How do you determine if a program is running in the Visual Studio
IDE/debugger as opposed to standalone? We often include support files in the
same folder as the executable and would so something like:
Dim SupportFile As String

Sometime back, I found two ways to use the results of XML Comments in the C# code.
One way was to set the file in the project properties and it produced a less than useful output without doing more work.
The other way produced HTML documentation with one 'item' per HTML page.  I ...

Is it possible to create an addin that can also be run independently. An
addin creates a dll while to run independently I need an exe.
Thanks
amit

Does anyone know of a way of invoking visual studio from the command and
automatically position to a project and/or file in the project? I would like
to start visual studio with a solution name (this part is easy), but also
with a project name and possibly a file name, all on the ...

Hi, I have a problem with a composite control. The fact is that I have create a composite control that works ok, but when I try to add it to the toolbar and I select the dll it says to me that there isn??t components in "....\controlcomposite.dll"  to add to the toolbox. Do yo ...

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Is there any way to make a "designable" control in Managed C++? My problem is that my control depends on legacy C code using the CRT. Having read all the dire warnings about Mixed DLLs and the loader lock, I'm ...

Anyone have experience with VCProjectEngine?
We need to look in Visual Studio 7 and Visual C++ 6 project files to get the
list of C++ files to be compiled and the compiler options used for each
file.  The VCProjectEngine object seems to fit the bill and seems to work

How does one get the contents of the clipboard into a text window (such as
DTE.Find.FindWhat = "clipboard contents") when using a macro?

I work on a dual monitor machine.  Usually VS.Net is running maximized in
the left (primary) monitor.
Now I've noticed that every now and then I can see  a "mystery window" --
the frame and caption bar (and only those items) of a window on my right

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I am unable to specify the AssemblyKeyFile file name without specifying a fully qualified path to the file; i.e.
<Assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("C:\solution folder\keyfile.snk")> works but
<Assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("keyfile.snk")> does not

How to programmatically access to the Toolbar of the Solution Explorer
ToolWindow?
I can access the window itself
I can also acces the UIHierarchy

Every time i put a data adapter on my form, i get the following error after clicking "next"
An unexpected error has occured.
Error Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Call Stack:     at Microsoft.VSDesigner.Data.VS.VsConnectionManager.CheckConnection(Int32 ...

Using VB .Net I've created a default.aspx web page whose html form had an original action of 'WebForm1.aspx", I've changed that value in the html tags to be now 'NewWebForm2.aspx' and rebuilt my solution, with no failures. However when I run and look at the html source code of my ...

I have an xml file that is used by my vb 7 program at run time. I want
it to be copied to the output folder in which my project creates its
exe, etc. files. How do I specify that it should be copied. There is
no post-build step as in VC++ 6.

I have a solution that has 15 projects.  The projects are all sub-directories of the solution directory.
I have some files in the solution directory that are used in more than one of the projects (all of this is c#)
If I go to a project and add existing item and select the file in ...