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Can I develop on SQL Server 2005 and deploy to SQL Server 2000?

My development under VS2008 Team Suite SP1 with SQL Sever 2005 Express SP3. One of my customer only have SQL Server 2000 License. I don't start my project yet. So I want to find a way that I can develop on SQL Server 2005 but deploy to SQL Server 2000. Thanks SO and every folks here so much. PS:I tried Database Project included in VS ...

What are the various components of Visual Studio Team System each designed for?

What are the various components of Visual Studio Team System each designed for? Our company was recently accepted to Microsoft BizSpark and now I have a blizzard of options to choose from. Right now I'm just needing version control and a coding environment but I'm not sure what distinguishes each of the available downloads. ...

Creating a tab control with a dynamic number of tabs in Visual Studio C#

How to create a tab control with a dynamic number of tabs in Visual Studio C#? I've got a database with a table customers. I need to create a form that would show tabs with the first letters of customers' last name (only those first letters, for which there are entries in the table should be present). Each tab should contain a DataGrid ...

Is it possible to add HTML5 validation to Visual Studio?

I'm working on a page using <canvas>, which is a HTML5 tag, in Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008, and the validator in the HTML editor is telling me it's an invalid tag. That's because it's set to validate against XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I'd prefer for it to not do that and tell me what's valid or invalid based on the HTML5 docty...

More screen space in MSVS?

I am using visual studios 2008. My laptop has the max screen res of 1366x768. What can i do to get more reading space? i was thinking of making the font smaller but it would be more helpful if i can make everything smaller (toolbar icons, text, etc) The only improvement i done so far was remove a bunch of things under the toolbar so i h...

Two folders : Bin and Obj....Does anyone know why...?

I had a very basic question. When we compile VS 2005 C# application, it creates two folder. One is Bin folder and other one is Obj folder . Doe any one know why it creates Obj folder....I tried to find out the docs for it but could not find it.... ...

Disable visual studio's cache

Can we turn off the process of making Asp.net temporary files and project assemblies cache to be sure that the results we get are really fresh and they got all the latest changes? ...

how can i debug javascript code within a coldfusion template(a coldfusion page) using visual studio 2008

hi everyone, i know i can debug an asp.net page in visual studio 2008, because visual studio knows asp.net pages. but i'm developing coldfusion based application now, and i'm curious whether i can use visual studio to debug the js code in coldfusion pages. thank you in advance. ...

Vista, Visual Studio and OutOfMemoryExceptions

I'm having a bit of a problem where VS won't build because I get OutOfMemoryExceptions. My Vista box with 2 GIG RAM, is using about 1 Gig of RAM when it starts up, and I am not even doing anything (just connecting to the network drives at work etc) When I then run Visual Studio devenv.exe peaks at around 730MB after a few builds, and I ...

Tag Navigator Missing

In VS 2008 the Tag Navigator toolbar is missing. I am also missing the tags when I select a control in design mode. Ive been searching through the options for days but have not had any luck. Please help, this is driving me insane. ...

Change Background of an MDI Form

Hi all, How can I change the BACKGROUND color of the MDI FORM in C#? I changed it using the background color property but the color is not changed. What should I do to perform this task? Please help me out!! Thanks in advance!! ...

Visual Studio 2005 Code Definition Window Stopped Working

It was working fine, now it's stopped. I select a symbol in my C code and the Code Definition Window stubbonly asserts that "no definition selected". Also if I select "Go to definition" for a function then VS says "The symbol '' is not defined event though it is. The code compiles fine by the way. Is there a known issue here? Regards ...

Emulate the .NET [Obsolete] Attribute

Possible Duplicate: Custom Compiler Warnings Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154109/custom-compiler-warnings/154254 I'm new to writing my own Attributes for .NET, but would like to write one that behaves similarly to the System.ObsoleteAttribute attribute--if a class/member is tagged with the attribute I would...

std::vector visualizer doesn't work properly on std::vector<boost::variant>

The visual studio std::vector visualizer in the VS2008 autoexp.dat file doesn't seem to work if I have a std::vector<boost::variant<...>>. It does work on other types of vectors I have tried (e.g std::vector<int>, std::vector<boost::shared_ptr<..>>) Here is the visualizer code: std::vector<*>{ children ( #array ( expr : ($e._Myfir...

Changing initially displayed record in Windows Forms

How to change the first record to be displayed when a Windows Form opens? I've got a form that retreives data from a table Table1 within a DataSet Dataset1 and fills a Details control with the data. When the form is executed, the first record from table1 shows up in the text fields. How do I change the code so that it displays the recor...

Custom Print Dialog Question

Good Day, I'm still working on a custom Print Dialog and all is progressing well. My current issue has to do with the Collate options. The specs I'm following require me to remove it. I can use Spy++ to specify the ControlID. Is there a way to hide or not display it on my custom dialog? I'm using C# if that matters. TIA, coson ...

How should I support and continue development on a forked application?

We have a large application that runs at roughly 5 locations. None of these locations are running the same version of the application. This makes patching and updating very complicated. Try to follow this example: We'll call the application I'm talking about "application A". Now we want to roll out an application B to one of these locat...

How to clean Visual Studio bin and obj folders

If you right click on a folder, you will see a "Clean" menu item. I assumed this would clean (remove) the obj and bin directory. However, as far as I can see, it does nothing. Is there another way? (please don't tell me to go to Windows Explorer or the cmd.exe) I'd like to remove the obj and bin folder so that I can easily zip the whole...

Problem with 'Update Web Reference"

Occasionally I have a problem when I attempt to update a web reference in Visual Studio 2008 (this also happened in VS2005). It has happened in several different solutions. When I have a solution with a (.NET 2.0) web service and a project that references the web service I get "There was an error downloading 'http://localhost:3890/MyWeb...

Is it possible for Visual Studio 2008 Automatically create XML Comments tags without "Generate XML documentation file" checked (VB.NET only)?

When in VS 2008 if a developer hits the ''' it generates the XML comment tags for you, but this only works when the project setting for "Generate XML documentation file" is checked. Is there a way to tell VS to generate the XML Comment tags, regardless of the project setting? I think it is possible that someone may want comments but no...