visual-studio-2008

ASP.Net Web Site running in IIS - change to ASP.Net Development Server

Hi everyone, My client gave me this web solution, in it various projects, and the problematic project (for me) is the Web Site. I've copied the code to test web server (2008) and installed VS 2008 so I could step through the code on the server due to some weirdness. Anyhow, when I open the solution locally on my personal computer, i...

how can i "click" an element in Visual Basic .NET ?

Using VB.net 2008, how can I click an element loaded from a website ? say I want to click a flash form button on a web site... ...

Why Doesn't My VB.NET WinForms WebBrowser Program Work?

Imports System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser Public Class Form1 Dim browser As WebBrowser browser.navigate("http://www.google.com") End Class This code will not work.... I have web programming background and trying to learn windows programming....any guide or tutorial to make the transition smoother ? ...

A Good Embedded DB for Mobile Applications

I'm developing an App on windows mobile and android, i needed a database for this app and as of now have shortlisted 3 lite databases. SQLite Ultralite (from Sybase) Oracle Lite of these 3, i was unable to configure UltraLite with my existing project on VS2008. i am currently using SQLite with the dll from http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com ...

Odd Issue with the Regular Build Option

For some reason when I press F10 to do a regular build of my project, it builds then launches with a breakpoint/arrow thing on the first curly bracket of my Main function. What is causing this? It only happens every other time I build and it's quite annoying. ...

Publishing a WCF Server and client and their endpoints

Imagine developing a WCF solution with two projects (WCF Service/ and web application as WCF Client). As long as I'm developing these two projects in visual studio and referencing service to client (Web Application) as server reference there is no problem. Visual studio automatically assign a port for WCF server and configure all needed ...

How to stop a .NET application from loading if certain criteria aren't met

I need certain criteria to be met, a particular folder needs to be present on the c drive, before this app should load. How, during the load process, can I stop/quit the application. I already have ascertained if the folder exists. In old VB projects you would just use 'Unload Me' but that isn't in C#. I tried Application.Exit() but t...

Unable to get the Latest files from TFS?

First i tried to get the latest files from the TFS , but shows a dialog box stating that i have all the latest files. Then i tried to getting the latest through Get Specific Version, still i was unable to get the latest files. I even tried deleting the workspace. ...

Visual Studio 2010: Pre-order purchase available? With using 2008 in mean time?

Does anyone know if you can pre-order purchase Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and get the current edition (2008) for use in the meantime, until 2010 launches in March? ...

TFS: cannot setup up new build

I have a problem that is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2146198/tfs-cannot-set-up-new-build I use Visual Studio 2008. Unfortunately, the solution provided there, didn't help. I tried to remove and add again my TFS server - no help. Also, it's not a problem with security policies or lack of proper right, because I can ...

Custom WPF editor using the Visual Studio Shell

For the project I'm working on, I want to have a custom form designer. I want to use WPF to create custom XAML. I don't know exactly which changes will be in the XAML but it will be custom XML tags. At the moment if I add those tags in a XAML file and try to edit it with VS, I get errors. The custom tag data would come from custom Tool...

Javascript replace() doesn't work in VS - unknown character

I'm trying to use the javascript replace function to replace curly quote with straight quotes: var EditedContent = content.replace(/“/g, '"'); This works great in a little proof of concept html file I've whipped up, but when it's in a visual studio project, it replaces the curly quote with a symbol that suggests 'unknown character': ...

Windows Service will not execute code after install and launch

Hi there, I've built a Windows Service in C# using Visual Studio 2008. I've built it, navigated to the folder in which it's stored using the Visual Studio command prompt, and used the command: installutil MyWindowsService.exe. It installs just fine and I can see it in the services manager. However, when I go to run it, it will not execu...

What are the primary advantages of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server over the other versions?

We are looking into the possibility of upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2008 for our development team. One of our primary reasons is some of the deployment capabilities surrounding BizTalk 2009, but I am curious what other benefits there are for other projects outside of BizTalk. Some of our interests so far are moving to a one click...

Visual studio 2008 wont debug unit tests anymore. It used to work fine.

Hi All, I have a project that uses Visual Studio test suite. One day I opened another instance of Visual Studio with a project that was using NUnit. I looked at and ran a few of the Unit Tests in that project and now my Visual Studio Unit tests are no longer working. Everything just passes. I cannot hit a break point or anything. Someth...

How to Develop SharePoint 2007 solution using Visual Studio 2008..?

I want to develop a public website on SharePoint server 2007. But, I want to develop a solution using Visual Studio 2008 (I dont want to use SharePoint designer 2007). ...

Where to get custom Visual Studio 2008 syntax highlighting (complex one)

Ok, im used to see some more syntax highlighting, and the default syntax highlighting is really limited in VS 2008, so i was thinking, is there such highlighting somewhere: defined variables would have own color. defined functions would have own color. predefined functions would have own color (from libs etc, would have own list for th...

Visual Studio - is there a repeat last command command or shortcut?

This is a lark, as I'm pretty sure not, but just want to throw it out there, otherwise I can just use a macro. ...

Element Inspector in Visual Studio

Hey, I accidentally closed that window in VS that you can use to inspect variables and the like, and I can't find anywhere to get it back; where do I find it? Thanks. ...

Visual Studio's default browser will not change from Internet Explorer

I've tried the browse with... method and went into Chrome to make it my default. VS says Chrome is my default, but no matter what I try to do, it opens a new window in IE. VS 2008, IE8 How do I make it open a window in Chrome?! EDIT:: Just uninstalled IE8, and now it opens in Chrome, but it gives me an error when I compile. Unabl...