Category Archives: Visual Studio

Setting a Debug Breakpoint in a Win32 API in Visual Studio

Posted on September 25, 2011 by ZachB

Setting a debug breakpoint in a Win32 API in Visual Studio.

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Targeting Windows 2000/XP RTM/XP SP1 from Visual Studio 2010

Posted on March 15, 2011 by ZachB

Setting the Platform Toolset to target a native C/C++ application to Windows 2000/XP RTM/XP SP1 with Visual Studio 2010.

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Integrating the Subversion Revision into the Version Automatically with .NET

Posted on March 7, 2011 by ZachB

Using SubWCRev and a pre-build event to automatically retrieve the Subversion information from your working copy and set the file version for a .NET project.

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Integrating the Subversion Revision into the Version Automatically with Native C/C++

Posted on March 7, 2011 by ZachB

Using SubWCRev and a pre-build event to automatically retrieve the Subversion information from your working copy and set the file version in a native C/C++ project.

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Integrating the Mercurial Revision into the Version Automatically with .NET

Posted on February 25, 2011 by ZachB

Using a pre-build event to automatically retrieve the Mercurial version information from your working copy and set the file version for a .NET project.

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Integrating the Mercurial Revision into the Version Automatically with Native C/C++

Posted on February 15, 2011 by ZachB

Using a pre-build event to automatically retrieve the Mercurial version information from your working copy and set the file version in a native C/C++ project.

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Versioning a .NET Assembly with Visual Studio

Posted on February 11, 2011 by ZachB

Using a file to share common assembly version attributes across multiple .NET projects in a Visual Studio solution.

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Versioning a Native C/C++ Binary with Visual Studio

Posted on February 7, 2011 by ZachB

Using a Resource in Visual Studio you can include Version information directly into a native C/C++ binary.

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Mapping Binaries in the Field to Source Code in the Repository

Posted on February 5, 2011 by ZachB

Define a version scheme and automatically include the info in your binaries during the build process to save you a lot of time and headache.

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