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Visual Studio Windows Form Preview In Different Resolution?

I enjoy running Visual Studio in 1680 x 1050 resolution. However, our customers typically use 1024 x 768. Is there some way I can keep my editor in the native resolution but display the form designer in a different one? Thanks! Austin ...

What is the shortcut to skip all break-points in VS?

Hi, When I am at a break-point and if I want to ignore all the rest of break-points and move on, what shortcut should I use? thanks ...

Script coloring for jsm files in Visual Studio

I'm editing some .jsm files in Visual Studio, and would like to get syntax coloring and IntelliSense working with them. In the options dialog, I've found the setting for adding a custom file extension in the text editor section. However, in the editor drop-down box, there is no option to associate a file with a JScript editor. How can...

Changing the orientation of a Win control in VB .Net

I need to allow the user to rotate a control (the control inherits from a TextBox) in 90 degree increments so the text can be read from either side, or even upside down. I'm guessing I could override the control's paint event and just paint it in the orientation that I want, but I'm just wondering if there's a quicker/built-in way? Thi...

COM on Windows7 and Visual Studio

I registered a COM dll (under administrator) using regsvr32, which I want to use in Visual Studio 2008 (under administrator) for my project in Windows 7. Now, when I try to use the interfaces and classes from the COM, then I can't see any of the methods. When I use the object browser to view the COM classes, then I can see that they are ...

Visual Studio 2005 Design Mode Issue

Hello In visual studio 2005 i create a web site and implement css.When i run the web site everything is works correctly, no problem about css. But when i work in design mode css doesnt implement on my page. how can i fix this? ...

Override a File Checkout in Visual Studio 2003

There a way to override a file checkout in visual studio 2003? I checked the file out myself and would like to override it. Chris ...

Using .NET 4.0 for development server

My ASP.NET application runs on IIS on my web server and uses Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2. (Its Application Pool is set to .NET Framework version .NET Framework v4.0.21006.) I debug on my development machine using the ASP.NET Development Server that comes with Visual Studio. How do I make my development machine also use .NET 4.0 ...

Can I develop for .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2008?

My ASP.NET application runs in IIS on my web server and uses Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2. (Its Application Pool is set to .NET Framework version .NET Framework v4.0.21006.) It gives this new error: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client... This is due to a breaking change in .NET 4. To rev...

ASP.Net & 960.gs Integrating the .css files into a new project.

I've got a full layout designed using 960.gs and am wanting to use it in a ASP.net website but i'm getting warnings such as: "Warning File 'css/Reset.css' was not found." "Warning File 'css/Text.css' was not found." "Warning File 'css/960.css' was not found." "Warning File 'css/Base.css' was not found." I've...

where do I get sqllite.dll to import into vs.net?

I downloaded a version of sqllite, but when trying to add as reference I got an error. sqllite3.dll cannot be added, please make sure the file is accessible, and that it is a valid assembly or com component. Is there a special dll for vs.net that i need? ...

Empty Visual Studio Project?

Is there a way to have an empty Project in Visual Studio 2008 or 2010? I do not mean an empty solution, I mean an empty project in a solution. Basically I have a solution with multiple projects, and I want to add a project to track some static files that are part of the solution but not of any specific project. Adding them as solution fi...

Is there a tool that can re-order a .Net source file

I am looking for a tool which I can use to group and sort methods/properties/fields etc. within source files. Does anyone know of a light weight plug-in which does this? ...

Comment reflower for Visual Studio

Is there a built-in command or tool that can reflow C# comments in Visual Studio? Sometimes, a section of code requires several lines of comments, and after extensive editing you have to manually insert the line breaks in the appropriately places so that it does not flow past the right edge of your editor window. I'd like to be able to ...

Visual Studio 2008 Intellisense with struct keyword

I am using visual studio 2008 express edition. A normal win32 console C project with the code below: int main(void) { struct _addr_info { char name[30]; char street[40]; char city[20]; char state[3]; unsigned long int zip; } addr_info; addr_info.zip = 12345; return 0; } Generally for structures intellisense will list the mem...

How to track the .net framework methods in "Call Tree" when profiling in Visual Studio

I'm using profiler in Visual Studio 2008 like this, but when I profiling these codes I can only find the methods written by myself in "Call Tree" view. How can I track the inner/private methods defined in .NET Framework? ...

How to Call an event when a specific item on CheckBoxList is clicked?

Hello guys, I've got a CheckBoxList, which is populated via .DataSource, getting some items from the database. Each one if this items got it's ID according to the ID on its database record. What I need is, when the user clicks item with ID 34, it shows him a panel/popup... I already have everything, the popup and all. Just don't know ...

Visual Studio Express can't debug - "The debugger is not properly installed"

I have recently set up Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition on my laptop (running XP SP3) to develop some c# .net code for a website. All seemed to be working great, I can edit code and the website runs in IIS... The problem came when I hit F5 to debug. I get the following error message: "Unable to attach to application 'WebDev.We...

How to add satellite assemblies to a project in Visual Studio.

Hello, I'm working in a project which references assemblies from a third company. These assemblies have satellite assemblies that I'm copying with a post-build event to the bin folder. Is There a way to include those third party satellite assemblies into the project so I have not to care with the post-build events and maintaining the f...

Find in Files or Quick Find in VS 2008 seems to only work sometimes?

I am working on a project using VS 2008, containing MANY files within projects within solutions. We recently had to convert all our work from VS 2003 to 2008 (you know how big companies are always the last to convert to the lastest version of stuff). In trying a "Find in Files" (or "Quick Find") within 1 solution containing 3 projects...