Vs2008 Find in Files slows down against Robots.txt
In VS2008 when I do a find in files across entire website which includes a robots.txt file, I notice that the search pauses for 20-30 secs on robots.txt. Any ideas how to resolve this issue ...
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Visual Studio - How to get show all files in solution explorer to skip a folder?
When I press the Show All Files button in the Visual Studio 2008 Solution Explorer it takes several minutes for Visual Studio to respond. This is because there is an images folder under the solution that contains thousands of files. Is there any way to get Show All Files to not display this folder? ...
Run exe after msi installation in vista or win7
I am using the script given here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1668274/run-exe-after-msi-installation It is working fine in xp but it is not launching exe in win7 or vista. Where should I make changes? ...
VLC player event catch
In my C# application i need to trigger some events when a VLC player (preferably) starts playback (a play button is pressed in VLC for example).Tried Windows Media Player classic with Microsoft Spy++ and observed messages that are sent when playback starts\repeats but i don't know how i could "catch" those messages in my C# code.So my q...
vb.net 2008 multilingual string display adding resources err:MissingManifestResourcesException
Developing a multilingual application in VB.Net 2008, Im able to add resources to forms and create a multilingual forms depending on uiculture. On reading Msdn on creating the multilingual string values for messagebox contents, have added the .resource file to the project files path as specified. There is no error on compilation but thro...
How to open a help webpage after installation is complete
I have built an installer for my windows app using the VisualStudio 2008 IDE. I also use some custom-actions to do a few extra stuff at the time of installation/uninstallation. What I also want to do is that when the installation is completed, the installer should launch a help webpage or a getting-started page for the users to know how...
Why Controller doesn't recognize a public method which (yet) appears in the intellisense ?
Hello, I'm using an helper class that I called CreateEditOrganizationService where I put all the helper methods. In my controller, I've createService as object of that class. So far, I've got 5 methods. Now, I've just defined a 6th method called Set_TypeOrganization. I'm getting the Set_TypeOrganization in the intellisense, but after ...
Convert Subclass to Inherited Class
I have a C# .NET 2.0 project A (class library) that has a form (TreeForm) that uses Tree objects. I have a project B that has a class Oak that inherits Tree. The class Oak adds some properties to Tree. class Oak : ProjectA.Tree { public string LeafColor; } TreeForm.cs in the class library is a form that has a DataGrid that databi...
How to switch to next \ previous property in properties window without using a mouse in VS 2008?
Hello guys. The topic says it all. In case of my question is not clear enough let me provide you a screenshot ;-) I am editing ColumnHeadersHeight property. When I finish I want to use some a key to go to ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle property or to ColumnHEadersHeightSizeMode property. How to do that without using a mouse? ...
Cannot Debug using Visual Studios on a Silverlight project
When I try to run a Silverlight project in Visual Studios 2008 I get this error all of a sudden: Unable to start debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed. What have I done wrong? ...
How do you call Win32 API functions from inline assembler?
Would somebody please tell me whats wrong with this code I am just calling a Sleep function from the kernel32.dll What's wrong? I am using Visual Studio 2008. Any help would be grateful. Thank you very much. __asm { mov eax, 77e2ef66h push 9999 call eax } ...
Is that the way to open old project in VS2008 without using any .NET framework ?
Hi I've got a question about opening the old project in VS2008. If I have old c++ project(implement in VS6.0), and now I'd like to open it in VS2008 but I don't want to use .NET library because the application will be installed on the machine that has no any .NET framework (and I don't want to install any .NET to that machine). So is ...
Clean checkout from TFS 2008
Hi all, I want to pass a project to a colleague without SCC bindings to avoid accidental changes in my repository. Is it possible to do a clean checkout from a TFS 2008 repo? I'm going crazy finding such an option in VS2008. Thanks in advance. ...
Visual Studio 2008 Workflow designer bug for referenced assemblies with same prefix namespace - any fixes?
In visual studio 2008 (SP1 applied) there appears to be a bug in the state workflow designer tool. On adding a HandleExternalEvent activity and setting the Interface type to that of an interface in a reference assembly with the same prefixed namespace (eg XX.Core.Contracts as the namespace of the interface containing assembly and XX.St...
WCF Host taking long time to start when machine connected to network
We have created a small WCF test project in order to test and isolate this problem. We are running Windows 7 64bit and Visual Studio 2008. When we press F5 to run, it takes about 10 seconds to start the WCF host. If we remove the network cable and press F5, it takes less than 1 second to start. If we turn on the wireless network it a...
Looking for alternatives to the database project.
I've a fairly large database project which contains nine databases and one database with a fairly large schema. This project takes a large amount of time to build and I'm about to pull my hair out. We'd like to keep our database source controlled, but having a hard getting the other devs to use the project and build the database project...
VS2008: Save All before running custom tools
When running an external tool in VS 2008, open modified fiels aren't save anymore before the tool executes. That's a PITA change from VC6, and has caused us a lot of trouble already. Is there any way to get this functionality back? ...
Asp.net project is not recognising one of the folders in my class library.
I am developing a project using Visual Studio 2008 in C#, I have added the class library within the project and set up the relevant references and used the relevant using statements. It seems to be a problem with just this one folder. can anyone help? this is the error message: Error 28 The type or namespace name 'Domain' does no...
Visual Studio 2008 having problems with namespaces when used as type in Generic coolection
I just upgraded last week from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008. I am having an issue with compiler resolving namespaces when I use a class as a type in a Generic collection. Intellisense recognizes the class and the compiler generates no errors when I use the class except when it is a type in a Generic collection declaration either as retur...
Wierdness debugging Visual Studio C++ 2008
I have a legacy C++ app, that in its most incarnation we've been building with makefiles and VS2003's command-line tool. I'm trying to get it to build using VS2008 and MsBuild. The build is working OK, but I'm getting errors where I'd never seen errors, before, and stepping through in VS2008's debugger only confuses me. The app links ...