visual-studio

WPF design-time context menu

I am trying to create a custom wpf control, I'm wondering how I can add some design-time features. I've googled and can't seem to get to my goal. So here's my simple question, how can I add an entry to the design-time context menu for my WPF usercontrol? The context menu by default has entries View Code,View XAML, etc. ...

Set Select command in code

On button Click I want to Set the Select command of a Gridview. I do this and then databind the grid but it doesn't work. What am i doing wrong? protected void bttnView_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ImageButton bttnView = (ImageButton)sender; String param1 = bttnView.CommandArgument.Split(',')[0]; String param2 = bttnVi...

Visual Studio Error: An item with the same key has already been added

When I'm trying to change the default Image of a Control on Windows Forms in Form Designer (no matter where on which control) I get this error: Error message: An item with the same key has already been added I tried to delete and recreate the Resources.resx file.. I assured that only 1 resx file with these keys exist.. (in fact t...

Java Bean web param not accepting nulls

The Java Bean web call is like this @WebMethod public void updateComment( @WebParam(name="Id") int Id, @WebParam(name="comment") String comment) { funct().updateComment(Id, comment); } After binding to the web service in visual studio, the call works fine unless you try to pass a null for the string commen...

Visual Studio - Moving a solution to a new folder and namespace

Hi, I'm currently writing a little cmd line app that will take an entire visual studio solution, copy it to a new folder and change the namespaces of all the projects. Looks like its going to take some regex magic to get this working properly (and quite a bit of effort). Am I reinventing the wheel? - is there anything in visual studio ...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: Can I print in color?

I have to turn in a hard copy of some code with an assignment. Is there any way in Visual Studio 2010 to print C# source code with syntax highlighting? PS: The assignment is solving a math problem, so the choice of language isn't important and the teacher doesn't need to compile and run the program. She just wants to see our approach an...

Find "’" and other interesting characters.

When inserting copy into an HTML document I get from sources such as word documents or PDFs I'd like to make sure that the special quotes and apostrophes get replaced with their generic counterparts. In other words, I'd like to replace things like ’ with ' and then “ and ” with ". Is there maybe some kind of add on for visual studio t...

Getting a Method's Return Value in the VS Debugger

Is it possible to get a method's return value in the Visual Studio debugger, even if that value isn't assigned to a local variable? For example, I'm debugging the following code: public string Foo(int valueIn) { if (valueIn > 100) return Proxy.Bar(valueIn); else return "Not enough"; } Since I'm not setting any...

How to refresh data driven combo box on a winform

I have a winform with a combo box thats filled from a query in the database. If I add a field to the database, the new field won't show up in the form until I close it and reopen it. I was able to put in a MessageBox.Show() and once that popped up, I closed it, and saw the new data in the combo box. EDIT: Let me clarify a bit. I hav...

Is it possible to change display for a typedef long MyType by using autoexp.dat?

I have type which is just a typedef-ed long which one I would like to display differently in a debugger. Is it possible to do so using autoexp.dat? namespace MyNamespace { typedef long DaysSinceItAllStarted; } ...

Find out why Visual Studio decides to copy DLLs into a bin directory

I have a web application project. I am trying to find out why certain DLLs are being copied into the bin directory of the web application. As far as I can see there are no references to the DLLs under the list of references. Whilst I don't think it should make a difference, I have been through all the DLLS of the projects that the web a...

SOAP and WSDL in webservice

I am a beginner to webservice concepts. Now I know how to deploy webservice in IIS. I checked the webservice URL There I can see SOAP protocol contents and WSDL (after url type ?WSDL). My questions are: Can I run the webservice by replacing localhost with my IP address any where outside systems Do I need to study SOAP and WSDL sepera...

How to build till a particular changeset number TFS API 2010?

Suppose I have a list of changesets 1 to 10. Is it possible to specify that it build till changeset no. 5, instead of building just for a particular changeset or all the changesets 1-10? I know It's possible to specify a particular version of the files to build, like changesetId,Date,Label,latest and workspace versions. So how do I spe...

Apache, IIS... Server Explanation for a newbie

Hi I'm a relatively new student in computer science university program. We're getting into web development now. So far, I've only used Visual Studio. Should I be learning how to work with Apache AND IIS? What is the difference? Can I use Visual Studio with Apache? If I download XAMPP, can I still use IIS on the same machine later on? ...

IronPython asp.net IntelliSense

I'm trying IronPython for asp.net, I got a simple CRUD screen to work. I've read IntelliSense doesnt work for IronPython, but is there any way to get rid of Visual Studio underlining all the lines' starting tokens with blue and a message of "expected declaration"? ...

Can one turn visual studio's 'smart' sql query assistant off?

When creating this query in the SQL querybuilder window in visual studio (2008): UPDATE outgoing_messages SET readstatus = 5 FROM outgoing_messages INNER JOIN connections ON outgoing_messages.connectionid = connections.connectionid WHERE (outgoing_messages.msgreference = '1...

Use a SQL Server 2008 database on a NAS share

I'm working on a project in Visual Studio, and I want to create a local database file (.mdf) within the project directory so that it can be checked into SubVersion and have configuration management. Unfortunately, trying to create/attach a database on a network share leads to an error. All of the resources I have found to enable NAS fun...

How to escape a semicolon in xsl:param?

I'm writing an XSL transform in Visual Studio. It is reporting that the semicolon in the following is an "unexpected token": <xsl:param name="delimiters" select=";#" /> Does anyone know how to escape the semicolon? It hasn't shown up on any character lists I've found so far. ...

Visual Studio 2008 hangs when accessing project via FrontPage Server Extensions

We frequently use Visual Studio 2008 to connect to and edit live web sites using FrontPage Server Extensions. Very frequently Visual Studio 2008 will hang when we attempt to close it or open a new project if we have an FPSE project open. Also, sometimes it hangs when opening a file. This happens on XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (3 separate ma...

Turning off automatic outlining in Visual Studio

Can any one tell me how to turn off automatic outlining in Visual Studio? Outlining is the feature that collapses code into programmer defined regions. In my opinion, there are precious few circumstances where outlining is useful. Yes, it makes large files easier to navigate, but mostly it obscures complexity. My preference would b...