Hi, I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++? I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me... Thanks. ...
Every time I publish the Application in Click Once I get get it to update the revision number by one. Is there any way to get this change automatically to change the version number in AssemblyInfo.cs file (all our error reporting looks at the Assembly Version). ...
When running the default c++ project in Visual Studios for a Windows CE 5.0 device, I get an error complaining about missing resources. Depends says that my executable needs ayghsell.dll (the Windows Mobile shell), and CoreDll.dll. Does this mean that my executable can only be run on Windows Mobile devices, instead of any generic Windo...
I know I can figure out the name of the method as its being executed, just wondering if there is a way from the setup method. I guess an attribute method would work but from the setup method it would be the best. EDIT NUnit ...
Is there a way to always have LF line endings in Visual Studio? I can never seem to find it! ...
I experience that on several different machines, with plugins, without plugins, with VB.net or c# solutions of many different sizes, closing the solution in VS 2005 generally takes significantly more time than actually building the solution. This has always been the case for me since I started using visual studio 2005 so I have learned...
Sometimes when I'm editing page or control the .designer files stop being updated with the new controls I'm putting on the page. I'm not sure what's causing this to happen, but I'm wondering if there's any way of forcing Visual Studio to regenerate the .designer file. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 EDIT: Sorry I should have noted I've a...
When we create stored procedures in Visual Studio (with the extension .sql) the file encoding is automatically set to 'Unicode (UTF-8 with signature) - Codepage 65001'. This causes ours DBA's problems as their scripts don't like it. We have to manually go in and change them to 'Western European (windows) - Codepage 1252'. This only se...
I have a web application that should behave differently for internal users than external ones. The web application is available over the Internet, and therefore obviously to the internal users as well. All the users are anonymous, not authenticated, but the page should render differently for internal users than external. What I'm doing ...
This happened to me in Visual Studio 2008 pre and post 2008 sp1 on more than one computer and to someone else I know, so it can't be an isolated incident. Seemingly random, every so often I lose all syntax highlighting in my aspx page (the html) so that Visual Studio now looks like a really expensive version of notepad. Does anyone kno...
Many times I have seen Visual Studio solutions which have multiple projects that share source files. These common source files are usually out in a common directory and in the solution explorer their icon shows up with a link arrow in the bottom left. However, any time I try to add a source file to the project that is outside of that p...
Ok, so I demo'd Refactor Pro and Resharper, I'm more comfortable with Resharper so that's what I bought. When I uninstalled Refactor Pro I thought everything was breezy. However, now when I open Visual Studio I get The Add-in 'DevExpress Tools' failed to load or caused and exception, woudl you like to remove this Add in? If you choos...
I have a Visual Studio 2005 Solution workspace which in turn has 8 projects included in it. I want to profile the complete code(all the projects) and get some measure about the absolute cycles taken by each function to execute, or at least percentage cycle consumptions. I checked out help for VS 2005, and also the project setiings optio...
After answering on this question I thought it would be nice to collect some tips & tricks for working with MSVS solutions and projects. Here is my list: How to avoid saving new projects automatically to reduce garbage in file system. Uncheck Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->Save new projects when created How to add common ...
How can I change default Generate Method Stub behavior in Visaul Studio to generate method with body throw new NotImplementedException(); instead of throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented."); ...
What are some advantages available in Visual Studio 2008 that I can bring up to my boss so I can convince him to upgrade from 2005? My main goal is to use MVC, but I need some good reasons why this would be better than what we have now. ...
In the build log I'd like to the start and end time of each project's compilation. Is there any way to get VS to do this? ...
I've got a DataSet in VisualStudio 2005. I need to change the datatype of a column in one of the datatables from System.Int32 to System.Decimal. When I try to change the datatype in the DataSet Designer I receive the following error: "Property value is not valid. Cannot change DataType of a column once it has data." From my understa...
What is the shortcut key for Run to cursor in visual studio 2008? ...
What are the best code snippets for C#? (using visual studio) VB has a lot that are pre-defined, but there are only a handful for C#. Do you have any really useful ones for C#? Anyone want to post a good custom one you created yourself? Anyone?... Bueller? ...