Was thinking this list of shortcut keys that might help speed up the development time.. rather increase the productivity.. so here goes the shortcut keys..

VS.net 2003 Shortcut keys :

Tool window shortcut keys

The following shortcut key combinations allow you to display specific tool windows.

Command Name

Shortcut Keys

Description

Tools.CommandWindowMarkMode

CTRL + SHIFT + M

Places the Command window in a mode allowing for the selection of text within the window.

View.ClassView

CTRL + SHIFT + C

Displays the Class View window.

View.CommandWindow

CTRL + ALT + A

Displays the Command window, which allows you to type commands that manipulate the IDE.

View.DocumentOutline

CTRL + ALT + T

Displays the Document Outline window to view the flat or hierarchical outline of the current document.

View.Favorites

CTRL + ALT + F

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When you try to open a Visual C++ .NET project, you receive the following error message:

 

Project failed to open.

where is the path of the .vcproj file for the Visual C++ .NET project.

 

This post is addressed to solve this problem.



There are many cause associated with this error.

1.      Invalid XML version entries in the registry that might cause the problem..

a.      For this problem, we might need to install the misrosot’s security update for the MSXML4.  This can be found from the following KB Article:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q306905

b.      After installing the above one, you might need to clean up some registry entries, all the clsids given below should have the  

i.               Inprocserver32 (Default value) point to “%SystemRoot%\System32\msxml3.dll”

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I have an object "A" that inherits from the ILogicalThreadAffinative interface and this object is set in the Callcontext.setdata in my mainmethod.Now  i create another object "B" in the main method which contains an remote object "C" (hosted as bycall activation in a windows service). IN the constructor of the object B, I make a method call using "C" (note "C" is an activate by call remote object). At this jucture I get an exception stating

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for "B" threw an exception. ---> System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Cannot find the assembly CreateAppDomain(the assembly which has all the objects), Version=1.0.1488.36469, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.

I feel that the object C is unable to get the type of the object "A" and is failing. If I place the object A (which is in a separate assembly) in the same folder as that of the object B then the error is not appearing. I assume it is able to find the type of... Read More »

We faced an integration problem while integrating with Clear case and VS.net! when you install vs.net over exisitng clear case installation.

The fix seems to be a registry entry where you need to provide the fully qualified path of the clear case dll (ccscc.dll) in the HKLM->Software->Atria->Clearcase->SccServerpath.

And then restart the VS.net.

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