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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How to upgrade VS2008 from version 9.0.21022.8 RTM to 9.0.30729.4462 QFE (to hopefully resolve __forceCRTManifestCUR error)

I've recently installed VS2008 on a new machine, and now find that it will not link with DLLs built on an older machine, giving error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __forceCRTManifestCUR. I presume that this pertains to an issue with…
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Visual Studio 2008 - Stuck while running, says "unable to break execution" when I try to debug

I'm running a C# program on Visual Studio 2008 It freezes at some point, and when I try to pause for debugging, VS2008 freezes also. when I close the program console window it pops up a "unable to break execution" message box. When could be the…
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WCF Test Client shows IMetadataExchange

When I use the WCF Test Client, it shows an IMetadataExchange end point, even if I don't have one defined. However that endpoint also has an error indicating it can't talk to the endpoint. I've tested this on a few applications and it happens with…
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How to solve the Single stepping problem with VS2008 SP1

Debugging in visual studio seems to have been broken with sp1. Single stepping randomly does not work and just starts to run. Sometimes breakpoints are ignored. It is unpredictable and unusable. It will generally hit the first break point but after…
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How to automatically indent code in VS2008?

How to automatically indent code in VS2008 ? Somehow VS2008 seems very much non-programmer friendly compared to VS2005. I want to indent my source code (VC++) in VS2008. Can anyone kindly let me know how to do this in VS2008 ? Thanks in advance.
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Installating VS2008 SP1 - bug

I've been trying to install SP1 VS2008 and I get this error: vs90sp1\VC_IA64Runtime.exe - Exe installer's log file/hint (%temp%\dd_VC_IA64Runtime*.txt|%temp%\..\dd_VC_IA64Runtime*.txt) does not exist or is invalid. OS Vista 32-bit.
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SqlTransaction causing application crash on error?

Here's some background: Periodically our site will crash to the point of having to restart IIS; this almost always happens within an hour of patching a DLL (we use a Web Site project, not a Web Application project, so each ASPX page is a separate…
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How to solve Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.Package.MicrosoftDataEntityDesignBootstrapPackage Problem?

I got this error message when I open the project in vs2008 The Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.Package.MicrosoftDataEntityDesignBootstrapPackage, Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.Package, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a…
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'stringstream' argument order trouble

I'm experiencing a weird problem with stringstream. #include "stdafx.h" #include "iostream" #include "sstream" using namespace std; struct Test { float f; }; wstringstream& operator <<( wstringstream& sstream , const Test& test ) { …
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JPEG Extract DCT tables

I am developing an image viewer/editor using VS2008 ,MFC and WIC and I would like to recompress jpegs as closely (quality-wize) as possible to their original, after image processing. Does anyone know how to extract luminance and chrominance tables…
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Visual Studio 2008 / Web site problem

I am using VS 2008 with SP1 and the IE 8 beta 2. Whenever I start a new Web site or when I double-click an ASPX in the solution explorer, VS insists on attempting to the display the ASPX page in a free-standing IE browser instance. The address is…
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Why doesn't VSDoc IntelliSense work inside of a jQuery no-conflict wrapper?

/// <reference path="jquery-1.5.vsdoc.js" /> // IntelliSense works here. function ($, window, document, undefined) { /// <param name="$" type="jQuery" /> // IntelliSense does not work here. }(jQuery, this, document); Is there a…
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Fun with delegate casting -> InvalidProgramException

I've encountered an interesting problem, see the following code. class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var testDelegate = (System.Delegate)(Action)(() => { Console.WriteLine("Hey!"); …
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OnRead event from scanner (Motorla EMDK) fires continuously

(I'm using VS2008 with EMDK v2.9 with Fix1) I have a form, where I declare my reader: Private WithEvents barcodeReader As Barcode.Barcode = New Barcode.Barcode I want it to be active only in one of the controls on the form, so I do this: Private…
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What is the proper installation order for VS2010 components? (IIS Express, SQL CE, MVC3, SP1 Beta)

After I went to http://www.microsoft.com/web to get the IIS Express and SQL CE my machine has been acting strange. VS2010 intellisense is lost, and now I've lost my HTML designer. It doesn't load. Maybe it's because the Microsoft Web Platform the…