Our company is ready to purchase .net. If we typically do our programming in Visual Basic, should we simply purchase VB.NET ($100) or should we purchase VS.NET ($1100). I know this question has probably been asked 1000 times......Also, is it better to purchase the subscription? DO you get ...more >>

Dear all, I'm developing an appliction for multi-language environment and want to know how to set product name in different language. I found that AssemblyProduct in AssemblyInfo seems to be static and cannot change Application.ProductName in run-time. Thanks for your attention and kindly ...more >>

I have been using my Visual Studio for a while and all has worked fine. But now even when logged in as "sa" I cant get the full permissions in my Server Explorer. All I can do is read the tables. I cant create, design, or make SP's. All works fine in Enterprise Manager or a couple of other apps ...more >>

When pressing F5 after a full build without errors(ctrl-shift-B), i have the following dialog that says: These project configuration(s) are out of date: Project1 - Debug Win32 Project2 - Debug Win32 .... Would you like to build them? [Yes] [No] [Cancel] [Help] How can i...more >>

I use VS.NET 2003 (Academic Edition.) when I try to create a new "ASP.NET Wen Application", I get an error message saying the following: "Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications o...more >>

(I don't think this falls under the type of dll you have to run regsvr32.exe with, I may be wrong) Below is a very simple application, just to see if I can do this. What I want to do is put the two functions, TimesTwo and TimesThree in one common callable component (a .dll I suppose). I'v...more >>

I just bought a package at Borders today containing a book and VB .Net 2003. It won't get updates from the web but gives the error described in KB 836454 which says to contact Micosoft product support. When I put in the product number it says this isn't eligible for online support. The box ...more >>

I'm using the Visual Studio code model in an VS .NET 2003 add-in to adjust attributes on C# methods. Reading things work fine, but when I try to execute the AddAttribute() method on a CodeFunction object, I get a "not implemented exception. I get the same exception when I try to use the Delete()...more >>

My company is using VS.Net 2003 to create and maintain asp.net projects on a windows 2003 webserver. The projects are created as applications and subwebs, then via FPE 2002 extensions are added to source control -> External version control, $/path/to/site. We can open the projects no problem,...more >>

Is there a way in visual Studio to see a datatable in a datagrid visually during debugging? Often I'm trying to verify column names and field data but having to sort through the datatable represented in an object tree. It would be nice to also select that variable holding a datatable whi...more >>

Hi I need VStudio for group of 5 programmers. I have to buy: - 5 licences of VS Developer or - 1 license of VS Developer and 4 licences of VS Professional (any loss of functionality?)? best regards Adam...more >>

Hello. I installed VS.NET 2002 professional first, later I installed VS.NET 2003 professional on the same machine because I thought it could upgrade the 2002 version to 2003 version. But in fact it installed 2 versions separetely on the same machine instead of upgrading the old version to new...more >>

In order to protect software from being copied without licence, I would like to use something like a key, which fits only to the current system. The serial number of the CPU or the current operating system would be appropriate. However, I do not know how to retrieve the information. Could you ...more >>

I have created a root designer, and in the PostFilterProperties method override, I get ahold of a particular property descriptor and associate an event handler with it using PropertyDescriptor.AddValueChanged() method. Do I need, at some time, to explicitly call the RemoveValueChanged() method or...more >>

Since I installed sp2 I can not run any projects with debugging, the process starts and then hangs; also I can not run any web services. This on a XP Pro development machine. ...more >>

I am having a hard time trying to find the source of an unusual problem. What I am attempting to do is add a control to a panel, eg. > pnlDetail.Controls.Clear(); > pnlDetail.Controls.Add(newControl); This works perfectly fine for 2 other similarish controls, but for this control it throws ...more >>

Hi, I am creating an add-in using VS.NET add-in wizard. The MSI is auto generated by the wizard. This works fine. What I want to do is to add a custom readme file to the installation folder, then I add an existing item in solution explorer, and set the build action to content. But the fi...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to remove a solution from within Visual Studio .NET? ...more >>

Hi, Can anyone please help me. I am working with treeview webcontrol in vb.net. It is working fine on my local machine. Then i moved to a remote server. When i try to pull the page, the tree structure is displaying in one line as simple text. What did i do wrong. Is there anything i n...more >>

I appear to have misunderstood the purpose of the 'save all' function in VS.net 2k3. I have a solution checked out of a VSS repository for which I have been adding code files to over the last 5 days whilst using 'save all' to save the state of my work locally. I use the hibernate function with...more >>

Hi, I have a solution with 3 projects, say ProjA, ProjB and ProjC. The dependency relationship is ProjC->ProjB->ProjA. Now I have just changed ProjA's version from 1.0.0.1 to 1.0.1.0. ProjA is a class library. ProjB is user control library. I removed the ProjA reference and then added Pro...more >>

I've walked through some Windows Forms samples in Visual Studio which utilize SQL Server Database. I worked on these samples on my PC having SQL Server. Now I want to go through real world scenario to access database remotely from a distant location. I need the following details: 1. How t...more >>

Hi, Recently I have experienced a problem with Visual Studio .NET Setup Projects: When you execute a setup created by a Visual Studio .NET Setup Project to upgrade an application and the setup includes a custom install action, the installer doesn't execute the custom install action of the new ...more >>

Someone somewhere made mention once of an app or plugin for the vs.net studio that helps you to organize your code snippets (building a toolbox) and rollback to previous versions of your code. Anyone know the name to that?...more >>

Hello. I have installed on my computer Visual Studio 2005 Beta and DirectX 9.0 SDK Update - (Summer 2004). I have developed projects Visual Basic, Visual C# and Visual C++ for construction of 3-Dimensional geometrical bodies, surfaces and lines of a level of these surfaces without use of Direct...more >>

