I just saw this mentioned in this thread and didn't know it could be done. I'm a VS newbie, so how do you do it? Is there a separate debugger for Javascript? I know how to work the one for code-behind pages... I usually use Firebug to deal with debugging JS. EDIT: I'm using VS 2005. ...
Visual studio is a pretty awesome IDE, but sometimes you just wish it would go faster. I was wondering if people have any tips or tricks to help speed up visual studio in day to day use. Things that I'm particularly interested in are speeding up build times and switching aspx files from source to design view seem to bring it to a grindi...
Is there any Visual Studio Add-In that can do the remove method refactoring? Suppose you have the following method: Result DoSomething(parameters) { return ComputeResult(parameters); } Or the variant where Result is void. The purpose of the refactoring is to replace all the calls to DoSomething with calls to ComputeResult...
I am trying to install VS2008 sp1 to my work machine - it has a pathetic 10Gb C drive. The SP1 bootstrapper doesn't give the option to install items to D, only C. It needs 3Gb free and the machine only has about 700Mb. VS allowed me to install to D originally why not the SP. The only thing I can think of that it requires system files in...
I am working at a client site where there is a proxy server (HTTP) in place. If I do a hard reset of the emulator it forgets network connection settings for the emulator and settings in the hosted Windows Mobile OS. If I 'save state and exit' it will lose all of these settings. I need to do hard resets regularly which means that I lose t...
I writing a report in Visual Studio that takes a user input parameter and runs against an ODBC datasource. I would like to write the query manually and have reporting services replace part of the where clause with the parameter value before sending it to the database. What seems to be happening is that the @parmName I am assuming will be...
I could swear I've seen people typing function headers and then hitting some key combination to auto-create function braces and insert the cursor between them like so: void foo()_ to void foo() { _ } Is this a built-in feature? ...
I'm having a weird issue with Visual Studio 2008. Every time I fire it up, the solution explorer is about an inch wide. It's like it can't remember it's layout settings. Every un-docked window is in the position I place it. But if I dock a window, it's position is saved, but it's size will be reset to very-narrow (around an inch) when I...
I have a number of macros written for Visual Studio 2005, but they have since stopped working once I installed Visual Studio 2008 on my computer. No error is returned by the macro when I try and run it, and the environment merely shows the hourglass for a second and then returns to the normal cursor. Currently uninstalling one or the oth...
Is it possible to add a custom tab to a project properties page in the Visual Studio 2008? What I want to do is to be able to add a custom tab to properties page for the projects created from default project templates (WPF Application, WPF custom controls library, etc). ...
I get a lot of attention at work because I am the only one who bothered to change the default color settings in Visual Studio. I just modified them myself. I can provide the settings file if anyone cares to import it. Here's an example of how it looks. It reminds me of DOS/BASIC programming before I actually knew how to program. I al...
I'm creating some custom work items in TFS and the helptext field seems handy but I don't see where it is being displayed in Team Explorer or Team System Web Access. Where is this information displayed? ...
What steps do I need to do in the Visual Studio configuration to make sure my app statically links all its dependencies? ...
When creating a new ASP.NET project in Visual Studio should I chose create: website or project? I understand that web application project was the way to do it back in the day with VS 2003 but is it still applicable today? What are some of the caveats using one over the other? ...
Is anyone out there using Team Foundation Server within a team that is geographically distributed? We're in the UK, trying work with a team in Australia and we're finding it quite tough. Our main two issues are: Things are being checked out to us without us asking on a get latest. Even when using a proxy, most thing take a while to...
I suspect this is going to be a really easy one but I'm a .NET newbie so be gentle. I have a small VB .NET app that I'm working on using the full version of Visual Studio 2005. In the Publish properties of the project, I have it set to Automatically increment revision with each publish. The issue is that it's only incrementing the rev...
I have created a custom dialog for Visual Studio Setup Project using the steps described here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx?fid=419622&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2640482&fr=26 Now I have a combobox in one of my dialogs. I want to populate the combob...
My license for Whole Tomatoes Visual AssistX is about to expire and I'm not really planning on renewing it. I use it for spell checking but that's about it. The refactoring abilities have been a little disappointing. Before I just jump into Resharper though what are your thoughts on other possible plugins? ...
I'm interested in possibly using Scrum with my development team (yes, I know it'll be a little painful to transition over to it). However, we don't have Team System and probably can't currently afford to get it immediately. What are some possible tools for getting a team up and running on Scrum in a .NET/Visual Studio environment withou...
On my Windows XP machine Visual Studio 2003 2005 and 2008 all complain that I cannot start debugging my web application because I must either be a member of the Debug Users group or of the Administrators group. So, I am an Administrator and I added Debug Users just in case, and it still complains. Short of reformatting my machine and st...