visual-studio

Is there a shortcut key to switch between split panes in visual studio/management studio?

When I have a file open in visual studio/sql server management studio and have it split in to two panes, I'd like to be able to switch between the panes without having to reach for the mouse. Does anyone know if a shortcut key exists for this? ...

//TODO flag in VS .Net

Hello, In eclipse, if you write a comment such as //TODO something-or-other, you are able to track and navigate back to all of your TODOs via a Task Pane. Is there any similar device in VS? Thanks, brian ...

What's the difference between web applications and web site in visual studio?

Possible Duplicate: ASP.NET: Web Site or Web Application? Please excuse me if this is a silly question. I've tried searching for answers elsewhere, but without much luck :( In laymans terms, what's the difference between a web-application and a web-site in Visual Studio? Is one better than the other, or are they just different?...

UPDATED! Intellisense auto-complete is causing VC++ in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 to crash

UPDATE1: I have reinstalled Visual Studio and I am still having this problem. My guess is there is a problem with my environment. Update2: Diving in. I attached windbg to devenv and set a breakpoint in windbg for msenv!_tailMerge_WINMM_dll and traced through. This is trying to load winmm.dll using the LoadLibrary API. I can see that ...

Problem in using Isolated class

Hi I have to store some hidden information in Isolated space. For that I am using System.IO.Isolated class like IsolatedStorageFile isf = System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore(IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Assembly, null, null); Stream writer = new IsolatedStorageFileStream(filename, FileMode.Crea...

child process imports from debug runtime library cannot be resolved

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Pro with SP1 under Windows XP 32 SP3 to build two native EXEs, A and B. A launches B. The following scenario occurs on my development system, which for now is also my test system. When I link A and B against the debug version of the runtime library, A launches happily but then fails to launch B because the s...

Enum in DataSet

I'm using DataSet to connect my C# program with SQL database. I want one of the columns to be an enumeration and I want it to act as an enum in my code. How can I do this? ...

Can I still develop 32-bit applications using a 64-bit machine?

Hi, I'm wondering if I can still develop 32-bit apps using a 64-bit machine (64-bit Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2008 SP1)? Because I am planning to buy a laptop with 64-bit Vista. Im asking just to make sure. Thanks! ...

I want to make UI such as the select box + text box

Nice to meet you. I developed Windows application with VisualStudio so far. It was these days and has begun to do the Web application. Therefore there is a question, but will there be UI which added a select box and text box in HTML? Though it can choose some choices, it is a thing to have the direct input if there does not have it....

how can i build a driver using visual studio ?

does anyone have an article how to do this ? thanks ...

Can the Visual Studio properties editor reference a property to component in another form (or class)?

As a Delphi developer moving to .NET I'm expecting similar concept like TDataModule & TForm to be available. However, I could not find way to make a reference from a component on a Form to another component on another Form (or Component) class. I understand technical difference underlying the issue. Delphi component architecture is ...

Unit Test - User Account

ASP.Net app in Visual Studio 2008 I'm creating unit tests to test (in)valid logins for a web app. I have an Authenticate(User,Pass) bool method. The null case and invalid password tests are properly working. My question is how to test a valid login. I have accounts that are valid for the web app, but I feel like hardcoding in the u...

Limit the size of a user control at design time

I have a namespace Company.UI.Forms where we have a form base class BaseForm that inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form. I need to limit the size of this form, so that if a concrete form, say ExampleForm, derives from BaseForm, it should have a fixed size in the VS designer view. The fixed size should be set or defined in some way (i...

What is a good Read, Eval, Print, Loop implementation for C# ?

Some programming language implementations provide a Read, Evaluate, Print Loop interactive shell to allow the programmer to evaluate expressions and program fragments, and to program in an incremental, interactive manner. What implementations of a C# REPL have you used, and liked? It would be nice to have one that could integrate with V...

Remote debugging with visual studio and WinDbg server

Is it possible to use WinDBG as a server (instead of Visual Studio Remote Debugger) and connect to it using Visual Studio? ...

MSDN 2003 - How to display full path of files

We are moving from Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 to Microsoft Development Environment 2003. In Visual Studio 6.0, the location of the file will be displayed if you go to the workspace, go to the FileView tab, right click on any file and select Properties. The full path of the file is displayed under File name. However, in 2003, the file ...

VB6 migrating to .Net with Visual Studio 2010

Has anyone migrated a VB6 project to .Net with Visual Studio 2010? I have tested the migration in VS2005, but the resulting .Net code was so messed up, that we decided not to migrate to .Net. So has the VS2010 migration wizard been improved over the wizard in VS2005 or VS2008? ...

Visual Studio: references in code not recognized?

I have a solution in VS2008 (C#) that contains multiple projects. I just retooled some of the .csproj files for our build process, and suddenly while coding Project B won't recognize references from Project A in the class code...think the red squiggly lines under a variable type I've created. However, building the solution generates no e...

Organizing multiple Composite WPF applications to share a single Shell

How can I organize multiple Composite WPF applications so that they share a single Shell project but populate their module catalogs from different App.config files? I am writing a suite of applications using Composite Application Guidance for WPF. Each application's functionality is determined by the availability of different modules, w...

MSBuild Custom Common Targets.

I'm finishing setting up a TFS Build definition and having problems with getting MSBuild to run any code that I've put in the Custom.After.Microsoft.Common.Targets file. The file is definately in the right place, and is definately being parsed (breaking the syntax in the file causes build errors), but none of the code in it gets run. I'v...