visual-studio-2008

Editing an ASP.NET table control using the Design View in Visual Studio 2008

I have spent a while searching google for an answer to the following question, with no luck. Does anyone know if there is any way (at all) to use the Design view to edit the contents of an ASP.NET table control (an <asp:Table runat="server">...)? From all that I can tell, devs are stuck coding their <asp:TableRow>s and <asp:TableCell>s...

Visual Studio 2008 hangs with XAML

I know this is not a programming question per-se, but it's still related in a way. Anyway, I've had this problem for months now, and right now I decided to start searching on Google, but I can't find anything. It doesn't only hang for a few seconds, each time this happens, I have to restart visual studio. @John Saunders: Thanks for poin...

Issues Installing Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.5

Since the news that the WinMo app store is accepting applications, i've tried downloading and installing the 6.5 dev kit. First i install 6.0, then 6.5. In Visual Studio 2008, when i try to create a new Smart Device Project, there are no 6.5 devices in the target platform dropdown. Is this correct? Is my install just wonky, or is 6....

Deploy C# project to a website with IIS 6.0

I am using VS 2008, SQL Server 2008, IIS 6.0 Manager on an XP OS. I developed my very first C# project in VS 2008 and it runs correctly in VS. But now I need to publish this project on my website. This project also involves an SQL Server 2008 Adventureworks database on this same computer. I will use this same computer to host the webs...

How do I best organize a Visual Studio 2008 + Qt Codebase?

I have a legacy MFC app I am building in VS2008 with both x86 and x64 builds. I'm trying to add Qt support to it so I can innovate more quickly in the UI. It appears Qt has a large number of compile options that I may want to tweak specifically for my app (not source code changes...I want to be LGPL and generate the normal QtCore4.dll,...

VS2008 Shortcut to Move Tabs across Tab Groups

Is there a keyboard shortcut to move tabs from one tab group to another in Visual Studio 2008? If not, how do I create a macro/command to do it? ...

Embed one DLL into another DLL In C#

Hi, I am building an Class Library application which contains some reference dlls like Skype4COM which is obviously not native object so I just wanna learn how to embed this dll into my dll showing up after building the solution. I just don't wanna see people which dll I used when developing this application and also I don't want them ...

should i use the built in utils in vs2008 for unit testing ?

i want to start writing unit tests for my project, what add ons if needed should i install, what abilities do i get by default? ...

Qt4 in Visual Studio 2008 - moc-ed files get excluded from build?

Hi all, Recently I have installed VS Addin from Qt Software and I imported my .pro project to VS2008. Generally, all works fine, with one small but annoying exception. Suppose I have a file.cpp with has a class which declares that it is a Q_OBJECT. So, as such the file is MOC-ed and moc_file.cpp is generated, and is available in Soluti...

Code Instrumentation on an ASP.NET Web Application

I'm fairly new to .NET development in general. I would like to do some instrumentation on my web application to tune performance, especially in relation to caching. I've written a lot of custom dynamically generated UserControls which I'd like to try caching in different ways--possibly by ASPX Page declaration or programmatically. I a...

Visual studio configures SQL 2008 on every build

In Visual Studio 2008, each time a perform a "build" of an installer project, the ide presents a "Configuring SQL Server 2008" dialog box with a progress bar. It runs for about 2 minutes, then disappears and continues the build like normal. It only does this on installer projects. I can't seem to find anything related on the 'ol Googl...

Can I get the Visual Studio 2008 report designer to look like the Visual Studio 2005 report designer

I liked the grid points and the visible separation of the header/body/footer of the report on the design surface or vs2005. I hate the vs2008 report designer which is just a blank canvas with no grid lines/points and separation of header/body/footer... ...

c# datagridview valuetype with range

hi in c# i can do the following... dataGridView1.Columns["Column2"].ValueType = typeof(double); is it possible also to provide the range for those double values entered on that column rows... for example i want user to enter only values between 0.0-100.0...? thanks a lot! ...

Can the contents of C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ReflectedSchemas be deleted safely?

I need to reclaim drive space and noted that I have close to 2 GB in C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ReflectedSchemas. What is the purpose of the this share and can I purge these files? ...

Major differences between Visual Studio Pro 2005 and 2008?

Is there anything I can't do in 2005 that I can do in 2008? Is 2005 obsolete? ...

ASP.NET MVC Extension Methods Hint Shows The Extended Type In Param List

The hint for extension methods on a normal class file and the one shown on my aspx page do not match. The hint shown on the aspx page also shows the type that is being extended. Its annoying. Can anybody tell me what wrong with my Visual Studio? I am using VS 2008 am I missing any fixes? ...

Is it possible to use C# 4.0 with Visual Studio 2008?

Hi guys I'm pretty aware that Visual Studio 2010 works with C# 4.0. But now I was wandering if I'm able to test C# 4.0 features with Visual Studio 2008. I did that one time, using C# 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005 hacking the app.config file. Did anyone have any success using C# 4.0 in VS2008? I've installed Net Framework 4.0 beta, rebo...

Visual Studio 2008 macro only works from the Macro IDE, not the Macro Explorer

Edit: Creating a new module in the same VSMacros project fixed the problem. The following macro only works if I open the Macro IDE from Visual Studio and run the macro from there. It'd be much more useful if I could just right click the macro from the Macro Explorer from my Visual Studio instance. I must be doing something obviously...

VC++ 2008 Express MFC Download

I am following this tutorial: http://www.generation5.org/content/2001/sr00.asp?Print=1 Right off the bat it asks me to use the MFC Application Wizard to create a new project. It turns out that it's not included with the Visual Studio 2008 Express. Is there any way that I can download it so that I can use it to continue the tutorial? O...

Open a Console/Command Window when using VS 2008 Express

I have both the VB and C# versions of Visual Studio 2008 Express. When I run a console application in either version, instead of the console opening in an old DOS style command window like it does in VS 2005, it actually blacks out both monitors attached to my computer and treats the entire screen real estate as the console. Anyone know...