visual-studio-2010

Good source for studying professional software development with Visual Studio 2010?

I spent a lot of time reading blogs and tutorials on the Net regarding how to do this and that with VS2010, but I thought it would be better to learn it in a more systematic way. Do you know of a good website/book that will teach me how to use Visual Studio 2010/2008 Team System + Microsoft Project to perform various tasks from Project ...

Visual Studio 2010 ditched Wix??

hi there, Not sure I heard this right, but VS2010 no longer has support for Wix? Can someone confirm this?? Cheers ...

Issue using Visual Studio 2010 compiled C++ DLL in Windows 2000

I have a very simple DLL written in unmanaged C++ that I access from my application. I recently switch to Visual Studio 2010, and the DLL went from 55k down to 35k with no code changes, and now it will no longer load in Windows 2000. I didn't change any code or compiler settings. I have my defines setup for 0x0500, which should include W...

Can Visual Studio 2010 Test Runner run XUnit?

Is it possible to use the integrated Visual Studio 2010 test runner to run other frameworks (Xunit, NUnit etc.) besides MSTest? Does anyone know? Thanks ...

Does VS2010 Code Coverage support nUnit?

According to this schema VS2010 Premium and Ultimate has a tool for checking Code Coverage - together with a few other testing tools. Does this support nUnit too, or just MS test? ...

How do i add media files/folder to a winform app .NET

I am making an example app of a game. I have a folder i set as the current directory from within visual studios which includes pngs,ogg,config.json,etc. When i 'publish' these files are not included. How do i properly add a media files/folders into the project? ...

VS2010 / Code Analysis: Turn off a rule for a project without custom ruleset....

...any change? The scenario is this: For our company we develop a standard how code should look. This will be the MS full rule set as it looks now. For some specific projects we may want to turn off specific rules. Simply because for a specific project this is a "known exception". Example? CA1026 - while perfectly ok in most cases, th...

What can we do to make Microsoft add IntelliTrace to VS 2010 Professional Edition?

Now that Microsoft has released VS 2010 I went to the product page here. To my amazement I found out that IntelliTrace(Historical Debugger) is supported only on the Ultimate Edition of VS 2010. This mean that you have to spend almost $4000 for renewal and almost $12000 for a new license. Does someone have any idea how can we change this ...

.NET Publishing files but allowing them to be edited?

I had media files require in the project so i did this + set built action to content Now here are my problems I would like my app to check for .NET and to check for other installs which is fine now that i made a prerequisite I would like to copy media files when i publish One of these files is a config file i like the user to edit P...

Getting "XAMLParseException" error on events

Hi , I have an application in VS 2008, and now when I am migrating this into VS2010, I am getting the "XAMLParseException" error on Click event. Can anybody help me out on this. Regards, Manish Garg ...

Cannot find vcvarsall.bat when running a Python script

hello all, I am working on Vista, and using Python 2.6.4. I am using a software which uses a Python script. but then I bumped into the message: cannot find vcvarsall.bat So I installed visual c++ 2010. Still the file is not found though it is there. My guess (a very uneducated one...) is that somewhere the path is wrong, because I al...

Proper Install Order For Visual Studio 2010 with SQL Server 2008 and Office 2007?

I want to create a Windows 7 64-bit (Ultimate) virtual machine with: Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate) Office 2007 Enterprise (with Visio 2007) SQL Server 2008 (with SSIS and SSRS) but I am not sure if there is a correct order to install those items such that there will not be a loss of "awareness" of one application from another on tha...

How to create a VS2010 extension that uses Language Services

Creating extensions got much easier with Vs2010, but this seems not to be the case for everything... My aim: I wnat to make method calls and property uses of STATIC classes ITALIC. (Just like Eclipse and Java) I think I need to talk to the C# Language Service for this information, but searching for "Language Service" just yields result...

Inserting snippets from macros

In Visual Studio 2008 I had a macro which would insert a snippet and input today's date in one of the replacements. When I try to run this macro in VS 2010 it doesn't work. No matter how I try it will not insert a snippet. When I try the following command: DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.InvokeSnippetFromShortcut", "snippetName") This ...

Quick find files in Visual Studio 2010

Is there a built in solution in VS 2010 to quick find/open files similar to the Ctrl-Shift-O function in Eclipse? Thanks, Cody edit: Does resharper offer this functionality? ...

C++ Code Analysis - how to add custom dictionary?

;) Yeah. I also have C++ in my solution. How do I add a custom dictionary there? There is no tool for an includes file, as well as no way to tell it the type is CustomDictionary. THe advice and approach shown in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb514188(v=VS.100).aspx is not usable for C++ projects. ...

Anyone Experiencing Slow Builds With VS2010?

Hi, We've recently upgraded to the final release of VS2010 and are experiencing very slow build times compared to the same code under 2008. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same so I can work out whether it's just our environment or not? A few details: Using VS2010 Ultimate on Windows 7 with fairly beefy machines, ta...

VS 2010 / Resharper 5 Mouse Behavior

After upgrading to the above configuration I notice that 1) CTRL-Click on a type highlights the type but doesn't take me to the declaration, 2) Clicking on some closure (ie, like a method) toggles whether it's expanded or collapsed. Since these are both mouse related tasks I figure there is some setting in either VS or R# that I need to...

How to install Visual Studio 2010 documentation

I recently installed Visual Studio 2010 Pro. There might have been a link to install the offline help at the end of the install, but I missed it. Now I can't find a way to install the help. How can I accomplish this? ...

VS 2010 debugger not loading symbols when attaching to NUnit

(I just posted this in the NUnit discussion group on groups.google.com) Under VS 2008, I would run my tests under NUnit, and, if I needed to debug, I would attach the VS2008 debugger to the running Nunit process (Debug -> Attach to Process), and set any breakpoints on code I wanted to examine. When I hit the Run buttion in NUnit, it wou...