I have a Windows 2003 standard server that is used mostly for testing and debugging. I installed SP1 when it was first released and it killed debugging. I wasted about a day looking for the solution and then uninstalled SP1. Everything worked again. Not long ago I reinstalled SP1. At the ti...more >>

When I try to debug an asp .Net web site from my machine (the website is on an IIS 5 server), get the folowing error ------------------------------------ Unable to connect to the machine 'mymachine'. The RPC server is unavailable --------------------------------------------- I followed the do...more >>

I saw a demonstration of the beta version of VS 2005 and it had a neat little tool called "Performance Tools" that would show you a lot of info about a program, including what functions were taking the most time. Does anyone know if there is a way to get this on VS 2003? ...more >>

Hi, I have a computer that I'm an administrator of. I can run in debug mode. I have other people who I need to develop that have remote desktop priviledges to this machine. However, I don't want them as administrators. However when they debug they get the error in the subject line. How...more >>

Hi, I have a VC7++ VS2003 program that uses CRecordSet to write one record to a SQLAnywhere database via ODBC, a Code Sniplet is contained below, on most machine running the same OS and Build it works flawlessly, however on this one XP Build 5.1 SP@ machine it never ends up writing the recor...more >>

We are setting up developer workstations to mirror the various host names in use in our production web site. In order to host multiple sites on the developer workstations, we added additional names to the hosts file (C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) that map to the loopback address, e.g.: ...more >>

HI I'm a C# developer and unfortunately I have to use now unmanaged C++ code. This project cannot run with mix managed and unmanaged code. Therefore I cannot use System::Diagnostics::Trace::WriteLine to plot same debug messages into the Output window of Visual Studio 2003. Is the...more >>

Hello there, I have a VC++ dll project, and a VS.net project which is using that dll. Now how do i go into that dll to a specific function during debugging, using VS.net? Thanks In Advance... Cheers... Bye ...more >>

Hi, I have read a couple of articles that you can step thru the SP while degugging. i cannot!!! can someone suggest me how to? I have set the Project Properties > SQL Server Debugging. it says goto Server Explorer > rightclick on stored procedure and click edit and set a break point. I cann...more >>

Hi, ENV: VS 2003 (7.1.3088), Windows 2003 Server SP1 (all the latest Windows updates via automatic delivery) .Net 1.0 & .Net 1.1 SP1. When I go to debug a process using this method, the VS ide hangs before displaying the 'Processes' dialog. The only way out is to kill devenv.exe. This s...more >>

I have a section in my ASP.NET code where I have an HTML unordered list. Visual Studio keeps removing the closing list item tags, except for the last list item. In other words, Visual Studio makes my code look like the following: <ul> <li>adasf <li>asdfsa <li>asdfd <li>adfsdf</l...more >>

Hello, Does somebody maybe knows of it is possible to add my own tracelistener to the traceSource using the config file? I'm using vs2005 b2, and wrote a tracelistener that i want to use as a 'normal' tracelistener in the config file (Adding the listener to the tracesource with programcode work...more >>

I am running several Windows 2000 Servers with multiple Web Sites on each server. I have copied an old ASP.NET project from one server to a different server and a new Web Site. I have configured the new Web Site on the IIS server and setup the proper Identity information for the new Web Site....more >>

I have a win project which is in a solution and have another win app in another solution. In the first win app, I use Process.Start() to launch the second one. since the two win apps run in different processes, I cannot use attach in menu Debug-->Processes for debug. Is there any way to ...more >>

I have a web server co-located at a hosting facility. I use Terminal Services to connect to the server so that I can develop and debug "locally," and this has worked since I installed Visual Studio. However, just recently we installed a firewall to deal with unauthorized login attempts to ...more >>

My teammate on a project somehow removed all the control declarations in a project. Since most of the control declarations are added automatically when the controls are added, is there a way to have Visual Studio add them again? (my project is ASP.NET/VB) Thanks. -- Nathan Sokalski njsokal...more >>

Hi all, I know there are plenty of posts about remote debugging with vs 2003 but I can't make things work no matter what I've read or done so far :( The VS2003 is installed in a winXP Pro SP2 pc (firewall disabled) and the IIS 6 is running on a remote win2003 Server pc (with all updates in...more >>

I'm having trouble getting the JIT debugger to work. I am working on a solution with two projects. The main app is a WindowsForms app, and some of the heavy lifting is done by a second project that is compiled into a separate DLL. While debugging the main app, I've run into a bug in the DLL. ...more >>

We are facing these 2 problems very frequently: ms development environment shuts down whenever we build the solution. While all the DLLs are build but when it comes to windown application project, it does not make the EXE file but instead shuts down. Also while writing some code, sometime...more >>

I have a working ASP.NET application with debugging enabled in web.config: <compilation defaultLanguage="js" debug="true"/> I can attach to the application (aspnet_wp.exe process) from Visual Studio.NET 2003, and hit a breakpoint when I insert a "debugger" statement in the code. However, t...more >>

I have a compiled activex dll written in VB6. I'm using Vs studio 2003 to debug a classic ASP Application (not asp.net). I've compiled and registered the dll with complus following the recommended practice of using "no optimization/create symbolic debug info and binary compatability" My proble...more >>

I'm using MSVC++ .NET 2003 (C++, not C#) and the DIA SDK. I can parse the symbol tree to find a function of interest, and determine it's paramater types, like so: static void __cdecl ZPostShot(float, D3DXVECTOR3&, D3DXVECTOR3&, int); However, what I am after is the _name_ of each paramater...more >>

Hello, I am using Visual Studio 2003 and am having an issue with the Exceptions Dialog Box. The list of exceptions only includes the "common language runtime exceptions" tree, the other trees are missing, such as "Win32 exceptions". Does anyone know how to resolve this issue? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I would like to know if there is any way in registry settings or somewhere else, where I can set the default debugger for VC6 and .NET. I have a VC6 compiled application but when I try to debug it is going to .NET debugger which I would like to avoid. Thanks in Advance ! ...more >>

I've neven been able to get conditional breakpoints to work consistently with Visual Studio. This morning I could not get them to work and so I cooked up a very simple case and was suprised I could not get them to trigger. Consider this program: #include <string> int main( int, char** ...more >>