"Bassist695" wrote:

> I get the following message at least a dozen times a day:
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> Microsoft Development Environment
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> Could not generate a list of fields for the query.
>
> Check the query syntax or click Refresh Fields on the query toolbar.
>
> ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection. The
> connection's current state is Closed.
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> OK
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>
> I then have to shutdown and restart Visual Studio .NET. It absolutely
> kills me. I have other connectivity issues as well (sometimes I cannot
> view table columns in Query Analyzer so I have to refresh at the
> database level). Is it possible that my VS install is no good?
>
> Help!
>
> Mike
>