I am wondering what methods people are using for guaranteeing that the source code they are looking at matches the binary they are debugging. I am a single developer managing a fairly large code set and I find that when debugging an application I always want to know for certain that the binary that generated an error exactly matches the...
Hello Everyone, Actually, I'm trying to build a little "Image Viewer cum Editor" as a small college project. Now, when I have almost completed it I don't find it attractive at all (from the GUI point of view). So, I'm thinking to improve the GUI. One of my friend suggested that I make use of WPF which is available in the visual studio. ...
Sorry for the long problem statement...I've spent two days debugging and have a lot of notes... I have a WCF data service and another process trying to connect to it as a client via TCP and/or HTTP. I have a VERY simple test client app that seems to connect fine, but the more complicated production app cannot connect (neither TCP or HT...
I have a project that builds a static library that is purely an aggregate of other static libraries. This is achieved by adding the input libraries to the project as files. However, even if debug information is available for the input libraries, there is none available for the output aggregate library. If debug information is required fo...
how can i see source code of built in controls in visual studio offline? ...
My application needs to behave slightly differently when it loads if there is already an instance running. I understand how to use a mutex to prevent additional instances loading, but that doesn't quite solve my problem. For example: Instance 1 loads, gets the mutex. Instance 2 loads, can't get the mutex, knows there's another instan...
Visual Studio ( VSTS 2008 ) design mode work good for long time and from about 2 weeks ago it's suddenly stop view any thing in design mode i tried a lot with trying in another projects even in a simple web page but no way it's doesn't view any thing in design mode ... I think to reinstall VS 2008 again but I don't know if is there any o...
I have a complex form to allow the user to configure my app. What's the best way to save the form state & reload when the program next runs. I mean text he has entered in list boxes, the selected item of combo/list/radio, whether a checkbox is cheeked, etc ...
Hi All, My c++ application developed in Visual Studio 2008 crashes at some memory location. It is showing memory access violation erroe like, Unhandled exception at 0x650514aa in XXX.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000004. how I can get the variable name assigned to 0x650514aa this memory location. Or how to deb...
Hi, I have a Visual C++ Setup which I created using Visual Studio Setup Wizard. I'm trying to give the user option of selecting to install for himself only or everyone. How do I do this?? Even though I can select a radio button saying Install for All Users at install time, it did not work. I need this to work in Windows 7. I have some f...
While writing a post about project euler's 14th problem I ran into a difference in behaviour between VC9 and VC10. The following code runs OK in VC9 but in VC10 std::unordered_map throws a bad_alloc exception. The strange thing is that if I recover from the exception future allocations will succeed (the size of the container continues t...
I am using visual studio 2008 and i have a native c++ project that loads a managed c++ dll, but on the last one, the intellisense doenst work anymore only por the managed code. this project (dll) has a mixed code (native and managed) and if i write only "::" on a clean line, the intellisense gives me the methods inherits from the base c...
I'm trying to "fix" a build on our TF Server that drops everything into the drop folder in one big flat drop (rather than in seperate project dumps like a local build would do), and I'm getting a little frustrated - I'm going to be honest and say this is the first time I've ever worked with MSBuild and this has kind of been droppped on m...
Any way to convert the encoding of all the files within a VS solution (*.sln) directly inside Visual Studio? (I am using 2008). Any Add-in for this effect? ...
Hi all, I am developing a LAN based Counter Billing Application with around 10 clients. Basically 1 server will have SQL-Server Express installed where all billing details will be stored. So all 10 clients will be communicating with server now & then for product information and billing. I am novice in WCF and read some articles on WCF f...
I have a VB.NET project under Visual Studio 2008. Inside that project, I receive this error: There is no editor available for <filename>. Make sure the application for the file type (.vb) is installed. The error happens whenever I try to bring up the designer view of the form associated with the .VB file. For example, if I double-cl...
How do I re-enable this? It happened after I imported a settings theme, which I wanted because it made the font colors much nicer. In options, is there a way to re-enable Ctrl+E,D to fix the comments? ...
I added a HolidaysSchedule.xml file to my Unit Test, and set it's property "Copy to output directory" to "Copy Always". This file contains the holidays of my client. When I do a "Debug Tests in Current Context" on a specific test that I wrote to check to see if a date is a holiday, I get this error. Test method FRB.EC.Utils.MiscUni...
I have been looking at Moles for testing my entity framework generated classes and followed the steps outlined in the video and also the tutorial help documents however I am failing at the first step. I get the following error when adding a new moles file item ensuring that the name of the .moles file matches the assembly I have in the ...
I have a program that when I build on release mode in visual studio it will copy the .exe file and all required file to a shared location for multiple users to access. Inside the folder that was copied i created automatically created a shortcut to the .exe file using C# when the project builds. Problem I want to be able to copy that ...