all the files i work with are displayed as tabs in visual studio. I have classes in a folder and the tab is displaying like this: App_Code/...onlypartofclassname.cs instead of the full class name. any way to change this? ...
I am installing Visual Studio 2008 on a new machine and I cannot find a list of all the HotFixes that have been released. I am planning on installing SP1 but I remember putting about 5 other patches on there. Does anyone have a list of patches that need to be installed? If not maybe we can start a list. Based on this list I installed SP...
I'm also using GhostDoc in Visual Studio 2008. How do I view all to-do items and if that's a function already in Visual Studio or in GhostDoc (documentation tool that I use)? ...
We use Visual Studio 2008 to generate a sample XML from a XSD. The XML that is generated is UTF 8, but we need UTF 16. Is there any way to do this? ...
I'm working on an existing ASP.NET MVC 1 application in Visual Studio 2008. When I open a view about 10-20 seconds later I can't set the focus into Visual Studio. When I click with the mouse I get a system ding. Mouse wheel will scroll the source code window. Keyboard doesn't work, but the cursor is flashing. Doing a few SO searches I f...
i want all of the system usings at the top (sorted alphabetically) and then all other using statements afterwards (sorted alphabetically) ...
I am an ASP.NET MVC newbie. I am getting a very strange error when I attempt to add a new strongly-type view in my controller. I am using a basic class, with no dependencies, with the View content set to "List". I am using a master page. The view name is a standard "Index". This used to work just fine but it all of a sudden started ...
Working on an ASP.NET Project (not Web Site) and trying to Start without Debugging from Visual Studio. First this: Then this: Once completely reinstalled Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and it was fixed... for a while. Looking for any information I can find, including: What in the Hell is going on? What way is there to fix it othe...
Hi, I would like Visual Studio not to enter the Debug mode when it picks up a specific exception I define (i.e. BusinessException is this case). This is because I have a specific global error handler that will then present this to the user. Is there a way to avoid the VS debug pickup for this exception (so I'll go straight to seeing...
It is easy enough to determine the namespace for a class by clicking "Go to Definition" (or by hovering) but I often need to know what dll something is defined in so I can add the appropriate reference to a different project that needs the same thing). For example, in Silverlight there are many classes in the System.Windows.Controls na...
I used program C, and now im doing some web coding, is there a place I can switch the VS toolbox layout from C++ to some kind of web design view? Thanks ...
After inheriting a project, I have two sets of apps: a set of Winforms apps, running on .NET 2.0, which use Crystal Reports X a set of Webforms apps, running on ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, which use Crystal Reports XI Both projects are being developed using Visual Studio 2008, and both Crystal Reports versions are full developer versions - not ...
I received this error from the C# compiler in VS2008. Googling it has turned up nothing useful. I've never seen this error before. Can anyone shed some light on it? The line of code in question is the instantiation of a class I define: Frame frame = new Frame( // various arguments... Yes, the constructor exists. If it didn't, it ...
I am Using Visual Studio 2008 sp1 for a WPF application with Visual Basic. I am trying to use the line "Imports System.Deployment.Application" so I can use ApplicationDeployment to create a button to manual check and install updates to my application. However, I get a message that "Application is not a member of deployment". I have co...
From the user aspect,we just click and see it run,but don't know what exactly is undergoing. Is there a way to see all the internal processing history like: > gcc foo.c -o foo.exe > foo.exe hello world ...
Is it possible to stress test a managed host (not my own machine) using VS 2008? ...
I'm working on my own colour scheme for displaying code in visual studio. I can't find some text section name so I don't know where to change it's colour. :( Can anybody help me and tell me where do I find them, I mean what is the name of the following sections: 1)The grey one (documentation tag value and it's quote) - picture below ...
in visual studio 2005 I found it under ...\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectAssemblies and ...\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectAssemblies Where do these folders exist in Visual Studio 2008? ...
We now use VS2003 (target to .Net 1.1) and we want to upgrade to VS2008, but I wonder what should be the new .Net target? Should I leave the target as .Net 1.1 (very old, not installed on all computers) or upgrade it? If I upgrade - Is 2.0 enouth? or maybe upgrade to the latest 3.5 (our clients use Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7) What...
The reason why it should be empty is because I need to write it in C: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951516/what-good-ides-are-availble-for-c/951582#951582 But how to write a dll from scratch? ...