visual-studio-2008

How to add an entry to registry Run key via VS2008 setup and deployment

I'm creating a VS2008 installer script for my project. I want to add a value to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to run my EXE at start up. Is there a way I can specify a reference to my executable ("Primary output from Project"), so that the installer script inserts the correct value into the registry when it runs? ...

How do I obtain value from <form> tag?

Based on my co-worker's code, he is passing HTML attributes into his form declaration in the view using BeginForm and the resulting HTML looks like: <form action="/Reviewer/Complete" ipbID="16743" method="post"> How can I obtain the ipbID in my Controller code? I've trying HttpContext.Request.QueryString["ipbID"] ... and ... Req...

Fields in a struct skipping bytes

Hey guys, I have a struct I have written which is supposed to represent an entire UDP packet, with the ethernet header and all. Here it is: #pragma pack(1) struct UDPPacket { // an array to hold the destination mac address of the packet unsigned char dstmac[6]; // an array to hold the source mac address of the packet un...

Visual Studio 2008 remains front most window debugger

I suspect this could be posted elsewhere but it seems to only be an issue with VS 2008 - I haven't experienced this before and it is frustrating me. I run VS 2008 on my dev box (Win 7 Ultimate, core i7 processor, 9GB RAM) and noticed that recently when I run a particular app I'm developing out of the debugger, VS then becomes the frontm...

Dotfuscator not in VS2008?

Hey. I've got VS2008 professional edition installed and can't find Dotfuscator. I also can't find anywhere to download the community edition. It seems that Dotfuscator should already integrated into VS2008, but I only have other tools visible such as Reflector. Is there a way to download Dotfuscator separately? Thanks ...

How to publish a certificate from a pfx file

Note: My situation has slightly changed, so I removed all my previous edits and added a new paragraph. However the basic question listed below is still accurate. I am trying to publish my ClickOnce VSTO application and have generated a certificate to sign the manifest. The problem is that on the target computer, of course the certificat...

Can intellisense be enabled in VS2008 within preprocessor directive blocks like #ifndef ... #endif

While working within C++ libraries, I've noticed that I am not granted any intellisense while inside directive blocks like "#ifndef CLIENT_DLL ... #endif". This is obviously due to the fact that "CLIENT_DLL" has been defined. I realize that I can work around this by simply commenting out the directives. Are there any intellisense opti...

Installing MS debug DLLs for remote debugging

I have a .NET app that I would like to install on a VM for remote debugging purposes. The app uses a native VC++ DLL which links to MFC and the MSVC runtime libraries via DLL. When I run depends on the VM, it says that the DLL needs the following DLLs: mfc90d.dll msvcm90d.dll msvcp90d.dll msvcr90d.dll msjava.dll Also, it reports...

Debug Target Is Missing?

When I try to build my solution, I get the following error: Visual Studio cannot start debugging because the debug target 'c:\target' is missing. Please build the project and retry, or set the OutputPath and AssemblyName properties appropriately to point at the correct location for the target assembly. My output path is set correctly...

UrlRewriter.Net with URL with final dot

I want to use UrlRewriter.Net as described in this blog by ScottGu. In the example below, page.aspx should display a page text stored in the database based on the title= URL parameter. After a couple of tweaks the only remaining issue seems to be that a final dot in the URL causes a 404 a sequence of two dots in the URL causes a 400...

About Microsoft's String Safe Functions.

WCHAR* someString = L"SomeString\n"; WCHAR s1[MAX_PATH]; // I'm sure this is right code. StringCchCopyW(s1, _countof(s1), someString); // But I'm not sure about these example. StringCchCopyW(s1 + 100, _countof(s1) - 100, someString); // Is it right? StringCchCopyW(s1 + 100, _countof(s1), someString); // Is it right? // How about these...

"This server version is not supported.Only Up To Microsoft SQL server 2005 are supported" in Visual Studio 2008 Cannot Connect to SQL server 2008 R2

Getting this error "This server version is not supported.Only Up To Microsoft SQL server 2005 are supported" after I create a data connection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and SQL server 2008 R2. Any ideas would be great. No other version of SQL server Installed. The error occurs after I select server, then database. Just as I click OK I ...

reading oracle database and transfer to SQL server

I imported the following and the problem couldn't be avoided Imports Oracle.DataAccess.Client Imports Oracle.DataAccess.Types An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: The type initializer for 'Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection' threw an exception. ...

Visual Studio 2008 crashing on close if windows layout altered

My VS2008 is crashing whenever I close it, if I have changed how windows are arranged (e.g. docking the Output window somewhere else). I have switched off all plugins etc. I suspect that the settings file for the layout is corrupted or something. Where is it, and would delteing it possibly help? ...

VS2008 C++ Header and Class Templates

We using a mixture of C++ (MFC) and C# within our software, and include the usual copyright spiel above our classes and wish to include it automatically. I've updated my C# Class Template file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Code\1033\Class.zip Question is does anyone know how to do the ...

Using embedded file in VS2008 ASP.NET Project

I have an ASP.NET project and want to include an XML file inside the project to store some relatively static data. To do this I selected "Add File" from the solution context menu and picked my XML file. Having added this to my project, I then wanted to load the XML from within code. I tried the following: XmlDocument xmlDoc = new Xml...

Automatic Unit Testing with NANT and VS2008 during build process

I'm using VS2008 Pro and as such my c# project includes a bunch of Unit Tests written in the MS bundled unit test framework (sorry I have no idea what its official name is!). I would like to be able to run these unit tests as part of my build process. Is it possible to get Nant to automatically run these Unit tests during a build? ...

A registered tlb file on Windows 7 (64bit) isn't usable

I have a (VS 2008) C# project that needs to use a 3rd-party COM object. For that, I'm told, I need to register the COM objects's tlb file. So I do C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\regtlibv12.exe blahblah.tlb which gives me Registration of FREngine.tlb successful. But then I can't add a reference to it in the C# p...

dataTable.net Server-Side Processing: Not seeming to refresh.

For the site my coworkers and I are working on, we used the dataTable format from www.dataTables.net and we have to use Server-Side processing because of how much the tables grow. Here's the view: <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> $(document).ready(f...

SideBySide problem with debug build on a VM.

I have a .NET application that is developed with Visual Studio 2008 which uses a C++/CLI DLL named xVJob.dll. I am getting SideBySide errors when I try to run it on a test VM. The VM is running Windows Server 2003 SP2. I can run and debug everything fine on my development machine, but when I try to run it on the test VM, it throws an ...