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c# change author in visual studio

A bit of a funny question. I've made a small C# program today as a test to learn how visual studio works. More specifically playing around with the "publishing" portion of the program.
I went to run it on another machine, and it says the author as the program name. Is there any way for me to change this so the author is my name?
Edit:
I've tried this link here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y8bw4k20(v=vs.80).aspx
However can't seem to find the setup project folder.

As I understood, you want to change your program's author name. You can change that in AssemblyInfo.cs file under Properties in Visual Studio Solution explorer window

Ok I found the solution.
In Visual Studio, open up Solution Explorer. Open up the properties menu and open the file AssemblyInfo.cs
From there you can modify details of the program.

Unable to see the code and design in visual studio

I accidentally deleted my project from visual studio2013/projects/myproject. I did a system restore and got the folder myproject. I am unable to see my code form or design form but I can run my application.
What d I have to do to be able to edit my code?

System Restore will only revert the computer's state (including system files, installed applications, Windows Registry, and system settings), not user files, and your sourcecode files are user files.
Since you can still run the application, then you must have a compiled executable somewhere. I suggest that you download dotPeek from JetBrains and then you can open your application up in it and decompile your assembly back into source code.
The code will be a bit ugly; your nice, meaningful variable names will probably be gone, but at least it's a starting point. Here's the link to dotPeek. https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
BTW, I'm assuming that you've already tried to get the files back from the Recycle Bin.

XAML UI Editor missing from visual studio 2012

I've installed Visual Studio 2012 after reformatting my computer.
When I open a xaml file in a new empty wpf project, it opens it in a regular code editor and doesn't let me choose Design View (the option is just not there).
Right-clicking the xaml file and choosing "View Designer" opens a new code window instead of a new designer window. (yes, the same code window is actually opened twice)
Right-clicking the xaml file and choosing "Open With" shows that I'm missing the Xaml UI designer editor. (it doesn't show anywhere on the list)
I've tried running "devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs" and "devenv.exe /resetuserdata" and Repairing visual studio's installation all together (both by re-installing and the Repair button in the installation wizard).
Nothing seems to help.
Anyone familiar with the problem and knows how to fix?

Something else to try, I know a lot of folks disable the designer for performance reasons. This is done with a file extension association in visual studio. I'm wondering if the reverse may help you?
If you right click a XAML file in your solution and select Open with...
... You should see XAML UI designer as an option! select it and click 'Set as default'.
Hopefully that works for you.

I am just guessing, but my experience with VS2012 is, that sometimes it cannot access the registry, because it fails to set an owner for the newly created registry keys.
Without owner noone but the System can access those Keys.
I used resplendence Registrar Registry Editor Trial Version to Fix the broken Keys.
I would especially check
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\XamlEditor
because you can find all the settings there.
In addition i experienced this error only on recently reformatted win 7 systems.
And all of them have ssd's, but i am not sure if it only occurs on systems where no "old" harddrive is. But i found some people on msdn who also experienced issues whith VS2012 and having only a ssd in the system.

problem with Visual Studio 2010

I've been using Visual Studio to code my C# project for a while, everything is seem to be okay until today, I modified code from C# File Browser and use it in my project as component. After that I cannot change the Window Form icon (as same as I've done with others win form) when I browse the icon file Visual Studio become stop working. Moreover while I'm do the debugging with window form that have file browser, I try to test an function by browsing a file after I've browse a file VS also stop working. More and moreover sometime VS stop working by itself without any action by me. Anyone know where to seek for the cause or how to solve this.
I've solved the icon problem by using
this.Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon("icon.ico");
and set the properties of image:
Build Action: Content
Copy to output Directory: Always
after I've installed VS 2010 service pack 1 the icon problem can be solve, I can browse the icon file in properties but another fail on debugging still the same and I've got
exited with code -2147483645 (0x80000003).
which seem to be cause by the file browser library

I've recently had a lot of crashing going on also.
I was able to get my website solution functional again by deleting the Solution User Options files.
.suo files, under your profile ( OS dependent )
(My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\solutionName for xp, unless you have your .sln someplace else.)
(NOTE: You right click a solution on the start page, and open Containing Folder.)
solutionName.sln.docstates.suo
is one of them. This cleared up the problem i was experiencing, but then caused other issues.
and
solutionName.suo
Do realize, this will lose ALL settings you have made for this solution.
However, it can clear things up.
I believe that once you get a crash, you can get garbage in these files.
In some cases, it may also be necessary to delete the .sln file itself.
As always, keep a copy of these files just in case...

Trying to launch a Visual Studio C# program from inside another one

I am having great difficulty getting a Windows program, written in VS 2008 C#, to launch another type program. I've put a main program to offer you the ability to launch some other VS 2008 C# programs. When one of them is selected the following code is intended to do the launch:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(#"C:\Documents and Settings\rat\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\PV_002_082708\PV_001\PV_001\bin\Debug\PV.exe");
It works, but each user will have a different path. The path shown is for my computer. The code would have to know where each persons program was installed! In the past, I could easily call a program that was in the C:\Program Files location because that's where the MS Package & Deployment program put the programs. VS 2008/2010 doesn't put them there!
I'm sure I am not knowledgeable about Visual Studio 2008/2010 to know if there is a way around this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(System.Io.Path.Combine(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath, "PV.exe"));
assuming that the program is in the launched application's path.
or...
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(System.Io.Path.Combine(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments), #"Visual Studio 2008\Projects\PV_002_082708\PV_001\PV_001\bin\Debug\PV.exe"));
assuming you want to open the project from it's place.

Once you create the installation package you can set the install path to some fixed path that users will not be able to change and than use that from your code (not very user friendly but it would work) or insert the user chosen path value into the registry and get it from there instead.

May want to have a look at this thread. How-to as well as lots of pro's and cons.
Embedded a *.exe into a dll
If you see the first answer to his question, I think this would work for you.
Simply he is saying, you add a resource file to your project, then when the user runes your program, it extracts your exe file that you added as a resource file to somewhere you know on the end users maching.