Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of freeware integrated development environments (IDE) developed by Microsoft that are lightweight versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio product line.
Visual Studio Express 2010 consists of the following separate products:
I have several small Visual Studio Projects (C++). And many of these projects have .ncb and .pch extension files. Those files are quite big, and they are consuming a lot of space (over 100 mb).
What are these files?
If those files are not that…
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A friend of mine only has access to the Express editions of Visual Studio and I am trying to help him refactor to remove a lot of duplication.
I know this is quite lazy but, is there any way on Visual C# 2010 Express to auto-generate an interface implementation? (I don't mean at runtime but at design time, like a code snippet). Perhaps with a third party utility?
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Is there a way to emulate the 'multiple cursor' features of Sublime Text in Visual Studio?
I'm aware that you can use ST2 as your external editor in Visual Studio, but I'm not sure this is possible in the Express Edition.
I installed MSVC++ 2010 Express and trying to figure which extensions (vsix) are available to install. There are some extensions in the Extension Manager (section Online Gallery). All of them from Visual Studio Gallery. To be sure I installed some…
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If one project can't build, Visual Studio, by default, keeps right on trying to build all the other projects that depend on that project, and therefore gets stupid errors because those other projects are now building against a stale version of the…
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I'm really banging my head against the wall here. Is it so hard to get program output in Visual Studio (Express 2013)? When writing code, I find it absolutely essential to be able to print out the values of variables, operations etc. while working…
