Is there any way of creating C# style #region blocks within the C++ editor?...more >>

I have IIS installed (and I really don't feel the need to install Visual Web Developer 2005 Express) but I need to know the answer to this question. Anybody know? Thanks!! ...more >>

Help! I'm unable to connect to my SQL Server 2005 database from a C# class. This error message happens on the conn.Open() statement in my code: Request for the permission of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlClientPermission, System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5...more >>

Resently the properties window in my VS2005 installation went blank. When I am using the form designer there are no properties shown in the propterties window. I have tried closing/opening forms, the properties window, the IDE, booting the computer. Nothing helps, the properties are gone. I kn...more >>

Hi! I have a problem when I save file using VS2003 or VS2005. If I use utf-8 with signature VS saves file ok, but when saving without signature non english letters are saved wrongly. This is most annoyed when developing web applications, because all the browsers (incuding IE) then display th...more >>

I can't determine how to automatically print a document that already exists. Everything I am reading has to do with calling Graphics functions and manually 'drawing' the page and printing that. I have an application that as part of it's processing creates an text file and saves it to a netw...more >>

Hello, Is there any way to count source code lines within a .NET 2005/2003 solution files? Thakns! Tom. ...more >>

I applied a System.Data.dll hotfix today and it did not solve the problem so I went to a restore point from yesterday. It restored and rebooted. I then went back to work on a C# Windows application in Visual Studio. Out of habit, I verified that all of my source files were in sync with SourceS...more >>

I use a Host Service to display my website. I have a website up and running that I developed in VS-2003. I use web copy to send the website to my Host's computer. I have been trying to publish a very simple (text only, no controls) website using Web Developer Express. I copy the website to m...more >>

I'm really tired of running into this error: fatal error LNK1201: error writing to program database 'blah blah path.pdb'; check for insufficient disk space, invalid path, or insufficient privilege When I try renaming or modifying the file in Windows Explorer I cannot so it appears that the...more >>

If I take a small, innocuous VB6 app (we're talking less than 1000 lines of code, with basically a few WMI calls, nothing major) and edit it with VS2005, it tells me that I have to use Structure instead of Type statements. (I'm not a programmer...) it doesn't seem these existed before .NET? ...more >>

Hi, We have a computer where we put all the software sources that we made. Until two days ago, we are using VS 2003 and when two people open the same project and work on it everything is well. However when we change to VS 2005 Pro, the first person that open the project works well, but when a ...more >>

I am currently in the process of migrating some sties and was wondering if someone could answer this question. Do you still need FrontPage Server Extensions to connect to a IIS6.0 and develop ASP.Net 2005 web applications? Thanks, Ron...more >>

I have purchased Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (December 2005). Apparently there's supposed to be a zip file called VS2005ImageLibrary.zip containing updated images, icons etc. in: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\common7\ ...but after installation (an...more >>

I plan on going to buy a book tonight on windows programming with VS2005 but I have an immediate question. I have a datagrid in a windows form and I manually create 5 columns in the designer and set the data property to a property in my datasource. I fill my datasource and then bound it to m...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm using ASP.Net to develop a web application and need to check the user browser's 'Disable Script Debugging' setup. If it's not selected, I want to use code to set it to 'Disabled'. Is it possible to do that? Thanks MH...more >>

I've searched and researched. I don't know what that part of the window is called at the bottom of the frame. I want to be able to write to it. It doesn't seem to be a menu bar. Without the proper jargon, I can't begin to reference it. Thats my first problem. My second problem is the ...more >>

Does anybody know an Article / Whitepaper for developing an Windows Service ?...more >>

Hello A message box asking for another disk is displayed midway through installation of VS 2005 . As far as I can tell there is no other disk. platform: XP Professional with SP2. install started via setup.exe on dvd root directory. Sequence of Events: Setup has detected that ms windows ins...more >>

I was playing around with ASP.NET 2.0 and created a page using the Northwind database(sql serve 2k) Full of originality so far eh… Any way, I used the Gridview control and checked off the auto generate fields and added three columns. 1. Boundfield for Employee ID 2. Template field fo...more >>

I have a very simple website I developed using Web Developer Express. It has one page that only contains text. I use the Copy Web Site to place the site on my host's computer. I try to run the page and get the following error. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim Configuration E...more >>

Dear sir I can send mail in web form . Because there is system.web.mail namespace, but it is not in windows form project So ,how can I send mail in windows project ? (Do not use IIS smtp ) thanks a lot ...more >>

Is it possible to have Visual Studio Team System working with .NET 1.1 instead of .NET framework 2.0? -- Regards, MSGuy ...more >>

Hello I use the data source window to connect to a database. Because the location of the database might vary, I want to change the connectionstring at runtime via my.settings.... but this is an application setting which can't be changed at runtime. I know how to accomplish a connectionstrin...more >>

In Visual Studio 6 you could open your project's settings, click on the compiler tab and see the exact command line that VS was using to build your project. Does VS 7 and up also provide that?? It appears to me that it doesn't. The proj files are now XML based and the IDE probably constructs ...more >>

Does anyone know how the artifacts that come from a business analyst such as use case models flow down to the development team? For example, I want a BA to document the use cases (models and descriptions), functional requirements and non-functional requirements in a tool that will ultimatel...more >>

Hi all, I have an application built using Visual Studio .Net 2005. I have compiled and installed this on a Windows 2003 Server machine. The clients used internet explorer version 6.0.2800.1106CD SP 1, to view this application. (Windows 2000 Professional SP 4) They are getting the error ...more >>

