 with an ASP.Net MVC project. I'm running 64-bit, so that adds to the problem. In Configuration Manager, my active solution platform is x86 and all the projects are targeting Debug x86 as well. In the project properties I have "Enable Edit and Continue" selected. In To...