Source Versioning for Visual Studio Express
Is there any Visual Studio Express plug ins for source versioning? I am starting a project on my own and only have the Express version of Visual Studio 2008. ...
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Is there a way to productively do Silverlight development without buying VS2008?
It seems that Microsoft wants Silverlight to take off, yet I cannot find an easy way to develop in it without buying Visual Studio 2008. Has anyone out there found a way to get the silverlight development environment in the express editions of Visual Studio? Any other tools? ...
VS 2008 vs VS 2008 Express
I'm using Visual Studio Team System 2008 at work to do web development. I've gotten quite used to it but can't really afford to purchase even VS 2008 Standard at this time. I have never used any of the Express editions before but I was thinking about downloading VS C# Express and VS Web Developer Express. Am I wasting my time or can I...
What is "missing" in the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions?
In particular, what functionality is not available? what restrictions are there on its use? ...
Problems with Visual Studio Express installation
I just installed 'Visual C# 2008 Express Edition' and 'Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition' on my Vista machine. Previously I have been running these in Win XP. When launching the software, starting a new project and trying to build it I get warnings like "The referenced component 'System' could not be found."; one row for each nam...
How to add WCF templates to Visual Studio Express?
I am working through the book Learning WCF by Michele Bustamante, and trying to do it using Visual Studio C# Express 2008. The instructions say to use WCF project and item templates, which are not included with VS C# Express. There are templates for these types included with Visual Studio Web Developer Express, and I've tried to copy t...
Visual Studio Express any good ?
We all know Visual Studio is one of the best IDEs out there but what about the free Express edition. Is it any good ? Would any of you use it for serious work ? ...
VS2008 Express: How to save as UTF-8 all files by default?
Hi, Is there any way to make Visual Studio 2008 Express store all the files as UTF-8 by default? Thanks for your time. Best regards. ...
Repository of Code Snippets
I'm just getting started with C# and often find myself going back to other projects and reusing some snippet of code in a new project. Is there a good tool out there with which on can store all the little pieces of code they reuse again and again AND integrates with Visual Studio Express?? ...
WPF Documentation and Visual Studio 2008 Express
I'm trying to get a WPF development environment set up at home, using Visual C# Express 2008. I installed both it and the MSDN documentation for it, however it looks like the documentation doesn't include any WPF documentation. I was about to install the Windows Vista SDK, however it looks like that only includes the documentation for ....
Syntax highlighting in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express ed.
How can I see which file extensions are related to which kind of syntax highlighting? Unfortunately, Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> File Extensions lists only those entered manually, no default ones. And I didn't manage to find it on my own via Google or other means. My particular problem is, I want to have .inc highlighted exactly...
Source encoding in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
Where can I set it? I need files to be encoded in UTF-8 by default... there is nothing in Tools -> Options or any other menu as far as I know :( P.S. I don't need to set default encoding for Project or so, I need it to be default for any files I create. Thanks for your help :) ...
Need hotkey/button to comment out a block of code in Visual Studio 2008 Express
I'm coming from Eclipse, working in Visual Studio 2008 Express and just want to highlight code, right-click and comment it out. nothing in right-click looking in Tools | Options, Toolbars, Commands, can't find a button for it... How do I activate this the comment/uncomment feature, I know Visual Studio 2003 had it. HERE ARE THE ANSW...
GUI App with Visual C++ Express Edition
What tool (preferably free) can be used with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition to create Win32 GUI applications? As you know the Express Edition does not include a GUI resource editor. ...
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express loads very slowly
I admit that I am not a guru of Visual Studio products at all. I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and I'm trying to load someone else's project. This project happens to be a website with many pages. After loading VWD, it asks for a project to open and I select the solution file. It then proceeds to take an extremely l...
Setting both Debug and Release settings in Visual C++ 2008
A common mistake when configuring the compilation/linking/etc. settings in VC++ 2008 is to set them in Release but not Debug (or vice versa) rather than setting them for "All Configurations". Any suggestions on how to avoid this kind of mistake? Some beginnings of ideas that I have: Find a way to make VC++ go to the "All Configuration...
MySQL .Net Provider 5.2 does not show up in Data Source dialog of VS 2008 Express
Hi, I have installed MySQL .NET data provider 5.2 (through it's installer) but I could not see the MySQL data provider in Data Source dialog of Database Explorer. I am using VS 2008 Express edition. Do you have any clues ? Regards, Jatan ...
C# Console Application failing to run
I am using Visual Studio 2008 Express and I tried creating a simple console application to test it. When I try to compile it, it compiles fine, but when I try to run it, it complains about the absence of a manifest file. As far as I know, VStudio should create the manifest file automatically, but since it is a simple console application ...
Why is Visual Studio 2008 slow with Firefox?
I am using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. I've made an ASP.NET MVC site which has 6 CSS files and 6 Javascript files in the HEAD element in the Site.Master file. When I do F5 or CTRL-F5 in Explorer or Opera, the site displays instantly. When I run my site in Firefox, it takes a SECOND for each CSS and each Javascript file ...
visual web developer resize "all images" together?
I have a weird problem with images in visual web developer, I cant change my images properties from properties panel (my changes don't take effect) and all images in my website have gotten the same size when I resize one image (by dragging the border), all images get that new size? any idea? ...