visual-studio

What is a manifest authoring warning ?

Anyone knows what this mean? Care to shed some light? Got this warning while compiling a MFC project in VS2005. ..\..\..\Shared\res\zenOn_common.manifest : manifest authoring warning 81010002: Unrecognized Element "requestedPrivileges" in namespace "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3". ...

Resharper: enum suggestions not fired automatically

VS2008 has nice enum suggestions eg if you press space after "=" and enum value is expected it automatically suggest all enums. Noticed it gone after installing R# Do you know how make it working back ??? Lack of this is really pain... ...

Visual Studio 2008 Report Designer - can't turn on gridlines

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom have seen fit to remove the useful "Draw Grid" and "Snap to Grid" checkboxes in the report properties dialog that were in VS 2005 but are not in VS 2008. I'm assuming they put that functionality elsewhere but I can't find it after going through what seems like every menu option available. Does anybody k...

How does the Visual studio populate the references tab?

How does the Visual studio populate the references tab? By using something like currentDomain.GetAssemblies() or what? ...

How to make Visual Studio 2008 to load dynamically generated testpage from http://localhost/

Hi, I'm developing a small web application using Microsoft Silverlight 3. I'm using Microsoft Expressin Blend 3 for UI development and Visual Studio 2008 for "code-behind". When debugging the project from Blen 3, it all works well. The Silverlight is automatically embedded into an TestPage and loaded from http://localhost/TestPage....

Visual Studio Web Project Statistics

I'm looking for something that can spit out statistics on Visual Studio 2008 web projects, both Forms and MVC. Things like: Number of pages per project Number of user controls Number of classes Number of methods Number of images/CSS File creation dates If the information exists already in Visual Studio, I can't find it. I've also tr...

Crystal reports crashing visual studio

Ive got a C# 2.0 app that launches the Crystal Reports viewer and displays some reports. If I run this in Debug or Release mode OUTSIDE of visual studio, it runs fine. If I debug this through Visual Studio 2005, the report will pop up, but then a minute or two later VS freaks out on a ContextSwitchDeadlock, also telling me that no symbol...

Visual Studio Database Edition: What is causing "ModelException: At least one identifier expected."?

We have a database project in Visual Studio 2008 that has been working great. Out of the blue, however, deployment stopped working. This is the error we get: EZTrac.Database.dbschema : Deploy error TSD01234: Microsoft.Data.Schema.SchemaModel.ModelException: At least one identifier expected. We've searched everywhere tryin...

How to get culture-specific Full Name using CultureInfo

I am trying to find to evaluate name in format specific for user culture. Full Name= First Name + Last Name Is there any method to so this in CultureInfo class and all it properties? Where can I find such format string for each culture? ...

MSMQ not invoking COM

I made a COM object with c# and let VS register it for me. I can see it in registry and if I make a test app I can add a reference to it and it works as expected with all the methods available and functional. Now If I try and use it in a MSMQ rule nothing happens. It will not be invoked. Is this because it is a .NET assembly? Is it ...

Visual Studio Environment Best Practices?

I have a VM on my Win 7 machine running Server 2008. My website can't run properly unless it's running on the server due to COM+, other website integration and environment variables. Currently, I have VS2008 installed on the Windows Server 2008 and I develop there (which is dumb, I know) instead on in my Win 7 workstation. I hate this...

Debugging HTC Touch Dual with Visual Studio

Hi. The problem is: my HTC Touch Dual does not support debugging normally? (And all other HTC Touch Dual PDAs have the same problem too) Sometimes I can start debugging with "step over/into", but can't use breakpoints. And "steps" will cause control miss soon. Sometimes when I run application from visual studio it can show exception on...

Debugging winMobile application on remote device (PDA, ARM) from Visual Studio

Hi! I have some PDAs (windows mobile) to test my application. One of them is HTC Touch Dual, and it have some bugs in debugging. There is another ARMv6 device I can use, but it's far far away. So I can't use USB cable, but can use TCP/IP (internet, not intranet). Do you know, how can I connect to remote windows mobile device to debug a...

What "Gotchas" are should I look out for migrating from VS Pro to VSTS?

I recently got a copy of Visual Studio Team System Suite 2008. I am currently running Visual Studio Professional 2008. I am sure others have done this migration in the past. What problems, if any, did you encounter? Should I first uninstall Pro? What about existing add-ons, Code Rush, GhostDoc etc? Do I need to uninstall these? W...

Is there a keyboard shortcut to quickly find and open a file in Visual Studio 2005/2008 like how they do it in TextMate?

Is there a keyboard shortcut to quickly find and open a file in Visual Studio 2005/2008 like how they do it in TextMate? In textmate Command T in Textmate brings up something that you can type a few key which would display all relevant files and allow you to quickly select one, Command T back and forth also allows you to quickly altern...

How do I automatically clean up code in C++?

I'm working as a TA in an introductory programming class, and the students tend to submit their programs as either one line, or without any indentation. Is there any tool that allows me to insert indents and things like that automatically? (We're using C++ and VisualStudio) ...

Adding SQL Server Express Edition SP3 as Project Requirement

Hi guys, I'm deploying my Web project and in the requirements I mention that I need SQL Express Edition SP2 (x86) as you can see by the picture below Problem is when the client has already Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3 (this on a 64 bit machine) when we try to install I get this error Questions: even thought I t...

How to use the SQLite.NET designer Visual Studio add-in

I've installed SQLite.NET and during the installation I checked the boxes about design-time support, which should be a Visual Studio add-in I can use to model databases. However, I can't seem to find out how to open/start this designer. Could anyone post a simple instruction please. Thanks. ...

Is there a way to view .NET Framework library source code online?

...or do I need Studio to view it? ...

Interface and program design

i want to create an application that will keep track of a supermarkets inventory *the [products must be read from an Ms Access database *product class must be created which will store all the data about a type of product(e.g. name,brand,price) *a custom control must be used to display/update product details *the database must be apdated ...