I want to write an application that will open automatically when a perticular USB device is connected to the system. I have a new Digital Camcorder, however there was no software provided for file transfers. The camera directions say to use Windows Explorer for file transfers. For myself, that...more >>

Hello, I just used VS2005 to copy a new website to a staging server within our network. The application uses Windows (AD) authentication. On my local development machine, everything works fine, on the staging server, User.Identity.IsAuthenticated does not return true, even though I am log...more >>

Hi all, does anyone know of a good exmaple showing how to use two or more tables in one dataset? im having trouble trying to retrieve data from the second table. using the following code snippet Dim myTable As DataTable = data.Tables("Customer") Dim MyRow As DataRow = myTable.Rows(0...more >>

Hi, I´m interested in developing Portal solutions with ASP .NET 2.0 and I read the article in MSDN Magazine by Steven Smith in Jun/2004, about a Web Site template called "ASP .NET Intranet Site". I installed Visual Studio 2005 Developer in a Windows XP workstation and couldn´t find this t...more >>

I use VS.NET 2003 to debug a couple of COM+ apps. Since the app is a COM+ app, I have to first start the app and then attach to it in the debugger. Very often, when I select Tools->Debug Processes, VS.NET will crash. I get the dialog that has the checkmark to automatically start a new versi...more >>

Hello, I think I have come across a bug, and I wonder if there are any work arounds. I have VS2005 Pro, Windows XP pro, 2GB Ram, P4 processor. I have been using the "Copy Web Site" feature under "Website" on the menu. When I go back into a website and make changes to some code then try and...more >>

I've created a second version of my ClickOnce installation. I start the original installed version of my application and it asks me if I would like to update the application. I install the new version and it fails with an error report, which claims that is can't remove shortcuts. The 'Publishe...more >>

Hi. Trying to install Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. Have Office 2003 Standard (norwegian) with SP2 installed on my computer - everything looks OK. Problem: VSTO installer says that Office 2003 SP1 is not installed. Am I missing something here? -- _______________ Tor M...more >>

I recently recieved my new version of Visual Studio 2005 with tools for office. When trying to create a new project of type office, no matter which i try be it excel word etc, i always recieve the following error. "Programmatic access to the Microsoft Office Visual Basic for application proj...more >>

After upgrading to 2005, I found I still miss 2003. 2005 is buggy, unstable and memory consuming. For C/C++ projects, 2005 produces much bigger binary images :-(. So I have to stick to 2003 for some time. But 2003 also has small bugs. Does anyone know if ms will release a SP for 2003? ...more >>

Hi all, Once again lots of people who have migrate from previous .NET version is facing lots of problems with VSNET 2005 form designer. I´m Not an exception. This post is to ask to Microsoft when is going to be relased the fix for this bug. I supose for what i have searched in the Internet,...more >>

Hello all. I've purchased the VS2005 Pro upgrade, since I can upgrade from my VS.NET 2003 Professional. Perhaps it's a dumb question, but - will installing the upgrade wipe out the 2003 installation? If so, can I reinstall the VS2003.NET Pro using the magic numbers? I need to develop in both ...more >>

Anyone else having performance problems with VS2005? Bringing up VS2005 initially, bringing up help or expanding a database connection in the server pane (pain?) are particularly slow. VS2003 has always been very responsive on this machine, a Dell M600 laptop w/1GB RAM. I'm running XP SP2 on t...more >>

Hi all, I'm using a third party assembly that has some unmanaged DLL dependencies (via PInvoke). When trying to deploy my application using ClickOnce, these dependencies remain uncaught, thus the deployment package is incomplete. Is there any way to include these unmanaged DLLs into it automa...more >>

hi, in VS2003, when you are in the html designer and you type in a web address or email address, it would automatically hyperlink it. this doesn't seem to happen in VS2005, can i turn it on again? i liked that feature. for one thing surely it wouldn't have been too hard to prefill the url for...more >>

Hello, I seem to be missing a point here... but I really can't figure out what - and I ve spend a full day on it and starting to feel realy stupid! I have build a simple web service based on an example i found somewhre, that simply retrieves data from an access database and returns it as a...more >>

I have a dataset and have a field call "Name" in this dataset, how can i get this vale, because i need use this data to compare with the user input. how can i do ? ...more >>

It always reports: "Your credit card could not be processed because of a system or network error. Please try again." I've tried another credit card, and on another computer. What's the problem? ...more >>

Since installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers when trying to access stored procedures under Source Safe 6.0d via the Server Explorer using Visual Studio 2003 for Enterprise Architects, I can no longer connect using the Source Contol Login. After entry of Login ID and...more >>

Hi, I have a library that acts as a common repository for useful, general purpose code. However, this means that everytime I rebuild the library, I have to remove and then add the reference to the library so that the program uses that latest version of the library. It also means I have to run...more >>

Hi guys Just downloaded VS2005 from MSDN, so want to completely remove anything Beta 2 related before I start. However, there's a problem. When I try and remove VSTS Beta 2 with Add/Remove programs the unistaller starts, and then I get an error... "A problem has been encountered while ...more >>

I just moved to Visual Studio 2005. When I hit F5 to go into debug mode for a project, the compiler builds every project in the solution, including the MSI setup project. How can I turn this off? It's very annoying. I just want to build my app and launch into debug mode. It takes forever to...more >>

VisualStudio .NET > Add new Project > Name .. is now always dim, so I can't start a new project. Used to always work. What's the problem?...more >>