I created a "Service-Based Database" (.MDF) in Visual Studio and now want to import a SQL script into it, but cannot find any way to do this: I can right-click on the .mdf file and choose "New Query" but there is no place to copy in query text as in Management Studio Does the Visual Studio 2008 Database Explorer have a way to enter o...
I have a build process for a large enterprise system comprising several dozen separate EXEs and DLLs. These use multiple languages, C, C++, Fortran, Python, Awk and a couple more. The build scripts are 4DOS batch processes which evolved over 4 decades. They are large and unwieldy and need constant care and feeding. I must keep the Visua...
I have two Visual Studio 2005 solutions, one of which builds a binary and all of its dependencies, and one of which builds a web app and some utilities and an installer for them. Up until now, we've had the aforementioned binary just included in the installer as a static file; I want to take all of the projects from that binary's solutio...
Hello, I haven't done much work with .NET, so forgive me if this has a trivial solution. The "problem" (more of an annoyance, really) is that the VC# IDE opens all files that have a class which inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form in design-view, by default. The only exception being "*.Designer.cs" files. Generally speaking, this is...
Hi! I'm using quite much STL in performance critical C++ code under windows. One possible "cheap" way to get some extra performance would be to change to a faster STL library. According to this post STLport is faster and uses less memory, however it's a few years old. Has anyone made this change recently and what were your results? ...
I have an IE BHO (a toolbar) written in C#/.NET 2.0 using COM Interop. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 to generate an MSI installer for my toolbar using the Setup Project. In my assembly, I have COM register/unregister methods using the ComRegisterFunctionAttribute, which set the registry keys that give IE some key information about my to...
I am working on code (legacy code) which uses Apache Xerces-C library. I am trying to view the value of DOMString (and other related DOM objects) in Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger but in vain. I have tried the following 1) I Added the following in the autoexp.dat file: ;---------------------------------------------------------------...
I have been programming in php for a while, and recently I started a new job ago where I am now programming in c#/asp.net. While asp has decent performance when deployed, there is one thing that has been bugging me for the past few months. After any code change it takes about 30 seconds for the page to reload for testing. I guess it i...
Every time I open a windows forms application in VS .NET it takes minutes to initialize the Toolbox. Is there a way I can tell VS to cache this toolbox somehow? ...
I have a question I don't know if it can be solved. I have one C# project on Visual Studio 2005 and I want to create different DLL names depending on a preprocessor constant. What I have in this moment is the preprocessor constant, two snk files and two assembly's guid. I also create two configurations (Debug and Debug Preprocessor) and ...
This error just started happening this morning in one particular project. When I try to publish the site it gives me this error and I can't complete the publish! Sometimes restarting Visual Studio magically fixes the problem, but it will just appear again later. Not only that, when I restart VS I lose all my "undo capabilities". Ther...
Thanks to help I previously received on this forum I was able to get my asp.net web site to download all kinds of files to the client browser. For some odd reason, when I download text files, the HTML of the web page is being appended to the text! All other file types work fine! Here's the code that's doing the download: Public Sub...
I am trying to build multiple .sln files inside a batch file. Everything works great so far. I am trying to add a check inside the batch file, so if number of errors is greater than 0 then the batch file stops executing and doesn't build the next .sln files. How can I do that? Basically something like: msbuild test.sln (check if build e...
Related to a previous issue that I thought was resolved and actually isn't... My Visual Studio 2008 installation may be a bit messed up, I think. When my ASP.NET project is set up to use VS Dev Server with a fixed port, I get the "Port in use" error described in the linked question. When my project is set up to use a random (auto-assi...
I don't see a way to show ownership, containment, associations, etc. using visual studio's class designer. Have I missed something or is it really that limited? ...
Visual Studio doesn't like on-page anchor tags: Validation (XHTML 1.0 Transitional): Attribute 'name' is considered outdated. A newer construct is recommended. I'm using name attributes in this way <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml...
The project I'm working on has just hit 4200 lines in the main C# file, which is causing Intellisense to take a few seconds (sometimes up to 6 or so) to respond, during which Visual Studio locks up. I'm wondering how everyone else splits their files and whether there's a consensus. I tried to look for some guides and found Google's C++...
How can I downgrade a C++ Visual Studio 2008 project to visual studio 2005? Maybe there is a converter program that someone knows of or otherwise a process that I can undertake. Thanks. ...
In my web project I often have a number of files in my app_data folder. These files can vary from time to time (example translation files get a new language, lucene index gets updated and gets a new file name etc). Visual studio only adds files to the deployment process if the files are seperately added to the project. So if a file has ...