We're getting our feet wet with unit testing in VS 2008 Professional Edition and have hit what might be a pretty large snag: there appears to be no way to determine code coverage in this particular VS edition. It seems that this is something only available in VS Team System Development Edition. In other words, VS 2008 Professional Editi...
I have a string in a watch window in VS2008 and want to see the hex representation of each character. If I right click there's a hexadecimal option but this doesn't appear to do anything. Anybody know how to view the string as a series of hex values? ...
I just got through manually removing the bin\ and obj\ folders from around 30 VS projects getting them ready for an initial SVN commit. Yeah, I know, I should have done it alot sooner, but these are personal project on my home PC, and I only installed a SVN server locally today. Anyway, it occurs to me that there must be some easier way...
In my Silverlight project I have a thread that fires every x milliseconds. In this thread I was attempting to change the state of the application. This wasn't working and I didn't know why, so put a breakpoint in to the Timer callback. The breakpoint was hit, but the minute I attempted to change the state it just bailed out of the functi...
I cannot add workflow item to my WPF project. I create a new WPF project and want to add a sequential workflow. When I do "Add new item" there is no item template to select. Any hints? ...
I installed Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition a month or so ago after a reformat (on Vista64, if that matters). I got it for free from one of those "Heroes Happen Here" launch events. I then installed SQL Server 2008 Express Edition a week or so ago (we're supposed to be getting that for free in the mail but I gave up - a little too e...
We are trying to get our .NET devs to use the built in VS2208 web server for web devlopment instaed of a local instance of IIS. This is one of responses I received as to why some of our devs can't use it. "Our XXXX Online Sales application uses SSL to protect passwords. While Visual Studio does permit some basic web application developm...
Is there a "#if DEBUG"-like conditional statement which can be used in VS 2008 for determining if the code is being run from a unit test? (We're using MS's built-in unit testing.) For example: #if !UNITTEST // Do some GUI stuff we don't want to see when unit testing #endif ...
Is there a way to control the addins Visual Studio 2008 loads via the command line? I am looking for a way to load my DevExpress plug in when I am working with VB or C# and alternatively load Visual Assist X when I am working on a c++ project. ...
I have a problem when an unhandeld exception occurs while debugging a WinForm VB.NET project. The problem is that my application terminates and I have to start the application again, instead of retrying the action as was the case in VS2003 The unhandeld exception is implemented in the new My.MyApplication class found in ApplicationEven...
I use Visual C++ 2008 in Visual Studio 2008. I frequently use the following command to diff an open file against its most recent checked-in version: File | Source Control | Compare... I can also do the same thing by clicking on an icon in the Source Control toolbar. I'm not certain, but I believe this command is the same for any sou...
I just downloaded and installed the latest Adventure Works database from http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTDBProdSamples/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=16040 to do some more playing around with LINQ and found that there are some data types that are not natively supported within Visual Studio 2008. I get the "One or more selected items ...
I have a large solution containing many C# projects. When I open the solution and hit F5 for the first time, I get compile errors like the following: Error 3 Metadata file 'C:\Users\david\Documents\VS.Projects\CeoTrunk\Ceoimage\bin\x86\Release\Ceoimage.dll' could not be found. I'm compiling the solution and the projects producing ...
We are looking at moving from Visual Studio 2008 Professional to Visual Studio Team System. I believe I've read that the client Development Edition is a superset of what Professional has/does. I'd like to ease into the transition with the client end first, then get the Team Foundation Server up and running later, and I want to be sure I ...
I find it odd that in Visual C# 2008 Express edition, when you use the database explorer, your options are: 1) Microsoft Access 2) SQL Server Compact 3.5, and 3) SQL Server Database File. BUT if you use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, you can connect to a regular SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, etc. For people developing command-line o...
There are so many little options and settings within Microsoft Visual Studio. Which adjustments do you recommend to others? ...
List out the Tools and Utilities to develop Rich Interactive Application on Microsoft platform The recommendations should have some sort of direct relationship with either XAML or Silverlight/WPF and not the common .NET utilities. Expression Blend - XAML Development Expression Design - Graphic asset creation KaXaml, A cool and handy X...
I am running Visual Studio Team Edition 2008. When I create a new website, I get a new file I've never seen before: vwd.webinfo. The contents of this file is as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <VisualWebDeveloper> <!-- Visual Studio global web project settings. --> <StartupServices> <Service ID="{3259...
When I created the project I'm trying to deploy I selected that I wanted to target .NET Framework 2.0. After deploying the project I try to brows to it and get and error page that shows: <compilation debug="true"> <assemblies> <add assembly="System.Web.Entity, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089...
Hi, What code generation tools are built-in to vs.net 2008 or are officially available via Microsoft? I know of: Entity Framework sqlmetal What else is there? Ideally i'm looking for something that will generate from an existing database schema. ...