visual-studio-2008

VS 2008 color scheme

Hi All, I am looking for the VS 2008 version of 'Oren Ellenbogen's Dark Scheme' color scheme. The scheme available at http://www.lnbogen.com/VisualStudioNet2005Colors.aspx is VS 2005 version. Does anyone have the 2008 version of the same. The converted verstion at http://tech-nous.blogspot.com/2008/10/visual-studio-2008-colour-schemes...

VS 2008 SP1 Hotfix not installing on 64 BIt Edition

hi, i want to get jquery intellisence but the hot fix provided by Microsoft is not installing on my Machine, it say no supported product is installed. my settings : Windows 7 RC1 64bit VS 2008 64bit VS 2008 SP1 thanks in advanced. ...

Visual studio 2008 exits as soon as I open it.

Hi all, I have a problem with my Visual studion 2008. It exits as soon as i open it. I tried these options, devenv /ResetSettings devenv /SafeMode devenv /resetuserdata devenv /resetskippkgs even i tried re-installing Visual Studion 2008. Is there any way i can fix this issue. thank you. Prashant. ...

Global resources can't be resolved after publishing Website in VS2008

Hi there I have a web-project running in VS 2008. We have some global resource files (*.resx) in the App_GlobalResources folder for internationalisation. All this works like a charm on my local IIS installation out of VS. But when I publish my web-project to the local filesystem and/or another server, all the resources can no longer be...

Stop Visual Studio from Closing Program After Finish

This is probably an easy Visual Studio question, but I couldn't find it on the site. When I "Start Debugging" a console program, it immediately exits when its finished. Is there any way to have it pause when it ends without putting an explicit pause command at the end of your program? ...

How to delete multiple files with msbuild/web deployment project?

I have an odd issue with how msbuild is behaving with a VS2008 Web Deployment Project and would like to know why it seems to randomly misbehave. I need to remove a number of files from a deployment folder that should only exist in my development environment. The files have been generated by the web application during dev/testing and are...

Visual Studio (2008) doesn't generate documentation xml

I have a C# dll project in Visual Studio 2008. In the project property pages, on the Build tab, the checkbox 'XML Documentation File' is checked. The path is 'bin\Debug\Fusion.BusinessObjects.XML' However, when building the solution, no xml files is created. I have referenced this dll in a number of other projects, and one had a copy o...

Version resource in DLL not visible with right-click

I'm trying to do something which is very easy to do in the regular MSVC, but not supported easily in VC++ Express. There is no resource editor in VC++ Express. So I added a file named version.rc into my DLL project. The file has the below content, which is compiled by the resource compiler and added to the final DLL. This resource is vi...

Configure visual studio to show error messages in english

I'm currently working in another country, and my PC has a non english version of windows installed, I don't care about this, but I do care a lot when visual studio show error messages because they are also localized to the same language as windows. Sometimes I spend a good time trying to find what it means, which is pretty boring... is...

Visual Studio 2008 and 2008 SP1 Addin: using EnvDTE90 and EnvDTE90a

Does anyone know the equivalent for doing this in Visual Studio 2008(EnvDTE90) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1(EnvDTE90a)? //this is code for Visual Studio 2005, works great EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte2 = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal. GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.8.0"); foreach (EnvDTE80.Breakpoint2 bp ...

Crystal Reports doesn't show any data

So I'm using this SQL Server with my application and I decided to display crystal reports to the user. I'm not at all experienced with crystal reports, but this project gives me a good opportunity to learn. Now, my data sources are already setup and i've been using them with for the past several months with this project. However, when I...

How to do Web Testing using Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite

Can someone point me to videos/blogs/instructions on using Web Testing in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and what it is? ...

Crystal Reports Summing

So I two groups tblTenant.ID tblTransaction.TenantID In tblTransactions there are two fields I want to manipulate, AmountCharged and AmountPaid. How can I sum both fields and subtract them per group? I.E., each Tenant will have all their amountCharged's summed and then have their AmountPaid's summed and subtracted. For example, the SQL...

Built in database

What is a built in database? What should I do to get a copy of my MS SQL database in the solution explorer window in Visual Studio 2008 so that when I copy the solution folder the database files will be copied with it? ...

Visual Studio inserts invalid characters in batch files

I've got some batch files that I use to help automate the process of creating and reloading development databases. It makes sense to create and maintain these batch files in Visual Studio (i.e., in a VS Database project). They look pretty simple, like this: @echo off echo Setting server and db from defaults. set SERVERNAME=(LOCAL) set...

Convert a single file aspx to code behind

I'm working on a web site (not a web application) in VS 2008 .Net 3.5 and it uses the single file .aspx model where the server code is included in the head portion of the html instead of using a .aspx.cs code behind page. I'd like to quickly convert the files to use the code-behind model, but so far the only way I can do this is by rem...

WPF Stability in VS2008 Express

I'm having trouble with stability in the xaml editor. Restart VS 25 times a day has become tedious. Are there strategies that would minimize the problem or an open source alternative that provides a visual display? Any help would be sincerely appreciated! I don't want to jump out the window but I will... I WILL! ...

Visual Studio hot keys change occasionally, specifically F6 vs Ctrl-Shift-B for building. WHY?

I always press F6 to build my project. Suddenly some of my Visual Studio instances are wanting me to use Ctrl-Shift-B. It's not keyboard related - the actual text of the menu option changes from "F6" to "Ctrl-Shift-B". Any answers as to how to fix, and what causes this? ...

C#: How can I remove the scrollbars from the mdi parent?

Well I just finished checking through the few related questions and one seemed to have the answer but the link is broken and the other wasnt very well stated. I'm merely trying to remove the scrollbars on the mdi parent when a child is moved outside the parent's bounds. What I'm trying to accomplish is to reproduce menus that can app...

SVN plugin for VS2008

Hi there, I'm using VisualSvn with my vs2008 and I have to run some sort of commit monitor in the tray area to see if the local copy of project is out of date. I have two problems with that: 1.I hate to have it in two places, I want to see that as an icon in my VS. 2.The commit monitor software keeps an eye on several projects, when ...