I'm working on a web app (it is in asp.net mvc framework beta in visual studio 2008) and want to version control it. How do I version control the database files (*.mdf, binary) in the App_Data folder. Is there a way to just store the tables-and-whatever definition of the database or do I really need to version control it's contents? ...
I've created a database in Visual Studio 2008 in an App_Data folder of a MVC Web Application project. This results in an mdf file for the database that can be explored in the Server Explorer tab. You can create a SQL script for changes you do to the database. So I'm wondering how you run these sql change scripts to an mdf-file in Visual...
I am frustrated trying to program macros for Visual Studio (using VS 2008, Version 9.0.30729.1 SP, with all updates). In the Macro Explorer, I can go to Micorsoft's samples/VSEditor and add a Subroutine that behaves as I desire. But I can't seem to make it work anywhere else. In particular, in the MyMacros area in Macro Explorer. Det...
Greetings, I have a utility (grep) that gives me a list of filenames and a line numbers. After I have determined that devenv is the correct program to open a file, I would like to ensure that it is opened at the indicated line number. In emacs, this would be: emacs +140 filename.c I have found nothing like this for Visual Studio (dev...
I was using CodeRush quite while ago and now I'm planning to use it again. I've installed the trial but I forgot all the cool features except Alt + Home (drop a marker). And when you don't know some cool tricks it's really like burning money (since it's not cheap for personal use). What do you like about it? What are your best features?...
I admit that I am not a guru of Visual Studio products at all. I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and I'm trying to load someone else's project. This project happens to be a website with many pages. After loading VWD, it asks for a project to open and I select the solution file. It then proceeds to take an extremely l...
I'm trying to debug some IE-only issues for a site I'm developing. I'm running WDE because there's no Firebug for IE. I want to see whether some changes fix a bug, but no matter what I do, IE never picks up my changes. I've tried all of the following: stopping and restarting the debug evnironment closing and re-opening WDE closing a...
Is it possible to emulate a device sleeping and waking using the Microsoft-supplied device emulators? ...
Is there any built-in, add-in solution for visual studio to compare two files and display result with differences? I could't find one... ...
Example: public class Name { public string FirstName { get; private set; } public string LastName { get; private set; } private Name() { } public Name(string firstName, string lastName) { FirstName = firstName; LastName = lastName; } } When trying to instantiate this c# class, intellisense sh...
Hi, I've set up Visual Studio 2008, exactly as I want it with one screen (got dual monitors) used only for coding and the other setup with multiple tab groups, each containing different tabs, like one group contains the output, error list and todo list tabs, another group has tabs for the toolbox and properties windows. Now this is all ...
I want that list, because if something horrible happens, and I'll have to reinstall Visual Studio - I'll need this list, so that I can recreate the same development environment. This also makes it hard to search for updates - I can not see the versions of currently installed plug-ins. So, is there a single place in Visual Studio, that w...
The Eclipse IDE has a neat little feature that I really miss in Visual Studio. If I place the cursor on a variable or method name, the IDE will automatically highlight all references to it in the current document within the relevant scope. I can't seem to find an option to turn on similar behaviour in VS2008 or Resharper 4. I know VS ...
I've copied a Dataset from one csproj to another, and the new project gets the following compile warning: "The custom tool 'MSDataSetGenerator' failed while processing the file 'Client.xsd'." In researching this warning I discovered that if I opened a VS cmd prompt and run XSD.exe on the xsd file directly I get more info. It says: "Err...
Let's say we have a solution with the following structure: Project.DAL - Data access layer, depends on a lower-level library, e.g. Oracle.DataAccess w/copy local = true Project.BLL - Business logic layer, references Project.DAL as project Project.UI - UI layer, compiles to executable, references Project.BLL, default project When Pr...
In our web application we have a directory which resides outside of the project. On IIS that's no problem to do, but can I do that also in my project in Visual Studio? Edit: My project is running on File System, and not on Local IIS ...
Are there any practices regarding using codenames of products in Visual Studio projects and solutions? In that typically, namespaces, assembly names, binary outputs, et al need to be renamed once a product name is chosen: is there any way to deal with this? ...
I have a Visual Studio add-in which opens a modal WPF window. My problem is that the first time round, it takes 4 seconds for the window to appear which is a clear disservice to the client. So I'm wondering if there is a way to optimize this away? Is there some kind of nifty code to preload the PresentationFramework (or whatever is slo...
I was just wondering how I could automatically increment build (and version?) of my files when using Visual Studio (2005). If I look up the properties of say C:\Windows\notepad.exe, the Version tab gives "File version: 5.1.2600.2180". I would like to get these cool numbers in the version of my dll's too, not version 1.0.0.0, which let'...
I have a program that needs to run as a separate NT user to connect to a SQL Server databases. For running a program itself, this isn't a big deal as I can just right click on it in windows explorer and select run as. Is there any way to run my tests as a different user as well? (it would be nice if I could do so in Visual Studio) Up...