When I'm debugging, the wrong source file shows up. It has the same name, but from the wrong directory. What is wrong?.

In Visual Studio go to the Debug | Exceptions | Common Language Runtime Exceptions | System and select System.NullReferenceException . In the When the exception is thrown group box, select Break into the debugger . Run your scenario. When the exception...

With VC7.0 and later, there is a Register Output option on the Linker page of the project's properties. This is the simplest method.

Using dual monitors is one way to tackle this problem. If you happen to be running on a terminal server machine there's an even better way to do this. Create a terminal server session to your own machine and start the exe in the terminal server window...

Use our Mono Migration Analysis tool to check if everything that your application uses has been implemented in Mono or if there are special considerations to keep in mind. The Mono API today is somewhere in between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, see our Roadmap for details about what is implemented.

The service has been tested with a C# client auto-generated from WSDL by the wsdl.exe tool. It should work fine from any .NET language.

I have code snippets that I use often. How can I manage them so I can easily used them? In Visual Studio, you can store commonly used code snippets on a tab (other than the Clipboard ring) in your Toolbox. You use drag and drop techniques to move the...

Use the ToolboxItem attribute set to false on your component or control class. This will prevent it from appearing in the Toolbox. [ ToolboxItem( false ) ] public class MyComponent : Component{..} Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

No. While Visual Studio makes deploying "ClickOnce" applications simple, there are several other ways to deploy "ClickOnce" applications. The .NET Framework SDK includes a tool named MAGE(Manifest Editor & Generator) that provides both a UI (mageui...

See the article A Utility to Convert VS.NET 2003 Project Files on The Code Project . Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

skmMenu can be downloaded in one of two flavors - as a stand-alone binary (the skmMenu.dll assembly), or as a source-code project. The compiled binary is compiled for the .NET Framework version 1.1 and was compiled using Visual Studio .NET 2003. To use skmMenu on a Web site using the .NET Framework version 1.0, you will need to donwload the source code version and compile it with Visual Studio .NET 2002. To accomplish this, do the following: Manually add in the downloaded .cs and Menu.

In IE go to Tools/Internet Options.../Advanced Tab and clear the "Disable Script Debugging" check box options. In VS.Net in your project properties dialog, select "Debugging" under "Configuration Properties" and make sure that "Enable ASP.Net Debugging" is turned on. You can then set break points in script code in VS.Net in custom script files or the application aspx file. VS.Net should give you detailed debugging information for variables in the scope just like other high-level languages.

If you have already gone through a book or are an experienced developer and are ready to take the exam, we recommend taking one standard test daily. After you take a test, read the exaplanation for all the questions (even for the ones you answer correctly). Refer material from any book for the topics in which you score low. Once you are comfortable with low scoring topics, take the next test.

Yes. In order to do this you will need to buy Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and a Client Access License for proper communication with the server. Team Explorer, which is included with Team Foundation Server, is a stand alone client that uses the Visual Studio 2005 shell providing a UI for source control, work item tracking and all the other features. For more information on licensing Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) see the Team System Licensing White Paper.

Assuming that you have successfully installed C-Sharpener For VB, the menu option should automatically appear. If it doesn't appear, then try the following: Turn on the checkbox to the left of C-Sharpener For VB and click the OK button. The menu option should now appear.

The Visual Studio Express Editions are an expansion of the Visual Studio and SQL Server product line to include fun, simple and easy-to-learn tools for non-professional developers like hobbyists, students and novice developers who want to build dynamic Windows applications, Web sites, and Web services.

The Visual Cafe debugger is set to trap ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exceptions by default. Xerces-J uses ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException internally to signal exceptional, but not erroneous conditions. In order to run Xerces-J2 inside Visual Cafe's debugger, you need to turn off the trapping of these exceptions.

In the ClassView window, expand the base class under your derived class. Then right-click the desired method, and select Add. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

After installing the Basler BCAM 1394 SDK on your computer, you will notice that we provide some code samples for Visual Studio 6.0 (containing the VC++ 6.0 C++ compiler) and for Visual Studio 2002.NET (containing the VC++ 7.0 C++ compiler). Newer

The ClassWizard asks 'The ActiveX Control "..." has not been inserted into the project. Developer Studio will do this now, and generate a C++ wrapper class for it', click OK The "Add Member Variable" dialog shows up, and is asking for the name of the variable that needs to be inserted

You need to use a second instance of Visual Studio to debug the one that's running the code. Put your control on a form. Start a second instance of Visual Studio and choose the Debug | Processes menu item. Double-click devenv.exe and choose Common...

In VS2003, debug info for unmanaged code is turned off by default. This is why you will not see the call stack including code in the System DLLs. To enable debugging for unmanaged code go to your project properties dialog and turn on as shown here: Contributed...

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Blue Ink was designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Blue Ink's default set of templates output .sln and .proj files so you can immediately open and work with a generated solution using Microsoft Visual Studio. Yes, in most respects Blue Ink generated solutions are no different than manually coded solutions. Blue Ink generated solutions integrate fully with source control applications such as Microsoft SourceSafe either through Microsoft Visual Studio or externally.

No. QuickAdmin is a standard .NET control, so just needs to be referenced when compiling your C# code.

To my knowledge, none of the Cygwin developers have done this, but we have this report from the mailing list that it can be done this way: Use the impdef program to generate a .def file for the cygwin1.dll (if you build the cygwin dll from source, you will already have a def file) impdef cygwin1.dll > cygwin1.def Create a file "my_crt0.c" with the following contents #include <sys/cygwin.h> #include <stdlib.