Can I use .NET 4.0 beta in Visual Studio 2008?
no, this is not possible, .NET 4.0 requires VS 2010 to be able to target/build.
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How to stop Visual Studio from “always” checking out solution files?
This happens when the following is in the .sln file: GlobalSection(ExtensibilityGlobals) = postSolution MyGlobalProperty = AnyValue EndGlobalSection I found that Enterprise Library added one of these. I removed it, checked in the solution, closed then re-opened it, and no more automatic check out.
How do I rollback a TFS check-in?
Download and install Team Foundation Power Tools. Open up the Visual Studio command prompt Navigate to the directory on the file system that TFS is mapped to. If you don’t do this you’ll get an “Unable to determine the workspace” error when you try to roll back Make sure everything else is checked in or … Read more
download and install visual studio 2008 [closed]
Visual Studio 2008: (3,30 GB) http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/d/81d3f35e-fa03-485b-953b-ff952e402520/VS2008ProEdition90dayTrialENUX1435622.iso MSDN Library 2008: (2,15 GB) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=7bbe5eda-5062-4ebb-83c7-d3c5ff92a373&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f1%2ff%2f0%2f1f07c259-7ff2-4902-9205-ad1dfb87ccab%2fVS2008SP1MSDNENUX1506188.iso To upgrade from trial version to Pro version, check: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246600%28VS.80%29.aspx
log4net – Appenders not working in IIS7.5
You can enable log4net internal debugging by adding the key log4net.Internal.Debug to your application configuration file. <appSettings> <add key=”log4net.Internal.Debug” value=”true”/> </appSettings> This will write debug messages to the console and the System.Diagnostics.Trace system. You can then log these messages to a text file by adding a trace listener to you configuration file. Make sure the … Read more
Precompiled Headers
What are precompiled headers? Often C++ source files include headers from external libraries. In Windows you include windows.h. These header files can be very large and they take some time to process. Each time you compile a C++ file the compiler has to read and process thousands of lines from these header files. But external … Read more
Find in Files: Search all code in Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server 2015 (on-premises) and Visual Studio Team Services (cloud version) include built-in support for searching across all your code and work items. You can do simple string searches like foo, boolean operations like foo OR bar or more complex language-specific things like class:WebRequest You can read more about it here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/search/overview
VS2008 Setup Project: Shared (By All Users) Application Data Files?
I have learned the answer to my question through other sources, yes, yes! Sadly, it didn’t fix my problem! What’s that make me — a fixer-upper? Yes, yes! To put stuff in a sub-directory of the Common Application Data folder from a VS2008 Setup project, here’s what you do: Right-click your setup project in the … Read more
Copy to Output Directory copies folder structure but only want to copy files
You can add a Post Build Event to copy the files. Go to project properties, Build Events tab and add the following to the Post-build event command line: copy “$(ProjectDir)\common\browserhawk\*.*” “$(TargetDir)” Be sure to include the quotes if your project path has spaces in it.
Changes to parameter not showing on Report Server after deployment
This is “by design”: When you first deploy reports, parameters are uploaded with all their settings. Administrators of those reports are then allowed to tweak the way report parameters function in the report web manager: change whether they accept null values, defaults, etc. If you redeploy reports later, nothing is changed to existing parameters (the … Read more