visual-studio-2008

Issues while uninstallation:Windows installer

Hi All. I am using windows installer for creating setup.exe for my windows application. I have included CustomUninstall.exe to uninstall my product using start menu.Uninstall works perfectly but when the installed folder structure is open in the windows explorer i am getting one warning saying "C:\Program\Product name refers to location...

WPF - Content section control

I am new to WPF and am trying to find the right control. I am coding a WPF app that has two sections. The left side is an Outlook like sidebar (Odyssey controls). For everything else I want a control that I can easily swap the contents of based on what is in the side bar. So the user selects an option in the side bar and all the cont...

Problem with SQL Server Select Replace()

I am successfully executing the following query in SQL Server 2008 built into VS2008: SELECT REPLACE(image32, 'img', 'images/Products') FROM Product but when I do a select * from product query, I am given the old results. Whats going on? Why isnt my data being updated? Did I just answer my question? Do I need to throw in an Update ...

Organising project dependencies

I'm with a fairly large team and we are running into problem with the other libraries we depend on, and getting the same project files to work for every one. The problem is that many people have more than one version of the same library (eg the project users boost 1.36, and I use boost 1.39 for some of my other stuff), and every develop...

Data Generation Plan connected fields

Is it possible to have 2 fields with the same data for a Data Generation Plan? For example, the table aspnet_roles has 2 fields RoleName and LoweredRoleName and I want them to show the same data. ...

Disabling display of full file path in VS2008 Find Results window

In Visual Studio 2008, in the Find Results window, how do I not show the full path of the file name where the match was found? The thing that I'm trying to get around is where most of the window is just displaying a long path rather than the chunk of text where the match was found. ...

visual studio error list is hidden

Im using Visual studio 2008 and for some reason when i started to day my code isnt compiling. Im getting the standard 'Build Failed' message but the Error List isnt showing. when i select Error List from the View menu nothing happens. the output window shows up fine and so does the todo window. has anyone seen this before? ...

Can Visual Studio 2008 provide hints on interface method implementation

Is there any way I can get VS2008 to provide further detail on how a particular interface should be implemented? I'm thinking along the lines of how the /// tags work when using a method. It seems to me that sometimes the method name and params just can't provide enough information about exactly how the interface is meant to work. Edi...

SQL Server Compact with Visual Studio 2008

I am running SQL server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on Vista. I downloaded SQL server compact 3.5 SP1 from Microsofts website and ran the install. When I open the server explorer for any windows application that I'm working on with VS 2008 and right click on data connections and then on add a connection a dialog comes up with available d...

Does VS2008 require SQL Sever 2005? Can I use SQL Server 2008 instead?

I've noticed that Visual Studio installs SQL Server 2005 Express. However, I've installed SQL Server 2008 and plan on it being the primary db I work with. Is it possible to work with VS2008 without having SQl Server 2005? ...

Visual Studio 2008 .exe problem

I wrote a program and when I compile and run it in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 it works. I learned that there is an exe file in the projects folder. I found in "project name"->debug folder. When I select it does not work and give me an error. The error is below: What should I do? ...

UTF-8 output on Windows XP console

The following code shows unexpected behaviour on my machine (I'm using Visual C++ 2008 SP1 on Windows XP here): int main() { SetConsoleOutputCP( CP_UTF8 ); std::cout << "\xc3\xbc"; int fail = std::cout.fail() ? '1': '0'; fputc( fail, stdout ); fputs( "\xc3\xbc", stdout ); } I simply compiled with cl /EHsc...

Application runs from VS2008 but not from exe in bin\Debug

I've just encountered a rather strange problem. A Winforms (although that may not be relevant) app that I've been working on for a few months just started behaving oddly. Pressing F5 to debug in VS2008 gets it running perfectly but if I try to run the exe from the bin\Debug folder it fails straight away. Viewing more details from the not...

Can you run Resharper 4.5 and 5.0 Beta side-by-side?

i see they have a version of resharper for vs 2010 http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+5.0+Nightly+Builds can i install this for my vs 2010 development and keep 4.5 for my vs 2008 development of will these conflict? ...

JavaScript libraries along with Visual Studio

Apart from jQuery, which other JavaScript libraries support Visual Studio2005/2008 intellisense integration? ...

Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2008 and Localization

I can't seem to find any information about localizing reports created with Crystal Report that ships with Visual Studio 2008. How do you change the reports to be localized? Do they use resx files? Any links to where to find out more information about how localization using Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2008 would be very helpful. ...

Why does Visual Studio 2008 tell me .9 - .8999999999999995 = 0.00000000000000055511151231257827?

When I type this into the Visual Studio 2008 immediate window: ? .9 - .8999999999999995 It gives me this as the answer: 0.00000000000000055511151231257827 The documentation says that a double has 15-16 digits of precision, but it's giving me a result with 32 digits of precision. Where is all that extra precision coming from? ...

Compiler warnings with MySQL++ with release configuration.

For some reason I get some warnings about "non dll-interface class" when building with a release configuration, but not debug. I've compared the release and debug configurations, and my ones with the MySQL++ example ones, however I cant see which setting is causing these warnings. 1>c:\sql\mysql 5.0\mysql++-3.0.9\lib\qparms.h(49) : war...

Template specialization problem

Hi, I'm trying really hard to made this work, but I'm having no luck. I'm sure there is a work around, but I haven't run across it yet. Alright, let's see if I can describe the problem and the needs simply enough: I have a RGB template class that can take typenames as one of its template parameters. It takes the typename and sends it...

Is it possible to emulate a Virtual Directory in Visual Studio 2008?

I have a solution with two Web Application Projects. I would like to add a virtual directory to one of the projects that points at the other. Is this possible? ...