An older version (9.0) of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE), released in November 2007 and superseded by Visual Studio 2010 in April 2010.
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Questions tagged [visual-studio-2008]
133 questions
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Taskkill.exe: don't throw an error if the process is not running
I'm running a Visual Studio post build event that shuts down IIS if it's still running after compilation:
taskkill /f /im w3wp.exe
The following works perfectly if IIS is still running, but throws an error if it has already stopped:
Error 1 The…
Luk
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Visual Studio not auto-building when I press the debug button
I'm writing code in Visual Studio but whenever I want to test the application and press the green arrow for "Start debugging", Visual Studio does not automatically recompile the active solution for me and I have to manually build the solution then…
Kurru
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How can I use newline with the Find-And-Replace in Visual Studio?
I've become rather fond of the "Find-And-Replace" function in Visual Studio. The function lets me replace phrases, words, symbols, or whatever you can type into the textbox on the screen.
How can I make it replace a character with a newline?
Vivian River
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Which PC components make the biggest impact on your compile times for Visual Studio?
Which PC specifications have the biggest impact on your compile times? Disk? Clock speed? Number of CPU cores?
Rob Allen
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Can I use Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 10?
I'm thinking of upgrading to Windows 10 Pro. However, I still have projects that are running in Visual Studio 2008. Due to old third-party library dependencies, I can't convert it to VS 2013 or 2015.
I have searched online, but could not find an…
Ionian316
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Where can I find what license key was used in my installed copy of Visual Studio 2008?
I have legitimate copies of Visual Studio 2008 installed on several computers, each with different license keys. I cannot remember what key was used on each install.
Where in the registry can I find what license key was used for that PC's Visual…
spong
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Visual Studio 2008 SP2 Released or not?
Did Microsoft release SP2 for Visual Studio 2008 ? Or may be any plans in future ?
Ahmed Bilfaqih
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Speeding up Visual Studio 2008 with Resharper
Are there any good tips for speeding Visual Studio that are purely software based?
I already have fast HDDs, a lot of RAM and a powerful CPU.
Despite all this, VS2008 is slow.
I use it mainly for C# and ASP development.
I am wondering if there are…
Matt
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Can I use Visual Studio 2008,2010 and 2012 on Windows 8?
I do development in all of these versions of Visual Studio and just wondering- before I go out and buy Windows 8 if versions 2008 and 200 are compatible with Windows 8 and can I have all of them installed at the same time?
I tried to search google…
Tecnikk
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Visual Studio 2010 fails to install with "Error occurred during setup"
I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 64-bit and I keep getting following screen:
I tried to install also Visual Studio 2008 with similar result. I'm starting to think it might be caused by some problems with my Windows Installer.…
Ondrej Slinták
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Problem installing Visual Studio 2010
I had to reinstall Windows 7 on my computer. I reinstalled everything except VS 2010.
Trying to install it, the install wizard looked like it had been corrupted. Another VS 2010 DVD however showed the same behavior.
After it's done loading…
Feanaro
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SSD for Visual Studio: Intel X25-m G2 or OCZ Vertex
I'm looking for laptop upgrade, and thinking about getting an SSD drive for with T9400. I was thinking about replacing the built-in 500 GB HDD on my Dell Studio XPS with some kind of SSD.
I have two choices:
OCZ Vertex Series 60 GB vs.
Intel…
meska
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Go away "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt". Give me my regular command prompt
This VS2008 artifact is truly bugging me.
I have lived with it in the Start Menu and always use Windows + R, "cmd", Enter to run the regular command prompt - I just don't like VS trappings and prefer a vanilla command prompt.
Well, today it has…
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Registering a Visual Studio 2008 Express product on an offline PC
I have a large project that was built with VS 2008 and don't want to upgrade the project to a 2010 version just yet. I have VS 2008 Express but the trial period expired and it's installed in a computer with no access to the internet.
To get the…
JustChris
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How to debug a program as admin within Visual Studio
I'm running VS2K8 in Win7 64-bit. I'm logged in as admin and I'm running it as admin, but the program I'm working on fails with access denied when I call a restricted API. If run the program from Explorer with "Run as Administrator" it works.
I…
brian
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