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Visual Studio Professional 2010: Stop "new {" from autocompleting into "new object {" (C#)

In Visual Studio Professional 2010 whenever I type the following: new { It automatically changes to: new object { Is there a way to make it not do this? "Object" does not have the properties of the object I want to anonymously create. ...

MSBuild: How do I create and use a Task to convert Content items at build time?

I have a Silverlight 3 project with something like this: <ItemGroup> <Content Include="Content\image1.png"> </Content> </ItemGroup> Basically I've added a PNG file to my project and set its build action to "Content". This works nicely. Now what I'd like to do is be able to add images in a different format to my project, and have ...

Problem using SysMonthCal32 window in Windows

I am using SysMonthCal32 windows in my application and I am seeing some strange problems while using it. The problem is regarding sending keydown event to calendar window. As per msdn documentation, if the window handles the message, it should return 0. The problem is whatever key i passes to the calendar window, it returns 0. This caus...

In visual studio how to select word in text editor using keyboard

In earlier version of Microsoft Visual Studio products if user in text editor hit CTRL+W editor will do select the word where is pointer. Does that keyboard shortcut exists still in Visual Studio 2010? ...

How can I paramaterise a T4 template to produce the same structure for different types?

I am building a T4 template that will build a POCO from a LINQ to SQL entity, but right now it produces one POCO file based on one L2S entity. How can I reuse this remplate to iterate through all L2S entities and produce a POCO for each one, or for any chosen one? ...

How can i Compare collection with generic Function ?

How can i compare 2 string array with generic class? it returns tome true they are equal but not return true.... namespace genericCollections { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string[] xx = new string[] { "gfdg", "gfgfd", "fgfgfd" }; string[] yy = new string[] { "gfdg", ...

Should I use Visual C++ 2010 Express or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? - from Visual C++ 2008

I'm starting a new project that'd involve using several SDK's including: Intel Atom Developer SDK text to speech SDK (Suggestions?) webcam and augmented reality support of some sort (Suggestions?) I currently have 2008, but I can also install 2010. Is there any reason to use 2010 for this project? ...

Can't reference an assembly in a T4 template.

I have the following code in a tester class in my main assembly, PocoGenerator. This assembly is supposed to use a T4 template to generate POCO's based on L2S entities in a referenced assembly (a project reference), DataObjects. var assemblyName = "DataObjects"; var dataObjects = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Load(new AssemblyName(assemblyNa...

Can't access method in same assembly as my T4 template.

I've tried to resolve assembly reference pains in my T4 template by moving code out into a helper method in the same assembly and namespace as my template, but T4 refuses to find my helper method. The helper method: namespace PocoGenerator { public class EntityReflector { public static IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> GetPrope...

Determine which Items are new when ProjectsEvents.ItemAdded is fired (VS Extensibility)

In my add-in I build List<> objects of specific file types (which are project items) during the Connect() event. In order to check and possibly append new items as and when these are added I've bound the relevant event: ProjectsEvents.ItemAdded += ProjectsEvents_ItemAdded; But the event only passes the Project which contains the new ...

Can Resharper be turned off for a while?

I'm pairing with someone who is against using resharper (don't ask me why) so I'd like it to hide without uninstalling - is this possible? Thanks in advance ...

OpenGL don't show/draw on my C# pannel

Hi, I'm making a basic program in C# wich calls a C++ dll. I give the pannel's handle to the dll so OpenGL knows where to draw. [DllImport(@"../../../Debug/Model.DLL")] public static extern void startOpenGL(IntPtr hWindow); I mashall IntPtr hWindow to HWND hWindow. after I call draw from C# [DllImport(@"../../../Debug/M...

How to locate a file in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2010?

I have a huge solution with multiple projects. Sometime I need to navigate to a file in Solution Explorer. Using the VS 2010 Navigate To feature I can open any file by name in Visual Studio 2010 but I want to be able to select the file in Solution Explorer as well? ...

Detect target framework version at compile time

I have some code which makes use of Extension Methods, but compiles under .NET 2.0 using the compiler in VS2008. To facilitate this, I had to declare ExtensionAttribute: /// <summary> /// ExtensionAttribute is required to define extension methods under .NET 2.0 /// </summary> public sealed class ExtensionAttribute : Attribute { } Howe...

Pass Custom Build Step variables to batch script in Visual Studio

Is there a way to make sure that all of the environment variables from MSBuild are propagated to the batch scripts that I am calling from my custom build steps? It would be really nice to use variables like %CONFIGURATION% and %TARGETPATH% in the batch files... ...

How Can i View Column Name Values on DataGridView?

CourseID, ProfessorId and StudentID are foreign keys, i want to print CourseName, ProfessorName, StudentName instead of ID's. I'm using the wizard (typed dataset). Note: the three id's are of composite pk as well fk, so no duplicate records will appear. What can i do? ...

Silverlight DataPager breaks VS designer

I'm experimenting with the Silverlight 4 SDK DataPager. I have some code in my XAML that looks like this: <sdk:DataPager x:Name="dataPager1" PageSize="100" /> As SOON as I paste that into my XAML the designer breaks with this odd message: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM co...

How to remove a VS command line switch

When I set additional compiler options for a project in Visual Studio 2008, they propagate to all files. If I then set additional options for a specific file, they are added to the project's command line and additional options. How can I compile an individual file without the project-wide options? ...

Managing solution-common include/lib directories in visual studio 2008

I have made several projects in one solution. The problem is that the projects share same include/lib directories, but I don't want to put it into my IDE-global setting. Is there anyway to deal with it effectively? ...

openFrameworks Visual Studio Setup Tutorial?

I've been trying to get oF examples to compile with Visual Studio, but I'm either missing a link or something.. Is there a tutorial on how to setup oF with Visual Studio 2010 (or 2008 - or any version)? If not, can someone provide step-by-step directions on setting up oF with Visual Studio? (Unfortunately, the oF website doesn't provid...