Certain non-project files that I use Visual studio for (.build, .xml, free-roaming html and css files) are already associated with visual studio and open in it when i double click them. How can I get them to open in an existing instance of visual studio? Right now If i double-click the same file twice, it will open two instances of ...
Hello, I recently got a new machine at work, and moved from XP 32 Bits to Vista 64 Bits. Whatever I do I cannot get my .Net projects to connect to the oracle Server... I can connect to the database using oracle sqldeveloper, but not from my projects... I Get This error (which is puzzling me...) "An error has occurred while establishi...
I've encountered a strange difference between a program running in VS2005 and running the executable directly. Essentially, when an exception is thrown in a method inside an Application.DoEvents() call, the exception can be caught when running inside Visual Studio. When running the compiled executable, the exception is not caught and t...
Hi all! I've issue with VS08. I've got Web Application project (vb.net). Whenever I try to open an aspx or ascx (in Source view - just double clicking on Solution Explorer) the file opens, but VS hangs and is not responding. The only way to restart VS is then by killing it's process. And it happens all the time with these types of files....
By default Visual Studio displays all members and its extension methods for a type in intellisense. Sometimes I would like to hide the extension methods to make it easier to find the member I am actually looking for (especially when using Linq). Is there a shortcut or another way to display only the members of a type in intellisense? ...
I've recently taken over a project, and the original developer has gone. I'm now trying to install the app on a new server, and I've got a problem with dependent assembly versions. The project is a reporting tool, with (unfortunately) a reference to Crystal. On my machine I have version 11.5.9500.313 of CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.E...
I am using Visual Studio 2008, when I start up an Asp.net project that starts IE6, I do not see any jscript file in the “Script Document” folder in the Solution. However if I start up IE by hand and point it at my website, then attach the Visual Studio 2008 debugger to IE, it does show the jscript files in the “Script Document”. Howe...
I have a C++ application that has embedded Python. I'm building with Visual Studio 2005. When I try to link to python26.lib, I get a number of unresolved symbols, all of which begin with "__imp": error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__Py_Initialize referenced in function _main python26.lib is an import library (installed by t...
How do I use the EnvDTE.Solution API to remove TFS source control bindings from the solution file? I know I can open the file in notepad and delete the GlobalSection portion, but I'm not sure if (or how) I can do this within the method below... public void Export(Solution solution, TemplateInput model) { if(model.RemoveSourceCont...
Visual Studio 2008 comes with nice javascript debugging features. But I have played a little with NetBeans debugger wich has installed an ugly Script Debugger from Microsoft to my IE... Normally IE should ask what do I want to use for debugging, but now I can't start debugging with Visual Studio, the Script Debugger is started automatic...
Our SVN server was initially setup to run on port 443, we had to change it to run on port 8443 because it was causing conflicts with IIS. My question is how do I change the repository URL of all my projects to point to the new address? ...
Visual Studio does a lot to help you make sure that your html/xhtml is valid and well formed. This is nice except for when you are breaking those rules knowing full well what you are doing and why. I really would like to 'turn off' the validation messages that tell me that css 3 named colors are not valid for the version of css it thinks...
Hello, When clicking button in debug mode, the page reloads but the break points inside of the click event are never reached. However, breakpoints in the page_load work just fine. Basically, it's as if code inside of the button's click event is not being executed. I checked the site into source control and another developer tried it ...
We have Visual Studio 2005. I can successfully run MSIL programs from the command line using "ilasm". I would like to be able to run these inside VS. From other posts and searches, I gather you need to create a "Console Application" type of project? (They allude to the fact that VS can handle MSIL but I can't find any specific "how to...
We have some unit tests which work with performance counters (specifically creating new categories) and on XP/2003 they work fine but on Vista/7 they fail with a SecurityException ("Requested registry access is not allowed"). I tried checking the "Run as administrator" box on the properties for VSTestHost.exe, but that causes all tests ...
Somewhat inspired by this question about a graphical programming environment. I don't think that C++ or C# are really conducive to this type of environment, but perhaps there's something halfway there. Lot's of IDEs that I've used will use syntax highlighting to change the foreground (or even the background) colour of text for keywords...
I am new to MFC well not entirely new but wanted to ask experts on this forum as why one would choose one project over the other. I hope this is not a stupid question as I am relatively new to MFC. Thanks so much ...
I have a vanilla Visual Studio 2005 Solution with a single C++ Project which contains some non-code files that I would like to include in my build process. For example, I have an .xml file with "Content" set to "True" in a path relative to my project directory. From my understanding this should be copied to the output directory in the s...
I'm a little ashamed for asking this, because, you know, I've been very anti-MS for a long time. I have been fortunate enough as to make a living outside Visual Studio. As I grown older there are "some" things I would like to try, and to be very honest, this Q&A site has inspired me and I realize that VS and Windows Development doesn't ...
When I execute my C++ code (which uses the CGAL library) under debug mode, I see a lot of debug messages in the Output window about a first-chance exception CGAL::Uncertain_conversion_exception. I am aware of what a first-chance exception is. Now, how do I turn off the display of debug messages for this one kind of exception (CGAL::Unce...