I have website (setup on IIS) in a VPS setting. Since I dont have VS installed on the VPS, I would like to connect it from my dev machine and debug the source code. From my dev machine, I opened up VS 2008 and did File -> Open Website -> specified the http address and clicked OK. I get the error "Unable to open the website 'http://xxx....
When building managed code Visual Studio correctly (and recursively) copies dlls of referenced managed projects to the output folder of the project being build. However, if one the of those references is a managed DLL that depends on unmanaged dlls then these unmanaged DLLs are not copied to the output folder, even though their corresp...
Hello. I have faced with a situation in VB.NET and C# (.NET2) with the visibility of the static/shared members. It seems to me a little strange in VB.NET: public class A { private static A instance; public static A Instance { get { return instance; } } public string Name {...
I've lost the source code for one of my programs. Is there anyway to disassemble all the code in .Net reflector and then load it into Visual Studio (express preferably), and hopefully get the designer view as well? ...
When I try to see the internal list of Dictionary item I hate to expand every single node one by one. I'm looking for an easier way to do this. For example: I've got a Dictionary object Dictionary(Of AnotherObject, Integer) and I want see a property of AnotherObject as a list during the debug. Normally I'd use this: For Each item As ...
Hi everyone - A word or two about project I have to make. I have a list of products (XML formatted), and I have to make a bar code of that list. Here are the requirements: Technology has to be MFC, VS 2005 or VS2008 All functionality must be in one dll Same solution should have a simple tester for the dll I will use pdf417. http:/...
I have to compile one executable on Windows, the first time. I'm using visual studio 2003 and want the equivalent of a command line macro definition. What's the VS equivalent of g++ -Dthismacro=1? Update For VS 2003, I found it this way. Right clicking on the project, I go to "Properties". From there, it's Configuration Properties -...
Just getting started with PowerShell. I was running DOS .bat files in my post build events in VS and wanted to graduate up to PowerShell. Bat files were easy...CALL something.bat. I tried to do that with a PowerShell ps1 file and my trial-and-erroring got me to the following (first thing that worked...tried all the simple things first...
Hello, I am having trouble getting Visual Studio to behave as I would expect it. I created 2 configuration profiles. One has the symbol FOO defined and the other has the symbol BAR defined. And I have this code: static class MyClass{ #if FOO public static string const MyData="foo defined"; #endif #if BAR /*yes, I know #elif would work...
Hello. I wonder what is (if is) the "shortcut"(code-snippet) for adding handlers in VB.NET (Visual Studio 2005/08), equivalent to the += + Tab + Tab in button1.Click += ... C# IDE. In this way C# IDE auto-creates the necessary method, with all necessary parameters. So, If I know that I need to execute a method at a event even if I don...
Hello, My Visual Studio solution has several late-bound projects (dll) which are loaded by other projects in runtime. The dll loaded depends on some runtime condition. To load dll in runtime I need it to be present in the application bin directory, and there are several of those apps. To do that I run a post-build script which copies l...
I have a project that relies on some libraries from the Visual Studio SDK. The installer created by Visual Studio added these libraries into thee installer project automatically. I am just wondering if it is legal for me to distribute them with my project or if I need to require the users to install the Visual Studio SDK separately. ...
Consider an ASP.NET MVC 2 project with VS 2010. The goal is to set the 'start URL' on run/debug using VS's built-in Cassini web server. Entering the URL as I want to be loaded, in the typical & valid format, controller/action, VS 2010 gives this exception. Tried Remedies: starting the URL with and without a slash ending the URL wit...
Is anyone here using the Intel C++ compiler instead of Microsoft's Visual c++ compiler? I would be very interested to hear your experience about integration, performance and build times. ...
Hello: I am testing some code that has a client exe and a server exe (the server will ultimately be a windows service, for now it's a console app for easier testing). Here's what I would like to get Visual Studio to do for me -- is there a way to do this? With the Client application as my startup program (both the client and the serve...
I'm using VS2010 Beta 2 and I turned on .NET Framework source stepping, so I had to disable 'Just My Code'. But now the w3wp.exe process doesn't show up in the list of processes I can attach to. I've got both show all processes boxes ticked. Is this a bug or am I missing something? ...
Consider the Visual Studio's highly-customizable configuration of the text editor. The value I'd like to tweak is the highlighting of the found search string. See circled below. Question: in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, or Visual Studio 2008 which setting in the Fonts and Colors dialog box will allow the highlight/surround color to be c...
Hello, How do I get intellisense for Prototype / Scriptaculous like we get for jQuery in Visual Studio?? Thanks... ...
I've looked around on Google for tutorials on setting up SDL with it. The problem is that all the tutorials for linking to SDL with Code::Blocks is with the Mingw compiler, and never with VC++ 2008 Compiler. I have the SDL for VS downloaded at C:\SDL. The problem is, I can't get it to work with Code::Blocks. What do I need to do? I tri...
Hi Guys, I have my solution laid out as follows src/Project1 src/Project2 src/Project... bin/*.{dll,exe} lib/Debug/*.dll lib/Release/*.dll All of the projects are set to build to the top level bin dir. I include a number of 3rd party library dependencies in the lib folder, I like having them here as they then get versioned along with...