My VS.NET 2003 installation cd contains .NET Framework 1.0. If I re-install VS.NET, can it be used with .NET Framework 1.1 which I have installed on my system now? Or must VS.NET be used for delopment with the .NET Framework that it shipped with? Jenssey...more >>

When using VB.NET to create a web services application, does tha service have to be hosted on a server that gives special permission fo the application (sort of like some personal homepage hosts requirin prior approval for you to use CGI scripts?) Or, instead, can We Services you create with V...more >>

Does the registration of VS.NET involve getting an activation code without which VS.NET won't work? Or does it just involve telling Microsoft the user's "demographics"? The info in the MS Knowledge Base suggests the latter, but I want to be sure. Jenssey...more >>

In VS2003, I've got a .exe project which references a DLL written in a separate project. I have two instances of VS open and e.g. add a public method to the DLL and rebuild. It doesn't appear in the .exe project unless I remove and re-add the reference. Is there any way to do a quick 'refresh...more >>

I am having a problem. My toolbars (Data, Security, etc - i.e. on the left) go missing when I leave VS2005RC and come back in. This may or may not have something to do with the Infragistics toolbar that I install. I am searching in both sets of newsgroups. I have just installed VS2005RC. Since...more >>

What the heck are they? I'm to decide if they should be excluded from version control. No mention of them in file types docs that I can find....more >>

When re-installing VS.NET 2003 Academic, is it necessary to uninstall the MSDN Library and re-install it, too? That is, can VS.NET be uninstalled and then re-installed while leaving the MSDN Library in place? Jenssey...more >>

Is the Academic edition of VS 2003 limited to one installation? After installing SP2 for my WinXP Pro, VS 2003 gave a DLL initialization error. After uninstalling and re-installing VS, it still gives the error and the Start Page still points to the old project folders. Despite going to Tools...more >>

Hi, I have inherited a web project that for some reason kept getting corrupted and moved to a different directory with an TestWeb_1, TestWeb_2, TestWeb_3 on it. I tried to eliminate this and move it back to the directory TestWeb. All seemed fine, but when I restart VS, I get an error when...more >>

When I first load my solution in the IDE and hit run, VS.NET will always do a full rebuild of the active project. This only seems to occur when I exit the IDE and then start the IDE back up again. Why does VS.NET rebuild everytime I reload the solution. This makes no sense. Is there somethi...more >>

My application uses files with a custom extension for stored procedures. I would like to use the standard Installer project to deploy them, but since the default build action for these unknown file types is "none" there's no way that I can find to get them into the installer. Is there a way...more >>

I have an application developed with VB in VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Architect that generates MsiInstaller errors for the Crystal Reports components in the Event Log during about 75% of installations. The following Event Log ID's are generated, and the components that fail are the Crystal Repo...more >>

Visual Studio .NET 2003 - I cannot implement undo in the source editor. However, I can undo changes to web forms, html pages, etc. Also, at the same time that I lost the ability to undo changes to my code, formatting and intellisense went hay-wire. All is fine after a build until I enter a...more >>

I have just installed Visual Studio 2003. I have a new ASPX form. I entered the following: <%Res Then hit CTRL_SPACE and nothing happens. What happened to Intellisense? System.Web is in my project references list. One of the big advantages to using Interdev for me has always been the...more >>

Hi, we use currently Visual Studio 6 and would update to VS 2003. VS 6 is not installed on the computer where the release version is generated. We use VS from inside Clearcase. In our script for the buildprocess first we set some environment variables. After all we call something like this:...more >>

I have a Setup Project in VS.Net 2003 for a Windows Forms application. Everytime I run the install and upgrade it puts a new entry into Add/Remove Programs with the same application name. Under "Click here for support information" link, each entry has a different version. I use the followin...more >>

Hi, I am on a project where i have to create a new webpart, which is just link (URL) and when the link is clicked it should open an webpage containing some form to be filled , and this form has to be sent in a mail after filling all the data.. But the problem is i know nothing about Sharepoin...more >>

Hi, I've been tasked with taking over a asp.net 1.1 / c# project where the programmer (in whatever environment they were using) has placed the code behind files in a subdirectory, usually named CodeBehindFor[DirectoryName] to each aspx directory. They've then referenced the codebehind files...more >>

Hi All, I've been writing an application at work that needs to insert a value into an Oracle Clob field. I'm using the June2005 Enterprise Library Data Application block to connect to the database and perform reads and writes to it. It is easy enough to do using the OracleClient, but i want...more >>

I need a user to enter a value into a form field and then when the user closes out of the application and opens that form again, perhaps the following day, have the last value they entered appear in the form field so that they do not have to reenter it until the value changes in the future. ...more >>

Hi, I would like to use one of the error codes defined in WinError.h. There is no iclude anymore. I have put in "using System.Runtime.InteropServices" and the compiler still doesn't recognize the error code. There must be some way, other than defining it by myself... Anybody ? ...more >>

Hi, over the past 6 weeks or so, i started to learn visual basic 6. I used a few books and i have grasped the basic concepts etc. I am university and for my final project i have to create a retail solution system, stock control, track purchases etc. My question is should i use vb.net inste...more >>

Is there away to set the color of a pixel of a bitmap image in VB.Net. I get the following error message. An unhandled exception of type 'System.Exception' occurred in system.drawing.dll Additional information: SetPixel is not supported for images with indexed pixel formats. Sameple co...more >>

Hi, We have a scientific software suite that is primarily developed using VS2003 and C#. The code also uses a mix of managed/unmanaged C++ for some of the computationally insensitive parts. Recently, a prospective client of ours asked whether it would be possible to make calls to a C-style...more >>

Hi, I have never used .NET and wanted to check that I could write a simple program to: Read an ASCII text file Process the data in it Write the processed data to another ASCII file with the Standard edition of .NET The program will run on a stand alone computer and it req...more >>