I would like to automatically generate a Makefile dependency list, but I am using Visual Studio 2005. If I were using GCC, I could pass -M (or one of the many variants) to create this dependency list. Looking through the command line options to cl.exe, I don't see anything obvious. I can handle tweaking the output with post-processing,...
Guys, Is there a program or add-on to Visual Studio 2008 that will compare and show the differences in 2 solutions. I currently have 2 solutions, a "live" project and a new version of the project with some differences. I'd like a program that will compare the 2 solutions and show me the changes made. ...
I had been working on a project in VS2005 that utilized a local connection to an Access DB. In the past week, I installed .NET framework 3.5 for use w/ a different project as well as VS6. I went back to my VS2005 application and suddenly there are big issues: In the designer for any class utilizing my OLEDB connection showed this: Un...
Is there a way to upgrade from VS2010 beta 1 to beta 2 ? I don't want to download full beta 2 version ! ...
Hi, can somebody tell me, is there an analogue of a Visual Studio #region feature for Eclipse IDE ? I really need this magic! :) ...
I am trying to see the properties of an object with over 300 properties in the Immediate Window of Visual Studio 2005. Only the first 100 items are displayed, followed by this caption: < More... (The first 100 of 306 items were displayed.) > I am trying to see the rest of the items, but can't figure it out. I realize that I could s...
Because I'm awesome I'm trying to run the latest WIF demo app using VS2k10 B2 on my 7 boxen... 64bit of course (my neckbeard is strong) I'm having a problem getting it running. Part of the whole demo thing requires I install some certificates on the local machine. Problem is that they ask me to install some of the website certs into a ...
I was an idiot and designed my VB app on a 17inch monitor in a 1280X1024 resolution completely forgetting about what it would like on another machine. This might be a long shot, but is there an easy way to get the resolution of the users monitor and re-size the controls and form accordingly? Thanks in advance. ...
I'm just getting started with Visual Studio (2010 Beta) and have some basic questions that I'm sure have easy answers: When looking at sample code I often have a hard time finding the right things to add references to. For instance, a sample program opens System.ServiceModel.Web but I can't find the required reference. Web doesn't exi...
I'm starting a new job next month. I've practically lived inside Visual Studio professionally for 10 years give or take, but for this job I'll be working full time on the linux platform for the first time in my life. During one of the interview meatings I was seated in the middle of the developer room to socialize with the crowd. We had...
I have a project that adds some extensibility to another application through their API. However, I want to be able to use the same project for multiple versions of their application, because most of the code is the same. However, each version of the application requires a reference to the proper assembly for that version of the software...
Is there a g++ equivalent to Visual Studio's __declspec(novtable) argument? Basically, in a pure virtual base class the __declspec(novtable) argument can be used to suppress the creation of a vtable for the base class as well as vtable initialization/deinitialization code in the contstructor/destructor respectively. E.g., class __decl...
So my laptop hard drive reported a bad cluster last week, which is never a good sign. I'm going to be shopping for a hard disk, and I may as well plump for the upgrade to Windows 7, which means a reinstallation of Visual Studio and everything else. This particular laptop has space for two hard disks, so I was thinking about an SSD dri...
Hi, How can you sort your projects within a solution folder. I have a solution with 3 soltion folders and in there I have several class libraries but they don't seem to be sorted by name but by creation. Is there a way to sort them by name? (from within vs 2008, not by changing the sln manually) Regards, M ...
I want to know if any tool exists for removing unused references (not unused using directives) within a .NET C# project. ...
Basically I'm wondering if I can save myself updating my code with System.Diagnostics.StopWatch, and somehow just get away with using the debugging features of VS (2008 in particular) I.e. if I put a breakpoint before and after my method call, and then 'run' it. Is there anyway to tell how long VS was running before it stopped again? (O...
I know how to configure VS 2008 to open windows forms controls in code instead of the designer. But I think I have seen a way I could do this with an attribute I could decorate the desired controls with. Does anyone know its name? This is especailly usefull if you want some controls to be opened in the designer and some in the c# code vi...
i absolutely adore ReSharper and would not work without it, but there are a few gotchas that i have run into and learned to avoid: Allowing ReSharper to rename string literals automatically can really bite you in such instances as when your object variables match column names in your DAL SQL or other string constants. i have learned th...
I want to get started using Boost. I'm programming a C++ program in Visual Studio (obviously on a Windows machine). Boost's Getting Started Guide says: The easiest way to get a copy of Boost is to use an installer. The Boost website version of this Getting Started guide will have undated information on installers as they become avai...
I installed Silverlight 4 and now my C# projects that use some of the new .NET 4 classes like System.Threading.Parallel and System.Numerics.BigInteger don't appear to be present. Have tried switching between selected frameworks in the project properties, and downloading and running repair on the .NET 4 SDK, but didn't resolve the issue...