I have code that looks like: //System.Data.IDataRecord dr try { Consolidated = Utility.NullConvert.ToBool(dr[Constants.Data.Columns.cConsolidated], false); } catch (IndexOutOfRangeException) { } //swallow I don't know if the consolidated column will be present in the datareader, so I do that to check, works fine (little hackish...
I'll try to make this as straight forward as possible. Currently our team has a VSS database where our projects are stored. Developers grab the code and place on their localhost machine and develop locally. Designated developer grabs latest version and pushes to development server. The problem is, when a file is removed from the proj...
Is there something available that could help me convert a XSD into SQL relational tables? The XSD is rather big (in my world anyway) and I could save time and boring typing if something pushed me ahead rather than starting from scratch. The XSD is here if you want to have a look. It's a standardized/localized format to exchange MSDS. ...
I've worked at two companies that implement ASP.Net two different ways. I tend to lean towards A, but my current job follows the B (more typical) approach. I'm wondering which is best, and also, are there formal names for these implementations? A) No project or solution was built. We simply pointed Visual Studio to a directory and sta...
When I build my c# solution the .tt files will not create the .cs file outputs. But if I right click the .tt files one at a time in solution explorer and select "Run Custom Tool" the .cs is generated, so the build tool setting is correct. What do I do to get the overall solution build to force the custom tool to run on the .tt files? ...
Where can I find a Visual Studio plug-in that automatically generates documentation header for methods and properties? Example the comment to a property could look like this: /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the value of message /// </summary> public static string Message { get { return message; } set { ...
I have an odd problem in VS2008 running unit tests. When I run the unit test using either Resharper or TestDriven, in either normal or Debug mode, the Debug.WriteLine("foo") lines are being carried out twice: ie. in the Output window of VS I can see each line written twice. If I step through the test, however, each line seems to be carr...
We're looking for a way to include some sort of build ID automatically in our builds. This needs to be portable (VC++, g++ on Linux and Mac) and automatic. VC++ is what matters most, since in the other environments we use custom Python build scripts so I can do whatever I want. We use SVN, so we were looking at using the output of svnve...
A colleague has written a Windows Application and left me to do the installers. I have created the installer project through Visual Studio and added the primary output of the service project to the new project. When I run the installer it creates the correct folders and copies the dlls, exe and config file in, but it doesn't do the act...
I want to make Visual Studio move the autocompleted closing tag a word (or more) to the right. For example, given the following HTML: <p>I need to emphasize some text.</p> If I type <em> before the word "emphasize", Visual Studio autocompletes like so: <p>I need to <em></em>emphasize some text.</p> Then I need to move the closing <...
When developing in a VS2005+ with C# project and I right click on a framework method/property/type and select ‘Go To Definition’, by default we get a new locked tab with code that has been generated from the framework, labelled appropriately [from metadata]. However when we do the same in a VB.NET project, you get taken to a new tab wit...
I have an MSDN subscription and I'm wondering what edition of Visual Studio 2008 to get. I recall reading that Team System has a lot of bonus features like doing high-level system architecture stuff, and specialized things related for doing database work. As a solo dev, I wear many hats including database developer and architect - shou...
I tried going to project properties, selected debugging under configuration properties, and set command arguments to "> out.txt" (without quotation marks of course). However, when I run the program (with F5) I still see output on the console, and no out.txt file is created. This is just a simple C++ Hello World program. These steps worke...
Which project template should I use for Visual C++ game development project? I am really new to Visual Studio and I am little bit confused with all these Windows Form Application, Win32 Console Application, CLR Console Application, etc. stuff. I have previously coded games in Linux and now I would like to do a pure Windows application. ...
So I have a form with lots of controls that all have a tab index. After inserting some extra fields, I have to edit the index of all controls after the new ones. Is there a simple way to automate this in Visual Studio, or is there some sort of plugin? ...
I have a visual studio solution that comprises of several projects and are separated into different directories. In my c# or vb.net code I want to determine the base directory (or the directory that the solution is in). A dirty solution would be to call the directory parent.parent.parent until I find a file *.sln but I also have seve...
I deleted the Windows 6 SDK folder a while ago, and now my VS refuses to build my Deployment Project unless I get those files back! Could not find required file 'setup.bin' in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\ Windows\v6.0A \Bootstrapper\Engine' I've searched around the internet and all I find are posts which talk of a specific fil...
Calling all Visual Studio gurus — when I'm working on a .ascx or .aspx file in a c# web project, the events do not show up in the properties panel unless I switch into the design view from the code view. Is this an intentional functionality of Visual Studio? Both VS2005 and VS2008 seem to work this way. And is there any way to get the e...
Hi, I am trying to work out a code sample to demonstrate the debugging functionality in Visual Studio 2008 with C#. I'm trying to build a code sample which would have a 'not so obvious' mistake in it, which would result in unexpected output. A non working example would be: static void Main(string[] args) { int a, b; a = args...
We use TFS and are looking at using VSTS Database Edition GDR . I would like to know the best way to structure our projects and wondered if anyone has any experience in this. Let me explain our environment. We have 3 environments, DEV , TST and PROD. Each of these have multiple databases. Currently, we have solution file(s) for eac...