I sometimes need to use Visual Studio when I have limited screen real estate (remote desktopping from a laptop for example). It would be really useful to be able to make the currently selected code tab maximise to take the whole screen for a limited time. Is that possible? Is there a keyboard shortcut? ...
Has anybody tried programming on the EEE Pc in Visual Studio? I'm considering buying one so I can show some apps on the fly, but also make small changes to them if necessary, without the inconvenience of a large laptop. Some key points I'm after: How fast it is Would it suit the needs of a developer making small changes to code? It...
I have a bad habit of using the cursor keys of my keyboard to navigate source code. It's something I've done for 15 years and . This of course means that my navigating speed is limited by the speed of the keyboard. On both Vista and OS X (I dual boot a MacBook), I hate my key repeat rate turned all the way up. But in Visual Studio, and ...
Is there a way to stop the path showing in a source code tab in Visual Studio 2008? Currently when developing an ASP.NET site, I get the path from the root plus the filename - truncated when it gets too long. So something like: MyDir/MyPage.aspx for a short path and filename, or: MyDir/MyLong...yPage.aspx for a longer path a...
The default output path for any project is Visual studio is bin/Debug, but I have noticed that obj folder is also generated which again contains dlls and pdbs. Can someone tell me why is this folder generated ...
What are some of the new features that can be used in .NET 2.0 that are specific to C# 3.0/3.5 after upgrading to Visual Studio 2008? Also, what are some of the features that aren't available? Available Lambdas Extension methods (by declaring an empty System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute) Automatic properties Object init...
The tiny text entry cursor in the Visual Studio 2005's editor is driving me nuts. I'd ideally like to be able to highlight (say in yellow) the entire line that I'm currently on, but I'll settle for just making the cursor bigger and/or a different colour. Any help gratefully received! ...
When structuring a visual studio solution I tend to structure it so that various components are in different project (As I would assume most people do) I tend to have a bunch of User defined exceptions. The Question is should these exceptions be in a separate project to the (for example) Model classes? I tend to put them in a sub-names...
My colleagues and I have tried to build a project containing several thousand classes , but we're getting a LNK1102 error ( Linker out of memory ) . I've seen several tips on the internet , such as increasing the virtual memory . We tried but this didn't help . We've also seen some as enabling different warning levels when compiling the ...
I'm doing some architectural cleanup that involves moving a bunch of classes into different projects and/or namespaces. Currently I'm moving the files by hand, building, and then manually adding using Foo statements as needed to resolve compilation errors. Anyone know of a smarter way of doing this? (We're a CodeRush and Refactor! shop, ...
When I open a solution in VS 2008, I don't want it to open all the files that I had open last time. I just want it to open the solution. Can't see a config option for this, is it possible? ...
It seems that when I use a tool (such as winmerge) to update my codebase... my Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS) doesn't seem to pick it up. How do I know which files to check out and check back in? Is there something I am missing? Is this a feature that isn't part of VSTS & TFS? ...
There's a famous bug in Visual Studio that prevents you from using the form designer on a subclass of an abstract form. This problem has already been elucidated and solved most elegantly by Urban Potato; that's not the part I'm having trouble with. The trouble is, I have duplicated the technique described by Urban Potato, and include...
In Eclipse, I often include all project-related material (including documents in PDF, Microsoft, and OpenDocument formats) in the project. Is this possible with Visual Studio, especially to the point where if I attempt to open the file from inside Visual Studio, it will open in the external application? ...
After Visual Studio 2005 displays the splash screen it locks up on me. No error, no cpu utilization, just a frozen splash screen. I've tried it in both /safemode and /resetsettings I'm sure it's one of the services on my machine, just wonder if anyone else has had the problem and can help me with the hunt? BTW, it's works in a VM in ...
At some point in time I turned on a setting in Visual Studio 2005 that produces a warning when methods/classes don't have an xml comment associated with them. I would like to turn this off, but can't seem to find the setting again. Anyone know where this is? ...
c# windows forms: How do you create new settings at run time so that they are permanently saved as Settings.Default.-- values? ...
I am hoping someone can help me with this. What I have been looking around for but can't seem to find is if there is someway to add an event, or anything else that will allow a visual studio plug-in to watch for an external reference to be added to a currently open solution / project? Or even better yet would anyone happen to know of a...
I'm building an application that is used by several different customers. Each customer has a fair amount of custom business logic, which I have cleverly refactored out into an assembly that gets loaded at runtime. The name of that assembly, along with a number of other customer-specific settings, are stored in the application's configu...
My current position is this: if I thoroughly test my ASP.NET applications using web tests (in my case via the VS.NET'08 test tools and WatiN, maybe) with code coverage and a broad spectrum of data, I should have no need to write individual unit tests, because my code will be tested in conjunction with the UI through all layers. Code cov...