I have a WinForms project in Visual Studio 2008, and I've created a Setup project for it. I can build this and it picks up the dependencies and creates the .exe and .msi. But I would like to customize it a little bit, for example by specifying my company name and changing the default 90s-style clip-art logo that appears when the installe...
[Edit] Note: These projects are projects that I have copied and renamed. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it. I am using the directx sdk and just playing around with it. I was trying to blit a image on to the screen by loading a external file. For some reason it does not work when I build it and run in debug. But If I go ...
How to replace _asm nop instructions in 64-bit. compiles and works in 32-bit. ...
My environment is Windows 7 + Visual Studio 2008. I want to debug a custom WebControl at design-time. What I used to do in the old days of VS.NET 2003 was to add a statement "System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break()" to the constructor, then I'd be prompted to attach a second instance of Visual Studio for debugging. In my current environme...
I have an ASP.NET application in VS2008 that is growing larger and am developing and testing on IIS7, not Cassini/IIS dev, so when I make changes, I publish, run and test. The publish is taking longer and longer, since there are more and more builds for different projects within the solution. If I want to make simple changes to say an ...
VS2008 Web Application Project My "Add New Item" dialog doesn't include "Web Form". Here is a list of the items which are included in the Web category: ADO.NET Data Service ASP.NET Server Control JScript File Style Sheet That's all. No Web Form. No User Control. Etc. How do I get restore my templates so that I have all of them? ...
This started happening randomly yesterday. When I press F5 to test my project, an old build of the program (circa yesterday afternoon) launches. No changes (and I've tried in a few different files) are reflected in the project. However, and this is truly perplexing, if I go to Build --> Build from the Menu bar, the output .exe in the ...
Is there a version of 64-bit Boost library for VS2008 ? Or do I have to compile one myself? if, so, does anyone have experience with it? ...
I am having a problem editing VB.NET .aspx pages in Visual Studio 2008. If I edit a line that is flush against the left margin, Studio automatically indents it 4 spaces, and there is no way to undo it! I am forced to save the file with that 1 line I edited indented differently than all the other lines! Edit: How do I turn this off? ...
I copied an existing project and renamed the folder. Now I get this error when I try to compile the application debugging information cannot be found or does not match. No symbols loaded. Do you want to continue debugging ? If I click yes, it compiles and runs fine. But now I have to deal with that message. Just curious about what i...
Hi - I'm reviewing a MVVM sample Visual Studio 2008 MVVM application as provided by MS. From the main start up assembly, the project has a "Models\Contacts.xml" directory structure. The main OnStartup method for the Application class references this file as MainViewModel.LoadContacts(@"Models\Contacts.xml"); My question is, how does Vi...
In a Visual Studio project (C#), I attempted to perform a rename of a namespace using the Resharper shortcut (Ctrl-R+R). However, because I had branched some of the files that used the namespace from another location is Source Control, they had the readonly attribute set on them. Consequently, I received a dialog which contained the fo...
I'm a little confused by the different ways visual studio allows dynamic values to be saved to a project, and how they are intended to be used. I understand that if I need to include binary information like an image or a sound file with my application I need to add that to a resource file. But if I'm saving something like a file path as ...
HI, We have two applications to be hosted on two different servers. The applications will be built in .NET3.5 and hosted using IIS. We want to share the session variables between the application which will be on different servers. Is there some way through which we can achieve this. ...
Can you call a function that has no body but is declared in the header in your code?? Please read below for my situation. I am learning c++ so if my terminology is off then you know why. Any how, I am reading this book called "Advanced 2D Game Development" so if anyone's read the book then maybe they can help me out. In c++ he set 4 ext...
Hi All For my application I have some multi threaded c++ dll and a c# exe . Both of them are a sharing a Sqllite db. My c++ dll will inserting data to db and my c# exe displays it in datagrid . I want to display data from db asynchronously so I am using named Mutex to access the data base. My c# exe has background worker . In Dowork ...
I am trying to use the Armadillo matrix library to do matrix calcualtions and it needs BLAS and LAPACK. The Armadillo documentation recommended geting the precompiled versions from here: http://www.stanford.edu/~vkl/code/libs.html There are .lib and .dll files in there. The only problem is I don't know how to get Visual Studio (Express...
Hi Guys In one my VS2008 solution (used with .NET 3.5), sometimes, I get the following error when I try to rebuild one of my project: error MSB3188: Assembly 'somePath/blabla.dll' must be strong signed in order to be marked as a prerequisite. Another thing to know about the project is that I use ClickOnce to publish it. as ...
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Hi all I get a random issue with VS2008 (although not that random several times a day!) where-by I attempt to debug a web application using my local IIS instance, around 5/10 times it starts up the browser and is fine, however sometimes it goes into debug mode (following a long pause) without actually starting the browser, then when I s...