I am developing a Visual Studio Add-in where one of the controls is a settings editor similar to the locals or watch window. Because strings are one of the data types being displayed/supported in this control, I would like to add a text visualizer similar to Visual Studio's baked in visualizers for debugging. I have provided a picture below to illustrate exactly what I'm referring to:
http://imgur.com/fgSFDqw
Am I on my own, or is there a way to reuse the existing Visual Studio debugging visualizers in my project?
thanks :)
These visualizers appear to be tightly coupled to Visual Studio and are not available via any command or interface. If anybody discovers otherwise, I'd love to know :)
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Hi I'm trying to teach myself c++ but I can't even get the most important feature to work. The build/compile button won't show. Its grayed out. I only want to use visual studios because its what all the devs use in my friends company where I want to work. So, any way to get this thing working? This is Visual Studios 2013, I've tried the profile changing feature in attempt to fix it but it still shows up as grayed out and I can't use it. I have made no other changes since installing it.
Also to start my code I did file> new> file> C++ file
Thanks for any help.
Visual Studio relies on projects, so you need for your source file to be part of a project - this would also hold all the configuration for compilation and linker settings, analogous to a *nix style Makefile.
To create a new project, Do File > New > Project... And choose a suitable template from under the Visual C++ section. Typically, if you're just starting out, and only want to work with the console, then you'll probably want to choose "Win32 Console Application" as the project type.
So, I was arguing with a great friend of mine about Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft being able to detect which one you used. According to him if you get your hands on a direct MSDN download of Visual Studio 2012 Professional, and you end up creating an app, like a game or something, and then you submit it to the Windows App Store, they will never know which visual studio version you truly used to develop the App, or if you were the owner of it or not.
Is he right? Because I thought Visual Studio some how left a footprint behind on the .exe file letting Microsoft know about licensing information. Or should I go apologize to him for calling him a f...ing liar.
If you guys say it does leave a print, can you show some proof, or a link to read more about it? Thanks guys.
Your friend is likely correct. Why would MS bother when they make freely available all the tools you need to compile your program. You can build .Net applications without the Visual Studio IDE. See this related question
Is it possible to install a C# compiler without Visual Studio?
I'm looking for a quick overview on how to create a resource-only DLL in Visual Studio 2012. I found this old article for Visual Studio 2005, but that doesn't exactly appear to be relevant anymore:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/24b2tcy0(v=VS.80).aspx
The goal is that I (the graphics guy, not the programmer) can make the resources DLL for the programmer to pull bitmaps and icons from. I can follow instructions, and have enough Visual Studio experience to figure out at least cursory instructions - I'm just looking for a starting point if nothing else.
Thanks in advance,
Beems
Start a new project of "class library" type.
There will be a single class, depending on the language you chose it
will be named differently. Delete it.
Add your resources to the project, change their properties to
"Embedded Resource"
Compile
When I right click on a project in my solution and go into the properties, I don't see the Compile tab on the left. I see Application, Build, Build Events and then the next one is Debug.
I've Googled for this but couldn't find anything, and also couldn't find anything here. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Many thanks!
The Compile tab shows up for Visual Basic projects, but not for C# projects. For Visual Basic it mainly houses constructs specific to VB, like OPTION EXPLICIT, but there are elements like target platform that are found on the Build tab for C#. The target framework, available under the Advanced Compile Options of the Visual Basic Compile tab is found on the C# Application tab.
UPDATE: With Update 2 of Visual Studio 2012 I'm now seeing Target Framework for a VB project also in the Application tab.
I have download Visual C++ 2010 and everything is fine but I have a small problem. It does not have the method start without debugging. Why? and how can i run project?
You are probably using the Express Edition of Visual C++ 2010. Some functions have been hidden by default in these editions. I believe the Microsoft's intention behind this is to not confuse novice users as much.
Either use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F5) or switch Visual C++ 2010 Express into Expert Mode. The Expert Mode setting can be found in the menu "Tools" under "Settings":
Screenshot of the Expert Settings option in Visual Studio Express http://www.nuclex.org/images/stories/blog/gamedev/visualstudio/visual-studio-2010-expert-settings.png
Unless it's changed it should be to just press Ctrl-F5 to run it without the debugger.