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Learning C - Want to use visual studio

I am trying to get cracking with my C module at uni, however I can't seem to get an IDE to work. I want to use Visual Studio though I guess I should be using Unix (I just don't understand Unix enough yet). How in Visual Studio 2008 do I set up a project to work with C? I have used Visual Studio for VB.net before and it was a doddle to u...

How can I rename my visual studio taskbar button?

I often work with multiple checkouts of the same solution, but as they all have the same name, all the taskbar buttons appear the same. I would like to rename the taskbar buttons so I can identify solutions more easily. I have written an autohotkey script, which almost works, or if anyone can suggest something better, I'd like to hear ...

How to control VS window positons and state from a macro

Hi, this may seem like a trivial question but i am wanting to set up some hotkeys in Visual Studio to control the window layout. For example, F10 would collapse all windows (such as the command from the windows main menu called - Auto Hide All) and then F11 which would dock and position certain windows of my choice at certain positions....

image map for a html document in visual studio

How can I do Image map for HTML document to assign different links in visual studio design mode? ...

Windows Explorer: How to create additional button?

Hello Explorer of Windows 7 uses a new light-blue bar with buttons like "Organize", "Share", "New Folder" etc. How can I create a new button ? Do I need to create a plugin for explorer.exe, and if, how do I do it (using Visual Studio .NET) ? Or is it a simple registry key I have to set which points to an exe or bat? Thanks in advance...

selecting checkbox to show items below it in sharepoint 2007

i have two lists in sharepoint 2007 ( moss ) one list is called color other list is called jacket jacket list has a column to select available colors through lookup i need to add a check box in the list view against each item of color so that if i select a color i see all the jacket items under it . i am able to find a two links to ...

VS2008: Snippet shown in code snippet manager but doesn't exist in editor

According to the Code Snippet Manager in Visual Studio 2008 there is a code snippet named "wpfre" which expands to a routed event registration. However, when I try to enter it into the text editor, Intellisense won't complete to it and if I type "wpfre" and hit TAB it just completes to "wde" which is not the right thing. I googled for i...

Refresh test file like console app. But How?

i need your help! if my codes runs, Console appears and write datetime.now line by line, but if i open my txt(TextFile1.txt) . i don't see console command results. console result in black pad 22:30 29.01.2010 22:31 29.01.2010 22:32 29.01.2010 22:33 29.01.2010 BUT; on the other hand; if i open textfile (Textfile1.txt), i see only...

Compiling OpenCV for Visual C++ 9.0

I looked at many places but could not find anything telling me how to buld the lib files. I know how to link them, but openCV install folder only contains .a files. I cant find an sln file or dsp. How can I make the lib files? Right now all the samples get linker problems because the lib files dont exist. Thanks ...

Visual Studio 2008 Patch List

I am installing Visual Studio 2008 on a new machine and I cannot find a list of all the HotFixes that have been released. I am planning on installing SP1 but I remember putting about 5 other patches on there. Does anyone have a list of patches that need to be installed? If not maybe we can start a list. Based on this list I installed SP...

Comparisons Windows and Mac OS X as development environment

I have been using Visual Studio (VC++) and Windows API for a long time, and quite familiar with Linux tool chains, but have no experience on Mac OS X development. I would like to hear your opinions about the pros and cons of Windows and Mac as development environment. But, as it may be subjective, I would appreciate if you could enumera...

Using parameters in reports for VIsual Studio 2008

This is my first attempt to create a Visual Studio 2008 report using parameters. I have created the dataset and the report. If I run it with a hard-coded filter on a column the report runs fine. When I change the filter to '?' I keep getting this error: No overload for method 'Fill' takes '1' argument Obviously I am missing some way to...

Visual Studio source control question

I have a team of two developers. I'd like us to have one source code repository. I am not familiar with Visual SourceSafe, can VSS work this way? I'm asking because I do not know what VS Team is, and we do not have it. We both have VS, one is 2010 beta, and the other 2008. Or, is it possible to have us both use SVN, is that possible? ...

Can VS be made to eval a debug watch even while the application is still running?

Normally in Visual Studio, a watch cannot be evaluated unless the debugger is stopped at a breakpoint. Is there a trick or add-on to make Visual Studio evaluate a watch while the application is still running? For example, evaluate the watch every time execution passes a point in the code while it's still running and without changing th...

Where should I place unmanaged .dlls in a .NET project using VS2008?

So far I've been placing the dll into the /bin folder because it seems to be the only place it will get loaded when a DllImport'd function is called, but it just doesn't feel right since it's the output folder and it'll probably be wiped after a 'project clean' or 'rebuild all' operation. How should I do this? Thanks in advance. Note: ...

Where do I start if I want to build an addon that uploads selected code to a server, in Visual C# Express/Studio?

I had an idea just now and I think it's pretty good. Select whatever code you want from your .cs/.vb file and on right click there will be an option that says 'Upload to PasteBin'. Where would I start? ...

ASP.NET Development Webserver Instantly Crashing for Seemingly No Reason

Working on an ASP.NET Project (not Web Site) and trying to Start without Debugging from Visual Studio. First this: Then this: Once completely reinstalled Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and it was fixed... for a while. Looking for any information I can find, including: What in the Hell is going on? What way is there to fix it othe...

how can I get Visual Studio to not go into Debug for my specific BusinessLogicException?

Hi, I would like Visual Studio not to enter the Debug mode when it picks up a specific exception I define (i.e. BusinessException is this case). This is because I have a specific global error handler that will then present this to the user. Is there a way to avoid the VS debug pickup for this exception (so I'll go straight to seeing...

"Memory could not be written" error passing an HGLOBAL from VB.Net to a C DLL

We are using visual studio 2008-My requirement is to allocate some memory, store data into that allocated memory and pass the memory address to a DLL written in C. But when try to pass this memory address to a function in that DLL my application crashes and shows the message "The memory could not be written". ''//Memory allocation Code ...

Spark View Engine very slow code editing in Visual Studio 2008

How to increase editor responsiveness when typing code for Spark View Engine? Spark plugin for VS08 takes lot of CPU resources as it checks the syntax of all Spark files on each key stroke: does anyone have an idea how to optimize this? ...