EDIT: This post was originally specific to ASP.NET, but after thinking about it I'm quite interested to discover any contenders to .NET development. There used to be sharpdevelop IDE, which I'm not even sure if it did ASP.NET (it did WinForms). Express killed it off I think. EDIT: I was wrong about SharpDevelop (thanks for pointing tha...
I use Visual Studio 2k8 Pro Edition at home and I have loaded it with a lot of important addins customised for my development. If I get VS2010 Pro Edition, would all of these plugins fail to work? Is this a plugin-related matter or down to Visual Studio itself? E.g. Visual Studio 2010 may just be based on the 2008 version but with enhan...
A while ago, I saw on a Screencast a tool that could be ran in VS.NET IDE. When executed it would prompt to set the Name and Text property for each control. This seemed like a good idea, but I never got around to trying it. Now I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know of a tool that will do this? ...
HI i want to know what is use of specifing /mtd /mdd options for visual studio. Help me in this regard Thanks inadvance. ...
Hi Waht is the difference beween specifying /mdd(multi threaded debug dll) and /mtd(multi threaded debug) in visualstudio?? ...
Hi i hav a main project(ex: applicationsolution explorer (10projects)) which depend on 10 other projects. in those in one project i need to use /clr(Common Language Runtime) option.As i know /clr doesnot compatable with /mtd(in code genration property of linker section ) i changed to /mdd. my question is Do i need to enable /clr ...
Hi, I want to start the develop of a custom project type for Visual Studio that builds a BPR project with Visual Studio. I need some hints to beginning with this project. Where can I find a template for this type of projects? My target is to remove the Borland C++Builder's ugly and unstable interface from the development process and w...
Hi I'm using WatiN in Visual Studio 2005. I want to compare the text on the web page using watin, how to do this? Assert.Istrue method does not work it gives an error. or am i missing the using directive for using the Assert method? please suggest solution and let me know the using directive that supports assert method. ...
I find myself creating Converters often and would like to be able to: right-click on my Converters folder Add New Item... choose Converter Item Template I found these instructions but I can imagine that there are templates for standard files like WPF Converters already available somewhere, does anyone know of any? The following file...
Is it possible to use LINQ in the express version of visual studio? I am planning on refactoring my project to use LINQ, but I am the only person in my group that has a copy of visual studio pro. Will that cause any problems if someone using the express version has to modified my code? Edit I realize that the graphical tools are not ava...
I honestly cannot follow the mechanism given in the MSDN article Using a Summary Results File with a Generic Test. It is clear how to use xsd, and again it is clear how to wrap my existing application in a generic test. But right in between, the article says; Next, edit the program you will wrap as your generic test. Using the clas...
I have regularly this issue under Visual 2005 or 2008 : When I compile a bunch of DLLs (native C, C++, managed), sometimes, few of them don't link correctly with some microsoft debug DLLs. The output does not mention anything (no warning, no error). I can't be aware until I launch my program and get a "Module not found exception" withou...
We are developing an ASP.NET application. We retained an outside UI design firm, and for the most part have been very pleased with their work. Their "deliverable" to us was clickable screens -- Visual Studio solutions with ASPX files, images, master pages, etc. The screens were not connected to any data source. They had dummy data so...
I have mutipule web projects (please don't ask me why with multipule namespaces within them, I didn't create it. lol) and the dlls need to be compiled to the main web project. The problem is that I cannot give a disk directory path because we build on another machine and that directory path is different. Is there a way that I can dynam...
Visual Studio Team system 2008 crashes without any error messages whenever I try to open a specific Javscript file. I found this thread on social.msdn but installing the KB958502 hotfix didn't fix the problem. Has anyone else experienced this and solved it? ...
I am trying to put a filter on my C# openFileDialog that excludes certain file extensions. For example I want it to show all files in a directory that are not .txt files. Is there a way to do this? ...
Is there a way to integrate Visual Studio with VSS without doing source control binding? The problem I have is that my team is opposing to add source control binding to the solution and project files, since they claim it adds more problems (restrictions) for them. On the other hand, I really like to perform most of the source control o...
I have a web application that uses AzMan authorization to grant different functionality to different users. I've just started using WatiN to implement some automated web UI tests that run under Visual Studio Team System/TFS. I'd like to be able to use it to verify the different authorization scenarios. To do this though I'd need to be ab...
I am trying to deploy my first custom aspx page in sharepoint: Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 VSeWSS 1.3 Latest Sharepoint Patches as of May 28, 2009 I am following this detailed howto: http://geeksconnected.com/jamil/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=19 Unfortunately, it quickly becomes incomplete toward the bottom. I am...
Is there a good tool that will look at a .NET assembly and tell you all of the dependencies it has on other assemblies? Sort of like the old depends.exe from VS6 days. UPDATE I guess the one thing that I am missing from Reflector is verion #'s. Unless I am missing something. How do I tell what framework is required by an assembly? I'm ...