I think there is only one answer to your question, which you have discounted as being ‘way too much work.’ However, I believe that is because you are going about it the wrong way. Let me present steps for adding a conditional breakpoint on Thread ID, which are extremely easy, but not obvious until you … Read more
I was really bothered by the problem, so I turned to Microsoft support, and they solved my problem! The short solution is that apparently one of the DLL’s in the My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Visualizers folder was corrupted. I deleted all the contents of the folder, and the visualizer came back. The long answer can be … Read more
The typelists are generic compile-time collections of types. If you use dynamic_cast, you are missing the point, because it should not be needed, because it is a static, compile time concept. This works but I don’t see the advantage over inheritance which is capable to do the same. You cannot make any existing type inherit … Read more
The answer if you are using C#: The very simple answer is to right click on proj2, choose the settings tab. On the top, you will find the access modifier of the settings class is: internal, change it to public. Add a reference to the proj2 in the proj1 in order to see the proj2 … Read more
Using has virtually the same syntax in VB as C#, assuming you’re using .NET 2.0 or later (which implies the VB.NET v8 compiler or later). Basically, just remove the braces and add a “End Using” Dim bitmap as New BitmapImage() Dim buffer As Byte() = GetHugeByteArrayFromExternalSource() Using stream As New MemoryStream(buffer, false) bitmap.BeginInit() bitmap.CacheOption = … Read more
Right click the root node in Solution Explorer -> Properties -> Project Dependencies. (VS 2008 users: this feature gets its own dialog box that’s directly accessible from the context menu.) The dependency graph is represented as an adjacency list of checkboxes. Each project you select will have its direct references checked & disabled [assuming you … Read more
Tools–>Options… Text Editor–>All Languages Check “Navigation Bar.” (Picture is from VS2013)
You can use OutputDebugString. OutputDebugString is a macro that depending on your build options either maps to OutputDebugStringA(char const*) or OutputDebugStringW(wchar_t const*). In the later case you will have to supply a wide character string to the function. To create a wide character literal you can use the L prefix: OutputDebugStringW(L”My output string.”); Normally you … Read more
If you’re working with an x64 server, keep in mind that there are different ODBC settings for x86 and x64 applications. The “Data Sources (ODBC)” tool in the Administrative Tools list takes you to the x64 version. To view/edit the x86 ODBC settings, you’ll need to run that version of the tool manually: %windir%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe (%windir% … Read more
Here’s one I wrote for 2.0 that uses a Dictionary<T, object> internally. It’s not an exact match of the 3.5 HashSet<T>, but it does the job for me. using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Runtime.Serialization; public class HashSet<T> : ICollection<T>, ISerializable, IDeserializationCallback { private readonly Dictionary<T, object> dict; public HashSet() { dict = new … Read more