visual-studio

How is "Add Existing Item..." in Visual Studio meant to work?

I never use "Add existing item..." feature in Visual Studio's Solution Explorer because it is confusing: it seems to me the way it should work is that if you have a Customer.cs file in Models directory, that you could choose "Add existing item", it would then show you which items exist in that directory an allow you to choose one. Inst...

Visual Studio Time Tracking Plugin

Is there a plug-in for Visual Studio that will track time spent on a project as well as the files being worked on? It would be really useful to be able to generate a report each day with the projects worked on the files that were being worked would be used to match up a task to the time. ...

Why do I get a "Metafile not found" error when trying to compile a WPF application?

I had to rebuild a project in my application. I created a new project, created each file, and copied the contents of each file into the new project one at a time making all the necessary changes. Now when I try to compile the project, it gives me three errors: The metafile c:\projects\project1\CustomerModule\bin\Debug\CustomerModule....

Microsoft Visual Studio: Loading resources in Qt application (without plug-in)

We don't have a Qt plug-in installed for MSVS, and it makes me wonder how/whether it is possible to load resources (images, etc) to the application. ...

MS09-035 Vulnerability & Impact On Application Development

Hi all, Does anyone know if these patches http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-035.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-034.mspx will apply to software built using one of the 'pure' (ie. not managed C++) .NET languages? I believe the answer is that they are unaffected as this seems to be a...

AnkhSVN not Recognizing my Solution as being in Source Control

I did not go the route of using the ankhSVN context menu in VS to add my solution to SVN. I went the route (because I prefer to and like how tortoise does this) of using Tortoise to add my folder/project to SVN for the first time. Then when I opened that solution, VS opens but ankhSVN still did not flag my files or recognize a connecti...

What is the keyboard shortcut (in Visual Studio 2008) to show method definition?

I'm thinking about the windows that pops up right after you type the opening bracket. EDIT: I meant the tooltip :) ...

Collapse panel javascript issues

I have a collapsible panel extender. I have no issues with the extender. however, I have a link that opens the panel and I want another link saying collapse to close it. I want to hide one show one javascript side. The issue is that it only works for the first row but not the others because I am not getting the unique ID or something. I ...

is there a SQL Prompt like plugin for VS 2008

I like to use the SQL Tools in VS but I would like to have some intellisense for SQL, with sql manager I can get the Redgate SQL prompt but I would like to stay in VS, any Ideas? Edit: is there anything other then Redgate SQL prompt? that dose error checking like the way R# or dev express? ...

How to fix blurred Icon Decorator on DSL Tools?

I faced this problem and after an extensive research I found its root cause and a workaround that can be useful for other people. The icon decorator becomes "blurred" because its positioning on the shape and the conversion from pixels to inches. Usually the drawing surface of the Domain Specific Language has a resolution of 96dpi and t...

Learn JQUery websites

Possible Duplicate: Where can I find a tutorial to get started learning jQuery? I am very interested in learning JQuery. Is there any website out there besides this one that could aid me in learning Jquery? Any good book recommendations would be great too. I love javascript and use it often but jquery is a different beast in its...

How to ignore a class when generating XML documentation for a Visual Studio project?

I have a Visual Studio (C#) project in which the "XML documentation file" property is enabled. It also has "Treat warnings as errors" set to All. There is one particular class which has no XML comments and they will not be added to it. Since XML documentation and warnings as errors are enabled, this causes builds to fail. Is there a ...

Stop debugger on current line of code being executed

So here I am trying to debug this issue where the program takes forever to run and I can't figure out where to put the breakpoint in code because there are 1 million events firing. Is there a way in visual studio to just stop on the current line of code being executed without setting a breakpoint? ...

Using Compass on Windows with Visual Studio 2008, C# and ASP.NET

Has anyone done any development of Compass for CSS/SASS in a standard C# ASP.NET environment (Windows XP, VS2008)? Is there a single distribution I can just download that's ready to go for Windows or do I need install every piece of the equation and build compass myself? Are there any plugins that make developing with Compass friendlie...

VS2008 debugger behaving strangely for web application

On my work computer, debugging in Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) seems to work somewhat different from what I'm used to. I have two problems that might or might not be related. First problem: When I'm running a web application in debug mode, and an unhandled exception occurs, I get a Yellow Screen of Death immediately. Normally my code just ...

How do I see the guid while debugging VB code in VS2008?

On my last machine I had created a way to see a GUID variable while debugging by hovering over it. I don't remember what it was (a visualizer?). I have a new 64 bit machine with vs2008 - is there anyway to mouseover a guid value and have it appear? What makes guid's so special that their value doesn't show like most variables? ...

How to Deploy SQL Server Analysis Services Project to a different domain?

What is the best way to deploy an analysis services project database to a different domain. I have network access to that domain (I am able to ping it). When I try to deploy the SSAS project to a live server in a different domain I get the following error: Error 8 The project could not be deployed to the 'SERVER' server because ...

Ajax ConfimButtonExtender firing before OnClientClick javascript code

Im using aspnet 3.5, vs 2008, ajax 2.0, plain old javascript (not using any javascript framework). In a asp:listview i have a button (delete) with a OnClientClick= "turnrowpink(this);" I also have an ajax 2.0 confirmbuttonextender for this button ( are you sure you want to delete this record? ) The turnrowpink function used to run be...

Where do I put exe's for custom build actions?

I have an exe that runs as part of the post-build for my project. Currently it is just sitting in the projet's bin directory. Now that I want to use the same post-build action for all projects, where should I place it? Is there a common location already set up for this? Would I just stick it in a well known path an hard code it? One op...

IntelliSense for non-HTML markup when editing .ASPX files?

I'm currently evaluating tool options for Voice XML development. I'm currently seeing if existing web development tools will work, since the model is quite similar (markup sent to browser client, ECMAScript in the browser, pages on web servers, etc.). I know I can use aspx pages to generate non-html markup, but I'm wondering if there is ...