In the context of a Visual Studio 2008 Setup Project, what are "Content Files". In other words, when creating a setup project and defining the File System settings and choosing: Add Project Output > Content Files, what files will be added? For example, what has to be true about a file or its location for it to be considered a Content Fi...
I encountered this problem Unable to Copy File "*\bin\debug\*.dll" to "bin\*.dll" And when this happens, the compilation will fail because of the above error. Edit: I know that the file is locked by the devenv.exe process that results in the above error because if I restart the VS, then the problem would go away, but is there a...
Hello ! Right now I am working with my first Windows Mobile project and I have an odd problem.. I am using WebRequest to download some images from Internet - on my mobile it works but in debugger I have socket exceptions. string url = "http://new.meteo.pl/um/metco/mgram_pict.php?ntype=0u&fdate=2010011006&row=381&col=199&...
I'm looking for a make system, along the lines of CMake or Bakefile, that supports the generation of Visual Studio project files and makefiles (targetting Linux) dual targeting x86 and x64 (in the same project/make file). I've looked at CMake and Bakefile and they both appear to have limitations in this respect; they both appear to not ...
I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with >40 C# and C++/CLI projects that depend on each other. Working with that solution is quite slow, and usually I only need a few projects at a time. So I decided to split the solution into multiple solutions that contain 3-5 projects. I would also like to keep the "full" solution with all projects ...
Hello I've just recently discovered how many different options we have to configure the colors of Visual Studio 2010. Jeff Atwood posted on his blog, some years ago, "Is your IDE hot or not", where he shows a code sample to test the IDE colors. However, this sample is not very complete, in the sense that Visual Studio provides more cus...
My eyes kind of burn when I code for too long and this will definitely help me sooth them. I would ask this in SuperUser but there are few people from the dev world there. Mostly Windows Vista/7 savvy people. I know someone can help me out here. :D Thanks SO! ...
What can I do to fix this? I only imported a settings file for the IDE to change the colors, etc. Any help on how to make intellisense pop up like normal. Now I have to use the Ctrl+SpaceKey combo to make it show. Thanks SO. ...
Can anyone provide any assistance with building the Graffiti CMS (http://graffiticms.codeplex.com) source code to have a ready to deploy web site? When I download the source and do a Visual Studio build everything builds fine. When I look at the folder on disk of Graffiti.Web I see there are a lot of extra files that are not needed for ...
hi, I just tried a simple code(in C#) which adds a record to a table in my access data base. I just added the data base in visual studio by "Add => Existing Item..." to my project and then in the data set that was created automatically after adding the data base I added a simple INSERT query. now here is my code : here this code does no...
I'm working on a C# .net project using Visual Studio 2008, so my question is specifically for this case. However, the question should be the same to many other environments, so I'll be glad to hear opinions from people in similar environments. My solution is organized in several projects. All of which have some belonging unit tests. Th...
How to view stack trace of project in debug mode in VS 2008? I am running and debugging a big application in VS2008. Build mode is DEBUG, Windows Forms project. Is there a way I can see the pieces of codes getting called, something like Stack Trace in exception while i do normal actions in the form like clicking button, etc... The proj...
I'm new to ASP.NET MVC and would like to create and deploy a website using ASP.NET MVC. I have a few old sites that run classic ASP and the site-structure goes like this: web.root (holds website pages) data.files (holds databases) log.files (log files) I was wondering if the same structure is used for ASP.NET MVC?? What’s the best ...
From time to time, my Visual Studio "forgets" to quote html attributes (based on the Text Editor->Html-Format option). This has been around since at least version 2003 and is still a problem in 2008. Are there any bullet-proof ways to handle this issue? ...
I have Visual Studio web developer Addison , Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition installed on my system. My operative system is a Windows 7 When I start the installation of "LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi", I get the next error message: "Cannot find a valid Produc...
I have a T4 template for a class set up with TextTemplatingFileGenerator Custom Tool in Visual Studio: <#@ template language="C#v3.5" hostspecific="True" debug="True" #> <# var className = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Host.TemplateFile); var namespaceName = "MyNamespace"; #> namespace <#= namespaceName #> { public...
I have a solution in C# that has 1 main project Kingrey (exe) and one project called DllReporter and another called ProductReportClasses. When I do try to list all assemblies in my exe from DllReporter level: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() I get only Kingrey and DllReporter, but not ProductReportClasses. But when I di this ...
I have a C# class library that contains several resources files organized in folders. Since I want the generated classes to be all in the same namespace I'm setting the CustomToolNamespace property of each resource file. However I discovered through Reflector that although the classes are all being generated in the same namespace the pa...
So do I NEED Visual Studio of some flavor to do ASP.NET MVC development or could I technically do it all with a simple text editor? If YES, please tell me the catches, like if there is anything special I would have to do besides making the folder structure right and making sure my code is solid, etc. ...
I have a rather involved Visual Studio solution (2010, but it shouldn't matter) that I need to rename. I want to rename the folders to match the new solution name, but I can't figure out a way to refactor the folder names automatically, and going through every single project file will be painful. Is there an official way to do this? Alt...