Visual Studio is Microsoft's IDE (integrated development environment) offering for developing on its platforms, such as Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox. Out of the box, it supports C++, C#, VB.NET and F# for programming, as well as XML/XSLT, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for web development. Many other ...
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Visual Basic Express 2008 crashes upon opening
Everytime I open visual basic express 2008 it will just show the ide, once I click on something or after 3 to 5 seconds it will close without telling any error.
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Where can I get the offline installer for Visual Studio 2012 RC? [closed]
I just installed Windows 8 Release Preview on my main system and wanted to learn to develop Metro Apps.
I tried the download here but all I get is a 1 MB file which wants to download stuff over the ...
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How to open file compare version window in maximize mode in TFS?
I am using TFS 2010 and visual studio 2010
When I compare version local and latest version of file then window open in small size so each time I want to maximize mode.
so can any one tell me is ...
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where can I download the full installer for Visual C++ Express?
Is there any full installer for Visual C++ Express available? I want to download it at my workplace then install it back in home, but all I can find are web installers. It doesn't matter which version ...
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What happened to Debug test in current context (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+T) in VS2012?
One of the hot-keys I used most in Visual Studio 2010 was Ctrl+R, Ctrl+T, which ran the unit test the cursor currently was on in debug mode. I think the command is named "Debug tests in current ...
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How to recover my source code?
after a system crash down, one of my .cs file get lost.
The size of the file is 18KB,
when I tried to open it in VS2010, vs2010 auto opens it in NotePad, but the content is empty.
I tried to open it ...
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Highlighting / shading code regions in Visual Studio
When working with large source files in Visual Studio, it would be much easier if there is some method by which we can shade the background of certain interested functions / snippets of code with ...
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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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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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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? [duplicate]
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 [duplicate]
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? [closed]
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 ...
