visual-studio-2010

References/walkthroughs for maintaining database schemas with Visual Studio 2010?

I have Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2008 installed. I'm working with a populated database and want to modify various column types. SQL Server Management Studio requires me to drop tables to do this, and get pretty finicky given my moderate level of knowledge of SQL Server. However, I heard the new database project type supp...

Installing VS 2010 B2 & .NET 4 B2: What are the consequences to my system and previous installations of VS & .NET 3.5 SP1?

I want to try out the new Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010, but I'm not sure if the installation (or the included .NET Framework 4 Beta 2) is self-contained, or if it will somehow impact my system beyond adding an entry for Visual Studio 2010 to my start menu. The machine I want to install Visual Studio 2010 is my main development machine, ...

After VS2008 to VS2010 project upgrade getting "manifest signing certificate" error

I created a test project with VS2008 C# Express on computer 1 (Vista). I converted it to VS2010 C# Express on computer 2 (Windows 7). The converted project gives me this error: Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store. I've found articles about signing project certificates etc. but they are not that ...

How can I inform the user of an XCOPY WPF 4 app that he needs to install .NET 4?

I've made a small tool application with Visual Studio 2010 which to distribute it, I zip these files from the Release folder: Data MainData.mdf MainData_log.ldf DataBackup.exe DataBackup.exe.config FluidKit.dll then unzip them on the target machine (no installation). When I run it on a Windows 7 machine with .NET 4 installed, it ...

visual studio 2010 system.management.automation assembly reference

Been having trouble with visual studio 2010 I've added reference to the project and double checked the when i type using System.Management.Automation; at the top of the file. when I go to compile / build it .. it says that the infamous are you missing an assembly reference. any ideas? ...

Is it possible to programatically access the call heirarchy in VS2010

Visual studio 2010 has added a call heirarchy function. Does anyone know if it is possible to access this from within a plugin? ...

Best practices for Subversion and Visual Studio projects

I've recently started working on various C# projects in Visual Studio as part of a plan for a large scale system that will be used to replace our current system that's built from a cobbling-together of various programs and scripts written in C and Perl. The projects I'm now working on have reached critical mass for being committed to su...

.net 4.0 with Code Access Security NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy won't work

Hi- I'm trying to use an external library DevExpress.XtraTreeList.v8.1.dll in my vsto office addin built using VS2010 beta 2. I am getting the following compile time error: DevExpress.Utils.AppareanceObject threw an exception --> System.NotSupportedException. The error message goes on to say that for compatibility reasons I can us...

can i get direct link for download visual studio 2010 ? (not Installation from the web)

hi can i get direct link for download visual studio 2010 ? (not Installation from the web) i search.... but only find the web Installation thank's in advance ...

What is the recommended way to build MSI packages in VS 2010?

Last year I heard that Installer Projects were going away and we should be switching to Windows Installer XML. Whatever happened with that? So you know where I'm coming from, support for TFS-based buil machines is very important to me. I know Installer Projects kinda-sorta work with TFS, but they have issues. ...

Did Html.RenderAction make it into VS2010/ ASP.NET 4?

We are planning to use VS2010 later in the future, but currently working on 2008. Since the RenderAction is still a Future, we want to be sure it will be a "Production Quality" component later, when we do decide to move to VS2010... Does anybody knows if it made it into VS2010 b2? Thanks ...

MembershipProvider in .NET 4.0

Hi I use VS2010 B2 and .Net 4.0 in my project. I want to customize a MembershipProvider but i can't find this class in Vs2010. Guide me please. ...

Instruct MEF to use any available assemblies

I am trying out the Managed Extensibility Framework for the first time in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 using the System.ComponentModel.Composition from .net-4.0. I have been unable to get the CompositionContainer to find my implementation assemblies using the two alternative routines below. First attempt (this worked in an older codeplex ...

Will visual studio 2010 express support addins?

I know vs2008 express didn't. I'm hoping this will change with vs2010. Anyone know? Link me? Edit: Anyone have a primary source? While "As far as I know" answers can be helpful, in this case it still leaves a possibility - which is exactly where I started. ...

Is there a User Control Library project type in VS 2010

I was looking for it all night, but it seems that the project type is not on vs 2010. But the main problem is, I want to make a custom control (or a user control compiled to a dll, if vs 2010 does not have the custom control library feature). Unluckily, I was not able to find any article for 2010 but only for 2008, which is pretty much ...

Managed DirectX running from .Net Framework 4.0 app dont hunt

I work on a product that uses Managed DirectX for data visualizations. I was trying to upgrade this product to .net framework 4.0, but I think I'm having issues with Managed DirectX and .Net 4.0 playing together. The main assembly does not reference managed directX. But when it tries to call into an assembly that does reference mana...

.BAT file that starts ASP.NET Development Server, then opens in browser

I am trying to create a .bat file that starts the ASP.NET Dev Server outside of Visual Studio, and then opens the site in a browser. What I have so far does successfully start the Dev Server, but then it stops there and doesn't open the browser. Here is what I have in my .bat file: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DevSe...

VS 10 mangles html comments?

Using the latest VS 10 we created html markup, then commented it with html comments. The file on disk is not mangled, but when it renders, it renders the html comment tags, then removes some of the html markup within the commented tags: Two questions (1) why would it not like the html comment tags and (2) why would it change the html c...

.NET Framework source stepping with VS 2010 Beta 2

This is something that worked well for me with VS 2008, but I can't get it to work with VS 2010. I've enabled ".NET Framework source stepping", and VS seemed to download the symbols into the default symbol cache directory. My project is targeting .NET Framework 3.5. When debugging, I can't step into .NET Framework code, and the "Load Sy...

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. ...