For a small community discussion, what are some essential Visual Studio macros you guys use? I just started learning about them, and want to hear what some of you guys can't live without.
Is there a way to start WebDevServer (Visual Web Development Server) by passing in the .sln file without actually opening Visual Studio 2008? I am a JavaScript developer and I work in a client project and I want to save the memory overhead consumed by VS and give it to multiple browsers for cross-browser testing. I am hesitant with setting up IIS (Visual Web Dev server is SO LIGHT-WEIGHT being Cassini). Please advice. Thanks!
I recently reinstalled my development machine and went from 32 bit Windows Vista to 64 bit Windows 7. I'm running VS2008.
Some of my .NET applications still use J#, which now causes problems. The program still runs, but when I want to deploy it (I'm using a setup project to create a .msi), I get this error:
"Visual Studio registry capture utility has encountered a problem"
How can I fix this?
This error does not occur with other programs (those written purely in C#).
I have my original CD housing for my copy of Visual Studio 2008 Standard. Therefore I still have my key. I have trial versions of 2008 and 2010, and Express versions of both, but can't find a place to enter my CD key.
What am I suppose to do? I lost my CD. Should I just call MSFT and ask them what to do?
I'm trying to write a macro that toggles between release/debug solution configurations in Visual Studio.
It appears I can switch the configuration by using 'DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.SolutionConfigurations", "Debug")'.
Is there a way I can 'read' the value? Or is there a way I can use macros to 'focus' on the solution configuration UI element?
For the longest time I've been curious to code in Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) just as an academic endeavour and to gain a better understanding of what's "happening under the hood".
Is there any sort of Visual Studio support for this in the form of: project templates, IntelliSense integration, and those kind of RAD features?
Hi!
I have installed Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture version: 9.0.30729.1 SP and Microsoft Net Framework 3.5 SP1.
When I'm going to add a new item I can't find ADO.NET Entity Data Model template.
What's happening?
Thanks!
Does Visual Studio .NET 2008 come with UISpy? I ask this for for the reason that my copy of VS installed, but everything else pretty much errored out and I want to know if I need to fix it for UISpy (not worried about compact framework or device emulators). Thanks.
Hi,
I get the following exception: 'Cannot find the method on the object instance' when I hover over a property of one of my classes in Visual Studio 2010.
Any ideas?
Is it true that Visual Studio 2010 has now COBOL compiler inside?
I saw this in one article.
I also saw a video of it.
The question is, where can I find it? I've been searching VS2010 and still, no clues.
Thanks for answering.
I have a scripted database SQL file that I need to execute inside Visual Studio to create a new database. I am so far unable to locate any function that allows me to do this.
Hi guys... I've been doing some research in to installers for visual studio express 2008. I don't much like the standard publish option. I'd rather have a proper windows installer. Am I right in thinking that the only way to do this is to upgrade to the standard edition?
Are there any third party tools which can be used? I've tried googling a lot, but don't seem to be getting anywhere!
I added a boost header to my c++ app in visual studi 2008 and intellisense is now telling me there is no information available when it trys to do its smartness. Ive edlted the ncb and restarted visual studio - the ncb rebuilds and same problem persists. Any suggestions?
Just downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 Premium and realized that can't compile the project, made for PDA! The error log in output window says: Loading D:\Work...\PDA2.csproj ...
D:\Work...\PDA2.csproj : error : The project file 'D:\Work...\PDA2.csproj' cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by this installation. I want to know if mobile development projects are supported in RTM version or they are deprecated?
Visual studio does not show all the compile errors at once.
for example one time it says I have two errors and when I fix them then 102 more compile errors are showing up and these new errors are not dependent on those two previous errors.
How can we tell it to go through all the code and show all compile errors at once
Visual Studio 2010 adds a new feature to improve loading speed of references in "Add .NET Reference" tab.
For example, when the target framework of project is 3.5, it displays only 3.5 assemblies in the list, and says "Filtered to: .NET Framework 3.5". This feature is quite annoying, as it makes impossible to find an older assembly, unless you change a target framework in compilation options. Is there any option to disable that filtering?
Trying to add a 'box' to a form at design time, I looked up the msdn and it clearly states that I should be able to do this using the OvalShape and RectangleShape control tools in my Visual Studio 2008.
shape container
Now it should be found under the visual Basic PowerPacks, but all I have listed is Pointer and PrintForm, how do I add it?
I wonder if it's possible to save all files in a Visual Studio 2008 project into a specific character encoding. I got a solution with mixed encodings and I want to make them all the same (UTF-8 with signature).
I know how to save single files, but how about all files in a project?
Hi,
In Visual Studio 2008 we run a post build event which calls NANT and in turn creates our config files.
e.g.
if $(SolutionDir) == . GOTO end
nant -buildfile:$(SolutionDir)default.build create..web.config
Is there a way to run this only on ReBuild?
Thanks
Hi
Quick question please, its the first time am using visual studio, I usually program in netbeans (java), anyways am writing a simple C# program with some outputs (Console.WriteLine("...");), problem each time i run it I cannot see the program's output in the output window.
The "program output" tag is already checked and I already redirected all outputs to the intermediate window but to no avail?
any ideas?
thanx =)
I'm creating a load test in visual studio. Could somebody help me choose the settings right. What I want is to test application with 1 user then give it a rest for two minutes, then test with 4 and so on. Also after resting for 2 minutes I would like user load increased gradually.
Hi, how i can configure the Test project of visual studio to use all CPU's core.
when i run the test i can see on my performance indicator that only one core is getting all in just in first core.