If I have a decent size asp.net page open in Source view, and hold down the Up key or Down key to scroll through it, it will periodically get "stuck". It will stop on a line for a few microseconds, and you can see the screen flash, like it's trying to catch up with what it's trying to do behind the scenes. In my two-monitor setup, I'm wo...
I am a ASP .NET / C# developer. I have been asked to get a working knowledge of CSS for an upcoming project. What would the best approach to follow to learn CSS? EDIT: I would also like to use any help i can get from VS 2008 when using CSS. Is there a resource that would show all the tools in VS2008 that help in using CSS? ...
I don't think this is possible, but I'll ask anyway... Is there some way to set the color and font to be used for class member variables in the editor? I just returned to C++ and Visual Studio after being in the Java world for the past 4 years and I'm really missing Jetbrains' IDEA (a killer Java IDE). I've really gotten used to having ...
There are plenty of different Add-Ins for Visual Studio, see Visual Studio Gallery . Please share your experiences and favorites. As motivation, here are some of my favorites: Versioning Controlled Build [F/O] - very handy extension for automatic build numbering, SlickEdit Gadgets [F] - useful editor gadget, build-in file explorer, .....
I'm trying to set up a small app to experiment with NHibernate in visual studio but I'm not getting far. The error I get is: "Could not find the dialect in the configuration". I've tried specifying settings in both app.config and hibernate.cfg.xml but neither seems to work. These files are in the same directory as my app source (tried...
I've modified the Agile task template in TFS to include a new 'In Progress' state. When work is started on an item the 'assigned user' will set the task from 'Active' to 'In Progress'. This helps me to know which tasks have been started. I was, however, thinking that I might be able to use this new state to figure out how long things ...
When I try to create a Excel or Word workbook project in VS, I get the message: A compatible version of Microsoft Office is not installed on this computer. You must install the version of Office that is compatible with your project. In addition, repair the version of the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime that i...
I have a multi-project solution. I believe it is best practice to put all externally referenced assemblies (e.g. OSS stuff) in a folder that is on the relative path of the solution and it's component projects. I'd like to create a real folder called Libs within the same Windows folder that contains my .sln file and add it to source con...
Microsoft Visual C++ Express does not include the built-in resource editor that comes with the professional versions. Are there any good, free, alternatives out there that let you visually edit those .rc files? Note: I am talking about the resource script source files used by Visual C++ to compile the resources, not the compiled resourc...
Visual Studio 2008 will suddenly quit when I'm manipulating the WebBrowser control in my WPF application. This is in the Event Log: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Unrecoverable system error. .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A2E0F92) (0) Does anyone know a cause or workaround fo...
I've added a reference to a co-worker's COM DLL -- MyLogic.dll -- to my C# project in Visual Studio 2005. As expected, this auto-generates Interop.MyLogicLib.dll in my output folder. However, the version number of the COM DLL is 2.1.0.180, whereas the version number of the auto-generated interop assembly is 1.0.0.0. How do I get Visual S...
I'm running an open source project and every now and then chinese users report build errors due to unrecognized escape sequences .cs and .js files. When they paste the files as they se them I notice that the latin characters are changed into chinese. I'm using Visual Studio and when I look at "Advanced Save Options" the setting is "West...
Is there anyway I can make the process of adding references to C# projects less painful? Every time I create a new C# class library project. I have to use the Add Reference dialog for 5 times at least. ...
There are times when I want to test new code from the forums or when I need to help my friends with specific C# problem. The problem is I don't want to create new "project" in Visual Studio each time just to code/run only this small code. Java & Eclipse IDE comes up with "Scrapbook" feature which allows the execution of arbitrary Java e...
Suppose I have files a.cpp and b.cpp and I get warnings in a.cpp and an error in b.cpp. I fix the error in b.cpp and recompile -- since Visual Studio doesn't have to recompile a.cpp, it doesn't remind me of the warnings it found before. I'd like to somehow have the warnings persist; however, I don't want it to treat warnings as errors (...
On a recent episode of dotnetrocks (episode #404) they mentioned that a lot of Visual Studio issues could be reduced if you set the platform target to be x86 instead of 'anycpu'. I did a few google searches and couldn't find anything about it. At my company we have a mix of x86 and x64 developer machines. There are some issues with los...
Hi all, I'm deving PHP at the moment using Visual Studio as my IDE. I've installed the Phalanger Visutal studio integration to get PHP projects etc but I want VS to recognise the PHP start and end tags like the standard ASP ones. i.e when I type <% %> into the html editor, I want the PHP tags to behave the same <? ?> I've fiddled...
I have project solutions developed in VS2005. It is bound to TFS. I want to convert the solution to VS2008 version, keeping the binding as is. But it is giving error while converting err msg: Solution file "C:\abc\abc.sln" cannot be converted because it cannot be modified. To convert the solution, change the permissions on the solution f...
Hello, has anybody made a german version of the GhostDoc template textes? This would be a great help. Greetings, Andre ...
I've been working on some data transformation tasks in SSIS. Visual Studio has gotten better in 2008 in it's usability, but I find there are some things that annoy me (i.e. When I delete something in the Package Explorer it refreshs the whole screen bringing me back to the top of the tree. Also, lack of some keyboard shortcuts.) Is there...