visual-studio-2008

Running Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 at the same time

A group of us are working on a project which we built with .NET 3.5 in Visual Studio 2008. I want to test out Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (well, mainly for WPF 4). I am just wondering if I install VS 2010, will I still be able to use VS 2008 to open the first project. I know when I open older projects made in VS 2003/2005, I get an up...

VS2008 adding pl\bin to %PATH%

Guys, How do I add: pl\bin to my VS2008 PATH? I read in a forum post: . . . ensure pl\bin is in %PATH% But I can't seem to find such an option in my VS2008 Project Properties, etc... Thanks, ...

Consuming WebSphere service from WCF client: Unable to create AxisService from ServiceEndpointAddress

I am consuming (or trying to consume) a WebSphere service from a WCF client (service reference + bindings generated through svcutil). Connection seems to be established successfully but I am getting the following error: CWWSS7200E: Unable to create AxisService from ServiceEndpointAddress [address] Rings any bell? I am guessing the r...

Visual Studio 2008 "Save File As" Dialog Intermittent Issue

Me and a few of my coworkers are experiencing an odd issue in Visual Studio 2008 and Windows 7 (64-bit). We use VSS6 for our source control (unfortunately). We have an issue where we will make a change to a checked-out file, resulting in the file getting checked out as expected. But when we go to build the project, or try to save th...

How to check for an existing executable before running it in a post-build event in VS2008?

Hey all, I'm trying to use SubWCRev to get the current revision number of our SVN repository and put it in a file so I can show it in the UI. As I'm working with a Web App, I use the following post build command line: "SubWCRev.exe" "$(SolutionDir)." "$(ProjectDir)Content\js\revnumber.js.tpl" "$(ProjectDir)Content\js\revnumber.js" I...

Visual Studio 2008: Form size changes when I open a solution

I'm using Visual Studio 2008, specifically the Compact Framework. I change the size property of a form and when I reopen the solution, the form's size gets back the default one. Is it a bug or am I missing something? ...

Visual Studio 2008 SFTP?

So... we're into the year 2010 now, has anyone found a nice FTP plugin for Visual Studio yet? Something that looks like this perhaps (from EditPlus): I just want to be able to (double-)click a file to open it, and then hit Ctrl+S to save it back to the site. ...

Passing values through files in C++

Hey everyone, I'm still pretty new to C++, and I've been making progress in making my programs not look like a cluster-bleep of confusion. I finally got rid of the various error messages, but right now the application is crashing, and I have no idea where to start. The debugger is just throwing a random hex location. Thank you in a...

running asp.net 3.5 and asp.net 2.0 in same site

We're running ASP.Net 2.0 on our corporate web site, and I'd like to get it up to ASP.Net 3.5 as smoothly as possible. The project/solution architecture in VS 2005 is an ASP.Net 2.0 web project and an .Net 2.0 data access layer project which is used by the site code. Upon opening the projects in a new VS 2008 solution they seemed to be...

Can't get FCKEditor to work in a virtual directory.

I have a WebForm that contains the following definition for the FCKeditor: <FCKeditorV2:FCKeditor ID="txtBody" runat="server" BasePath="/fckeditor/" Height="480px" ToolbarSet="WebCal1" > </FCKeditorV2:FCKeditor> This works fine in my VS2008-based web application. However, when I d...

Why does a Silverlight application show a blank browser screen when created from exported template?

I created a silverlight app (without website) named TestApp, with one TextBox: <UserControl x:Class="TestApp.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas...

Visual Studio 2008 - .NET 2.0 targeted application won't run in XP (mscorwks.dll could not be loaded)

I have a .NET 2.0 targeted C# windows forms application that is running fine on XP when .NET 3.5 is installed. However, when .NET 2.0 only is installed I get the error: "WindowsFormsApplication1.exe - .NET Framework Initialization Error" - "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll could not be loaded" I have tried thi...

Adding a reference to a css file in an ascx file in vs2008 only to get intellisense

Normally visual studio brings up intellisense for available css classes, which it draws from css files linked to the current aspx/master document. Is there a way to get this to work in an ascx file in a similar way to referencing external JavaScript files in js files for the purpose of intellisense /// <reference path="jquery-1.4.1.js"...

I am not offered option to select master page

Using visual studio 2008. When I add a new aspx form to a project I am not offered the option to choose a master page even though there is one in the project. How do I turn that option on? It appeared automatically in the past. ...

VS2008 MSInstaller update to different directory fails

I use Visual Studio 2008 Installer Project to create a MSI Installer. With the software I deploy and install a Service. I added the primary output of the service project to the custom actions (Install, Commit, Rollback, Uninstall) of the Installer. First I had problems updating the Software (Error 1001. The Service already exists). The...

VS2008 & AnkhSVN: Any way to get the "Show Changes" to ignore whitespace?

Title says it all: is there a way to configure AnkhSVN so the default "show changes", under the right-click context menu, ignores whitespace diffs? ...

Debug application as a different user in VS2008

I have an application that works fine when run with administrator privileges. When run by a user it has problems reading from the Event Log. I would like to run the code in the debugger but not with my administrator settings. Is this possible in Visual Studio 2008 ? ...

Screen Scraping - still not working

I have browsed through many posts on this and have tried some of the suggestions but still not understanding it fully. I would like to scrape html pages that have some script running that usually executes the script to display a link after clicking. Some mentioned firebug and others talked about reverse engineering the code I need. But ...

Web Site in solution where "Rebuild Solution" compile succeeds cannot launch debugger

I have a solution that includes a Web Site (created using the web site template not the web app project template - converting isn't an option, btw). When I rebuild all, the compile succeeds, but strangely displays 3 errors, all of which are "Could not get dependencies for project reference 'PROJNAME'". When I try to launch the debugger...

Visual Studio 2008 C Drop down menu assist?

Is there an option to enable the drop down menu that appears when coding in other languages such as html/vb/ect for C in Visual Studio? ...