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Visual studio 2011 misses applying color scheme on XML documents
The Visual Studio 11 installed on my system does not apply the color scheme related to XML for the related documents (.config, .xml).
I tried checking the Tools->Options-Fonts and Colors, but ...
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Visual Studios 11 beta bug: F5 doesn't run app?
I get this bug VERY often.
When opening a solution or after a compile pressing the "Debug" hotkey (F5, i set it to C# keyboard mapping) the IDE will not run the app. Ctrl F5 will run it (runs outside ...
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Are there ways to customize Visual Studio code assistant?
Whenever I press ctrl + space in Visual Studio, it provides me a list of properties, methods, events, all that in a big list. Is there a way to filter the list to only show e.g. Events or Methods?
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How to uninstall Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview completely
My visual studio 2011 developer is about to expire in a few days. How can I remove it completely. It has installed a lot of packages that can be seen in the Control Panel > Add or remove software.
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Visual Studio 11 launches 2 conhost.exe processes
I am running Visual Studio 11 now for a while. I really like it, it has a lot of new features which makes the workdays for a (web)developer a lot easier.
But when I look at process explorer, I see ...
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Set Windows Update to include Visual Studio
Can I set Windows Update to include also updates to Visual Studio Beta?
For example, Microsoft just announced April update for Visual Studio 11 Beta. It would be great, if I was able to install them ...
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How to collapse custom files in Visual Studio 2010, using existent solutions?
In Visual Studio projects, I often use partial classes to extract specific and uniform data, such as database queries or trace IDs, from the code. Example:
public partial class GremlinsProvider
{
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Already have Visual C++ 2008, do I need to install Visual C++2005?
A program that I want to install says it requires Visual C++ 2005. I already have Visual C++ 2008 installed.
Am I right to assume that the newer version includes the older as a
subset?
Are there ...
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Do SSD disks do not last as long with Windows XP as with other OS? [closed]
We do software development (Visual C++) on Windows, and already had a few cases where developers using SSD disks with Windows XP had to replace their disks after a (one, 1) year of usage, because they ...
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BSOD Error When Running Windows Phone Emulator
I am getting a BSOD Error when Running Windows Phone 7.1 Emulator on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Each time I run the Emulator, it Results in Blue Screen. This is a Fresh Install, This Error also ...
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Code coverage in the Visual Studio 11 Beta [closed]
Visual Studio 11 Beta is not able to analyze code coverage. I get the following message:
Empty results generated: none of the instrumented binary was used. Look at test run details for any ...
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Can I uninstall Visual Basic from Visual Studio 11 beta?
Is it possible to not install all components of Visual Studio 11 Ultimate? Specifically, having Visual Basic installed makes project selection clumsy. While I am at it, I would also uninstall F# and ...
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Visual Studio 2010 Stops Building Randomly
I made this post over at StackOverflow and they directed me here, here is the original post I made there about this problem:
I am having a problem with Visual Studio 2010 as of late that I can't ...
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Visual j# asks for SQL 2005, but I already have SQL Server 2008 installed
I recently installed Visual Studio 2010 full pack (including SQL Server 2008).
After that, I installed Visual j# Express 2005 in order to work on a project.
The problem is: When I try to open a new ...
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Windows 7 access denied to executables.. by what?
Ever since I started using Windows 7 this problem has been bothering me. From time to time I see similar questions popping up on misc forums, but never did I see an answer.
Here are two scenarios that ...
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Can I stop Visual Studio spawning a web browser when I start debugging?
Can I stop Visual Studio spawning a web browser when I start debugging in VS2010?
I have the site open already, so I don't need Visual Studio to spawn another window/tab/etc :\
I'd love to be able ...
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How do I get the output box back to the normal position in Visual Studio?
Owing to a careless mouse drag, the output/error/search results area now occupies the entire screen, being selectable as one of the files in the tabs along the top.
Does anyone know how to get it ...
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Installing Visual Studio on a Windows server
Some colleagues of mine are setting up a Windows server (running a few web applications) and demand that Visual Studio is installed on it. Me and most of my other colleagues are only familiar with ...
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Make Visual Studio not erase release folder for setup projects
This is a major pet peeve of mine. I use SVN and when I roll out a new version, I make a new setup for it. The "compile" behaviour for setup projects is different from most projects. Instead of the ...
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Sql Server Express Installation
I am learning ADO.NET programming. I want to install Sql Server Express for doing the some programs. I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on my windows 7 home basics 64 bit.
I have ...
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Using a folder shortcut in environment variables
I want to know if it's possible to use a folder shortcut as an enviroment variable element.
I'm using a specific folder layout to organize my programming libraries, similar to the OSX Frameworks ...
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Registering a Visual Studio 2008 Express product on an offline PC
I have a large project that was built with VS 2008 and don't want to upgrade the project to a 2010 version just yet. I have VS 2008 Express but the trial period expired and it's installed in a ...
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Visual Studio 11 installation error
I am trying to install the Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview on Windows Server 2008 R2. When it gets to the Microsoft.NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack package I get the following error:
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Find and replace character with control character
Is it possible to find and replace a character with a control character? Given the text
one,two,three
I want to Find , and replace with \n (new line). So the result becomes
one
two
three
I am ...
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Why VC++ IntelliSense doesn't refresh error list?
Why VC++ IntelliSense doesn't refresh error list?
