I use Delphi for many years, and although I have now moved on to Visual Studio I still fondly remember numbered bookmarks (CTRL+K+1 to set bookmark 1, CRTL+Q+1 to goto bookmark 1). Is there a Visual Studio equivalent? I'm find the dumb bookmarks in VS a chore after Delphi. I want to bookmark then return to a specific place in the file. ...
What are the options? How popular are they? Do these IDEs give similar/better functionality compared to visual studio? ...
Trying to get my css / C# functions to look like this: body { color:#222; } instead of this: body { color:#222; } when I auto-format the code. ...
Hi, Does anyone know a good way to debug errors in the Visual Studio Designer? In our project we have tons of UserControls and many complex forms. For the complex ones, the Designer often throws various exceptions which doesn't help much and was wondering if there's some nice way to figure out what has gone wrong. The language is C# a...
I would like to have all developers on my team to use the same rules for formatting several types of code (ASPX, CSS, JavaScript, C#). Can I have visual studio look to a common place for these rules? I would like to not rely on export/import settings as that brings many settings along. I (for example) don't care what font colors the d...
So, I've read that it is not a good idea to install VS2008 on my test server machine as it changes the run time environment too much. I've never attempted remote debugging with Visual Studio before, so what is the "best" way to get line by line remote debugging of server side web app code. I'd like to be able to set a breakpoint, attac...
Why does Visual Studio declare new classes as private in C#? I almost always switch them over to public, am I the crazy one? ...
I've inherited a .NET application that automatically updates it's version number with each release. The problem, as I see it, is in the verbosity of the version number: currently it is 3.5.3167.26981 which is a mouthful for the users to say when they are reporting bugs. What I would like is something more like this: 3.5 (build 3198) wher...
I just wonder what the best approach is to have multiple users work on a Project in Visual Studio 2005 Professional. We got a Solution with multiple Class Libraries, but when everyone opens the solution, we keep getting the "X was modified, Reload/Discard?" prompt all the time. Just opening one project is an obvious alternative, but I f...
At the company I work for we have a "Utility" project that is referenced by pretty much ever application we build. It's got lots of things like NullHelpers, ConfigSettingHelpers, Common ExtensionMethods etc. The way we work is that when we want to make a new project, we get the latest version of the project from source control add it to...
So creating a Windows service using Visual Studio is fairly trivial. My question goes a bit deeper as to what actually makes an executable installable as a service & how to write a service as a straight C application. I couldn't find a lot of references on this, but I'm presuming there has to be some interface I can implement so my .ex...
When should I include PDB files for a production release? Should I use the "Optimize code" flag and how would that affect the information I get from an exception? If there is a noticable performance benefit I would want to use the optimizations but if not I'd rather have accurate debugging info. What is typically done for a production a...
I have been working with Visual Studio (WinForm and ASP.NET applications using mostly C#) for several months now. For the most part my IDE is set up fairly standard but I have been wondering what are some suggestions in terms of plugins/settings that you find to be the most useful? Update: Thanks for all the great suggestions. It look...
Is there any training that you would recommend for someone looking at doing more with .NET? Does IBM have any good trainings? More specifically, C# and web application development. While I have written a couple applications, I want something that can give me a better solid base on developing in .NET. I'll be supporting our web developer ...
We are working on a winforms app in Visual Studio 2005 and the setup project we created output both an MSI and an EXE. We aren't sure what the EXE file is used for because we are able to install without the EXE. ...
I'd like to create a script that will configure the Visual Studio IDE the way I like it. Nothing vastly complicated, just a few Tools/Options settings, adding some External Tools, that kind of thing. I know that this can be done inside VS with Import/Export Settings, but I'd like to be able to automate it from outside of VS. Is this po...
Is it possible for gcc to link against a library that was created with Visual C++? If so, are there any conflicts/problems that might arise from doing so? ...
Older versions of the .Net Framework used to install "Microsoft .NET Framework v1.0 / v1.1 / v2.0 Configuration" in the Control Panel, under Administrative Tools. I just noticed that there isn't a v3.0 or v3.5 version of this. Is this functionality now hiding somewhere else, or do I have to use the command-line tools instead? ...
It is slow to load anything other than a small project. It is slow to quit; it can sometimes take minutes. It can be slow to open new files. The record macro feature used to be useful. It is now so slow to start up it's almost always quicker to do it manually! More info would be helpful. How big are your solutions? What platform ar...
I'm about to create a web application that requires a lot of different web forms where the user needs to be able to input a lot of different types of information. What I mean is that one of those forms may require some text input fields, some integer input fields, some decimal input fields, some date input fields, some datetime input fie...