When using Linq to SQL and stored procedures, the class generated to describe the proc's result set uses char properties to represent char(1) columns in the SQL proc. I'd rather these be strings - is there any easy way to make this happen? ...
I created a C++ console app and just want to capture the cout/cerr statements in the Output Window within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. I'm sure this is just a setting that I'm missing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? ...
Hello, I am getting some errors thrown in my code when I open a win form in visual studio's designer. I would like to branch in my code and perform a different initialization if the form is being opened by designer than if it is being run for real. How can I determine at run-time if the code is being executed as part of designer openi...
I have somehow misconfigured fingers. This leads to a very annoying situation. I select a block of text to copy; I move the cursor the place where I want to paste the code; I accidentally press Ctrl+C again instead of Ctrl+V; My block of copied text is replaced by an empty block; I have to go back and do it all over again. Grrrrr. Is...
In Team Foundation Server, I know that you can use the "Annotate" feature to see who last edited each line in a particular file (equivalent to "Blame" in CVS). What I'd like to do is akin to running Annotate on every file in a project, and get a summary report of all the developers who have edited a file in the project, and how many line...
It seems as if making the clipboard ring appear in the VS2008 toolbox is pretty elusive. Does anyone know how to turn this on ? Ctrl-Shift-V works fine, but I'd like to see what on the ring. ...
What is your favorite visual studio plugin? ...
If you have a statically allocated array, the Visual Studio debugger can easily display all of the array elements. However, if you have an array allocated dynamically and pointed to by a pointer, it will only display the first element of the array when you click the + to expand it. Is there an easy way to tell the debugger, show me thi...
I'm in an ASP.NET UserControl. When I type Control-K, Control-D to reformat all the markup, I get a series of messages from VS 2008: "Could not reformat the document. The original format was restored." "Could not complete the action." "The operation could not be completed. The parameter is incorrect." Anybody know what causes this...
The Visual Studio compiler does not seem to warn on signed/unsigned assignments, only on comparisons. For example the code below will generate a warning on the if statement but not the initial assignments. Is there anyway to make it catch these? I'm already at W4 but thought (hoped) there may be another setting somewhere. Thanks, int ...
I'm working in a team environment where each developer works from their local desktop and deploys to a virtual machine that they own on the network. What I'm trying to do is set up the Visual Studio solution so that when they build the solution each projects deployment is handled in the post-build event to that developers virtual machin...
1.exe doesn't give enough time for me to launch the IDE and attach 1.exe to the debugger to break into. ...
Is it possible to install the x86 Remote Debugger as a Service on a 64bit machine? I need to attach a debugger to managed code in a Session 0 process. The process runs 32bit but the debugger service that gets installed is 64bit and wont attach to the 32bit process. I tried creating the Service using the SC command, and was able to g...
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 for an ASP .Net application, and Visual Studio keeps adding blank lines to my aspx file whenever I save, switch to design mode and back to code view, switch to split mode, or switch between files. Before I save, I will have: </ContentTemplate></asp:UpdatePanel> </...
In our development environment each developer has their own dev server. Often times they do not actually develop on that server but develop from their local machine, deploy to their dev server, and then attach with the remote debugger to do debugging. My question is; how can I use MSBuild to execute a different set of tasks for each us...
Anyone know of any good MSBuild tasks that will execute a PowerShell script and pass it different parameters? I was able to find B# .NET Blog: Invoking PowerShell scripts from MSBuild, but I'm hoping for something that is a little more polished. If I can't find anything I will of course just go ahead and polish my own using that blog p...
I'm toying with my first remoting project and I need to create a RemotableType DLL. I know I can compile it by hand with csc, but I wonder if there are some facilities in place on Visual Studio to handle the Remoting case, or, more specificly, to tell it that a specific file should be compiled as a .dll without having to add another proj...
After installing VS2008, the platform builder mod, and the WM7 aku, VS usually prompts you, upon first startup, for your default mode. If you make a mistake and select something other than PB7, how do you get back into PB mode? I can get the device window, but it is always greyed out. I can also configure my normal connection settings, ...
What is the difference between publishing a website with visual studio and just copying the files over to the server? Is the only difference that the publish files are pre-compiled? ...
I think it's associating my Web Service's CS files with the related ASMX files. But whatever's happening, I can't double-click to open the CS files - I have to "view Code" or it opens in the designer. Anyone know how to turn off this automatic behavior? I just want to edit the code! ...