My team lead recommends that all the developers user ReSharper but he does not "enforce" this recommendation. As a result, whenever I open some code it immediately jumps out to me whether the developer who wrote it used ReSharper or not. Tell-tale signs are unnecessary nesting, use of redundant type declarations and generic parameters,...
Is there a way to programmatically build Visual Studio solutions? E.g. if you are inside a console app, can you programmatically build an existing solution elsewhere? ...
I am trying to make a program to count colonies of bacteria using a camera. I will be writing it in C++ and need an image recognition library that is easy to setup. I will be using visual studios so a template would be nice. Any ideas? ...
All, I have finished the GUI design phase... Now I've started to add meaningful names to all the controls in my application. Visual Studio is driving me nuts auto generating the events each time I click on the control to change its name (ok so it only happens when I mess up and double click... but still annoying). Is there a way to te...
A lot of my XAML pages were designed by hand and don't need to be shown in the designer when I open them-- I'd prefer just the XAML page. The designer is getting in the way most times. Is it possible to have the designer disabled by default, with the "resume loading the designer" link available in case I change my mind? ...
I need to refresh a bunch of EDMX files in my solution. We have disected our tables into groups and each model represents one component or process. However, there are some overlapping tables, which means sometimes I need to refresh/update multiple Entity Models. Refreshing a group of different entity models in VS 2008 is slow and dang...
The problem: I find myself using Visual Studio's feature "right click -> find all references" a lot, but often times I need to switch between several results which cannot be easily done in Visual Studio. I'm thinking something like PHP's Xref utility that generates a cross reference documentation from source code. Is there anything simi...
How do I set up Visual C++ 2008 Express to point to the required libraries and include directories of a 3rd party C library? ...
If I want to use subdomains for images, stylesheets and javascripts on my website (like img.domain.com), how would you set it up in Visual Studio 2008 so I am able to debug the website on my local computer? Is it possible ? and how ? The webdev server always uses localhost:port, is there anyway to map etc. img.localhost:port to a speci...
I have Office 2007 installed(with .NET support checked everywhere) and VS 2008(with all updates). My problem is that there is no Office category when creating a new project. What else do I need to create an "Office" project? Office is just not there.... ...
Is there any way to use visual studio to debug a dump of a 32 bit app that was produced on a 64 bit computer. I have got WinDbg working but the output is so jumbled i cant work out whats going on. Visual Studio 2008 ...
Dear All, I am developing my minor and major project in VS2008. Suddenly tools have started to go missing from my toolbar. I have visited several forums but am not able to solve the problem. Basically I have silverlight 2.0 installed with SDK, and tools and all. Now when I need to access the media element control from silverlight it do...
Is there some software for visual studio to automatically group c# class members? ...
I ve looked around on Google for a while now without any joy. I have SSIS at work and need it at home - I ve tried installing / uni stalling SQL server with no joy Does anyone have a link to details of how to install? This should be easy!! ...
Does anyone know how to force Visual Studio to use a proxy? My VS install never shows any news on the front page as the company I work for uses a proxy Any ideas?? This did not work - The XML addition was not correct and VS complained. What am I doing wrong? ...
I just learned that we have some upcoming .Net projects that are going to be developed using C# in Visual Studio. I have not coded Java since 2001 when I started working in PHP in your typical LAMP stack. What resources can you recommend for a LAMP guy to get productive using .Net and Visual Studio? Books, tutorials, links, etc. all we...
I have a VSPackage for Visual Studio 2008 that I created for adding some editor and custom language functionality. I also have a need to add a new project/solution wizard to create a new Solution and a complex series of C++ projects to the solution. I know I can do this using a "Custom Wizard", but I would be much happier if I can implem...
I've got a C# project in visual studio that is building a DLL, and another console project which includes the first as a reference. These are both in the same solution. The trouble is when I add methods to the DLL, then rebuild the console project doesn't seem to pick them up. For example, in the DLL I have a class Converters. If I a...
I have a small VC++ project that I would like to market. Can anyone point me in the right direction in terms of writing a "serial key" system. I have no idea how these things are implemented. ...
When creating a new class, Visual Studio automatically adds using statements. How do I control what it puts there or stop it from doing this? ...