(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 >>