The fix to your problem is already provided in the answer by drorco. I am going to try to explain the error message. When you have a non-member function, you can use the function name in an expression without using the function call syntax. void foo() { } foo; // Evaluates to a function pointer. … Read more
Either make your friends download the runtime DLL (@Kay’s answer), or compile the app with static linking. In visual studio, go to Project tab -> properties – > configuration properties -> C/C++ -> Code Generation on runtime library choose /MTd for debug mode and /MT for release mode. This will cause the compiler to embed … Read more
You can try the Text Macros for Visual Studio 2012-2019 extension (I am the author). It basically does the same thing as the Notepad++ macros (text editing, no UI automation). The code is open source (GitHub), so feel free to contribute improvements 🙂
I had thousands of intellisense errors and 0 build errors. After deleting .suo file and restarting VS intellisense errors are gone. Suo file is located relatively to source in: .vs\SolutionName\v14\.suo According to comment: Beware that *.suo is a hidden file. Edit: According to comments, VS2017 has the same issue, so you can use similar solution: … Read more
I have finally figured out why this is happening ! In visual studio 2015, stdin, stderr, stdout are defined as follow : #define stdin (__acrt_iob_func(0)) #define stdout (__acrt_iob_func(1)) #define stderr (__acrt_iob_func(2)) But previously, they were defined as: #define stdin (&__iob_func()[0]) #define stdout (&__iob_func()[1]) #define stderr (&__iob_func()[2]) So now __iob_func is not defined anymore which leads … Read more
To diag Visual Studio crashes, you need to generate a crash dump, which includes the current state of Visual Studio. To generate such a crash dump, you can configure Windows Error Reporting to generate dumps by running regedit.exe, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe create a string DumpFolder and give it a name like C:\localdumps and … Read more
This is expected. Because you are under debug mode you are given the dev version of the string. To get a user friendly version of the string (actual value without slash) you just have to click on the magnify glass icon on the left
After the failed install you have to repair the 2015 vc redistributables and restart the visual studio installer. The redistributable installer is messed up, it mixes up 64bit and 32bit dll’s. You can check if you have this problem by looking at the vcruntime140.dll file size. Search your windows folder for vcruntime140 you should see … Read more
I created another website outside default website in InstallShield Evaluation version 2010. I changed the TCP Port Number to 8080.
The difference between a shared project and a class library is that the latter is compiled and the unit of reuse is the assembly. Whereas with the former, the unit of reuse is the source code, and the shared code is incorporated into each assembly that references the shared project. This can be useful when … Read more