visual-studio-2008

Ctrt + F5 in vs 2008 and .Net 3.5 is not working to run my website application

I can't run a website application from VS 2008. When I press Ctrl + F5 i got an alert "unable connect to ASP.net Deployment server" (sp.) I'm using windows 2k3 sp2. Thanks! ...

Visual studio team explorer shows red cross in build en reports folder

Any ideas what the problem could be? Some facts: -The direct report link works(i can surf to http://theserver/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx?ItemPath=/someSite ) -I have enough rights -It has worked and suddenly it stopped working -I can open source control -I am directly connected over a local lan with the tfs server -My colleages do ...

How to set standard encoding in Visual Studio

I am searching for a way to setup Visual Studio so it always saves my files in UTF-8. I have only found options to set this project wide is there a way to set it Visual Studio wide? ...

Is it possible to create a solution template with VS2008?

Hi folks, i'm trying to find examples on the net about how to make a solution template. Everything leads to examples of project templates, which is not good enough for me. i'm after a solution template because I've got a number of projects I wish to put into the same solution and the make that a template. can anyone help me with links ...

Any idea why VS2008 crashes reliably at the end of a solution rebuild?

VS2008 SP1, Winforms solution, VB.NET, compiling for x86 and .NET v2 I have about a dozen projects in the solution, with a couple of Windows forms projects and some class libraries. If I rebuild the solution, it clears out and recompiles all the projects, as you'd expect... ... and then disappears without trace or error message. Sin...

How do I clear the "Recent Projects" list in Visual Studio 2008?

How do I remove all the items from the "Recent Project" list in Visual Studio 2008? ...

Visual Studio closes all the time

My Visual Studio shuts down about once a day. Not gracefully either, it just disappears off the screen, process list, everything. No thinking, no warning, just poof its gone. This happens most frequently when coderush is trying to do something and lately (the last few days) it happens any time I try to open a view. As of a few hours ...

VS2008 crashes with "Fatal Execution Engine Error"

Has anybody found a fix for Visual Studio crashing with this error (eventlog)? .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3082 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A2E1132) (0) It does this when I start debugging with a problem in the xaml. Visual Studio will then silently disappear. I've looked at SO and MS Connect but haven't found a fix or wor...

Get Latest Version shortcut in Visual Studio 2008

Would love to have a keyboard shortcut that get's the latest for a solution I am working on inside Visual Studio 2008 from source control. Can't find one in the documents anywhere! In addition would be good if I could get other source control shortcuts for checking in pending changes. ...

VS2008: Unit Testing with Code Coverage doesn't work with /CLR

I'm trying to set up unit testing with code coverage in VS2008, for a C++/CLI DLL which is compiled with /clr (not /clr:safe or /clr:pure - it has to be /clr because it uses MFC). The unit tests work perfectly but the coverage information only works if I compile with /clr:safe or /clr:pure. For /clr the Code Coverage Results window show...

How the VC++ 2005/2008 Debugger visualizers would stop working?

I suddenly found that Debugger visualizers do not work for STL containers such as vector, set. Nothing went corrupt except that the watch windows showed things as if the visualiser were not there. But they are there, autoexp.dat sits right C:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger. And They used to work, I di...

Why does catch(TException) handling block behaviour differ under the debugger after installing Visual Studio 2008?

Consider the console application below, featuring a method with a generic catch handler that catches exceptions of type TException. When this console application is built with the 'Debug' configuration and executed under the Visual Studio debugger (i.e. through the *.vshost.exe) this fails, in both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2...

How to catch an exception that won't happen while debugging?

I have some image processing code that runs on a background thread and updates an Image control on the UI thread when it's done processing using Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(). When I'm running my application outside of the debugger, it crashes quite often. As soon as I run it in the debugger, I can't get it to happen at all. Apparently the ti...

Can I build x64 app on a 32 bit machine?

How do I develop a 64bit app on a 32 bit PC? I'm using VS 2008 on WinXP 32 bit. I set the visual studio linker to /machine:x64 and created x64 configurations. All will compile and link OK, but when I run the dependency walker on the exe I see the 64 bit mscvr90.dll, etc. pointing to all the Win32 dlls, Kernel32.dll, Advapi32, Comdlg32, ...

GridView ButtonField postback not working in IE7?

I have an ASP.Net Web Site with GridView control that in turn contains a ButtonField column. It's supposed to do a postback when this ButtonField is clicked, but that doesn't happen if I click on the button from within the Internet Explorer window that Visual Studio opens while debugging. I can get it to successfully postback when I brin...

What`s wrong with qt 4.5.0 integration with Visual Studio 2008?

I downloaded and installed qt evaluation for vs2008 and expect it to be integrated with VS, but it is not. It is trial 30 days commercial license. What`s wrong with it or may be I got it wrong? ...

Where is the Visual Studio layout saved?

I am having problems with VS2008 moving the windows around and losing tabs when I close it and open again, or when I go from coding to debugging and back. (Yes, I know that it is supposed to save different layouts for coding and debugging). I have tried exporting my settings, but it informs me helpfully that "Your settings were exporte...

Visual Studio 2008 Database Addon

I am currently trying out visual studio to access sql server databases instead of using SQL Server Management Studio. It was a good surprise how easy it is to setup and use a connection do a database and for the moment it has a positive impact on my productivity. My question is: Is there an addon (or something i can do) to enable intel...

Why don't visual studio javascript breakpoints work in firebug?

Why can't microsoft make setting a breakpoint in visual studio equivalent to adding the "debugger" keyword in javascript? I want to test javascript cross browser in a unified way. ...

Mixed signed assemblies in 1 VS solution?

Hey, currently I am trying to run a project (Noizwaves.Client) which has a dependency (as a project reference) to a signed class library (Noizwaves.Core). Noizwaves.Core has it's assembly version set to 2.0.*. I have both of these projects within the same VS2008 solution file. Noizwaves.Client is set as the default startup project. All ...