Questions tagged [visual-studio]
Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE for the .NET family of languages.
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Entity Framework - Is there a safety mechanism to prevent accidentally running Update-Database?
When using Entity Framework and running the Update-Database command, non-updated applications that rely on the database crash due to database context changes.
Usually teams have a production database ...
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Autogenerate DTO classes?
Yesterday I screwed up:
One of the classes of my C# contained a property, called "DeliverdQuantity" (yep, there's a spelling mistake indeed). When I saw that, I decided to correct that, ...
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Unstable output C++: running the same thing twice gives different output
So, the problem:
When I run the same C++ code in Visual Studio, with the same input and parameters, I get either the correct output, or an output that is completely messed up (99% of values go to zero)...
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When taking sections of an existing c# codebase to create a module/package of code for general use, how should we configure the module?
When spinning off sections of a (C#) codebase to create libraries/package for use by other users within a team/organization, what are important considerations in terms of code & package ...
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Porting a 32-bit Win32 DLL driver to 64-bit when a 64-bit DLL is unavailable in C++
I have a legacy 32-bit Win32 DLL driver that interfaces with a test equipment. I possess the API header file for this driver, and I dynamically load the DLL at runtime within my C++ test application ...
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Advice on Developing Shared Public Libraries in Visual Studio
I’m looking for some advice on best practices for Visual Studio workflows.
I maintain several C# libraries which I use in various projects I develop. I also make them available publicly, as packages ...
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Newbie: OOP working with different class-datatypes and loop through them
I'm relatively new to OOP. Let's say I have three different objects/classes defined, like:
Public Class Part
Private m_Name As String = ""
Public Property Name() As String
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Best practice for knowing the link between binaries (*.exe and *.dll) and their source code?
I'm working in a company, where we work with a kind of plug-and-play system:
An executable is put inside a central directory, and there is a Modules directory, where DLL files can be inserted, which ...
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What is the benefit of using "filters" instead of "folders" in Visual Studio C++ projects?
I noticed that the default behavior for Visual Studio C++ projects is to organize files using filters instead of folders on disk. Essentially all the source files within the project are stored in the ...
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Strategies to organize multiple projects which may reference each other and managed by different teams in Git?
First actually I don't think Git is a specific involved tool here, it can be any other Source/Version Control tool (TFS, SVN, ...). The point here is how to deal with the scenario in which I have ...
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1 Central Development Server vs. Individual Workstations
Alright so here's the situation...
All of my coworkers are used to RDP'ing into a Windows server and doing all of their work there. Whether it be coding, SQL work, etc. Multiple developers connecting ...
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Would structs be better than classes in this scenario?
I've recently been developing a networking application layer (or at least attempting to) for my game I've been working on. I think I've got a decent basic idea for the system now, but there is ...
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How to reuse production code - for writing supporting tools?
A little history - skip to the TL;DR if you so wish to.
So I have an UWP application written in C++ that utilizes V8 and have synthetic module which allows calling native methods from the embedded JS ...
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Do you recommend having a template scripts?
I am pretty much new to programming, but recently I began to learn C# intensively for Visual C# and for Unity. I have noticed that I use many scripts that have absolutely the same content in different ...
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Structuring a "Large" Windows Forms Project and Solution To something with Multiple Sub-Projects
I've willingly inherited a VB.Net forms project based on .Net 3.5 last edited with VS2012. I was able to open it up and up-convert it to VS2017. I can compile and run it and make some little tweaks. ...
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