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Visual Studio 6 Processor Pack Enabling SSE2

How do I enable the SSE2 instruction set in MSVC 6.0 with SP5 and Processor Pack installed? I was expecting to see a compiler option under Project Settings | C++ | Code Generation, as I'm used to on MSVC2005. But I don't. Is it via command line only? ...

Drawing in C++ using Visual Studio 2005

Hello I have a problem with drawing in C++ using Visual Studio 2005. After event handling on MouseMove the results of using DrawLine function appear in PictureBox but if some window overlap the part of PictureBox all pixels in this place dissapear after moving the window. How can I solve this problem? ...

How to set breakpoints on lines that match a Task List token in Visual Studio?

This is neat: How do I put a breakpoint at every MessageBox in my application? But is there a way to do this type of thing for tokens in the Task List (View menu -> Task List) as well? For example, I have code like this: int a=0; //RETEST this code int b=0; //RETEST this code In the above, RETEST is a Task List token; is there a way...

Slow Web Project in vs 2008

i have a problem regarding vs 2008, that it is very very very slow, hangs, even if i type "=" building process is not that bad but lagging too much while programing my system specs are 4gb ram 2.0 c2d 1 gb grahpic card vista 64 Can somebody tell me solution for this i have installed visual assist and i have also tried to disable it bu...

C# assembly - shortcuts

I have a C# project that has multiple folders: Folder1, Folder2. I added a shortcut in 'Folder1' to an xml file that is already in 'Folder2'. In this case when I compile the project the xml file will I have two copies in the assembly? ...

Visual Studio 2008 is not stopping at all my break points and often “runs away” when I step over a statement, why?

I find often that breakpoint on line of code I know are executing do not break correctly. It also often “runs away” when I do a “step over”, or “step into” etc. Details. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Version 9.0.30729.1 SP Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.5 SP1 The code is a mixture of VB.NET and C# with most of the code in VB.NET. ...

DataTable and List object comparison.

i m a part of an ERP solution team and want to measure the performance in terms of development. By a simple process a DataTable is populated from database with 10000 odd records and on other hand a List object is filled with the same records. my question is, which one is the lightweight and performance measurable object and why. ...

Problem Saving Silverlight 4 Business Application

I’m trying to create a new project using the Silverlight 4 business application template in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. When I click “Save All” after the project is created I get build errors such as: The project file "..\BusinessApplication1.Web\BusinessApplication1.Web.vbproj" was not found. BusinessApplication1 Unable to open modul...

Can .Net Application be converted into a Portable App i.e. single .exe

Can a .Net application be converted into a single .exe portable application? i.e. no installer, it just runs? I imagine all the dll's, resources etc need embedding into the exe? If so, how would I do this? Thanks ...

VS 2008, Profiling Multiple Tests

I have written a set of acceptance tests, and am trying to test the performance of a library with them. Unfortunately, I can only seem to select a single test and "Create Performance Session" ...which doesn't give a true picture of performance of the app as a whole. Is there a way to get a performance report of all the tests at once? ...

Does Eclipse support keyboard shortcuts known from Visual Studio?

First, I know it is possible to setup Visual Studio keyboard scheme in Eclipse after installing CDT plugin, but unfortunately most useful keys only work with C/C++ sources, not with Java. I'm trying to configure Java editor but I'm unable to find some of most useful shortcuts... Go to declaration (VS: Ctrl+F12) / go to definition... (V...

Can we use Oracle Developer Tools 11g with Visual Source Safe ?

Is it possible that i can check-in/out my Oracle database Packages using Oracle Developer Tools 11g for visual studio ? ...

Is there a way to display the build time of an entire solution in Visual Studio ?

I know there is a way to display the build time of each project contained in a solution in visual studio. But what I'm looking for is the total time it took to build an entire solution, from the moment I clicked on build, to the moment it was done. Is there anyway to do this ? Running Visual Studio 2008. ...

WinForms Form Hangs on Startup on One Machine

For my VB.NET application, I'm using the windows installer that came with Visual Studio. I can successfully install and run my program on any computer in our office except for one. On this particular machine, my program will stall for about 30 seconds before being able to load the main form. When I start up the task manager, the CPU i...

Visual Studio 2008 - Team Explorer - Keyboard shortcut

Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch to Team Explorer? For example, to switch to Solution Explorer it's CTRL+ALT+L. But I cannot find one for Team Explorer. Oi!? ...

How to use floats with TrackBar

I'm using a TrackBar control. By default its values are int32. I would really like to use decimal values so the use can select at a more granular level. How can I get the TrackBar control to except floats? ...

SQL Server database creation scripts in Visual Studio

As part of a ASP.NET MVC project I'm working on, I'll be working with SQL Server 2008 Express. I'm not sure how I should go about having a version-controllable (I'm using Mercurial) way of recreating the database. Ideally it should be run every time I perform a build in Visual Studio 2008. EDIT 1: In response to couple of the answers,...

Visual Studio intellisense filtering

Hey does anyone know if theres a way in Visual Studio to filter the intellisense dropdown list based on what you have already typed. e.g. say under MultiScaleImage there is a UseSprings property. I type in msi.springs and in the intellisense menu it would filter out anything that does not contain springs. Flash Develop has this functio...

Prevent memory working set minimize in Console application?

Hi, I want to prevent memory working set minimize in Console application. In windows application, I can do by overriding SC_MINIMIZE messages. But, how can I intercept SC_MINIMIZE in console application? Or, can I prevent memory working set minimize by other ways? I use Visual Studio 2005 C++. Somebody has some problem, and the solution...

why we integrate Qt with visual studio

I think Qt IDE(Qt creater) is itself enough to develop better to best project than any other language tools, then why we go for visual studio integration. is there have any advantage in doing so, kindly give a light upon this. thak's in advace ...