As of the fall of 2008 I'm about to embark on a new development cycle for a major product that has a winforms and an asp.net interface. We use Telerik, DevExpress and Infragistics components in it and all are going to have a release within a month or so which will be the one I target for our spring release of our product. They all su...
I found the ad on this site to Krypton controls (and here's another one! http://www.componentfactory.com) and was wondering if any of you using vs.net 05 or 08 are using them and how that's working out. If you're answering, please specify which parts you're using (free, ribbons, tabs) and which vs.net you're on, which language(s) you use...
We are trying out Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend on a new project. The goal is to clearly define the role of the developer and designer as separate, but reap the benefit of the developer being able to directly consume the XAML produced by the designer. For the most part this has worked great, and I really like the possibilities...
We have a project with over 500,000 lines of VB.NET that we need to convert to C#. Any recommendations, based on experience, for tools to use? We are using Visual Studio 2008 and we're targeting 3.5 . ...
How do you customize the Copy/Paste behavior in Visual Studio 2008? For example I create a new <div id="MyDiv"></div> and then copy and paste it in the same file. VisualStudio pastes <div id="Div1"></div> instead of the original text I copied. It is even more frustrating when I'm trying to copy a group of related div's that I would li...
Greetings. I'm a 1-2 man band at work, and so far I've been using VSS for two reasons 1) the company was using that when I started a few months ago, and 2) it is friendly with Visual Studio. Needless to say, I would very much like to upgrade to a not-so-archaic source control system. However, I don't want to give up the friendliness ...
What does "Client-only Framework subset" in Visual Studio 2008 do? ...
I've downloaded the IKVM sources (http://www.ikvm.net/) from http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=69637 Now I'm trying to get it to build in Visual Studio 2008 and am stuck. Does anyone know of documentation of how to build the thing, or could even give me pointers? I've tried opening the ikvm8.sln, which opens all the projects, but tr...
How effective is merging when folders and projects have been renamed in your solution? ...
I have a 1920x1200 screen an would like to customize VS2008 code windows to have some areas split vertically and horizontally (tab groups). I can only seem to do all vertical or all horizontal in VS2008. Is there any crafty way of getting a mixing both? ...
How can I exclude the bin folder from SourceSafe in a Visual Studio 2008 web application? I want to be able to check in everything recursively from the solution node without picking up anything in the bin folder. ...
Many of the parameters for interacting with the Office Object model in VSTO require object parameters that are passed by reference, even when the notional type of the parameter is an int or string. I suppose that this mechanism is used so that code can modify the parameter, although I can't figure out why these need to be passed as gen...
I am working on a large C++ project in Visual Studio 2008, and there are a lot of files with unnecessary #include's. Sometimes the #include's are just artifacts and everything will compile fine with them removed, and in other cases classes could be forward declared and the #include could be moved to the .cpp file. Are there any good to...
Does anyone have details in setting up Qt4 in Visual Studio 2008? Links to other resources would be appreciated as well. I already know that the commercial version of Qt has applications to this end. I also realize that I'll probably need to compile from source as the installer for the open source does not support Visual Studio and inst...
I'm in an ASP.NET UserControl. When I type Control-K, Control-D to reformat all the markup, I get a series of messages from VS 2008: "Could not reformat the document. The original format was restored." "Could not complete the action." "The operation could not be completed. The parameter is incorrect." Anybody know what causes this...
Hello, fellow anthropoids and lily pads and paddlewheels! I'm developing a Windows desktop app in C#/.NET/WPF, using VS 2008. The app is required to install and run on Vista and XP machines. I'm working on a Setup/Windows Installer Project to install the app. My app requires read/modify/write access to a SQLCE database file (.sdf) and ...
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 for an ASP .Net application, and Visual Studio keeps adding blank lines to my aspx file whenever I save, switch to design mode and back to code view, switch to split mode, or switch between files. Before I save, I will have: </ContentTemplate></asp:UpdatePanel> </...
After installing VS2008, the platform builder mod, and the WM7 aku, VS usually prompts you, upon first startup, for your default mode. If you make a mistake and select something other than PB7, how do you get back into PB mode? I can get the device window, but it is always greyed out. I can also configure my normal connection settings, ...
Is there a unicode debug visualizer in Visual Studio 2008? I have a xml file that I'm pretty sure is in unicode. When I open it in wordpad, it shows the japanese characters correctly. When I read the file into a string using File.ReadAllText (UTF8), all the japanese characters show up as blocks in the string visualizer. If I use the xml ...
Is it possible to configure Visual Studio 2008 to automatically remove whitespace characters at the end of each line when saving a file? There doesn't seem to be a built-in option, so are there any extensions available to do this? ...