I'm using Visual Studio 2008 to target .NET 2 so a portion of our software can run on Windows 2000. I need to remote debug a process and the remote debugger in VS 2008 will not install on Windows 2000. I have installed the VS 2005 version of the debugger and can make a connection to it from VS 2008, but it gives an error "The remote de...
I wanted to know how do get the dropdown menu that shows all the function so I can browse easily between them in visual studio 2008 when coding in vbscript. I have it in C++ but I have no idea of how to get it to show for VBScript. Thank you. ...
I am fairly new to developing C/C++ code in MSVS but one of the things that has already confused me is why, after adding a set of source and header files to my project such that they show up respectively under the MSVS folders 'Source Files' and 'Header Files', do I subsequently have to tell the compiler where my header files are under '...
Extends In Tools/Options/Environment/Fonts and Colors, If you choose to "Show settings for" Text Editor and look in the Display items dialog it says there' a "Read-Only" region you can set the font for. I'm not sure what's that for? Where do you encounter the read-only regions this dialog wants to set the font for? ...
I have a file, xyz.cs, open in Visual Studio 2008. If I open a solution, xyz.cs is closed, and VS opens up the files listed in the SUO for the solution. I open another file (in this case a file not included in the solution, we'll call it abc.cs). Then, I close the solution, at which point all open files (including abc.cs) are closed. ...
I get a BindingFailure on a line of code using the XmlSerializer: XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(typeof(CustomXMLSerializeObject)); The assembly with display name CustomXMLSerializeObject.XmlSerializers' failed to load in the 'LoadFrom' binding context of the AppDomain with ID 1. The cause of the failure was: System.IO.FileNot...
When editing code in VS, I typically use Ctrl+G to move to the line number that I want. It would be really nice if there's another keyboard shortcut that would allow me to move to the word that I want on that same line as well regardless of the cursor's position. Example: Say, I just moved to this line: quint32 beamNum; ...
I have installed the VS 2008 SP1 Remote debugger on the machine running the program I want to debug. I am running the Remote Debugger with no auth / allow anyone to connect on said machine. I am running VS 2008 on my development machine with the project for that application open. I have copied a .dll that i have made changed to the sourc...
We are trying to add a new page to a running web application. such that a new dll and aspx file are being added. I've setup break points in the code file and Built the application transfering the dll to the remote machine bin file and the aspx page to a folder within the web application. Note this folder is not in the same folder hierarc...
I've been following the tutorial from msdn and it just doesn't work. First problem I have is that sometimes the .dll and .lib aren't built. Instead I only get .objs. Whenever I build the .dll project, it gives me a popup asking to "please specify the name of the executable file to be used for the debug session". I was told to change my ...
I have a basic Win32 console app that makes a call to a named pipe, and then Sleep(1000), inside a while(true) loop. After a hundred iterations, Sleep(1000) will hang. I can see no reason for this. Ok, all I'm doing is taking the code found in this MSDN sample, verbatim and running it as the server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...
I am creating a new Silverlight project in Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. Further creating a new "My test tab" in the Toolbox and try to add some controls using "Choose toolbox items". After clicking the OK button of the "Choose toolbox items" dialog, no controls are added to the newly created tab. When the tab loose focus, the tab get hidden...
Hi, If i have a VS.NET 2008 solution , and i want to export the build script so that i can use it to build the same application in another environment which does not have VS.NET, how can i extract this make or build script from the VS.NET ? Thanks. ...
I don't know if the same question is asked before or no:- I have the question that how to debug multithreading in C#.net vs2008(enterprise edition) is there any special technique or tool???? See my application works fine with single thread but when there are two or more threads it behave abnormally...I know there is synchronization issu...
Hello, I am having a really bizarre problem. Find in Files feature in VS2008 always finds zero matches when looking in the Entire Solution and gives the error 'No files were found to look in' when looking in Current Project. Looking in Current Document works just fine. I've tried the ctrl+scroll lock thing with no success. Also, my fol...
I have the following lines of code: xslt.Load(XmlReader.Create(new FileStream(@"C:\website\TransList.xslt", System.IO.FileMode.Open))); xslt.Transform(mydoc.CreateReader(),null, sw); It works fine, if I stop the project and launch it again, I get the following error: [System.IO.IOException] = {"The process cannot access the file 'C:...
So there's plenty of vs.settings files for nice dark syntax highlighting in VS2008, but I find them basically unusable since they're surrounded by an otherwise white visual studio application and general windows environment. I'd like an adequate dark windows 7 theme I can use while coding in VS. All of the 3rd party Win7 themes (that ut...
Hello all, I am trying to work on a project in Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Earlier, the project was saved on a network location. Its an opensource project, I browsed the original code for some time, compiled and ran it. Then I deleted it from its original location, and then redownloaded it into a new location on my desktop. Then I o...
I have a windows installer project which installs some software (winform, service, mce addin). During the installation I need to search the machine for a registry key. This is done with with the "Launch Condition" -> "Add Registry Search" (Deployment Project). I have filled out all the properties right, and checked against the regestry ...
I'm working with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and ASP.NET MVC v1. When right clicking on a view I do not get the option "Convert to Web Application" that I would need to generate code behind .cs classes. I see that option for the actual project and folders, but not for views (aspx files). I've checked the ProjectTypeGuids to have the "right" (...