Put an ElementHost control inside the panel. This control can then host a WPF element. From the WinForms designer, you can find this control under ‘WPF Interoperability’. First you may need to add WindowsFormsIntegration.dll to your project’s references. For an example, see Walkthrough: Hosting a WPF Composite Control in Windows Forms.
This expands on Alex Farber’s answer, which is basically correct but somewhat incomplete. When you’re first creating your application, you get to select an application type: As you can see, the default selection for the Application type is “Multiple Documents”, but just below that is “Dialog Based”. Selecting that will produce an application whose main … Read more
If you are running Vista or Windows 7 with the UAC enabled and have “Run this program as an Administrator” checked on the Compatibility tab for the Visual Studio exe (devenv.exe), you will get this behavior when you try to open a sln file directly from Windows Explorer. One solution is to go to “%ProgramFiles%\Common … Read more
To debug into your C++ DLL you need to enable mixed mode debugging on the startup application in your solution. Right click on project -> Properties Go to Debug Tab Check “Enable unmanaged code debugging” This will allow you to debug into native code for an F5 style scenario. If you want to enable it … Read more
The issue ended up being that in the web.config someone had added: hostingEnvironment shadowCopyBinAssemblies=”false” After commenting this out, everything started building ok. What a nightmare!!
You need the double expansion trick: #define S(x) #x #define S_(x) S(x) #define S__LINE__ S_(__LINE__) /* use S__LINE__ instead of __LINE__ */ Addendum, years later: It is a good idea to go a little out of one’s way to avoid operations that may allocate memory in exception-handling paths. Given the above, you should be able … Read more
Ok, I found the solution here. The answer is: Window -> New Window Window -> New Vertical Tab Group This duplicates the current tab so you’ll get [Form1.cs:1] and [Form1.cs:2] tabs; and then you can use a vertical tab group to view them side by side.
Try deleting your .user and .suo files – these are the user options files that VS creates. You get a .user file for each project and a .suo file for your solution. When they get corrupted, odd things happen. Deleting them will make you lose little things like which project is selected as the startup … Read more
The plugin from Microsoft’s Mikhail Arkhipov does HTML and Comments, I don’t believe it does C# strings, though. I use the Agent Smith plugin for ReSharper for that.
When you shelve the changes, there is a checkbox towards the bottom “Preserve pending changes locally”. Uncheck that and it will undo the checkouts on the files as it builds the Shelf. Also, once a shelf is created you can safely undo the checkouts yourself; Same result but I consider the checkbox a little safer … Read more