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How to create a dll file

Using Visual Studio 2005 I have list of class files, when i try to run the class files, it showing error as "a project with output type of class library cannot be started directly" How to run the class file? How to create a dll file. Am new to visual studio 2005 Need Help? ...

Visual studio feature - commenting code Ctrl K - Ctrl C

I commented on this answer some time ago regarding how visual studio comments out code with // or /* */. I was thinking to revise the answer (to include my findings) but I had to test it first, which kind of confused me. My finding is that depending on what you comment when you press Ctrl - K, Ctrl - C you will get either // or /* */. ...

What’s the status of CAT.NET?

I’m trying to find Microsoft CAT.NET for VS2010 and it looks like there was a beta of their 2.0 version but every link to it in Microsoft Connect is now dead. This is the most recent reference I could find: http://blogs.msdn.com/securitytools/archive/2010/02/05/how-to-use-cat-net-2-0-beta.aspx Some references suggest it may have been ro...

how to use a class method as a WIN32 application callback method (WINPROC)... Error static struct HINSTANCE__

I am receiving errors and at the same time trying to make this work so please read what I got to say. Thanks.... I am creating a c++ application and majority of the application is encapsulated into a class. That means that my WinProc function is a static class method that I use as my call back method for my win32 application. The proble...

how many color combinations in a 24 bit image

Possible Duplicate: how many color combinations in a 24 bit image I am reading a book and I am not sure if its a mistake or I am misunderstanding the quote. It reads... Nowadays every PC you can buy has hardware that can render images with at least 16.7 million individual colors. Rather than have an array with thou...

How to structure a Visual Studio project for the data access layer

I currently have a project that uses various DB access technologies mainly for showcasing or for demos. Currently we have: Namespace App.Data (App.Data.dll) Folder NHibernate Folder EntityFramework Folder LinqToSql The above structure is ok as we only use Sql Server as the DB. But going forward we will be including Ora...

IIS Not working

I have a web site that built on Visual studio 2008 and i need to run it from my computer (Win 7 Ultimate) as a server I tried to publish it to IIS and this is simply not working and i have the flowing error : Error Summary HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuratio...

MS build logging

Hi Guys, How to enable logging in msbuild. My build is failing, I don't know why. Is there any property needs to be set in property group. ...

How to set "TabControl" BackColor property in VS2005?

Hi, I created a TabControl in VS2005 and I bound two TabPages. I found I can change the TabPage BackColor property easily. but I can't change the TabControl BackColor as well. How Can I Change the TabControl BackColor to match my TabPage BackColor? Please See Screen Capture . Thank you. ...

Problem with dynamically loading assemblies in .NET

We've built a small component which takes an Id, looks up an entry in the database for an assembly/namespace/class, and dynamically loads an instance of the class that we're after. It has been working fine up until now, but when running this code in VS 2010, it's failing. Private Function AssemblyLoaded(ByVal assemblyFile As String) As ...

Visual Studio build fails: unable to copy exe-file from obj\debug to bin\debug

This is a question asked before, both here on Stack Overflow and other places, but none of the suggestions I've found this far has helped me, so I just have to try asking a new question. Scenario: I have a simple Windows Forms application (C#, .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010). It has a couple of base forms that most other forms inherit fro...

Visual Studio Conversion Suite

I have this as my conversion program for the "Length", how can I do it the simpliest way instead of keeping the if, elseif, else too much, i do not have much experience and trying to improve my programming skills on visual studio 2008. Basically, I get annoyed with the formulas because I don't know if it is right, I use google but doesn...

Can someone rid me of these turbulent T4 template editors?

I'm using Tangible's editor and (no offense guys) it sucks. Its one painful step above notepad. But its (afaik) the only game in town. Does anybody have any tips/tricks on creating T4 templates in a non-painful way? For instance, I'm thinking about creating a T4 Template that essentially turns a class defined in a solution into a t...

header confusion. Compiler not recognizing datatypes

I am getting confused on why the compiler is not recognizing my classes. So I am just going to show you my code and let you guys decide. My error is this error C2653: 'RenderEngine' : is not a class or namespace name and it's pointing to this line std::vector<RenderEngine::rDefaultVertex> m_verts; Here is the code for rModel, in i...

Visual Studio 2010 - Crash/Problems on the keyboard (Keys)

Camarades, My Visual Studio is in trouble in keyboard. I am working normally, when suddenly my keyboard loses its configuration, so where is the "" becomes "/". Someone can tell me what would be a possible solution? (Yes, I know something is hazy). Or has left some Pachter fix for problems like this. Grateful for any help. Success for...

Can I use manifests to consume a COM server without specifying its version?

Two of our programs use the same COM server (also made by us) with the same class ids. Each program when installing copies the COM server files into its folder and regsvr32s the COM server. The problem is how to install the COM server so that the user can install either one or both of our programs into different folders in any order and...

Can I use manifests to specify an optional dependency on a COM server?

I'd like to use manifests to specify a dependency on a COM server (reg-free COM). The consumer application will mostly work fine without the COM server - only something like 1,7% of its functionality uses the COM server. So with plain old regsvr32 it would start and work fine until the user would do something that would trigger CoCreate...

Implementing sub fields in a PropertyGrid

Alright so my terminology when it comes to C# isn't great, so I'll attempt to explain this with a small example. If you create a class which you are using within a PropertyGrid and you have the following values: class Test { public Point example { get; set; } } This will produce a PropertyGrid which has an expandable object "exam...

Visual Studio error on valid SQL

I'm getting an annoying error in visual studio for SQL that executes fine. SELECT InvoiceLines.LineID, InvoiceLines.InvoiceID, InvoiceLines.Text, InvoiceLines.Rate, InvoiceLines.Count, InvoiceLines.Rate * InvoiceLines.Count AS LineTotal, ((InvoiceLines.Rate * InvoiceLines.Count) * (1 + Inv...

Why can VS not display my WPF application in the designer, but it can run it just fine?

This is absolutely ridiculous! Visual Studio is able to run (debug) my program just fine, but it won't display my layout in the designer. It just gives this useless error: Can anyone help explain this? I have not changed the XAML at all, not a single character, since the last time it worked fine. I've only changed some .cs code. ...