I have found many tutorials about using Windows Server 2003 as a development machine, and very little information about Windows Server 2008 for the same purpose. For a nicer experience, I have followed the steps from Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation. I am searching for the requirements and installation order for IIS 7 ...
I'm trying to get NAnt 0.86b1 running with VS2008 SP1 and x64 XP. I have a basic build file (below) which gives the error Solution format of file 'Solution.sln' is not supported. <property name="nant.settings.currentframework" value="net-3.5" /> <target name="build" description="Full Rebuild" depends="clean,compile" /> <target n...
I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with several projects in it - some of which are web applications / sites. Whenever I go "Debug > Start new instance" for a specific web application and VS launches the ASP.net Development Server (WebDev.WebServer.EXE) for that application, VS also launches 3 additional such processes - one for each ...
Every time I start Visual Studio 2008, the first time I try to run the project I get the error CS0006 The metadata file ... could not be found. If I do a rebuild of the complete solution it works. Some information about the solution: I'm building in debug mode and Visual Studio complains about not finding dll:s in the release folder. ...
What third party component set would you recommend to enhance look and functionality of existing applications - both Windows and Web (C#, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2008)? Manager wants all applications to have "nice, simple and uniform" look. Thank you! ...
I would like to copy a folder (and all of its contents) during a ClickOnce deployment. The contents of this directory may change between software builds, and I need the extract structure copied to the deployment location during publishing. Currently I have to include each individual file within the folder in VS and mark it as a "Data Fi...
I have an external stylesheet that has specific IE-hacks. Every so often my site will fail to build due to these hacks (it is the hash-hack; for example #margin-top:-2px;). This is the error: Unexpected character sequence. Expected a property name for the "<property> : <value>" declaration I haven't found out a concrete way to get t...
We would like to run some tasks after a build has been stopped using VS2008. Does anyone know if any of the default targets are still executed after this action? Thanks in advance! ...
How do I create a Web Application Project in VS 2008? How is it different from a "WebSite" project? ...
Does anyone know of a way to change the height of a Page Header in a RDLC report? I have a textbox that has line breaks and would like the height of the Page Header to expand if there are more than one line. Does anyone know how to do this? Let me know if you need more information. ...
I have a VB class in an .asmx file in Visual Studio 2008: public class foo public bla as String end class It generates the wsdl value: <s:complexType name="foo"> <s:sequence> <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="bla" type="s:string" /> </s:sequence> </s:complexType> But what I want the wsdl to generate is: <xs:el...
Hi, As a background, I am a developer of an opensource project, a c++ library called openframeworks, that is a wrapper for different libraries, like opengl, quicktime, freeImage, etc. In the next release, we've added a c++ library called POCO, which is similar to boost in some ways in that it's an alternative for java foundation libra...
I have Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 installed and it is crashing when I'm using lambda expressions in the Moq Framework. At first I thought the problem was Resharper...but now that I have uninstalled it, VS 2008 still crashes. I'm able to replicate the issue every time. I'm thinking perhaps it may be some other plugin that is causing th...
The reason for me asking this question is:- I get a real buzz out of discovering features in Visual Studio 2008 that end up saving me oodles of time every day. Recently found a blog by Sara Ford who grinds out a tip each day on her blog. Am wondering what is the biggest time saving tip you can give in terms of using the IDE in visual ...
I am using VS 2008 to write my Javascript code ( mostly in JQuery). However the js file was not updated when I was done with the editing and pressed F5 to call out the debugger. I need to close my vs2008 and reopen it in order to see the latest changes in js file. Any idea on how to fix this? ...
I can go to a specific line number by double clicking in the status bar in Visual Studio. Is there a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing? ...
Visual Studio has certainly gone from strength to strength since humble Visual Studio 6 (and previous renditions). There seems to be a lot more coming in Visual Studio 2010 (based on blogs, the PDC and the more recent CTP virtual machines). The recent Service Pack 1 seemed to introduce some really intriguing new functionality and enhan...
I have just installed the GDR RTM version of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition GDR RTM. It all seems to work wonderfully, but I seem to have to edit XML (Database.sqlpermissions) for specify SQL Permissions. Am I missing something? For that matter where is the schema diagram tool? I understand GDR exposes alot for extending ...
I've had a look on google for alternate providers for the new GDR but couldn't find any. Does anyone know of a MySQL project that is attempting to create a provider? ...
I have installed VS 2008 SP1 on W2k3 OS. After I installed ASP.NET MVC beta and tried creating ASP.NET MVC type project I get the following error. "the project type is not supported by this installation" Let me know if you have fixed this issue. ...