There's an error in the code. IntelliSense shows it up. I fix it, and press F7 to re-compile, the compilation result is successful. But now ...
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How to eliminate the Rate and Feedback bar at the top of help pages in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
Using MS Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 help viewer (MS Document Explorer), on virtually every help page I get a "Send/Add Content.../Rate and Feedback" bar at the top of the page. The problem is that ...
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VS 2003 Application Hang
have installed VS 2003 in my XP VM, which was shared from a remote drive, after installing, when I tried to open new windows application, the IDE freezes, I have tried it many times, repairing, ...
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How do I kill Symantec Endpoint Protection?
I would like to disable Symantec endpoint protection active scan, I am not able to find the pid nor the right task to end in taskmanager. I am using Visual studio 08 with c++ and windows server.
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Double click in Visual Studio 08 forms designer adds listener. Please make it stop
I'm using Visual Studio 08 Designer for a Windows Forms application. When I accidentally double click on a control it automatically switches to the code and adds a listener. How do I stop this ...
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Can I install 32 bit software on my 64 bit Windows 7? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Install and run 32 bit on 64 bit machine
Can I Install Such Programs Like Visual Studio 2010 on My 64 bit Operating System ?
If I Compile My Program With Visual Studio ...
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Is there any way to invert the caret?
When programming in Visual Studio, the caret (i.e. the vertical line that shows where text will be inserted) is either a vertical line (when in insert mode) or a block (when in overwrite mode).
Is ...
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VS 2008/2010 Installation problem
This comes from here, but since people has told me I should post this here, and not in StackOverflow, here I am...
Here's the thing:
When I get to the license terms the installation window "dies". I ...
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Visual Studio 2010 Installation Error
During the VS2010 installation I got this message:
Error 1935. An error occurred during
the installation of assembly
"WcfSvcHost, version="10.0.0.0",
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win32 API to find executable from command line on windows [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows equivalent of whereis?
On Windows Command Prompt, I can type in "notepad" and based on search path and extension, Windows starts c:\windows\notepad.exe for me. ...
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Mouse scroll wheel causes “back” in IE and Visual Studio
I am running Windows 7 64bit and the machine is connected via a KVM, so I have to use PS2 mouse connector (the machine is about 20' behind me in the office somewhere) as the KVM doesn't switch USB.
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DreamSpark is really giving me free software?
So basically I heard today that with a CJP card (a Dutch card for cultural activities etc.) I can download Visual Studio Professional from DreamSpark. It was all simple, I went to www.dreamspark.com, ...
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Does ReadyBoost help for Visual Studio?
Is there any way that you can monitor if ReadyBoost actually has an impact on performance? I don't really experience much improvement.
Also can it be useful for Visual Studio anyway or would that ...
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Could not find file 'SqlAccess.dll'
When running
CREATE ASSEMBLY MyAssembly
FROM 'S:\SourceCode\TryUDF\bin\Debug\TryUDF.dll'
an error is returned:
Could not find file 'SqlAccess.dll' in directory 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL ...
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Is it possible to Make Mac OS ignore keyboard shortcuts while using Windows under VMWare Fusion?
I just got my MacBook Air, max RAM, Harddrive and CPU. I have installed Windows 7 using bootcamp and are also using win7 from my Mac OS.
My question: Is it possible to be in the Windows7 machine, and ...
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Difference in Visual Studio versions
I would like to understand some fundamental VS version differences.
What is the difference between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Team System? Does the Team System 2008 include VS2008, TFS ...
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Running Visual Studio on OS X
So, my windows laptop is on its last legs and I'm thinking of shelling out for a Macbook Pro. However, I do some (but not a lot) of ASP.NET development, and so would need to install Visual Studio of ...
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Stuck with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 errors [closed]
A ways back I installed Microsoft Visual Studio beta 2. Today I installed Visual Studio 2010 from Dreamspark (the one with the activation key baked in). This resulted in an install with no place to ...
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Difference between Visual Basic and Visual Studio?
I was wondering what the difference is between installing Visual Basic and Visual Studio?
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Visual Studio + Team foundation?
I am thinking about upgrading from VS 2008 to VS 2010. I came accross this:
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How can I find missing glPopMatrix in Visual Studio
I have a theory according to which the bugs I'm experiencing are due to a glPushMatrix being used without a matching glPopMatrix. My project is rather big so I would like to be able to find these ...
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Distributed Compiling on Windows
I read about distcc for distributed compiling on Linux systems. Since I have to compile a big project quite often, I was wondering if there are methods on Windows on how to distribute that onto ...
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Buttons vanishing from Visual Basic Toolbar
I'm using Microsoft Visual Basic 6 and am having trouble with the toolbar. Several buttons have recently vanished from the toolbar, and replacing them with the View->Toolbar option only worked ...
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Installing default templates in visual studio
How do I install default templates in Visual Studio 2005 ? Whenever I start Visual Studio 2005
and click on File -> New Project it shows me shows me this message.
and then there are no templates ...
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What does the number on the visual studio solution icon represent?
Just out of curiosity - what does the number represent? At first I thought it was simply the version/year, because I saw some 10's and some 8's (I have vs 2010 and 2008) but, then why do I have some ...
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Delete a line in Visual Studio without copying it?
There is the shortcut Shift Del to delete a line, but I want to delete without modifying what is in the clipboard.
Is there some way to configure it or another shortcut?
