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Why is std::min failing when windows.h is included?
The windows.h header file (or more correctly, windef.h that it includes in turn) has macros for min and max which are interfering. You should #define NOMINMAX before including it. In fact, you should probably do that even if there were no conflict, since the naive definition of the macro shows why function-like macros are a … Read more
How do you tell the Visual Studio project type from an existing Visual Studio project
In the project XML files: Console applications contain: <OutputType>Exe</OutputType> WinForms applications contain: <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType> Library (.dll) projects contain: <OutputType>Library</OutputType> and do NOT contain a <ProjectTypeGuids> ASP.NET and WCF projects contain: <ProjectTypeGuids>{603c0e0b-db56-11dc-be95-000d561079b0};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids> <OutputType>Library</OutputType> The GUIDs do something to define exactly what type of project it is. The ones above were taken from an ASP.NET app. They exist … Read more
What is the difference between Release and Debug modes in Visual Studio? [duplicate]
Debug and Release are just labels for different solution configurations. You can add others if you want. A project I once worked on had one called “Debug Internal” which was used to turn on the in-house editing features of the application. You can see this if you go to Configuration Manager… (it’s on the Build … Read more
Visual Studio setup problem – ‘A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.’
A colleague found this MS auto-uninstall tool which has successfully uninstalled VS2008 for me and saved me hours of work!! Hopefully this might be useful to others. Doesn’t speak highly of MS’s faith in their usual VS maintenance tools that they have to provide this as well!
How to debug a referenced dll (having pdb)
If you have a project reference, it should work immediately. If it is a file (dll) reference, you need the debugging symbols (the “pdb” file) to be in the same folder as the dll. Check that your projects are generating debug symbols (project properties => Build => Advanced => Output / Debug Info = full); … Read more
Visual Studio, Find and replace, regex
For versions before Visual studio 2012: It works when I do this: find include “{[a-zA-Z]+\.h}”, replace with include <\1>. The most relevant parts for your question are the curly braces {} and the back reference \1: \n references to the n’th group indicated by curly braces in the search expression. For versions Visual studio 2012 … Read more
Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting
Docking layout depends on the order of sibling controls. Controls are docked “button up”, so the last control in the collection is docked first. A docked control only take the layout of previously docked siblings into account. Hence the control with Dock=Fill should be first (top) in the sibling order, if you want it to … Read more
How do I see a C/C++ source file after preprocessing in Visual Studio?
cl.exe, the command line interface to Microsoft Visual C++, has three different options for outputting the preprocessed file (hence the inconsistency in the previous responses about Visual C++): /E: preprocess to stdout (similar to GCC’s -E option) /P: preprocess to file /EP: preprocess to stdout without #line directives If you want to preprocess to a … Read more
Unable to copy file – access to the path is denied
I solved this problem by deleting the contentious files from bin folder and rebuilding the project.