Im using Visual studio 2008 and for some reason when i started to day my code isnt compiling. Im getting the standard 'Build Failed' message but the Error List isnt showing. when i select Error List from the View menu nothing happens. the output window shows up fine and so does the todo window. has anyone seen this before? ...
Consider a fresh install of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In this case, the web-downloader was used, but that's unlikely relevant. The Visual Studio Command Prompt is missing. I had expected it to be there, just like 2005 & 2008. The intention is to call aspnet_regsql without having to navigate to its path at c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\F...
tried to find the answer by googling and in MSDN but with no luck. what does a small stop sign mean in the icon of the file (seein in a soluton explorer tree) in Visual Studio. I have a bunch of C++ files with the thing and it really worrries me. All these files are under source control and checked-in. ...
I am running SQL server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on Vista. I downloaded SQL server compact 3.5 SP1 from Microsofts website and ran the install. When I open the server explorer for any windows application that I'm working on with VS 2008 and right click on data connections and then on add a connection a dialog comes up with available d...
Is it possible in any way to troubleshoot the build process in Visual Studio? I'd like to see which part of the build specifically takes so much time. ...
Today I tried to use the publishing feature with visual studio, which creates an application manifest, and not a traditional exe. What are the benefits of this? I noticed each time the app starts up it does some kind of check before launching in? ...
Hi, I have set up my system to automatically attach the visual studio debugger when a certain application is launched using these instructions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a329t4ed%28printer%29.aspx The problem is that I get a dialog box each time that requires me to confirm that I do indeed want to attach the debugger. Th...
I have a 32-bit ATL C++ in-proc COM server soultion. How do I port it to 64-bit Windows? I mean how do I make VC++7 emit 64-bit code? Is it possible with Visual Studio 2003? ...
There are some things that I do a lot in a new project, for example, entering in a simple call to the Google AJAX API to include jQuery. Can I somehow map my own shortcut combo in VS to have it insert this is when I enter my shortcut? ...
I just introduced SVN in our company for our Visual Studio projects and created a repository that looks like this ("solution" is Visual Studio solution, containing 1..n projects): /solution1/trunk/projectA/... /projectB/... /solution2/trunk/projectC/... /customerX/solution3/trunk/projectD/... /solution4/trunk/p...
How do I share files between WPF and Silverlight projects in Visual Studio 2010? ...
After doing a subversion merge with a co-worker, my VSeWSS project no longer build correctly. It creates two features for a single webpart feature (before the merge, this didn't happen). If the name of the feature is "MyFeature', VSeWSS always creates a second folder called 'MyFeature_2' and adds it to the solution manifest. I've tr...
I am using c# express and would like to use a free version control system. Please share your recommendations. ...
Hi, I am about to travel to Europe (I'm Australian but imagine this is a similar circumstance for US users and simply flipped for European users). However, there is the slim possibility I will need to do some Visual Studio work while I'm travelling. As I see it I have three options: Leave a desktop PC on at home, access remotely via...
During the package phase of a VSeWSS deployment, an exception is thrown. From the logs: 2009/11/02 11:59:46 Error System.ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource) at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2.Insert(TKey...
When I type this line of code: QString newPath = QFileDialog::GetOpenFileName(this, tr("Open Image"), path, tr("Image files (%1)").arg(formats.join(" "))); I typically format it like this: QString newPath = QFileDialog::GetOpenFileName(this, tr("Open Image"), ...
How can I deploy a ClickOnce application from "Publish" in Visual Studio 2008 and only keep the latest publish in the "Application Files" ? I tend to do many "Publish"'ings.. and after a while my distribution server is full of old versions. ...
Hello, I was trying to build a C# solution on my Visual Studio 2008, that is running on a Windows Vista machine, but when I try to build it I'm getting this error: Required file 'alink.dll with IAlink3' could not be found Amigo X Amigo X is the name of the solution. What is wrong? PS: Amigo X is a party that we have here in Brazil a...
On one of my two computers I see following behaviour: Each time I press F10 (Step over) or F11 (Step Into) in the disassembler window, the focus is switched to the source view, resulting in next F10 / F11 done on the source level unless I switch focus back. Can anyone recommend me what settings to inspect, or what to try to stay in the...
I have a large array of structures, like this: typedef struct { int a; int b; int c; etc... } data_type; data_type data[100000]; I have a bunch of separate threads, each of which will want to make alterations to elements within data[]. I need to make sure that no to threads attempt to access the same data element at t...