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visual studio 2010

Is visual studio 2010 ready to actually build proper applications and websites on or is it just for play at this point. Any feedback on stability and performance? ...

S#arp Architecture Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Template

How do I make S#arp Architecture project template work with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1? Does anyone have an updated template or a converter? I've put it in all the places possible, but Visual Studio still doesn't pick it up. ...

How to create a deploy package for "CodedUI Test" recorded in Visual Studio 2010 beta

A few test scenarios have been recorded using CODEDUI Test template for my web application in Visual Studio 2010 beta. These run from within the Visual Studio successfully without any issues. I was looking for instructions to create a deployment package. If you can guide me with this, I would be grateful. [Note please create a tag for...

WebsiteSpark & Visual Studio 2010

Having a look around at WebsiteSpark from Microsoft - the deal is good (especially if you were looking to go down this path already). But I'm one of those people that likes to 'wait for the next version' if I'm in no rush to sign up. One question that's been bugging me is whether or not the program includes upgrades to Visual Studio and/...

Is it possible to extend Visual Studio Linq-to-Sql designer to support geometry types?

According to this blog post, Microsoft will not fix this problem soon. There is the technical possibility to do it ourselves, or we will have to wait for Visual Studio 2010 SP1? ...

Windows Workflow 4.0 FlowSwitch not working

I'm creating a FlowChart within a Windows Workflow 4.0 project in Visual Studio 2010. I've added a FlowSwitchwith an expression of a variable passed in as an In Argument to the Activity. I can debug and see the values are passed in correctly, however my FlowSwitch is not switching at all to a case that is defined as the value being pas...

Cannot add new Workitems using TFS API

Hi I am trying to add new workitems to the TFS repository using the API, but when I validate the workitem before it is saved, it returns an error. I previously got exceptions regarding the field definitions for a bug namely, Symptom, Steps to Reproduce and Triage. (Error code TF 26027). The code snippet is shown below: Can anyone tell me...

Custom activity which is hold within another activity will be cloned by expanding to detail view

Hi there, i have a problem which is related to my custom activity in .net Workflow 4. My custom activity XActivity can hold other activities. Everything works fine even the displaying and executing. Except when i doublecklick on a custom activity for getting the detail view (expanding). Then the activity which is a child activity wil...

How to get VisualStudio 2010 cool tools without spending $12,000

We are a small dev shop with 10 people, 3 of whom are currently doing .Net. The new VisualStudio 2010 tools look really nice, and we would like to use them - but it seems that many of them (historical debugging, UML tools, testing stuff) are only going to be available in the Ultimate Edition. And that costs $12,000. Or nearly forty grand...

Visual Studio: Best way to use multiple programming languages for a single application

I often find myself using several programming languages when making .NET applications. Usually C++/CLI for interop to legacy code and C# for the rest. With the coming support for F# as a first-class language, I could see myself mixing that in as well. But is the only way to use multiple language still to setup a project per language? D...

VS 2010 Beta 2: "ResGen.exe" could not be run

So, I just downloaded VS 2010 Beta 2, and when I try to build one of my class libraries with several resource files, I get the error: "The specified task executable "ResGen.exe" could not be run. The filename or extension is too long" before that, I get the warning: Warning 4434 The command-line for the "ResGen" task is too long. Comma...

Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 fonts & colors dialog

Do the characters in the preview box mean anything? Have wracked my brains and probably missed the obvious, or I'm a bit daft and its something I should already know! ...

Visual Studio 2010: Embed Interop Types

I found some information about this on Scott Hanselmans Blog Does anybody exactly know what this mean? Is this only for the Office Primary Interop Assemblies, or can I also use this to Embed my Redemption library or other COM libraries? Kind regards ...

Does Visual Studio 2010 ship with jQuery support?

Those lucky enough to have access to a Visual Studio 2010 - does it ship with jQuery support for ASP.NET solutions? The beta did not have it yet and I could only read promises from Microsoft that they will have it included. ...

CS0120 error under vs2010 beta 2 - object reference is required

Hi, the following code used to work fine under vs2008: namespace N2.Engine.Globalization { public class DictionaryScope : Scope { object previousValue; public DictionaryScope(IDictionary dictionary, object key, object value) : base(delegate { if (dictionary.Contains(key)) previo...

Favourite Features of VS 2010

With the general public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 today, this latest version has created a lot of hype and interest. Indeed, the opinion I've gauged is that VS 2010 has resolved a great deal of the minor flaws left over from previous versions, as well as added some particularly useful new code editor and project development t...

can i use resharper 4.5 with visual studio 2010 beta

should this work or do i need to wait for a new resharper release? ...

error running asp.net mvc 2 project out of the box in vs 2010

i created a new solution and it builds fine targeting framework 4.0 but when i run it, my browser comes up saying: The resource cannot be found. Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following U...

AJAX change in .NET 4: Sys.Services.AuthenticationService

I'm testing my existing apps in VS 2010, and ran into my first break. ASP.NET AJAX authentication support has changed. Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.set_defaultLogoutCompletedCallback(OnLogoutCompleted); This no longer works. "Sys" is defined, but "Sys.Services" is an undefined object. Does anyone have a quick pointer to the repl...

Visual Studio 2010 UML Resources

I'm looking for reference material pertaining to UML support in 2010. I've been playing around with the UML diagrams and am looking for any sort of feature lists, how-to's, what does/doesn't work, etc. I've seen references to reverse engineering projects into UML models, don't see support for that yet. I also understand that the code ...