I had been happily coding along on a decent sized solution (just over 13k LOC, 5 projects) which utilizes Linq to Sql for it's data access. All of sudden I performed a normal build and I received a sweet, sweet ambiguous message: Error 1 Build failed due to validation errors in C:\xxx\xxx.dbml. Open the file and resolve the issues in th...
I've read time and time again that TDD/test first is more difficult with MSTest than it is with other testing frameworks such as nUnit, MBUnit, etc... What are some suggested manual workarounds and/or 3rd party bits that you suggest when MSTest is the only option due to infrastructure policy? I'm mainly wondering about VS 2008 Team Suite...
When I try to do that I get the following error: Changes to 64-bit applications are not allowed. ...
Is there any Visual Studio Express plug ins for source versioning? I am starting a project on my own and only have the Express version of Visual Studio 2008. ...
If possible one that supports at least spell checking: C# string literals HTML content Comments ...
Occasionally while attempting to save a Crystal Report that I'm working on in VS2008, a dialog titled "File Save Failed" pops up saying "The document could not be saved in C:\Users\Phillip\AppData\Local\Temp{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}.rpt. It has been saved in C:\Users\Phillip\AppData\Local\Temp\~zzz{YYYYYYYY-YYYY-YYYY-YYYY-Y...
I'm working in VS 2008 and have three projects in one solution. I'm debugging by attaching to a .net process invoked by a third party app (SalesLogix, a CRM app). Once it has attached to the process and I attempt to set a breakpoint in one of the projects, it doesn't set a breakpoint in that file. It actually switches the current ta...
What are the best practices in setting up a new instance of TFS 2008 Workgroup edition? Specifically, the constraints are as follows: Must install on an existing Windows Server 2008 64 bit TFS application layer is 32 bit only Should I install SQL Server 2008, Sharepoint and the app layer in a virtual instance of Windows Server 200...
I'd like to rollback a change I made recently in TFS. In Subversion, this was pretty straightforward. However, it seems to be an incredible headache in TFS: Option 1: Get Prior Version Manually get prior version of each file Check out for edit Fail - the checkout (in VS2008) forces me to get the latest version Option 2: Get TFS Pow...
Where can I find a good tutorial on learning ASP.NET MVC using VB.net 2008 as the language? Most in-depth tutorials that I found in searching the web were written in C#. ...
Every few days VS2008 decides to get mad at me and fails to generate a designer file claiming it cannot find the file specified and that it's missing an assembly. Here's the scenario: The aspx page has a reference to a custom user control (inheriting UserControl) which references another assembly in the backend. There are many other r...
Today I was listening to the Hanselminutes show about .NET 3.5 SP1...What's inside, and they twice mentioned the Office 2007-like Ribbon control that is included in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. I am very interested about this, as I was previously looking at purchasing this from a 3rd party vendor (likely DevComponent's DotNetBar...
How do I execute the "Copy Web Site" command for an ASP.NET project in VS2008 from the command line? If I need to script this, let me have some pointers on where I can learn that. ...
How do I get the latest version of my solution recursively like its done in the solution explorer context menu of Visual Studio? Need to do this from the command line or via a macro. /* 'tf get' only gets contents of a folder recursively (not solution). It does not look at project dependencies and so on. That won't work. */ I'm trying ...
Since there are no header sections for user controls in asp.net, user controls have no way of knowing about stylesheet files. So css classes in the user controls are not recognized by visual studio and produces warnings. How can I make a user control know that it will relate to a css class, so if it is warning me about a non-existing css...
What is a good setup for .hgignore file when working with Visual Studio 2008? I mostly develop on my own, only occasionly I clone the repository for somebody else to work on it. I'm thinking about obj folders, .suo, .sln, .user files etc.. Can they just be included or are there file I shouldn't include? Thanks! p.s.: at the moment I ...
Have you guys had any experiences (positive or negative) by placing your source code/solution on a network drive for Visual Studio 2005 or 2008? Please note I am not referring to placing your actual source control system on that drive, but rather your working folder. Thanks ...
Hi, I am learning to write a debug visualizer in vs2008 C#. But keep getting the error saying that MyDebugVisualizer dll can't be loaded when I am in debug mode and click the magnifying glass icon. My app project is referencing the visualizer project. Before the type definition I have: [DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(MyVisualizer))] [Seria...
When editing XAML in VS2008 SP1, the editor is really slow. devenv process seems to be around at 40% CPU (the machine I’m using at the moment is only dual core, so that’s almost maxing out one core) most of the time. It spikes up a bit more when I switch to another XAML file. I do also have ReSharper installed, but I think I’d rather put...
I'm working on a module for a CMS. This module is distributed as a class library DLL. I have several utility libraries I'd like to use in this module. Is there anyway I can link these libraries statically so I won't have to distribute several DLL's (thereby distributing my utility libraries separately)? I would like to have only one DL...