It seems that Norton personal Firewall 2004 interferes with VS.NET 2003, apparently in a couple ways. It appears to stop the W3SVC service from starting, and prevents you from running a Windows app from the IDE. If the W3SVC service is set to start automatically it remains stuck in the starting...more >>

Hi All, I installed VS.NET 2003 but I cannot display forms when creating Smart device applications (PocketPC) Instead I get a message "The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed." The references set in the Solution Explorer is em...more >>

The VS.net 2003 60 day trial DVD does not give you 60 days worth of trial! It gives about 14 days max! I just installed it in mid Feb 2004 and it said it expires on 29th Feb 2004! What's going on? Can MS staff shed some light on this? XP Pro SP1 with all the "Critical" Updates ...more >>

when you compile an application on Visual studio .NET, will the exe file run in windows 98? even though there is no .NET SDK installed? i asked this because i've learned that .NET compiled applications need the .NET CLR in order to be executed. And I also learned that .NET SDK's minimum r...more >>

I have a situation where we need to compile a VB6 application, then execute a batch file to create the .Net interop, then compile a VS.Net 2003 solution. If someone can provide me with help to one of these 2 questions I'd appreciate it: 1. Does VB6 support Post-compile commands? (To execu...more >>

Hi all, My start page on Visual Studio 2002 .NET has been corrupted. It only show a link to my profile and nothing else. I tried all the Options but without anything changing. Is there any way to reset it back to how it was without reinstalling, Regards ...more >>

I am getting this error after installing VS 2003 on Windows XP. I have already tried the following: To fix IIS mappings for ASP.NET, follow these steps: Run the Aspnet_regiis.exe utility: Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open text box, type cmd, and then press ENTER. At the comman...more >>

In my VS. Net setup project, I set the project properties as this: RemovePreviousVersions = true DetectNewerInstalledVersion = true UpgradeCode = {032251A5-FFFE-41B5-8CC8-8D17C7910212} /* Previous version(V1.0.10)'s ProductCode */ Version = 1.0.11 after build, I view the upgrade table wit...more >>

I am trying to find the documentation that defines the Microsoft Source Code Control Interface (MS SCCI) to integrate a CM system into Visual Studio. Does anyone know where I can locate this information? Thanks, Chris...more >>

I get this after installing .NET on my Windows-2000 server. What's wrong?...more >>

I am working on a reasonable sized .net projetc on my local pc - using Windows XP - initially there were no problems editing but now it seems to be getting painfully slow, I get the impression that it may have something to do with intellisense or some sort of automatic checking of errors in code as ...more >>

Hi I am trying to set up a vb.net project that people will be able to input data (ie: name, dept etc:) and it will then input to a excel template I have set up, almost like a mail -merge. Can anybody help Thanks...more >>

I have prexisting web sites using asp and front page server extensions. I would like to be able to manage those sites through vs.net . When I try to connect to the web sites I get the following error: HTTP/ 1.1 403 Access Forbidden. Is there a document that talks about create new projects in ...more >>

I installed Visual Studio .NET 2003 on WinXP (this WinXP system has had ALL "Windows Update" content applied). The installer reported that the installation was successful. I tried to create a project and got message "The Web Server reported the following error: The Server returned an inval...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have written several acticeX controls in C++, which wrap the Win32 tree and list view controls. They run as part of a web application. I am attempting to run this application on windows 98, as we have some clients who are still using windows 98. When compiled under visual C...more >>

Running Windows 2000 Professional, FrontPage 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2003., ..NET Framework 1.1.xxx When I try to create an ASP.NET project in Visual Studio I get the error message "Cannot find the components for communicating with the FrontPage server extensions." Outside of Visual Studio...more >>

Hello, I can only one document at a time if try to open another doc it replaces the the current doc. I'm using VS 2003 and the settings are set to Tabbed documents. It always workd fine before. I'm not sure what happened to cause to issue. Thanks in advance Randy ...more >>

On 1/21/2004 I upgraded to VS 2003. Now ALL my old projects on the Start Page always say that the last modified date was 1/21/2004. It never changes even when I do modifications. It never says "today" or "yesterday" - just 1/21/200. Only new projects created after the upgrade have "good" modified d...more >>

Need to save outlined code so that the outline exists when file is reopened later Any tips appreciated....more >>

Something doesn't click here -- Upon start up of VS.NET 2003, I don't see my project I created the day before. It seems that the projects in C:\...\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects are all listed there, however I changed my home directory to the server, i.e. H:\My Documents\Visual Studio P...more >>

Hello I have a VC++ 6.0 version Project for a custom appwizard which if i try to build in VS.net, gives following error error C2061:..... IBuildProject Isn't it portable? If yes then can anybody help me ?...more >>

Intellisense is great, but it only displays my XML comments from my code if I am working in the same project as that code. If, for example I am developing a class library, and have a seperate test project in the same workspace, I cannot get my comments to display in the test application, ...more >>

Hi There, I try to install the cd pack of Visual Basic.Net Initiation When I'm ready to insert the third cd of the MSDN Library, the installation doesn't find the cd #3 So When I looked on this cd it's just files to served for Visual C++ and it's an original CD This is the second pack I tried ...more >>

Hello World Just now writing some code and the Month Funtion works fine but the Date doesn't Dim intMonth As Intege intMonth = Month(newCkDt) 'this works perfectl If intMonth = 3 Or 6 Or 9 Or 12 The Dim intDay As Intege intDay = Day(newCkDt) 'this ...more >>

I need to purchase a copy of VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Arch. Also need an MSDN Universal subscription. Can you recommend a good on-line vendor? Thanks, Michael ...more >>

Tengo un problema cuando intento trabajar con Excel desde un formulario Asp.Net, lenguaje C#. Mensaje de error: "Acceso Denegado" El error ocurre cuando ejecuto la sentencia: Excel.Application objExcel = new Excel.Application(); Desde un formulario Asp.Net necesito tener acceso a archivo de...more >>

Necesito trabajar con el evento onkeypress del control TextBox en ASP.NET, cuando presiono la tecla enter '\r' que se posicione en otro TextBox, o que haga una consulta a la base de datos. Entiendo que hay que trabajar con Javascript, pero no se como mezclarlo con ASP.Net, y trabajar simultaneam...more >>

Hi, all We´re planning to start a project in a customer based in .NET platform. The customer has been working with VB since 1.0 version. Actually, their main applications are coded in VB 5.0. Which language would you recommend? Continue in the way of Visual Basic with VB.NET or change to C#? Is th...more >>

Hi Everyone I am trying to learn C++ on my own and have bought VS 2003 from the student's library. My problem is during installing VS 2003 I got a message that I must install VC++ which I have done. Now I have VS 2003 but I can not run a simple C++ program. I have tried Win32 console, empty...more >>

Hello all! Let me begin with saying that I am a beginner at best. I recently purchased VS.net 2003 with the hopes of taking up programming and game programming as a hobby only. I have no intent of earning a living at it. I did take a course in C while in graduate school other than that...more >>