Is there any way to customize or extend the color coding logic in VS.NET 2003? In particular, I'd like to be able to display and edit an XML file where certain elements, e.g. those from a particular namespace, are colored differently. ....Mike ...more >>

Can I write non-.NET applications with only VB.NET, or do I need the entire Visual Studio? I need to use COM objects, old controls like CommandButtons and CommonDialogs, and call functions like Shell_NotifyIcon. ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to use SDI interface in VS.NET 2003 instead of MDI? In some cases that would make my life much easier :). Best Regards, Steffen ...more >>

Hi, I've been writing a program in .net for a couple years and everything was working fine until my hard drive had to be replaced and so I installed visual studio on the new drive and loaded up my application. Now I get the following error whenever I try to convert a string into a date:...more >>

Hi, I've just switched from the Macromedia range to Microsoft (Langauge wise). While I'm kicking some goals in some projects with .NET C# (Windows Forms), I was wondering if its worthwhile to tackle my first "commercial" project in 2005? or is it still too early. The project I have in mi...more >>

I have taken several courses in VB 6.0. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to obtain VB.NET. I live in Atlanta. Is experience in VB 6.0 enough to get a job, or will I have to go .NET?...more >>

Hi there I'm running vb6 and a 3rd party dll. The documentation says put the dll in the system directory (i'm running xp) I've done this but when I run th vb application an error is thrown. run time error 48 - file not found vbasm.dll Could someone help please. thanks...more >>

Hi, After installing VS.2003, I just upgraded a VS.NET 2002 project to VS.NET 2003. I upgraded because VS.NET 2003 is slow and buggy. However, I find VS.NET 2003 is worse in terms of bugs. For approx 20 hours everything was fine. Now suddenly I have IDE+Debugger (VB.NET) problems. Comp...more >>

Does anybody know how I can activate the source control features of VS.Net to work with PVCS? I currently do not see any source control options in my IDE menu trees. Thanks, David...more >>

I am having trouble saving a trademark symbol in a C# aspx page text. If I enter ™ or ™ and save the page - everything is ok switching between HTML and Design views. However - if I change anything, even add a space to a different part of the page in Design view, changing back t...more >>

I have a datatable with 2 columns. The first column needs to be the x-axis and the second column needs to be the y-axis... I know all the code for displaying crystal report documents I just need to know how to make a simple XY line graph on a report. It seems like it would be very simple to do ...more >>

Hi guys, recently I have started using the CTRL + J shortcut keys to flick up the intellisense member list which saves me having to type:- this. to view them. However this key combo does not work on anything other than the intial blank line and list sequence i.e CTRL+J (list shown) Forms.CT...more >>

Hi all, I've created a deployment package for my Windows Service project. The installer class for the service is set to start service "Automatically". However, looks like I still need to start the service manually after installation, e.g. by typing "net start servicename" or from the Service...more >>

I am having a problem with server explorer in vs.net 2003. I need to be able to use the full set of functionality of server explorer on a server that I am wishing to connect to. Currently, all I am getting is: [with read ONLY access] + Tables + Views + Stored Procedures BUT, connecti...more >>

How do I Copy and Paste with the same Button like on notpad or another Object. I'm new at this Thanks Steve...more >>

I'm new to vsnet & these groups. What would be the best place to ask for help on calling a kernel32.dll WinAPI function (GetVolumeInformation) from a managed C++ Windows Forms project? Thanks! -- Ray Marron ...more >>

Hi All, I added a DLL written by VB.NET to GAC. This DLL is located at C:\LLSI-Tech\GAC in my local computer. The project(project1) for above DLL is located at C:\clearcase\payoff. I add this DLL to my another VB class project(project2) as an reference from C:\LLSI-Tech\GAC. However,...more >>

I am getting the following error when I build my Install package: C:\2005 WGI\OfficeApp\Setup2\Setup2.vdproj Unable to build project output group 'Content Files from OfficeAppNET (Active)' This worked before but since then I moved the entire solution to a new directory? I tried deleting and ...more >>

Hi all, I can easily modify my SQL server tables via VS.Net, but I can only get information about my access databases? Is there a way for me to have the same functionality? (ie, change datatypes, create a new table, etc etc?) Thanks! b...more >>

Please somone tell me there is a way to end all my misery with this annoying functionality. I cannot possibly imagine *ANY* reason whatsoever that I'd want to have vs.net break automatically on the first line of any project after hitting the restart button. I know I can hit stop/start, but I g...more >>

Hi, I am running VS NET 2003 EA Edition on Windows 2000 server, and have recently removed MS Office 2000 and installed MS Office XP. Office is working fine, however now whenever I try to launch VS NET I get a Windows Installer dialog box with the message "Preparing to Install" then it simp...more >>

Hi, I am running VS NET 2003 EA Edition on Windows 2000 server, and have recently removed MS Office 2000 and installed MS Office XP. Office is working fine, however now whenever I try to launch VS NET I get a Windows Installer dialog box with the message "Preparing to Install" then it simp...more >>

Well I am back. I am trying to back into the developing world. I have done a ton of the old visual studio developing. Now I see there is visual studio dot net 2003 and 2005. So my question is do I invest time with the 2003 version or just start working with the 2005 version. I am a universal s...more >>

Hi, After looking up Microsoft's site for licensing info...and found nothing, I turn to this newsgroup. Does someone know what version of VB .Net you are entitled to use when you are a micro business? I think I can't buy a VB .Net standard package but I'm not sure about it. Also if ...more >>

Just a quick warning to anyone who's thinking about trying the CodeObject ('IntelliCode') plugin - don't do it unless: a) You *know* you're going to buy it or b) You don't mind having to completely re-install Visual Studio Uninstalling the trial of this add-in completely knackers code compl...more >>