Is there any setting in Visual Studio 2008 to group/organize tabs? For example, I'd prefer to have all code-behind files open in a tab next to its .aspx page if that page is open and vice versa. Dragging tabs around really kills my productivity. ...
When running an old MFC application in Visual Studio's debugger I've seen a lot of warnings in the Output window like the following: Warning: skipping non-radio button in group. I understand that in MFC you put radio buttons in groups to indicate which sets of radio buttons go together. If I remember correctly you do this by setti...
[NOTE: This questions is similar to but not the same as this one.] Visual Studio defines several dozen "Macros" which are sort of simulated environment variables (completely unrelated to C++ macros) which contain information about the build in progress. Examples: ConfigurationName Release TargetPath D:\work\foo\win\R...
I am developing an ASP.NET Ajax form, and decided to make most of the site in one page, because it isn't a very involved site (it's more of a form). In the codebehind, I have been making my code more organized by adding regions to it (inside are the click events of the controls, etc). When I expand a region, all the subroutines and chil...
As much as I generally don't like the discussion/subjective posts on SO, I have really come to appreciate the "Hidden Secrets" set of posts that people have put together. They provide a great overview of some commonly missed tools that you might now otherwise discover. For this question I would like to explore the Visual Studio .NET de...
Currently I am developing a site with about seven partial classes, a few icons, three pages and an App_Themes folder. I was interested to know, is there an industry standard directory structure for anything larger than a small project? For example, I want to keep the classes in separate folders, the images in separate folders etc. My cu...
I have used visual studio for a long time, but one feature I have never used is the Macro system. I saw a post where someone mentioned he used macros (no elaboration) so I was wondering is it really worth the time investing in learning how to create macros? If so what kind of stuff do you make? There was similar post(s), but i am try...
I'm looking to pick up either C# or VB.Net. I'd done a fair bit of VB6 programming in the past. I'm looking at getting the book, Visual Basic .NET or C#, Which to Choose? but I'm hoping that someone has read it, or used both languages and can offer advice. Should I just RTFB? Edit: Anders Sandvig raised a valid question. I'm intend...
Hello. A little while ago I managed to get Visual Studio 2008 (C++) into a state where, if I would select a keyword (or any symbol for that matter), by either double clicking on it or highlighting it, all other instances of that symbol within the current file would become highlighted too. This was a really useful feature. Since then it...
I am building a project using Visual Studio. The project has a dependency on a lib file generated by another project. This project is there is the parent directory of the actual project I am building. To be more clear, I have a "ParentDir" which has two subDirectories Project1 and Project2 under it. Now Project1 depends on lib genera...
I have a VS (2008) solution consisting of several projects, not all in the same namespace. When I build the solution, all the dlls used by the top level project TopProject are copied into the TopProject\bin\debug folder. However, the corresponding .pdb files are only copied for some of the other projects. This is a pain, for example when...
I am moving from classic ASP to ASP.NET and have encountered what many of you already know as "viewstate". I might be jumping the gun with my assumption, but it looks highly cumbersome. I have developed many ASP forms in the past and never had issues with keeping state. Is there another way OR am I going to have to learn this Viewstat...
I'm working with a fairly large solution right now in Visual Studio 2005 and whenever I try to use the ">of" command in the toolbar search box it causes my solution explorer go haywire. Specifically, all of the folders start showing that there aren't any files in them anymore and I have to hit the "Refresh" button in order to get them a...
I know I can compile individual source files, but sometimes -- say, when editing a header file used by many .cpp files -- multiple source files need to be recompiled. That's what Build is for. Default behavior of the "Build" command in VC9 (Visual C++ 2008) is to attempt to compile all files that need it. Sometimes this just results i...
On long Visual C++ builds, it would be really helpful to hear some sort of (optional) sounds for such build/compile results as: individual compile error file compile success/failure build success/failure batch build success/failure Does anyone know how to enable sounds for these kinds of build occurrences in Visual C++ (especially Vi...
Is there and easy way to remove the IF/End If structured pairing. Being able to do this in one keystroke would be nice (I also use Refactor! Pro) Right now this is what I do: Delete the IF line Watch Visual Studio reformat the code to line up correctly taking into account that the IF is Missing. Navigate to the End If Delete the End ...
This post is similar to this previously asked question. I really want to set up my SVN repository in TTB format, but when creating a project in Visual Studio 2008 (ASP.NET/VB.NET), the structure created tends to be incompatible when considering the solution file, project files, folders for projects, multiple projects within solutions, e...
I've been using the macro from this blog entry for attaching the Visual Studio debugger to an already running instance of the Web Application I'm currently working on. However, if I have more than one instance of the Visual Studio web server running it's pot luck which one it'll attach to. Is there a way to determine what port is config...
Is there a way to prevent VS2008 creating browse info file files for C++ projects. I rarely use the class browser and it isn't worth the time it takes to recreate it after every build, especially since it runs even if the build failed. EDIT - it's also needed for go to declaration/definition ...
Our build process uses Visual Studios 2003 link.exe for linking. On one machine we're seeing the following error: _X86_Win32/Debug/Intermediate/OurApp.exe LINK: extra operand `/subsystem:windows' Try `LINK --help' for more information It appears to be using the same version of visual studios as the other machines. Has anyone encount...