This seems like a petty question, but this situation is starting to get annoying: When I'm working in VS 2008 and I want to get context-sensitive help, I highlight the term/keyword/window that I want help on, and I push F1. It brings up the MSDN help window, but it always gives me a "Page not Found"/broken link on the start, and I have...
What reasons are there for continuing to run Visual Studio 2005 when 2008 is available? I work on a project where the environment is dictated to be Visual Studio 2005. Are there good technical reasons for this? Can I use Visual Studio 2008 and build an app that is 100% indistinguishable from the same app build with Visual Studio 200...
Hi, I like to put my using directives inside the current namespace, and not outside as VS and Resharper per default puts them. Does anyone know of a macro/standard functionality that sorts/removes unused using directives and puts them inside the current namespace? --larsw ...
Hi, Does anyone know of anything other than the Visual Studio automation API to use for generating Visual Studio Solutions and/or project files? The project files are MSBuild-based, so that should be OK to generate manually if I have to, but the solution files are based on a proprietary textual format. TIA, --larsw ...
I am trying to make my code more reusable by placing commonly recurring utility classes and user controls into a packaged library. The IDE is making this difficult, as so far, I have found that it always defaults to Windows Forms user controls and disabling my ability to create xaml files etc from the 'Add a New Item' dialog. Is it poss...
IE8 has a feature that pops up a dialog box that informs me when a web page stops responding that's a bit annoying when debugging as it steals focus from visual studio. Is there a way to disable that feature? ...
Trolltech has released a tool called "Visual Studio add-in" for their LGPL and GPL release of Qt. They state that the commercial version comes with a full Visual Studio Integration tool but I don't see any description of the differences between these. What's included in the full version that isn't in the add-in? ...
Hi, VS 2005 is taking a very very very long time to compile my C++ solution all of a sudden. I tried deleting the Intellisense DLL and deleting the .suo and .ncb files and that didn't help. Most of the time during my build Process Explorer shows almost all of the CPU time being spent in System Idle Process, so I have no idea what Visual...
Hey, So i have about 4-5 years of background in programming some in C# and some in C++. I recently got an internship and have been using C# daily. I am confident in my work, and don't have any problem remembering syntax or anything like that. So i was wondering what you guys think about getting resharper? i was going to demo it first but...
I've been putting up with this forever and suddenly I thought: Maybe someone else has run across this! In Visual Studio 2005 on Vista x86, when I click on a tool pane that does not have focus, it does a double-click. Does this with the property window, toolbox, error list, output window, and so on. Some things I've noticed: This happ...
Using SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, I'm trying to create a SSIS package to merge data from 1 table to several other tables. The source table does not have a several fields that the destination tables do. For example 'CreatedBy' and 'CreatedDate' fields. I would like these to be hard coded (in a sense) as part of the package im...
I'm normally developing web apps, and a surprisingly large amount of my work time is spent doing "Ctrl + Alt + P", sorting by Process Name, and picking w3wp.exe to attach my debugger. To make matters worse, I'm working on an app that spans several application pools, so I normally have 2 or 3 instances of w3wp.exe, and it's impossible to...
This is soooo weird. I cannot seem to get any output messages from Sys.Debug methods to print into the Output window in Visual Studio 2008. I'm talking about simple things, like Sys.Debug.trace("show this message") or Sys.Debug.traceDump(Sys.UI.DomEvent). They show up in the Firebug trace console just fine. They also show up fine in IE...
sometimes i just want to move either left or right a couple of characters (or go to the end of the line) but don't really want to leave insert mode just to move a couple chars. ...
I have copied a whole project onto my PC, both into My Documents/Visual Studio and into inetpub/wwwroot, but when I try to open the project in Visual Studio, it tries to open just 1 file .vssproj and gives me error messages, like : "The project file cannot be loaded. The application for project ... is not installed.". What am I doing wro...
I currently have VS 2008 Web Developer SP1 installed on my machine and I've purchased the professional edition. I also have 2003 and 2005 Pro installed. Should I un-install VS 2008 Web Developer before installing the professional edition? If not, will I have two version of VS 2008 or will Professional "Upgrade" Web Developer. Please ...
In MSVC 2008 project, building a project will display following information in output window: 1>------ Build started: Project: Project1, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>main.cpp 1>test1.cpp 1>test2.cpp 1>Generating Code... 1>Linking... 1>LINK : test.exe not found or not built by the last incremental link; performing f...
Hi I have test project which i need to convert from VS2003 to VS2005 and i am afraid i got lot of errors and warnigs. The error mostly appeared is ** error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated** The same project wil get compiled in VS2003 and executing wel.what i can do??? Thanks in advance ...
Hi There, I was wondering about the pros and cons on the different Blackberry development environments. I am trying to decide whether to use Visual Studio or Eclipse. Your thoughts are appreciated Tony ...
Hi, I need to profile an application compiled with intel's compiler via VC++. I'm using VTune to profile my code. My understanding is that in release mode I won't have the debug information that is necessary for the profiler to profile my code while in debug mode, the result of the profiling will not be pertinent. What should I do ? I...