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Downloding Visual Studio 2010 Beta

I'm interested on test riding Visual Studio 2010 but I have limited resources ie. 2GB bandwidth per month. What's the minimum bandwidth I will need to download all the required infrastructure to get VS 2010 working? ...

How to update a datawarehouse after migrating to sql2005 from sql2000

Hi Guys, I apologise for asking basic questions but I'm new to Analysis Services and dimensional data. My current situation is, I have a sql server2000 database with a warehouse which was built by a previous developer. The warehouse and the transactional DB are on the same physical server. The warehouse is filled nightly by stored proce...

Developer notebook configuration

I want to buy a brand new notebook for out-of-the-office work. I mainly develop using VC++ (vs03) and c# (vs08) on large projects (10 gb builds). At office I've a quad core xeon with 10.000 rpm disk. What hardware, according to your experience, is the best for this kind of work in terms of price / performances / weight? ...

How to add code beside to ASP.NET MVC view in Visual Studio?

I want to use code beside files for my views in my ASP.NET MVC project. Is there any simple way in Visual Studion 2008 how to add a code beside file to the view? Note: I know that code besides files are no preferred in ASP.NET MVC but my reason is that I want to give .aspx files to designer and don't want to confuse him nonHTML code as ...

can we install sqlserver2005 before installing vs2005?

Hi i want to install sqlserver2005 on my server2003 machine. i heard that sqlserver2005 should be installed prior to visualstudio2005. is it right or wrong. thanks in advance ...

Visual Studio search stops working

somehow visual studio search has stopped working for me. Anytime i search the solution for some text i get this result: Find all "[What ever i was searching for]", Subfolders, Find Results 1, "Entire Solution" No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress. Does anyone know why it would suddenly say "No files were fo...

Checking a file out (TFS) for a pre-build action

I've added a pre-build action for an ASP.NET web control (server control) project, that runs jsmin.exe on a set of Javascript files. These output files are part of the source control tree and are embedded into the assembly. The problem is when the pre-build runs, jsmin can't write the file as it's readonly. Is it possible to check the ...

Creating a Report Model Project with a ODBC Data Provider, can this be done?

Hi I can create a normal SSRS Project and use a ODBC connection. But i cant create one with i want to create a Report Model Project??? Any idea why and how i can work around it? Thanks in advanced!! ...

spawning cmd.exe error in vs2008

Hi i have create a simple vc++ console application and try to print "Hello World".i am using windows server2003 machine when i try to build this proj i got the error as Error: spawning cmd.exe how to resolve this one Thanks in advance. ...

Error Connecting to Undo Manager of Source File XYZ

I've been getting an error recently while debugging an ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2008: 'Error connecting to undo manager of source file XYZ' Any idea how I can get rid of the error? ...

Visual Studio > XML Parser > Register an URI prefix

Hey everyone, I started using Visual Studio for writing my XUL, because it gives me intellisense and validation, as I use a special XUL xml-schema. There are still some problems with this approach, that I want to fix to make VS a more usable XUL-IDE. VS doesn't know anything about the chrome-protocol and gives me an error ("The URI pr...

How can I tell Visual Studio I have code not in App_Code folder?

We've been using Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite for a fairly large web project. Now, we're adding another web app into our current project...it is essentially complete, and we're just adding the entire thing as a folder into our current project. The project builds, runs...everything is fine...but this new sub-project doesn't have any ki...

Change assembly name based on configuration (Visual Studio 2005/2008)

Is it possible to change the assembly name based on the project configuration? I have tried conditional pragmas on the assemblyinfo.cs file, but that only changes the assembly attributes, not the name itself. ...

Undocking a code window in Visual Studio

I've finally joined the 21st century and got a second monitor. I can merrily undock all the side windows (Solution Explorer, ToolBox etc) and plonk them anywhere I like on either monitor. I can't though figure out how to undock a code window. Is it possible? (I'm using vs2008). ...

VB -- Why Is This Causing a Memory Leak?

This is interesting. We've spent the last day attempting to patch a problem with the following (legacy) code that continues to grow its process size. This is done in Visual Studio 2003. We have a form on which we display an image (from MemoryStream) and some text and a button. Nothing fancy. Looks something like this: Protected Overr...

Synchronizing Version Resources in Visual Studio C++ (Win32) Projects

I've got a solution with about 8 separate projects in it and every time I do a release build of the entire solution I need to make sure that the version string for the binary output of each project is the same. Is there an easy way to synchronize the VS_VERSION_INFO section of a project's resources file? ...

TF10216: Team Foundation services are currently unavailable. (user problem?)

Hi. I have some trouble getting my team foundation server to work. If i try to access the http://:8080/services/v1.0/serverstatus.asmx with the "administrator" account everything seems fine. But if i try to access it as some other user i get: TF10216: Team Foundation services are currently unavailable. Try again later. If the problem ...

UI type editor with dynamic values

I have a UserControl that contains a DataGrid. This form is being inherited many times and I'm finding that most of the time I want to sort the grid when the data source changes. I would like to have two properties in the base class for the default sort column and direction and have these show in the designer. The sort direction is easy ...

How do you setup Visual Studio 2005 to use #ifdef _MSC_VER?

I am trying to use the _MSC_VER macro in a Visual Studio 2005.NET C++ project, but am unable to use #ifdef _MSC_VER. Does anyone know how to setup a Visual Studio 2005 project to be able to use this macro? ...

Run a Visual Studio custom tool at build time

I have a script that will convert a text file into a resource file, so that I can have multiple language support by having text files for different languages converted into different resources. Once I run the script to get the resx file, I then have to run a custom build tool (as described here:Link to Code Project) in order to create t...