I have a project I'm working on (for school) that I'm digging into the Boost libraries for the solutions. I need some way to distribute the required Boost source code with my application so that it can be compiled without the libraries being installed on the system doing the compiling. (School computers lack just about anything you can m...
I'm doing some Android dev, and I much prefer Visual Studio, but I'll have to use Eclipse for this. Has anyone made a tool that switches Eclipse to look and behave more like visual studio? I mainly can't stand its clippyesqe suggestions on how I should program (Yes, I know I have not yet used that private field! Thanks Eclipse!), or its...
Hello everyone, I keep reading about C99 and C++0x and all these totally sweet things that are getting added to the language standard that might be nice to use someday. However, we currently languish in the land of writing C++ in Visual Studio. Will any of the new stuff in the standard ever get added to visual studio, or are microsoft ...
What is the best way to version control my database objects? I'm using Visual studio 2005/2008 and SQL server 2005. I would prefer a solution which can be used with SVN. ...
Is there a way to have Visual Studio 2008 automatically add heading information to files? For example, "Copyright 2008" or something along those lines. I've been digging through the options, but nothing seems to be jumping out at me. ...
Some of us would invariably have to support 'legacy' code using Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 IDEs which - although opinions would differ - are generally regarded to be less user friendly compared to the later incarnations of the Visual Studio series of IDEs. So I'd like to hear about some of your favourite hidden/poorly documented IDE ...
Hi all, I've developed a Visual C#.NET 2008 Express Edition solution containing three projects. I am cleaning it up to commit it into a CVS repository. There are several files that are created during the build process that are not necessary to be placed in the repository since they will be regenerated automatically. The question: Can ...
I miss it so much (used it a lot in C#). can you do it in C++? ...
When you open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 (or ealier versions for that matter), it opens all the documents that you did not close before you closed Visual Studio. Is there anyway to turn this functionality off, or a plugin that fixes this behavior? It takes forever to load a solution with 50 files open? Thanks in advance ...
I have seen a few (old) posts on the 'net about hacking together some support for pre-compiled headers in CMake. They all seem a bit all-over the place and everyone has their own way of doing it. What is the best way of doing it currently? ...
I a working in VisualStudio 2005. I have a dataset with sevaral datatables in it already. I had to modify the database to add a new foreign key that I forgot about. How do I get visual studio to recognize the new relationship? ...
In our code, we currently use the following tags that can in turn be listed in the visual studio's tasklist: TODO to mark tasks inside the code the need to be done // TODO: optimize this loop HACK to mark code that is only there to make something work for the moment, for instance for a presentation // HACK: assume we know the users ...
Is there a way to identify unused attributes/methods in Visual C++ 2008 Professional? If it's not possible by default, recommendations of 3rd-party tools are also much appreciated. Thanks, Florian Edit: nDepend only works for .NET assemblies. I'm looking for something that can be used with native C++ applications. ...
What is the keyboard shortcut to expand the little red line that gives you the menu where you can choose to have the necessary Using statement added to the top of the file? My Googling skills have not proved fruitful. ...
In an aspx C#.NET page (I am running framework v3.5), I need to know where the user came from since they cannot view pages without logging in. If I have page 'A' (the page the user wants to view) redirect to page 'B' (the login page), the Request.UrlReferrer object is null. Background: If a user isn't logged in, I redirect to the Log...
I've an example (wimobot.org) of a working directshow camera (not based on CameraDialog), but this example doesn't includes preview. I don't know how to implement the direct show filter for the preview, any sample code in C# or Visual Basic .Net? Thanks in advance ...
A recent project had me working with C# again, and I noticed something I hadn't before -- C#'s Intellisense shows possible exceptions that can be thrown when calling a method Since I work mostly with VB.NET applications, it'd be really nice to have this feature in those applications as well, but it's unfortunately absent from VB's Int...
How can I limit my post-build events to running only for one type of build? I'm using the events to copy DLLs to a local IIS virtual directory but I don't want this happening on the build server in release mode. ...
I have a reasonably modern developer desktop (E6600, ASUS PN5-E, 2GB RAM, 350GB SATA2, Vista Ultimate x32), but I'd like to squeeze some more out of it. I am wondering what the best bang-for-bucks hardware upgrade would be. If I limit my budget to £150GBP (~$300USD), what would people say would give me the best performance increase w...
What is the best way to dynamically create RDLC xml as input to VS2005 Report Viewer? I would like to autosize columns based on the data sizes. I would also like to programmatically control what columns are displayed. ...