visual-studio-2008

Using Tortoise SVN diff in TFS

I want to use Tortoise SVN diff utility with TFS. I know how to configure user tools in TFS. What I need is installer for Tortoise SVN diff utility. I think I need to install full Tortoise SVN to get SVN diff tool, is there a standalone version of this tool available for download? I know various other diff tools are available like winMe...

Error in build in Visual Studio 2008 (C# project)

today i get this error The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. note that I've been working on the same solution and in the same directory since 1 month and i didn't get this error. any idea ...

How to connect Team Foundation server on my VS2008?

Just now I received my new laptop from my office. When I open Visual studio, in the tools I am not able to see the Connect to Team Foundation Server option. Can any body help me out how to do that? in VS2008 ...

Visual Studio 2008 sql query syntax; drop the brackets

Is there a way to configure VS2008 so that it does NOT create SQL query strings with square brackets in my ASP .Net projects? I'm using a MySQL DB which doesn't like the brackets. Thanks. ...

millions of non-breaking spaces in an ASPX file?

Has anyone ever seen an instance where Visual Studio (or possibly SourceSafe) would decide to insert about 9 million non-breaking space characters at the end of a line in an ASPX file? I'm trying to figure out if this could be some weird bug, or if a programmer fell asleep with her head on the space bar, while in design view... and then...

DataKeyNames coming up as undesired Update parameters in ASP.NET GridView

Hi all, I have defined the following in my gridview markup (simplified): <asp:GridView ID="grvReport" runat="server" DataSourceID="odsReport" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="EntryDate,EmployeeNumber"> Then I define my datasource's update parameters as such: <UpdateParameters> ...

qmake - x64 makespec for x64 Visual Studio solution?

We're currently using qmake and .pro files to create projects for Visual Studio 2008, but the default solution platform is Win32. Every time the projects are rebuilt, I have to manually change the platform to x64 by going into the configuration manager and copying settings from the Win32 solution. I have not been able to find online/QT ...

How to force Visual Studio 2008 to warn about missing header files

I work as the Mac coder on a c++ application which I share with PC coders who use VS2008. When they make changes to a source file that requires an non-included header file they get no warnings, as most of their headers are in a precompiled header. What setting can they use to have them be warned that they failed to add the required inclu...

VS 2008 WEB Developer Express

Clicking on Project->ASP.NET configuration in VS 2008 Web Developer doesn't open up anything? Anybody else has this issue with VS 2008 web developer express ...

Call a form sub from another form

I have a form Friend Class frmOrganigramma Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form with a sub Sub OutList() How can i launch this sub from another form? Thanks ...

Display SSRS report in ReportViewer control

Hi There View have a central report server running SSRS, all our reporta are already built and present on the server. How can i now dispaly one of those reports using ReportViewer Contontrol in ASP.NET? My Control: <rsweb:ReportViewer ID="ctReportViewer" runat="server" /> My CodeBehind: var reportServer = ctReportViewer.ServerRep...

Unattened intallation of Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

Hi I'm trying to create an INI file for use in an unattended installation. I'm tried using various combinations of the 'createunattended' switch. setup /createunattendfile C:\temp\vs2008_install.ini and setup /createunattend C:\temp\vs2008_install.ini This launches the installer. Then, selecting a custom install, the VS installer ju...

Getting strange error trying to run an ASP.NET app in VS 2008

I've upgraded a VS 2005 app to VS 2008, and tried to run it. I get some very strange behavior. Something, I don't know what, comes up and says: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xht...

Creating a custom folder in a Setup Project for multiple Windows versions.

The users that will be installing and using the application I created may not have to access to the Program Files folder. Therefore, my boss and I thought it best that we put the SQLite database in a public location, but not the desktop. We were thinking of the Application Data folder on the All Users profile, but when I got to my othe...

Checking TreeView Control Nodes and SubNodes - StackOverflowException!

I have a Tree View control for a Windows Application that uses the CheckBoxes property. Sometimes (often) when a Tree Node is either checked or unchecked, I get Stack Overflow Exceptions in my static methods below. Could someone point out why? Maybe even show me how to do this the right way? In the After Check Event, I have written th...

Remote Debugging Web Part

I am having trouble getting Visual Studio 2008 remote debugger to hit break points. I have two VMWare virtual machines. One hosts the SharePoint MOSS 2007 Shared Services and Central Admin and has Visual Studio 2008 Professional on it as well. I am using WSPBuilder to structure and deploy my web part. The other machine is a Web Fr...

How to debug into dll source file from web project

I have web project and window project.Web project reference from window project and I want to debug from web project to source code in window project. Where do I setup to look for debug source code in window project. I copied all source code from another computer. but on another computer can debug just fine.All that different is where t...

Is it possible to open a Visual Studio 2008 Database Project with VS2008 Development Edition?

I have a Visual Studio 2008 Team System Development Edition installed and a solution that contains a Database Project. Is there any addon that I can install to make Studio load this project? ...

Can't open project created from Visual Studio Web Developer 2008 with Visual Studio Professional 2008

I have several projects that opened just fine in Visual Studio Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, but can't be opened in VS 2008 Professional Edition! These projects are just .NET Framework 3.5 class libraries, and they are on the same machine. The error is "The project [myproject.csproj] cannot be opened. The project type is not suppo...

This type of page is not served when accessing an asp page in debug mode in Visual Studio 2008

I am trying to debug an old project in Visual Studio 2008. When I go to an asp page I get the following. Server Error in '/website' Application. This type of page is not served. Description: The type of page you have requested is not served because it has been explicitly forbidden. The extension '.asp' may be incorrect. Please revi...