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VS 2008 Team system files opened in standard 2008

VS 2008 Team system files opened in standard 2008 If I create a project in VS 2008 team system. And then a colleague opens the project in standard VS 2008 will the project open normally for them? Will they get standard features and see the complete project? If that works, what other gotchas may occur when using different version of VS?...

Populating a Visual DSL with database information.

Hello Guys, I have the following problem to solve: Currently we have a metadata tree of the databse schema that has a in-memory representation and a proprietary schema XML serialization as well (that is we can read/write all the in-memory data to an xml file). Currently I am developing a Visual DSL solution (diagram-like), to allow ...

Is there a hotkey in Visual Studio to open the member drop down list?

In Visual Studio there is a drop down list in the top right hand corner that you can use to navigate to the various members in the class. Does anyone know if there is a hot key to open this ddl? ...

Changing a Visual Studio project using command line switches

I know very little about visual studio so the answer to this one might be simple; but is it possible to change settings in the project using command line switches to avoid having different project files for minor changes ? As I want to trigger automatic builds changing settings through the ui is not possible. For example something like ...

Possible to add Ruby syntax highlighting to Visual Studio 2008?

When I open a Ruby file (*.rb) inside Visual Studio, it reads like a regular text file - with no syntax highlighting on language keywords. Is there any way to set this up in Visual Studio? Update: No, I don't use Visual Studio for Ruby development - I use Netbeans. But I would like to open a Ruby file in Visual Studio and see the prope...

Blackberry application (sending GPS coordinate to server...)

Hello guys! I´ve never created a Blackberry application ... So, any help will be welcome ! I need to develope a application to send GPS coordinates (each x time) to a server (using Gprs)... Is it a simple task? Is it possible to develope that only with Javascript ? How about MDS? I installed a Visual Studio plugin to MDS... Can I deve...

How do I dump the .NET process so that Visual Studio 2008 will load it as a managed dump?

I'm trying to create a minidump of the managed process, which would be loadable into Visual Studio 2008. I'm using following code to create a minidump: ... MINIDUMP_TYPE dumpType = static_cast< MINIDUMP_TYPE >( MiniDumpWithFullMemory | MiniDumpWithDataSegs | MiniDumpWithHandleData | MiniDumpWithProcessThreadData | MiniDumpWithPriv...

what process do I attach to for a console app?

When I want to debug a .net console application, what process do I attach to? ...

SVCUtil or WSDL batch processing

I was given a set of 170 WSDL files which I need to convert to C# class files. Is there any way to batch process this? ...

How can I create a Visual Studio 2008 menu option?

I'm not sure if what I'm asking for qualifies as a full-fledged add-in, but here goes... I'd like to put an option in one of the menus (Edit, perhaps) that gives me the opportunity to clean my text-- namely, sometimes in the course of business my quotation marks around strings wind up "slanted" instead of straight up and down, a consequ...

Adding Entity Data Model in VS Studio project and Couldn't see the Data Model in Blend

I added new ADO Entity Data Model in my project via VS Studio after saved and rebuilt. I opend Expession Blend with the same project and try to add data CLR. I couldn't see the new ADO Entity Data Model I've just added to the project. ...

Visual Studio C# disable unicode or utf-8 as file encoding and use ASCII instead.

Hello *, I am currently working on some LaTeX document which embeds C# files generated by Visual Studio 2008. My problem is that these files are encoded in UTF-8 with BOM. This causes LaTeX to produce output similar to the output described in this post: Invalid characters in generated latex sources in Doxygen? I know that I can use a t...

Team Foundation Server - Unable To Queue New Builds

Does anybody have any experience with TFS no longer letting somebody queue a new build? Everybody else on my team can still queue new builds, but when i try to, it shows a little red 'x' as tho it can't connect to that part of the server. I'm still able to check in/out code and get latest versions, but I can no longer queue up the buil...

Visual Studio 2008 WPF Problems

So I'm trying to learn WPF and my home and school setup in Visual Studio is totally different. I have no controls, no properties, no intellisense on the XAML page on my home computer. I looked around for this problem and I saw something with regedit, and I have the correct info there...still nothing though. Here are two print screens so...

Visual Studio 2008 - Minimap

I'm not really sure what to call the "minimap" feature of a text editor. For example, this editor has what I would call a Minimap feature. A skinny map on the left side where you can click to get to different parts of the file. http://www.sublimetext.com/ Is there a plugin for VS2008 that has this? Thanks ...

How to deploy directories to test output folders in Visual Studio 2008 Team System?

When open my LocalTestRun.testrunconfig file Deployment section I can choose which files are deployed to the Test output folders, but I need that a specific file to be deployed in a given subfolder. How to do that? ...

Error message "unable to open web site" with VS 2008 on Vista

I am trying to open a project in VS 2008 and my domain account it in the administrator group. I get this message: "Unable to open the Web site 'http://locahost'. To access Web sites on thie local IIS Web server, you must run Visual Studio under an Administrator account in order to have access to the IIS metabase. Alte...

User Instance Failure error when creating a Service-based database in VS 2008 and using SQL Server Express 2005 on Windows 7

I just installed SQL-Server Express 2005 on my machine and I am trying to create a Service-based Database for a C# application. But when I try to create it I end up with the following error message: Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be cl...

How do I create Visual Studio shortcut files.

In Visual Studio there is a way to have a file in another project that is a shortcut to the first so that it builds in both. How do I do that? ...

Debug Threadpool in C#

I want to observe the Threadpool when debugging Visual C# without changing the code (the program is already running) can I add code to the monitoring? Perhaps that I ask for the Threadpool.AvailableThreads method when debugging. I am developing in Visual Studio 2008. EDIT: I just figured out that within my threads (i.e. in the method I ...