I am having difficulties getting my application to be Vista Certified. The installer of my application has NO custom actions, as such I'm running the test using the FailInstallFromCommitCustomAction merge module. I expected the forced rollback operation to clean up all traces of the file from the system, however this is not the case. E...
Good Day I'm self training myself in visual c#, I need some advice in learning it as quickly as possible, Is there a good study-guide or book that I can purchase for ms visual c# ...
I am currently using Visual Studio 2008 for my ASP .NET application. I am trying to server an excel file via the Response object. The problem is I cannot seem to set the title of the file to Japanese. If I set it to Japanese file name, it gets returned as garbage character. I am using a Japanese IE browser in a Japanese WinXP. Response....
My VS solution has many projects. I am currently only working on some of them so I want CTRL+SHIFT+B to only build some. What's the best way to do it? I thought about creating a new configuration but I would need to check it in and it does not seem right. I don't care if it will be only a "local" setting on my machine. ...
Is it possible to disable the toolbox and form designer in VS2008 for web applications? I never use the thing and everytime I try to open a markup file (be it aspx, asmx, or most anything with markup content), the IDE spends upwards of a minute initializing the toolbox. Since I never use the designer, is there any way to turn this off ...
I must have pressed on the wrong button at some point, and now when i press my mouse a bunch of text gets highlighted ...how do i get rid of this? it's driving me nuts! i use VS 2008 is there like a restore defaults button????? ...
I have a follow up question to this one. Now that I have only the control I want showing up in the Toolbox in Visual Studio, how do I set the Category? It currently shows up in a category titled with the assembly name. I would rather use our company name. I have read how I can create my own ToolboxItem derived class to do this, but t...
Hi, For the most part, AnkhSVN is working well with VS2008. The only issue I'm seeing is when an image is added from one dev, it is not added to any other machines when the SubVersion Update to Latest Version is executed. The log file shows that the image was in fact added and submitted to SVN, but no file is downloaded added locally....
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and would like to create a sort of container project that holds a number of DLL's that must be installed with a solution. I want them to be in a separate project so that they can be easily attached to a solution as a group. I created an empty project call TEST, added my DLL's to it with a Build Action of "Co...
Hello, I've exchanged my dev machine (WinXP/32bit) to a new one (Windows 7/64bit). Now I have trouble running NUnit test from inside Visual Studio 2008. I'm using latest build of TestDrivenNet. What I am looking for is either: a) how to make TestDrivenNet work on Win7/64 b) looking for suggestion for alternative test runner. Free one...
I'm afraid it's not possible. I receive this error when I try to delete a folder from the file system view: "Cannot delete folder. Folder is not empty or it might contain excluded files, which are not shown" I have a very deep file structure that I would like to delete, and I would rather not spend an hour deleting it. Microsoft say...
Every time I have to go to attach to process, then scroll down and find w3wp.exe Is there a faster way to do this? ...
i am working on a Dialog based application in MFC, I need something just like visual studio's left panel, right panel, bottom panelwhich have a close button to close the panel. Anyone know how to implement this ? ...
When I try to load a solution, I get the following error: The project file [filepath] cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation. After hitting OK twice, my solution loads fine except for the two test projects (the [filepath] above references these two test projects), which are greyed out. When I try t...
Is there a way of debugging sql in visual studio ...
When I open any code file, whether something i've written or something from another developer, I want it to automatically format it with my preference of bracing, indentation, line spacing, etc.. Ideally, when saving a file to disk, it would only save the formatting for code/lines i've touched. It would still display the rest of the cod...
In visual studio 2008 when I drag and drop asp controlXXX on aspx page. Property page for this control, does not show event handlers button. It can reappear after switching to designer view but then disappears again. Screenshot attached. ...
I work on asp.net C# .... why not i get any solution(.sln)...of any project...Like i close one project ... then on my project folder i dont get any .sln ......what the reason and how to solve it. ...
Hi all, I'm using Visual Studio 2008 along with C# to access a MySql database. To this point I have relied on Visual Studio to create the code for the DataSet, and that seems to have given me a problem. If the database is inaccessible (i.e. not running) it gives a "MySqlException was unhandled", "unable to connect to any of the specifie...
It seems like you should be able to configure your preferred unit testing framework as a plugin to Visual Studio/Team system like you can with SourceControl providers. Is anyone aware of an effort within microsoft to allow for swapping out MStest for nUnit, mbUnit or others. Obviosly nothing prevents me from using these other frameworks...