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When Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 creates Setup and Deployment project (Visual Studio Installer), it misses one important feature – ‘Run as administrator’ that is available form context menu (right mouse click) for shortcuts created on Desktop and in Start menu (under Windows Vista and Windows 7). To get normal shortcuts you need to edit …
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Rarely I need to use Visual Studio Remote Debugger to debug Native application. It always big pain to configure everything correctly. But today I needed to run Remote Debugger as service, so I can debug another service, when no any user is logged onto computer. First strange thing I noticed, that I am able to …
Today I tried to figure out why one of my Visual Studio Projects failed to embed a Manifest. I had Generate Manifest and Embed Manifest enabled under Linker / Manifest tool, but manifest was not embedded. Long story short, after 2 hours of configuring, rebuilding, creating, deleting, I had the following state: – Move project …
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