Questions tagged [visual-studio-2008-sp1]

For issues relating to Visual Studio 2008, Service Pack 1.

Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on 11 August 2008.

Available from Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23691

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what is this icon and how to get rid of it

I'm in Visual Studio 2008 editor and I somehow managed to place an icon in the debug column that I have no earthly idea what it is or how to remove it?
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Install Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 on "D" Drive

I am trying to install VS2008 sp1 to my work machine - it has a pathetic 10Gb C drive. The SP1 bootstrapper doesn't give the option to install items to D, only C. It needs 3Gb free and the machine only has about 700Mb. VS allowed me to install to D…
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How can I avoid doing an IIS reset to ensure debugger attaches to *correct* IIS worker process and hits breakpoint?

I maintain an ASP.NET web application (.NET 3.5) which is run as a "plugin" to an old "umbrella" ASP website. To debug it after making some change, I... build the webapp and load the "umbrella" website which in turn will instantiate the IIS worker…
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LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_system-vc90-mt-1_45.lib'

I am getting this error when i tried to build/compile the code is VS2008 C++. the weird thing is i installed boost 1.46.1 but i get this error for boost 1.45. LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_system-vc90-mt-1_45.lib' i tried…
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Trying to find out why my WCF service is not working

Over a year ago I had been working on a WCF service, which I wrote using VS 2008. It runs under a Windows service, which I also wrote. It’s been running there ever since. And unfortunately, other projects/priorities have come up, preventing me…
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How do I configure Visual Studio 2008 to show the true EIP address in the disassembly window?

The Visual Studio 2008 debugger is displaying relative addresses in the disassembly window as shown in the snippet below: 00000548 8B 4D B8 mov ecx,dword ptr [ebp-48h] 0000054b 8B 01 mov eax,dword ptr…
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How to unit test F# code in Visual Studio 2008?

I'm new to F# and I intend to create new F# project, and unit test it with F# in Visual Studio 2008, but the Visual Studio 2008 Unit Test Wizard don't have a F# test project option (just have C, C# and VB options). Is it possible to unit test…
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Forcing VS2008 to issue a GCC warning similar to "warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions"

Along the same lines as to what was described in conversion to ‘size_t’ from ‘int’ may change the sign of the result - GCC , C, I would instead like to insure that the warning I receive under GCC 4.2.1 is also flagged under VS2008 SP1 under both…
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Windows 7 - WPF - Framework 3.5 - Content not displaying in developer or when running

Help. I seem to have broken WPF 3.5 on my development box. If I bring up VS2008 and create a new, blank WPF app, it does not display the designer. If fact, I can see the desktop wallpaper through VS 2008. If I run the app, I get a window with the…
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How to pass message from one desktop application to another running on the same machine?

I have an outlook plugin and a desktop application.I have implemented the same synchronization process in both the applications.But, I don't want to allow the user to run the synchronization process from both application simultaneously.So, when a…
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Hide a specific instance of a warning in Visual Studio?

I am working on a Windows Forms project that uses Telerik RadControls, including the RadGridView. The control in question automatically creates a RadGridView instance named MasterTemplate as a class member, as well as the one I named, due to the way…
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WPF StringFormat={}{0:N} Error "Expected '"

I'm getting an error in VS 2008 SP1 with WPF using the stringformat binding, is there an inherent problem with wpf in vs 2008? Error 1 Expected ' ConstituentCrossrateGridControl.xaml 70 141 PriceViewWpfLibrary
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Make process crash on large memory allocation

I'm trying to find a significant memory leak (15MB at a time, but doing allocations like this on multiple places). I checked the most obvious places, and then used AQTime, but I still can't pinpoint it. Now I see 2 options left: 1) Use…
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Very slow performance deserializing using datacontractserializer in a Silverlight Application

Here is the situation: Silverlight 3 Application hits an asp.net hosted WCF service to get a list of items to display in a grid. Once the list is brought down to the client it is cached in IsolatedStorage. This is done by using the…
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Cannot open .rptproj files in VS2008/BIDS

I have a problem. This co-worker, whenever they open a BIDS project it gives her an error message: ...cannot be opened because its project type (.rptproj) is not supported by this version of the application. However, if I remote onto the…
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