visual-studio

has anybody been able to debug asp classic code with visual studio 2005 or later?

I've been stuck with visual studio 2003 for ages because of my need to debug asp classic code... A few years ago I tried to debug classic asp with vs 2005 with no luck, I think there was some dirty hack that was supposed to achieve that "magic", but I couldn't make it work... I wonder if anybody has been luckier than me... Haven't tri...

Visual Studio keyboard shortcut to scroll method overloads tooltips?

Hello, Does anyone know what the keyboard shortcut to scroll a method's overloads that appears in the tooltip is? I presently have to resort to using the mouse to click the ^ and v labels in the tooltip, which isn't particularly effective. Thanks! ...

ClickOnce deployment for solution containing several projects

I have a solution containing several projects, as well as some projects that get copied into subfolders relative to the main application. Is there any possibility to deploy this using ClickOnce? Or should i create a seperate project including references to my built files just for clickonce deployment? ...

Visual Studio for a Java Developer

This is probably a silly question but here goes: I like to be able to see the source code of third party (OSS) libraries from within my projects. I always setup my projects like this when using java. Is this possible in Visual Studio? I am not interested in building them! Only have them available for reference if lets say an exception st...

Why is the scope of a ConnectionString setting always forced to "Application"?

Hi, I'm probably not the first one facing this problem, but I couldn't find a proper answer anywhere. I have a Windows Forms application that uses a strongly-typed DataSet. The designer uses a connection string defined in the application settings. The trouble is that this setting is defined as Application scope (thus read-only), and I ...

Is there a javascript/css compressor plugin for visual studio?

Hi guys, I'm looking for a visual studio plugin with the following functionality: On building the project or executing the tool, the plugin looks for all *.js and *.css files in your project and compresses/minimizes them into *.min.js and *.min.css files. Executing the tool on project build would enable you to keep the references to ...

Possible to adjust ClearType on Visual Studio 2010?

I just got VS 2010 beta 1, but the text in the text editor is thin, ie not anti aliased, smoothed or cleartyped. It's hard to read. Is there a setting to adjust it, similar ot the one in the OS. ...

What are the best Visual Studio extensions?

Possible Duplicate: What is your favorite Visual Studio add-in/setting? I'm wondering what are the extensions that you love or can't live without? I know for me I'm a huge fan of Resharper ($) GhostDoc (Free) Copy As HTML (Free) What other greats are out there? Mark them as free or not as well... ...

Getting into Source Control

So I've decided it's probably best if I get some Source Control solution going to keep my hard work safe, and to help eradicate bugs between versions. I'm familiar with SVN as far as checking stuff out, but I have NFI about the committing side of things. What is a good Source Control solution, keeping in mind that I develop in Visual S...

Can I really develop on ASP.NET MVC for free?

I'm currently developing a web app on Django/Python, and I consider moving to ASP.NET MVC. I downloaded the Visual Web Developer Express edition, read NerdDinner, and I'm ready to go. I will probably keep working on MySQL. One of the reasons I chose Django+MySQL in the first place was that it was free of charge. I'm bootstrapping a bus...

Why does Visual Studio not resolve my CSS class names?

Whenever I am working in Visual Studio I always found that it will not resolve the css class names in my html. The CSS Class names will appear with the green squiggly line in Visual Studio but then the page will render fine when viewing it in the browser. So I know the css file is referenced correctly in my master page but Visual Stud...

Undo Within Selection?

Is there a way to get an "Undo within Selection" feature in Visual Studio? If not, are there any editors that have this functionality? It just seems exceptionally useful, removing the need to undo x many times, copy, redo x many times and paste. Instead one could just highlight the region of interest and undo in that location... ...

Move files to remote file share after build

Hello, I want to create a post build script that moves files from the build directory to a remote (UNC) file share. This line: xcopy "C:\TeamCityBuild\project\WebSite\*" "\\192.168.1.1\WebSite\" /C /R /Y /E Works fine when it is ran in a DOS-window but when TeamCitys buildrunner sln2008 tries to run it it fails with the message "Inv...

Can I evaluate a method call in the VS 2008 debugger?

Does VS 2008 provides a function that allows us to evaluate a method? I can view the property of an object via Watch window, but I also want to substitute parameters into a method and see the result. Not sure whether VS 2008 supports this or not. ...

How do you program against a Database you can't see in Visual Studio?

I'm writings some ASP.NET and I tried connecting to my MySQL database. I found out GoDaddy doesn't support remote connecting to the database (free hosting). Is there a way to program against it? Maybe prototyping the database locally? ...

Is it possible to use Visual Studio as an IDE for Google Web Toolkit?

As a long time user of Visual Studio, I feel comfortable using this as my primary IDE for editing code (I primarily code in C#/ASP.NET). Lately I've been looking more in depth into the Google Web Toolkit (or GWT) as a potential tool for building rapid web client tools for the web. I would therefore like to know whether it is possible to ...

HttpModule not running with Visual Studio

I am using an HttpModule to do some URL shortening on my site. I am using Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7, and .Net 3.5. When the module is specified in the system.webServer element of web.config, and the site is run in IIS, it works fine. The config looks like this: <system.webServer> <modules> <add name="MinimizeModule" type=...

How to resolve linking error??

Hi I hav a project.it shows error only with linking only. it displays __getch alresdy defined evnthough i hav ignored specific library MSVCR80D.dll it shows error. Plz Help me in this regard..... after using /verbose: Processed /DEFAULTLIB:msvcprtd Processed /DEFAULTLIB:MSVCRTD Processed /DEFAULTLIB:OLDNAMES Processed /DEFAULTLIB:M...

Shared Code Layout

Hi, I have two C++ projects in a solution both of which need to share two common classes. What I want to avoid is having two copies of the source files but I am relucant to just include the source in one project and reference it in the other. How is this sort of situation normally handled? ...

VS 2008 Addon to temporarily disable/remove all catch block

Is there any addon by which I can disable all catch blocks temporarily. I'm maintaining an application and I need to find out where exactly it is throwing exception. Someone has done error handling is done is all layers to make my job tough :( ...