visual-studio-2010

Automate refactor import/using directives, using ReSharper and Visual Studio 2010

I want to automate the Visual Studio 2010 / Resharper 5 auto inserting import directives to put my internal namespaces into the namespace sphere. Like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using StructureMap; using MyProject.Core; // <--- Move inside. using MyProject.Core.Common; // <--- Mov...

vs 2010 Deployment without Web Deploy

with vs 2008 I always used Web Deployment Project to build to three different environments. It is maybe not the best solution, since I still have to xcopy the built files to the server, but it is simple. now with vs 2010 it looks promising, but It looks also complicated. My hosting doesn't have Web Deploy, the newest feature and the fla...

Ignoring generated files when using "Treat warnings as errors"

We have started a new project but also have this problem for an existing project. The problem is that when we compile with a warning level of 4 we also want to switch on 'Treat all warnings as errors' We are unable to do this at the moment because generated files (in particular reference.cs files) are missing things like XML comments a...

Visual Studio 2010: Location drop down when creating a new project

Hello guys, VS2008 has a really nice feature when creating a new project, it shows you the folder structure: However this either is turned off by default in VS2010 or it is completely missing: If this feature exists, does anyone know how to turn it on? ...

Visual Studio 2010 Full and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Template

Hello, I've installed full version (not RC nor Beta) of Visual Studio 2010, a then setup within Web Platform Installer 2.0 announce me that I need to install MVC 2.0, so i did it. When I want to create project "MvcWebApplicationProjectTemplate" in VS I have following message: error: this template attempted to load component assembly '...

Which new C#/VB features require .net Framework 4?

I remember reading in passing that some of the new language features in C# and VB that are available in VS2010 are backwards compatible with earlier versions of the framework, but that others are not. I'm pretty sure this was in reference to the new property syntax in VB. Which new features are language features vs which ones are frame...

Coded UI Test - How to change the exe it runs

I created a Coded UI Test from a Microsoft Test Manager recording. The exe it runs is the one the tester recorded against. I want this to be a test I run with my build. How do I change the exe that the coded UI test uses to be the output of: The TFS Build when a TFS Build is being run The local build when the test is being run on my...

Visual Studio 2010 is messing with my references

I have a dll in the GAC. I browse to this same dll in a different place then referenced in the GAC using the file dialog of add reference. Visual studio repoints it to the gac location. Boom my build blows up on the build server that doesn't have this dll in the gac or at that location. What is the best way to fix this? ...

How can I import color schemes into Visual Studio 2010?

I recently came across this website: http://studiostyles.info, which contains a list of color schemes that people have already created. However, I can't find instructions on how to import them into Visual Studio 2010, does anyone know how? PS: I am sorry, if this question has been asked but I cannot find an answer, through search. T...

Excel manipulation from C# - Set ActiveCell?

I'm currently trying to move some VB6 macros into a C# app and I'm having trouble setting the active cell using C#. In VB6 its simply: ActiveSheet.Range("L1").Select Does anyone know what the C# equivalent is? Cheers in advance. ...

The project type is not supported by this installation

Whenever I try to open a project (csproj) that's downloaded from the internet, most of the times, I get the "The project type is not supported by this installation" It appears that my Visual Studio installation is not corrupted (I can pretty much do everything with it other than open these csproj files) What may be causing this? ...

Windows service only gets called when Visual Studio is attached to process

I've created a simple windows service in C# using Visual Studio 2010. It uses a TcpListener and socket to listen for messages on a given port. This worked absolutely perfectly when my laptop had Windows Vista on it. However, since upgrading to Windows 7 and re-installing my service it only responds if I'm attached to the process and d...

SGEN doesn't work after upgrading from VS2008 to VS2010

I just recently upgraded a VS2008/.NET 3.5 SP1 project to VS2010 and .NET 4. I have a post-build event which calls SGEN to generate the XmlSerializers assembly. Whenever I try to run it I get the following error. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\sgen.exe" /debug /force /verbose /c:"platform:x86" "C:\path\to\SomeAssemb...

Running CPython Applications With Visual Studio?

I would like to know how to use Visual Studio with CPython (the official python.org python interpreter, not IronPython). In particular, I am interested in getting "build" and "run" commands in Visual Studio working. Other features such as color highlighting and auto-complete, I am less concerned about. Also, can the "build" command be ...

How do you include additional files using VS2010 web deployment packages?

I am testing out using the new web packaging functionality in visual studio 2010 and came across a situation where I use a pre-build event to copy required .dll's into my bin folder that my app relies on for API calls. They cannot be included as a reference since they are not COM dlls that can be used with interop. When I build my depl...

No System.Web In VS2010

In a WPF project, I'm trying to add System.Web as a reference but in Project -> Add Reference -> .NET there's no System.Web. Any ideas? Thanks. ...

Resharper doesn't play well with XAML?

I've been noticing a pattern with ReSharper (both 4.5 and 5). Very often (almost always) when I have solution-wide analysis turned on, and WPF code in my solution, ReSharper will mark a number of the .xaml.cs files as being broken. When I navigate to the file, sometimes it magically updates and displays no errors, and other times I hav...

Microsoft JScript runtime error: '(function name)' is undefined

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'txtGivenName_OnFocus' is undefined After adding what I thought was unrelated javascript code to a web page, I am suddenly getting errors that suggest that the browser cannot locate a javascript function that, to me, appears plain as day in design mode. I'm thinking that this is a load sequence order pr...

How to set SGEN toolpath in Msbuild to target 3.5 framework

I've just upgraded a project from VS2008 to VS2010 but I'm still targeting the 3.5 framework. In my project file I have a custom task to run SGEN to generate my XmlSerializers.dll. However the version of sgen being run targets the 4.0 framework. As a result, when I run my application I get the error message: "Could not load file or as...

VS2010's "Public Property <PropertyName> As <DataType> vs. Public var

In VS2008, I used to type Public Property <PropName> As <dataType> and hit the Enter key and the IDE editor would automatically expand it out to a full blown property block. Now, from what I understand, a new feature of 2010 is that the compiler automatically "expands" the short syntax above into the same IL code that you would get ...