When Start Visual studio and run a silverlight application, VS will start a cassini server on specific port, like: http://localhost:3107/MyApp.aspx This is convenience for developer for testing. Then I want to access this web app from another computer in local LAN for live demo purpose like: http://mycomputername:3107/MyApp.aspx but...
In Visual Studio 2008 there is a feature that automatically adds a toolbox pane and adds the custom controls which are in my web application project or in a class library in my current solution. On another pc this is not working and I would like to know which setting I have to enable, probably in Tools | Options..., for this. I am not ...
I have a Crystal Reports report in Visual Studio 2008 which has a subreport. The source for each report is a separate datatable. Say main report datatable schema is id1, id2, firstname. subreport has datatable schema: id1, id2, lastname. When the report displays, it displays firstname, lastname for each record. If the reports are joined...
According to this blog post, Microsoft will not fix this problem soon. There is the technical possibility to do it ourselves, or we will have to wait for Visual Studio 2010 SP1? ...
Hi, QUESTION - If I'm starting a Windows Forms application in C# using Visual Studio 2008, which unit testing framework should I use? There seems to be one build into VS2008? Or should I look into something like NUnit? Or is NUnit what is used in VS2008 under the bonnet? What's the most popular. Would be good to have something th...
I cannot imagine how this is anything other than a bug, but since I do not currently have a login for the MS Connect website I will ask here first. I have Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 with all post SP1 hotfixes I could find relating to the crash installed. Can you reproduce the following crash? Create a new "WPF Application" project using...
In 2005, when I double-clicked on a file (be it header or source), it would open in a new tab. So, if I double-clicked on a header file and then two source files, there would be three tabs: one for each file. And the list of active files includes these three files. I just installed VS 2008, and I've been trying to enable the same behavi...
Our build server has been using the following properties for some time OutputPath=c:\output; OutputDir=c:\output; OutDir=c:\output; ReferencePath=c:\output; AdditionalLibPaths=c:\output Which make all output go to a common folder, and also allow resolving references for that same folder. This works great because it's an optimizati...
With a normal .cs files i can choose "Windows" -> "New Window", to work in the same file in two different locations. I prefer this feature to "Split", because it seems less error phrone in my version of VS 2008 SP1. However when I'm working on markup files (.aspx, .ascx, .asp) the "New Window" is dimmed, does anyone know if the there is ...
I maybe going mad, but for the life of me I can't find the option to change the colour of collapsed region's in VS2008. For example if I have the following code: '#region Test Region CallSomeCode(); '#endregion If I now collapse that region it has the title "Test Region" in a grey text color with a grey box around it. ...
Currently I have set up a Web Deployment Project which compiles code into the .\Release folder. After the build I want to copy the files over to another machine (because whichever directory you build to is deleted then recreated). The ItemGroup for defining which files to copy is set up as follows: <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuratio...
Hello, I have been trying really hard to install Sql Server 2008 sp1 along with VS 2008 sp1 on my Windows 7 machine. I tried every possible combination: install vs 2008 upgrade to sp1 then install sqlserver 2008 upgrade to sp1 using offline packet/upgrade automatically using windows update. However, I have nothing listed under Sql Ser...
We are using VS2008 team edition and TFS for check-out/check-in, change control, etc, for C# WinForms and ASP.Net projects (plus we have the previous Visual Studio versions back to version 6 availble). We just inherited a VC++ version 6 MFC-based application. Migrating it to a later version of the VC++ compiler (as well as Visual Studi...
How can I get DevExpress "Rename a variable" to work in VS 2008? I just upgraded from VS 2005 to VS 2008. In VS 2005, the F2 key used to invoke the DevExpress Rename. In VS 2008, F2 appears to do nothing. I installed both DevExpress CodeRush and RefactorVB. I am not sure if RefactorVB was what I had installed on VS 2005. We stored all...
I am working on a Setup Project in Visual Studio, and I would like the user to be able to specify whether to create a Desktop Shortcut and/or a Start Menu shortcut to the program by using checkboxes. I am able to have the installer to create working shortcuts in the appropriate locations, and I added a dialog containing checkboxes to th...
Using VS 2008, or Blend 3, is there any way I can get intellisense for the available properties when creating styles in XAML? I thought I heard there was a third-party freebie that did this. In the snippet below, I want intellisense for the properties like FontSize, Margin, Width, etc. <Style x:Key="MyTextBoxStyle" TargetType="TextBox"...
Possible Duplicate: Tools for finding unused references I inherited a brownfield project and am in the process of refactoring the code to support new requirements. The number of assembly references has grown considerably over time, and I would like to know if any references are no longer being used. What is the best approach t...
The typical workflow of catching an exception in action is get to the section of code where you suspect the exception of happening, select Debug/Exceptions, check Thrown for Common Language Runtime Exceptions, OK your way out of it, and continue execution. This is a massive PITA. Is there a shortcut (or a context menu) that can be conf...
I'm currently writing a building script that needs the installdir registry key for visual studio 2008 to find where the devenv is. In windows vista, the registry key used to be in local machine\software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\installdir, but in windows 7 x64, it seemed to be not found. I tried, but failed to find it in other director...
is there any ways to accomplish this? it is really annoying having to restart every time. ...