Due to continuing crash problems, I'm about to uninstall and reinstall my copy of Visual Studio 2005. I know that just running the uninstaller leaves a lot of resources and settings on my machine and would like to be able to reinstall from a pristine state. Is there any way to completely uninstall VS2k5 from my machine so that it's as i...
For managing unit tests in Visual Studio, I use the Test List Editor. There's also a Test View which looks similar but more limited. When would I want to use the Test View as opposed to the Test List Editor or any of the other test windows? ...
Since I upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 from vs2005, I have found a very annoying behaviour when debugging large projects. If I attempt to step into inline code, the debugger appears to lock up for tens of seconds. Each time that I step inside such a function, there is a similar pause. Has anyone experienced this and is anyone aware of...
From what I can find online about using VS2008 to create a integration/reporting services project it appears I need to have SQL 2008. Does anyone know of a work-around that would allow me to use VS2008 with SQL 2005? ...
I'd like to structure a Form with a TabControl but I'd like to avoid having every control on each TabPage end up being a member of the Form I'm adding the TabControl to. So far I've identified these options, please comment or suggest alternatives: 1) Write a UserControl for each TabPage 2) Leave only the Control on the main Form but tu...
Does anyone have a method to overcome the 260 character limit of the MSBuild tool for building Visual Studio projects and solutions from the command line? I'm trying to get the build automated using CruiseControl (CruiseControl.NET isn't an option, so I'm trying to tie it into normal ant scripts) and I keep on running into problems with ...
We just migrated to Visual Studio 2008 from 2005. Now whenever I open our project solution the solution explorer auto expands every directory that is excluded or contains an excluded file. ...
I would like to distribute my .NET programs without the .NET framework. Is it possible to compile a .NET program to machine code? ...
Which Visual Studio Color Theme do you use? Do you find that the darker themes work best for you? Do they help ease your eye strain? What is your favorite color theme & where can I get it? ...
I work on a small web team where I am the only .NET developer currently using Visual Studio 2008 Professional to build and maintain a few web applications. I am about to start training another member of our team so we purchased him a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional. I've looked into Visual Source Safe, but I'm dubious. I don't ...
Is there any way to view the activity log for the integrate SourceSafe inside Visual Studio 2005 Pro? I'd like to be able to quickly see the results of any Get Latest Version, Check In and Checkout actions, and I can't find a way to get that information without having to open the VSS client. Thanks. ...
I wonder if They can work perfectly together... ...
We recently attempted to break apart some of our Visual Studio projects into libraries, and everything seemed to compile and build fine in a test project with one of the library projects as a dependency. However, attempting to run the application gave us the following nasty run-time error message: Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The valu...
I can't seem to find any useful documentation from Microsoft about how one would use the Delimiter and InheritsFromParent attributes in the UserMacro element when defining user Macros in .vsprops property sheet files for Visual Studio. Here's sample usage: <UserMacro Name="INCLUDEPATH" Value="$(VCROOT)\Inc" InheritsFromParent="TRUE...
Hi I guess this is quite a self-explanatory title. I need some tutorials showing the cool things of VS, but almost everything I find looks like being "How to conect a Web-app to a DB" kind of video-tutorial or a list of features and advertisement text. I am going to use it for C++ game programming. I'm new to this IDE but I heard it has...
Do you use code-generation tools (aside from those used to generate proxies and from designers built-in to visual studio)? What part(s) of your application do you generate? Do you typically roll your own generator? If so, what type of generator do you write (asp templates, coddom etc.). If not, what 3rd party tools do you use? I am ...
I have Visual Studio 2005 Professional ENU installed and want to create GUIDs using its Create GUIDs utility. However, I cannot find it under the Tools menu. What should I do to get this utility? Thanks ...
I'd like to open the intelligence window without typing a character and then backspacing it. I can't seem to remember the shortcut for this. What is it? thnx ...
For the most part you just take whatever Visual Studio sets it for you as a default.. I'm referring to the BuildAction Property for each file selected in your solution explorer. There are a number of options and its difficult to know what each one of them will do. ...
Greetings. I have a little dilemma on how to set up my visual studio builds for multi-targeting. Background: c# .NET v2.0 with p/invoking into 3rd party 32 bit DLL's, SQL compact v3.5 SP1, with a Setup project. Right now, the platform target is set to x86 so it can be run on Windows x64. The 3rd party company has just released 64 bit...