Hey guys, does anyone know of a Visual Studio (2008) Plug-in that attempts to track how long you've spent working on any given Solution or Project? I realize this would be difficult, like at work I might leave a Solution open all day, but only work on it for a couple of hours, on and off. However at home, I might only open a Solution...
Is this valid? MSBuild /t=all /configuration=all I want to build ALL configurations of all projects in a sln file, etc from the command line using MSBuild in Visual Studio 2008. I do not want to have to specify them when I call MSBuild, the sln/proj files all have that information. I don't want to change my build script if I add conf...
I recently installed VS08 SP1 so that I could use the Entity Framework. However, upon loading projects with edmx files, I get a "Package Load Failure" error that points at "Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.Package". Unfortunately, googling this turn up only problems dealing with installing SP1 over the Entity Framework CTP, which I have nev...
Is there a way to simulate: yourprogram < inputFile.txt in Visual Studio 2008? ...
Hello, In Adobe Director, there is a watch window that updates while my application runs. For example, if I have a game application and am watching an instance of a ball object, I can see all of its values (velocity, altitude, state variables, etc) updating in real-time as the application is running. I can also add any other object to...
I'm developing a site in VS2008 on a machine running XP SP3 with IIS5. I've named the main page in each directory index.html to avoid the www.domain.tld/directory/pagename.ext scenario of specifying a full path, and also because these pages literally contain an index of the other pages in their directory. When I debug on my local machi...
Is there a way to unmap .tt files in Studio? Every time I create or edit one, it warns me about executing them, then creates a .cs file for it. The thing is my .tt files are something completely different. They're Template Toolkit files from Perl project, and their standard extension is .tt I've tried adding an extension map from tt t...
This is regarding Visual Studio pro 2008 sp1, with resharper and testdriven installed. I've just installed: Microsoft Silverlight Projects 2008 Version 9.0.30729.146 I find I can't open a silverlight application due to a 'missing patch'. The error dialog directs me back to the download page for the silverlight tools I just installed. ...
Hello everyone, I got this weird error which mentions I should install VSTS 2008 SP1, during the process of installation of SQL Server 2008 developer edition. But actually I have VSTS 2008 SP1 installed. Any ideas what is wrong? Here is my screen snapshot. http://i41.tinypic.com/9teo7m.jpg thanks in advance, George ...
Hello everyone, I am new to Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode), I just want to know what is its function? (I did not find much clearly from the web.) From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb510103.aspx looks like it is some interface/framework to allow tools to integrate with VSTS IDE. My question is whether any Microsof...
Hi guys, I'm new to the wonderful world of .net development, and I'm currently using c# 3.0 and I'm wondering is there any good/free/open source tool to auto generate documentation for the project that I work on based on the /// summary comments like or whatever the in thing it is for vs2008. As I recall back in .net 1.1 we used to use t...
By clever, I mean NOT TO upload once again the files that has been already uploaded (with the same dates, size or checksum...). It would be great, because the Publish method takes a lot of time! ...
When creating a new service in a WCF service project, Visual Studio will automatically put configuration information into the service's web.config file. Is there anyway to replicate this behavior with a new web config file and an existing service class in a service project? Sometimes the service's web.config seems to get mangled up eithe...
I saw a blog post the other day that had a screen shot of intellisense's member list that looked like this: DateTime. -> [Compare(DateTime, DateTime) int] [DaysInMonth(int, int) int] ... Instead of mine which looks like: DateTime. -> [Compare ] [DaysInMonth] ... How do I ...
Hello, Quick question on LINQ to SQL generated queries output. I am in a ASP.NET MVC project, Visual Studio 2008, and I am trying what's suggested in MSDN documentation: MyDataContext _dc = new MyDataContext(); _dc.Log = Console.Out; But nothing is being shown on "Output" window (CTRL+Alt+O). Is there is something else I need to co...
I am working on an asp.net 3.5 project which has 55 projects in a solution. When opening the solution in visual studio 2008 it takes over a minute to open - about 1 second for each project. However, if I disconnect the network cable before opening the solution, it only takes about 15 seconds! Any ideas about what could be causing the ...
Hey so I changed my default color scheme to a custom dark color scheme. Everything is great except for one thing. When I am debugging and I set a breakpoint and step-into the breakpoint and then press the navigate-backward button to go to the calling statement, the color is white, or something and i cant seem to find the exact setting to...
I have an asp.net mvc project, and I replaced the default css the wizard built with the iui css and javascript package. They were placed in ~/Content/iui/ folder. When i ran the site through the dev web server, the css didnt get used. I managed to fix it by adding the iui folder to the project in the project explorer. That's all I di...
I'm using VS 2008 with Intel's Visual Fortran compiler. Its integration with VS is prettty good, but there are few things I'd still like to sort out. Hoping you could help me with some of them. Is there a way to define new outlining (folding) rules in VS, so that it automatically folds from, let's say, CALL SUBROUTINE till END SUBROUTI...
I am attempting to move a highly referenced class from one namespace to another. Simply moving the file into the new project which has a different root namespace results in over 1100 errors throughout my solution. Some references to the class involve fully qualified namescape referencing and others involve the importing of the namespace...