I have a setup project for my C# program, and this setup project has a Version in its properties. I'd like for the MSI file that is generated to have this Version embedded in it, so I can mouse over it in explorer and see what version the file is. I'm using VS2008. How can I do this? ...
I'd like my .exe to have access to a resource string with my svn version. I can type this in by hand, but I'd prefer an automated way to embed this at compile time. Is there any such capability in Visual Studio 2008? ...
Visual Studio includes support for __forceinline. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 documentation states: The __forceinline keyword overrides the cost/benefit analysis and relies on the judgment of the programmer instead. This raises the question: When is the compiler's cost/benefit analysis wrong? And, how am I supposed to ...
UPDATE: This is one of my most-visited questions, and yet I still haven't really found a satisfactory solution for my project. One idea I read in an answer to another question is to create a tool which can build solutions 'on the fly' for projects that you pick from a list. I have yet to try that though. How do you structure a very la...
There is probably is simple fix for this but I currently have code similar to dim dr as dbDataReader try dr = connection.getDataReader(sql_str) Catch ex as sqlClientException log.error(ex) finally if not IsNothing(dr) then dr.close end if end try However Visual Studio still warns me that the if not IsNothing(d...
Looking for good techniques to justify "great than normal" machine for developers. The company I work for buys the same underpowered $500 dollar systems for everyone, and looking for ways to prove ROI or arguments to use. Sorry, I didn't say this in the initial question, the stack is VS 2008, SQL 2005/2008. As duties dictate we are SQ...
What is the best way to bind WPF properties to ApplicationSettings in C#? Is there an automatic way like in a Windows Forms Applicatoin? Similar to this question, how (and is it possible to) do you do the same thing in WPF? ...
I have used Photoshop CS2's "Save for Web" feature to create a table of images for my site layout. This HTML appears fine in a web browser, however when imported into Visual Studio and viewed in the site designer, the metrics are wrong and there are horizontal gaps between images (table cells). The output from Photoshop does not refer ...
Due to the legacy nature of some of our code, we're still using Microsoft Visual 6.0 (SP6). When I attach to a running process to debug it for the first time, it has no knowledge of where the source files are located when I break into the process. It therefore asks me to navigate to the appropriate directory in my source tree, given a so...
The default chart object in the SQL Server (2005) Business Intelligence Development Studio doesn't seem to some have formatting options like : specifying the text direction of labels in the x and y axis adding a trendline to a bar chart arbitrarily resizing items in a chart - for example, if I resize the chart object, everything gets r...
When you double click on a class (in 'solution explorer')... if that class happens to be an .asmx.cs webservice... then you get this... To add components to your class, drag them from the Toolbox and use the Properties window to set their properties. To create methods and events for your class, click here to switch to code ...
What would be the easiest way to re-order existing page events according to the ASP.NET Page LifeCycle? I'm trying to make my events more readable and maybe make it easy to scroll into a sequentially near event. If there's no easy way, is there a non-mouse way to quickly switch to a page event without having to type the actual event i...
We have an existing classic ASP intranet consisting of hundreds of pages. Its directory structure looks like this... /root app_1 app_2 ... img js style Obviously app_1 and so on have better names in the actual directory structure. Even though the many applications have different behaviour, they are all part of...
I have 3 .net projects. Project1.dll is generated by a VS2008 project. Project2.dll is generated by a VS2005 project that references Project1.dll. Project3.dll is generated by a VS2008 project that references both Project1.dll and Project2.dll. Right now, I build Project1.dll, and manually copy it to the place where Project 2 can...
I want to separate concerns here. Create and embed all the UI logic for the Custom XML designer, object model, validations etc in to a separate assembly. Then the Package framework should only register the designer information and ask for a UI Service and everything works magically. This way I don't need to play with the Package framewo...
I'm trying to use VS's attach to process tool to debug add-ins I'm developing for Sql Server Reporting Services. I am able to correctly debug it with attach to process when I copy dll's and pdb's in my project debug/bin dir to the ReportServer/bin dir. But, if I use my msbuild script and copy those dlls and pdbs to the ReportServer/bin...
I created a class derived from System.Configuration.Install for my installer. But the code in Uninstall() is being called when I try to update the application. How can I detect that the user is trying to update instead of uninstall? Maybe this post explains it better than me: My problem boils down to: when the user performs an upd...
Short of cutting and pasting, is there a way to sort the methods in my classes in Visual Studio 2008? I like orderly code. ...
You're stepping through C/C++ code and have just called a Win32 API that has failed (typically by returning some unhelpful generic error code, like 0). Your code doesn't make a subsequent GetLastError() call whose return value you could inspect for further error information. How can you get the error value without recompiling and repro...
I've always wondered if there was a way to place a watch on variable and only have visual studio break when that value changes...it would make it so much easier to find tricky state issues. Does anyone know if this can be done? EDIT: Breakpoint conditions still need a breakpoint set, I'd rather set a watch and VS set the breakpoints at...