visual-studio-2010-beta-2

Do I want Publish or Release Build in VB.net?

I wrote a little (like 40 lines little) Winforms application with VB.net in Visual Studio 2010. Now I've released the code as a Google Code project. It's easy for a developer to get the source but I'd like to make it easy to install too. What I did was make a release build then zip up what it created, this included a setup.exe. There wa...

Invalid list value for State field while adding or editing Bugs in TFS 2010 Beta 2

I am trying to create/edit work items through the TFS API in my Windows application. I get an error "Invalid list value for State field" when I try creating a new Bug itself. The process template has been only slightly modified from the "MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 - Beta2" process template. \ Shouldn't it accept "Active", "...

Best Practice for Obfuscating a C# Visual Studio DSL Solution as VSIX

I was wondering if anyone has any advice for obfuscating a DSL? Background - We have created a DSL which we will putting into the Visual Studio Gallery as a VSIX file. We already use dotfuscator for our obfuscation on other projects but I would like to know if there are any best practices or issues when packaging a DSL for deployment a...

How do you include ProjectItem when deploying DSL?

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I want to package and deploy my completed DSL along with the generated ProjectItem. I can see everything has been compiled correctly. I have my VSIX file but that does not include the Zipped Project Item. ...

Enable PHP highlights in VS 2010 ?

I've heard that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has support for PHP. When I load a PHP file though, it has nothing highlighted and is nothing more than a glorified text editor. Is there a way to enable it? ...

I don't want to convert solution files when switching from Visual Studio 2008-2010. How?

I just got a new work laptop. I want to run Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. However, the rest of my team is using Visual Studio 2008 with .Net 3.5, and I don't want to check-in the solution migration code into TFS. In fact, I don't want any migration code at all - I just want to use the old .NET Framework with our old solution, with the new I...

Transition workflows of a work item's states

I am developing a windows app that performs some common TFS tasks using the 2010 Beta 2 API (like creating new team projects, new work items, selective build, etc. ). In the process of editing existing work items, I should be able to automatically set the 'Reason' field's values according to state change of the WI (mimic-ing Visual Stud...

Why is there no Project Item when Deploying VSIX?

We have a VS2010 Beta 2 DSL Project , We can build, deploy and test on our Development machines and all is well i.e When we go to 'Add New Item' we can select our DSL When it comes to giving the VSIX to someone else to try the ONLY way that they can see the associated Project Item is if they build the DSL Project on their machine, they ...

How to determine programmatically whether team project has sharepoint portal configured?

In VS.Net 2010 Beta 2: when a team project gets created the wizard offers a choice of whether or not to configure the project's Sharepoint portal. How can I determine programmatically whether a team project has a portal configured. Thank you in advance for any help. ...

What Are Your Thoughts On Entity Framework 4.0?

The initial release of the Entity Framework wasn't regarded well in the development community. Developers felt a number of things were left out, and many continued to use other ORM's, such as LINQ To SQL and NHibernate. The good news, however, is that Microsoft has been hard at work on the 4.0 release of Entity Framework, which will brin...

Saving WorkItem - SaveFlags

Hi, in 2010 Beta 2 the new TFS SDK provides an overloaded method for WorkItem.Save(SaveFlags). SaveFlags is an enum with only 2 values: None and MergeLinks. Does anybody know what the MergeLinks option actually does? Can't find it anywhere... Thanks in advance. ...

In VS2010 Beta 2, the Web Report Viewer does not display the content of the report

In VS2010 Beta 2, the Web Report Viewer does not display the content of the report, whether I use Local or Remote mode. It only display the following "disabled" bar [image] The report I created works fine in the Report Server. Here is the code for displaying the report: ReportViewer1.ProcessingMode = ProcessingMode.Remote; ...

Install asp.net mvc 2 beta on Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

Is there any workaround on installing asp.net mvc 2 beta on a VS2010 Beta2 box?. Phil said on his post that it isn't supported for VS2010 beta2, mostly because of the tooling support and stuff... But what If I just reference the DLL??!!!!! ...

Does VisualHG work with Visual Studio 2010 beta 2?

Since I installed it on my Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 I couldn't make it work. I don't know if it is because it is incompatible or it is because I don't know how to use it. ...

How stable is VS2010 beta 2?

Would you use it to build a project? (C++, in particular) Is it at all legal? ...

VS 2010 mouse processor extension - not working

I am experimenting with a Visual Studio 2010 extension, where I need to work with the events exposed by IMouseProcessor. As far as I can tell from the docs, I should create an IMouseProcessorProvider and export is using MEF, so that it can be automatically picked up by Visual Studio. I created this class: [Export(typeof(IMouseProcess...

VS2010 Ultimate beta 2: Where is application verifier?

In VSTS2008 there used to be Debug -> Start With Application Verifier, which doesn't exist in VS2010 Ultimate beta 2. Where has it gone? ...

.NET 4 SDK corrupted? with Silverlight 4 Tools install

I installed Silverlight 4 and now my C# projects that use some of the new .NET 4 classes like System.Threading.Parallel and System.Numerics.BigInteger don't appear to be present. Have tried switching between selected frameworks in the project properties, and downloading and running repair on the .NET 4 SDK, but didn't resolve the issue...

Developing Azure .Net 4.0 Applications

Presently .Net 4.0 is not supported on Azure. This thread indicates that you will not be able to use .Net 4.0 with VS 2010 until it is supported in the cloud. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com I'd like a way to start developing Azure applications locally utilizing the new features of .Net 4.0. I am fine with not being able to deploy th...

ValidationMessageFor is missing from ASP.NET MVC VS 2010

I have installed VS 2010 and created a new MVC application with it. I have looked in the futures library as well as the source code from Code Plex and I can see that the function is in the ValidationExtensions class in the source code from Code Plex. Does anyone know how to get the source code from code plex to install with VS 2010 or ...