Would you recommend me the best approach to edit SQL query with Visual Studio 2008 Professional, please? I know I can open Query window from context menu in Server Explorer and edit text in SQL Pane. But unfortunately I am not allowed to save query to a file and Find and Replace commands are not working there. Alternatively I can open...
Not too long ago, I had a problem which required me to set WinDbg.exe as the default post-mortem debugger. Now that I've fixed that and am back doing normal work, it would be really nice if I could set VS to be my default post-mortem debugger. How does one go about doing this? Also, how do I make VS attach to an already existing sessi...
Is there a Visual Studio plugin/tool/snippet for .NET that is similar to commonclipse for the java eclipse platform that automatically generates the ToString(), Equals(), GetHashCode() methods for you? ...
I am working with an n-tiered architecture in Visual Studio 2008 (Developer Edition), and I have run into an issue. We are running unit tests on every method of our services layer, and I am attempting to see the code coverage results, to ensure I'm hitting all the main paths through my methods. When I attempt to view the results, I am ...
I'm looking for a plugin or way to simply go from any namespace, type, method, property, etc in my .Net code to the MSDN page that covers it via a context menu item or hyperlink-like mechanism. Does anyone know of anything that will do that? The "Go to Definition" option when you right click almost covers this, but it doesn't quite w...
I know there are tools to get text files to resource files for Visual Studio. But I want to get the text from my resource files to a text file so they can be translated. Or is there a better way to do this? ...
I'm trying to configure Windows Powershell to work with Visual Studio. Nothing fancy, just get things set so I can cl & nmake. I think all I need to do is edit the path setting(but I don't know how to set that in WPSH). ...
I am using Visual Studio 2005 to make an install. The application has a dependency on a DLL that was built with MFC 7.1 (from Visual Studio 2003). Are there merge modules for MFC 7.1 or other redistributables like there are for MFC 8? Where could they be found? ...
I have a solution with multiple projects and we need to do some serious global replacements. Is there a way to do a wildcard replacement where some values remain in after the replace? So, for instance if I want every HttpContext.Current.Session[“whatevervalue”] to become HttpContext.Current.Session[“whatevervalue”].ToString() the strin...
I have a proxy object generated by Visual Studio (client side) named ServerClient. I am attempting to set ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName/Password before opening up a new connection using this code: InstanceContext context = new InstanceContext(this); m_client = new ServerClient(context); m_client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserNam...
Every time you start Visual Studio, the first time you click "Add Reference" to add a DLL reference to a project, by default, the .NET tab on that dialog box is selected. As most people reading this have probably noticed, it can take a long time -- often more than 30 seconds -- for the full list of .NET components to fill in. Because ...
Hi all, This has happened to me 3 times now, and I am wondering if anyone is having the same problem. I am running Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and hitting SQL Server 2005 developer edition. For testing, I use the Server Explorer to browse a database I have already created. For testing I will insert data by hand (right click table -> show...
I maintain several old MFC applications using Visual Studio 7 and I was considering upgrading to Visual Studio 2008. After reading this question, I realise that the Express edition will not be able to do this. Does anyone know if I will be able to compile old MFC apps with VS2008 Standard edition or will I need to get the more expensive...
looking for a good code review tool that plugs in nicely to Visual Studio. Would be nice if it could diff from different source control providers, like Source Safe, The Vault, and/or Subversion. ...
I have come to see an Installer class item in Visual studio. Why they have maintain an seperate item for Installer. Do they create any custom installers ? ...
I have a component which has a List<T> property. The class in the list has each of its properties decorated with a description attribute but the descriptions do not show up in the Collection Editor In the IDE designer is there a way to turn on the Description panel in the standard Collection Editor? Will I need to inherit my own type e...
Hi, I seem to be getting breakpoints from other programmers when checking out code... Where is the list of breakpoints saved by Visual Studio? In the vbproj file? vbproj.user file? documents and settings? are they meant to be specific to the solution, the project, the user, the computer they are set on? Thanks! ...
Hi, Does anybody know a good and free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 to get refactoring features in VB? Thanks in advance /Enrico ...
I was looking into embedding custom version strings using in assemblies a while back, and one approach that the documentation suggested was to embed a windows resource. The only way I can see to create a windows resource is to use the 'Native Resource Template', but the template is a binary file that isn't suitable for using with subwcr...
Does anybody have a keybinding scheme similar to VS 2005 available for Eclipse? How to import it into preferences of Eclipse (I see only export button). ...