I created a Visual Studio 2005 solution template that has served my
organization well using one vbscript. I have not seen a reference to anyone
else doing it this way, but it works so well and is so easy to maintain that
I decided to post it here.

I tried to create an Add-In for Visual Studio 2005 which I can change VC++
Directories on the fly.  I used "put_ExecutableDirectories" method from
VCPlatform interface.  I notice some inconsistency with it.  When I set a new
paths, it's correctly reflected shown in the IDE (i.e. ...

Let's say I have a project with file "c:\foo\bar.cs" and I want to
point that project item to a new name ("c:\bar\baz.cs").  I don't want
to use SaveAs, because the new file may already exist.
One way to do that is to remove the old item and add the new one, but

When registering a single file generator, there appear to be three different
key values that can be attached, in addition to the CLSID
   GeneratesDesignTimeSource // documented as required
   GeneratesSharedDesignTimeSource // undocumented

I've created a page class derived from System.Web.UI.Page and altered the
Render member function to render controls (and the page itself ) in a custom
way.
Unfortunately VS Designer only creates the built-in Page class when

I just upgraded to VS 2008. All C# projects are Ok and compile Ok, but when I
try to compile my merge module, I get two erros: "General failure bulding
custom actions" and then "Unrecoverable build error" messages.
I remove custom actions and compile ok.

I have an item template that adds a reference to an assembly. This assembly
will not be in the GAC so I wanted to set the path to the assembly as this
would not be in the project directories.
I discovered that the

with frame pointer omission, EBP is not used to address local variables. The
Visual C/C++ debugger gives a message "vCX0069 - variable needs stack frame"
in this case. In my Visual Studio debug engine, I would like to give a
similar message. How can I detect this situation?