As an example, he demonstrates highlighting a code block that looks like this:

ISession session = GetSession();
session.xxx

and then turning it into

using (ISession session = GetSession())
{
   session.xxx
}

He does this by highlighting the block he wants to surround with the using statement and then invoking some CodeRush template. I've been unable to figure out how to do the equivalent thing with ReSharper. I found the ReSharper Surround command (within the Code command), but when you select the using statement, it does surround your highlighted code block, but it does not seem smart enough to put the first line within the using clause. That is, it results in:

using () 
{
  ISession session = GetSession();
  session.xxx
}

which requires me to move the first line into the using clause. Am I missing an easier way?

While the .NET platform is truly polyglot, Visual Studio project are stubbornly monoglot which means that all the work that goes into tooling C# and VB is unusable from newer languages like F# and IronPython.

PEX is an example of a great extension to Visual Studio that simply doesn't work in F#.

Wasn't there a module system built into .NET specifically to enable ployglot compilation?

regards,

Danny

I have setup projects for the 3 individual apps, I also have an overarching setup project that has the output of those other three projects. Am I on the right track or is there a better way?

• what functionality is not available?
• what restrictions are there on its use?

I've used the book Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries for guidance on what Microsoft finds to be the correct way to format C# and set my Visual Studio-settings accordingly.

But when I use "Format Document" in Visual Studio, StyleCop will fire on all cylinders and complains on all sorts of things.

Some errors even seems impossible to set in the settings. Like curly braces should be on a new line, if something spans for more than one row.

I'd like to run a custom action in my application install (Visual Studio Installer project) that runs an executable. The executable simply does some system.io filecopy tasks, and I've confirmed that the executable when ran by itself works perfectly.

1. I created the installer project
2. added the exe to the application folder
3. went to custom actions and added the exe to the Commit step
4. InstallerClass is set to true
5. Ran the installer, didn't get the result I was hoping for. So I added a line to write to the windows log. Looked in the Windows log after running the installer again and it looked like it didn't run. Added a debug.break to the exe code Unisntalled/reinstalled my installer and nothing happened. I finally sat and watched the processes and confirmed the exe never gets executed.

Any thoughts?

Targeted Systems: Windows XP, Vista Visual Studio Version: 2008 Sp1 Language: VB.NET Targeted Framework: 2.0

I would like to know if I can install say Visual Studio 2008 Pro and Visual Studio 2008 standard on the same machine. I have tried to install the pro (trial edition available on MSDN) after the express, and it seems to require them to be installed in the same directory. Is this specific to the express edition ?

The reason why I am asking this is to support automatic detection of VS compilers on a given machine for a build tool (scons), and I am not so familiar with non express versions of VS. IOW, I don't want to run them side by side, I only need to know if I should handle side by side installation in my detection scheme.

Is there a similar feature with Visual Studio?

Something like "View -> Two Pages"

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {EC10E7E8-797E-4495-A86D-3E9EADA6D5BB} failed due to the following error: 80040154.

From that it seems I need to embed the manifest in the executable and to do that I should add as a post build event the following:

"$(DevEnvDir)....VCinmt.exe" -manifest "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).exe.manifest" –outputresource:"$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)";#1

Well, when I do that and build the solution the event is not being called at all. In fact, I can put any old random text in the pre and post events and no error is ever given nor do I see anything being called.

Is there something that I should be doing differently to make this work?

Additional information:

I'm building from the IDE. And when I toggle the build types to debug and release I still the correct command in the post build events.

Is there a way to see a log of what it's doing?

I know that you can install your Windows Service via the VS deployment system which I've done. But how do you deploy updates after that? Each time I deploy a new version, it says that the service already exists and exits.

I tried to add a little DOS CMD file with the following: net stop [ServiceName] sc delete [ServiceName]

It would work fine if I could just get to run it, but the custom scripts options in the Deployment system doesn't allow that file type.

How can I either a). Update my package on the clients pc or b). run that uninstall utility from within my installer so I can run the update?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Storm

"Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call. This is usually a result of calling a function declared with one calling convention with a function pointer declared with a different calling convention."

copy $(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName) $(TargetDir)$(ASSEMBLYVERSION)$(TargetFileName)

However there is no such 'macro'. Sort of building a executable to get version like so

call foo.bat $(TargetName)

Where we have foo.bat evaluate the version of the target by calling a managed app that prints the version of the assembly you pass in, say GetVersion.exe

for /f %%t in ('GetVersion.exe %1') do (
        set _version=%%t
    )
echo %_version%

Any Ideas?? surely there is a way to customize the macros directly??

Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
Application.Run(new mainForm()); <-- pausing visual studio breaks here.

Thanks guys.

DataTable go()
{
  return someTableAdapter.getSomeData();
}

When I set a breakpoint in this function, is there a possibility to inspect the returned value? The "go" function is directly coupled to a datagrid in an aspx page.

The only way to inspect the returned datatable, is to use a temporary variable... However, that's a bit inconvenient. Isn't there another way?

I'm new to mobile web development. I'm creting a website for mobiles in ASP.NET 2.0. I want to apply different style reference to the Objectlist control data according to the prfit/loss (Green if profit and red if loss) at runtime. Please help.

Thanks & Regards

Khushi

error MSB3105: The item "[filename]" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter.

Now, as far as I'm aware, I did not make any change to the project that affects the resources. Also I have checked each and every file within the project, but there is no duplicate reference anywhere to this file. Now I already found some forum entries regarding this error:

1) Open the .csproj file and remove the duplicate reference. [Tries this, but I cannot find any duplicates in it]

2) In a 'partial class' project, move everything to a single class. [ Could try this, but the project has been split up into partial classes since the start, and I do not want to change this just because of the error ]

So what else could cause this ?

PS - I'm aware of iisapp.vbs and the way it enables me to identify which w3wp.exe belongs to which application pool. I'm aiming for a more user-friendly solution here :)

PPS - Currently running IIS6.

Using something like:

<title>(?<Title>[wW]+?)</title>[wW]+?<div class="article">(?<Text>[wW]+?)</div>

This works for 99% of the time, but sometimes, when parsing...

Regex.IsMatch(HTML, Pattern)

The parser just blocks and it will continue on this line of code for several minutes or indefinitely.

What's going on?

How can I do this using Visual Studio?

I have a VS 2003 Solution with several C# and VB.Net projects. One of the project has project references to the other projects.

However, when I change the signature of a method in one of the referenced projects and update the method call in the referencing project accordingly, I get a compile error, because the referencing projects still expects the old method signature.

I have to close and re-open Visual Studio. Then the compile error is gone until I change the build configuration from Debug to Release (or vice versa) and I have to re-load the solution again.

I this a known problem or is there a workaround that updates internal project references automatically?

Regards, divo

Edit (to answer the questions below):

There are only Project references used in the solution, no direct file references. Also rebuilding the single projects separately does not solve the problem.

1. Hitting Ctrl+Alt+E to bring up the Exceptions window
2. Toggling the textbox in the 'thrown' column for 'Common Language Runtime Exceptions'
3. Hitting OK

If I record this, it records only a single line of macro code which doesn't do anything. Anyone know how to do this?

EDIT: I'm using VS 2005.