A great resource I always keep around is connectionstrings.com. It’s really handy for finding these connection strings when you can’t find an example. Particularly this page applied to your problem Attach a database file on connect to a local SQL Server Express instance Driver={SQL Native Client};Server=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFilename=c:\asd\qwe\mydbfile.mdf; Database=dbname;Trusted_Connection=Yes;
This is how you do it in Visual Studio 2010. Because it is finicky, this can be quite painful, actually, because you are trying to do something so incredibly simple, but it isn’t straight forward and there are many gotchas that Visual Studio doesn’t tell you about. If at any point you feel angry or … Read more
I found this for you: Jump between braces in Visual Studio: Put your cursor before or after the brace (your choice) and then press CTRL + ]. It works with parentheses ( ), brackets [ ] and braces { }. From now on you don’t need to play Where’s Waldo? to find that brace. With … Read more
While it won’t reveal unneeded include files, Visual studio has a setting /showIncludes (right click on a .cpp file, Properties->C/C++->Advanced) that will output a tree of all included files at compile time. This can help in identifying files that shouldn’t need to be included. You can also take a look at the pimpl idiom to … Read more
Rebuild = Clean + Build (usually) Notable details: For a multi-project solution, “rebuild solution” does a “clean” followed by a “build” for each project (possibly in parallel). Whereas a “clean solution” followed by a “build solution” first cleans all projects (possibly in parallel) and then builds all projects (possibly in parallel). This difference in sequencing … Read more
It’s not only necessary to use the namespace System.Configuration. You have also to add the reference to the assembly System.Configuration.dll , by Right-click on the References / Dependencies Choose Add Reference Find and add System.Configuration. This will work for sure. Also for the NameValueCollection you have to write: using System.Collections.Specialized;
There is the Display attribute from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations in .NET 4. It works on the MVC 3 PropertyGrid. [Display(ResourceType = typeof(MyResources), Name = “UserName”)] public string UserName { get; set; } This looks up a resource named UserName in your MyResources.resx file.
I had this problem while writing VB in an aspx page. The solution was to go to ‘Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > VB Specific’ and turn ‘Pretty Listing’ OFF. Note – in Visual Studio 2015 this can be found at: Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced
I just had the same problem. Visual Studio isn’t building the project that’s being referenced. Written Instructions: Right click on the solution and click Properties. Click Configuration on the left. Make sure the check box under “Build” for the project it can’t find is checked. If it is already checked, uncheck, hit apply and check … Read more
In Visual Studio 2010 (until 2019 and possibly future versions) you can add the manifest file to your project. Right click your project file on the Solution Explorer, select Add, then New item (or CTRL+SHIFT+A). There you can find Application Manifest File. The file name is app.manifest.