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Visual Studio 2008 beeps when I press the comma key in an IDL file. What's going on?

Whenever I press the comma key while editing an IDL file, Visual Studio 2008 beeps. What's going on? It doesn't appear to do it when editing any other type of file, or for any other kind of keystroke. (I've got Whole Tomato Visual Assist X installed, but disabling it from the menu doesn't turn off the beeping). ...

Visual Studio Setup and Deployment - Installation Folder Selection

Hello, I have a VS2005 Setup & Deployment project and i've run into an issue that I would like assistance with....Here is my issue: The 'DefaultLocation' for my application is set to '[ProgramFilesFolder]\MyApp'. Now I would like the user to select what drive to install this application to. I know this is accomplished through the 'Ins...

Guide to switch from Visual Studio to Emacs on windows?

I do not want to learn an IDE or similar software which is only made for one platform only. I want to spend my time+energy in learning something which is a timeless-truth. I want to switch to an editor-religion, which has no religion but of development and progress, it sees & treats all with equality. Yes, please provide me some guide...

Debugging SQL Server 2008

I have Visual Studio .Net project which uses ADO connection to call stored procedure of SQL Server database. It is possible to set a breakpoing at stored procedure and debug it. I have local SQL Server and SQL Enterprise Edition installed. ...

Visual Studio Won't Mark Errors

I just upgraded from VS C# Express and VS would mark my errors on the fly and now in full VS 2008 they aren't marked until compile time. I have checked the settings and have I have the check boxes marked for showing errors. I have even reset the VS settings and that didn't work either. I have the free version of devExpress, does anyon...

Is it possible to use Entity Framework with MySQL in the Visual Studio Express Editions?

Since 3rd party integration is not allowed in Visual Studio Express Editions, MySQL doesn't show up as an option for adding a data source to the Database Explorer (or Server Explorer?) in Visual C# 2008 Express Editions. This makes it incredibly confusing to try to configure MySQL to work with Entity Framework when you can't use dialog ...

Drag and Drop Deployment Cannnot find DLL

Hi guyz After I loaded a new reference to my project, I can no longer run my program on another pc without installing it. I attached an image of the exception message. If anybody can help I would really appreciate it! ...

Visual Studio 2008 Class Designer - associations

We are attempting to use VS2008 Class Designer for a UML-like class diagram. However, when we create an "association" link between two classes, VS2008 is adding lines to our code! We do not want this. One reason we don't want this is that our idea of association (via a collection parrameter, etc.) is different than VS2008. For exam...

Is it possible to set break points when remote debuging with Visual Studio?

I am able to connect to the remote machine and debug and see the source code, but when I set a break point Visual Studio don't break on it. So is there something that needs to be done? Or is it simply not possible to use breakpoints while remote debugging? ...

Setting up Subsonic 3.0 on a ASP.NET web application on Visual Studio 2008

I followed the steps on this tutorial video by at subsonic website. Everything seems to be self explanatory but when I copy the .tt files into my Visual Studio nothing happens. I have read other question relating to this problem on this website but they don't seem to fix this problem. I also went into the regedit to find out the gener...

Preferred method of packaging Windows Mobile apps?

Is there a preferred method of packaging Windows Mobile apps? Visual Studio creates an .exe file from the source, but the MSDN website mentions a CAB wizard. Can either work if it is just a standalone .exe? What all can activesync use to install on a mobile device? ...

Visual Studio 2008 x86 install on windows 7 64 bit

I am getting an error when the setup autorun executes. It states that it is not compatible with the 64 bit operating system and does not allow me to install it. Is the VS installer 16 bit? The error also mentions this but I am not sure if it's true. How can I by-pass this? If I cannot, can some one suggest another VS that I should pur...

Identifying threads in VS .NET 2003

Hi all, I'm converting a Linux program to a Windows program using Visual Studio .NET 2003. The code was written using pthread. I have a "First-chance exception at 0x100084c8 in project.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x000001dc" error that is causing my program to crash, and all but one thread "has exited with code 0...

Visual Studio plug-ins development, first steps

I would like to make a plug-in for visual studio... But I have no idea where to start. While it was quite easy to find guides for Eclipse plug-in development, I'm having troubles to find a good guide for VS plug-in development. I guess what I'm trying to ask here, is where do I start? ...

TestInitialize gets fired for every test, in my Visual Studio unit tests?

Hi folks, i'm using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I've got a single [TestClass], which has a [TestInitialize], [TestCleanup] and a few [TestMethods]. Every time a test method is ran, the initialize and cleaup methods are ALSO ran! I was under the impression that the [TestInitialize] & [TestCleanup] should only be ran once, per local tes...

Why does ReSharper want to use 'var' for everything?

I've just started using ReSharper with Visual Studio (after the many recommendations on SO). To try it out I opened up a recent ASP.NET MVC project. One of the first and most frequent things I've noticed it suggesting is to change most/all my explicit declarations to var instead. For example: //From This: MyObject foo = DB.MyObjects.Sin...

Which runtime libraries to ship?

I work on C/C++ using Visual Studio 2008. I believe that I am not concerned about which runtime libraries are being used by my code as I have the developer setup. But when the executable is shipped, the runtime libraries being used need to be shipped alongwith. Am I right? If yes, how can I identify which shared libraries are actually g...

How to run Visual Studio 2008 projects in Visual Studio 2005

How do I run Visual Studio 2008 projects in Visual Studio 2005? ...

Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 crashes creating or opening a solution

I was on the process of starting a new WPF application with VS2010 beta 2, and while trying to add some menu items to a window VS hang. I terminated the program and restarted it. However, since then VS2010 crashes every time i try to either open any solution or when i try to create one. There is no messagebox, nothing, just a beep and t...

Accessing local Azure blob storage via a simple REST 'GET'

Hi, I am working with Windows Azure and am just using the Blob Storage. I have setup my Blob Storage to run in its own Solution file with a dummy web role. I run it first on my development machine so the Azure Services start. I have configured the service to use the development shared key and account name. I am running into an issue...