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 >>

I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional. On my C++ template page I do not see the ISAPI Extension DLL Wizard. The documentation seems to indicate it should be there. I have verified that my installation options are all selected. What could cause it not to be listed? Thank you, Gre...more >>

OK, here's a stupid question.. In vs.net 2005, with the new project property pages being shown in a document window rather than a dialog, how does one cancel the current set of changes that have been made, rather than saving them? As far as I can tell, you can't. Which can't be right...more >>

Hi, I tried to create a simple ASP.Net application with VS 2005 standard = edition. The project name is "WebSite1" and it is located at: D:\projects\WebSite1 The default.aspx is located right under = D:\projects\WebSite1\default.aspx When I clicked "View page from browser" to view the ...more >>

The following questions are probably pretty common. I was just wondering if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction to finding some good answers. Thanks!! 1. Does upgrading an existing solution to VS 2005 also upgarde the solution to use .NET 2.0? 2. Does VS 2005 work...more >>

I am getting the "Visual Studio is Busy" message many times every day. It will disappear for as much as 10 minutes at a time and give me the notification that if this happens often, I should contact Microsoft. So... I am contacting Microsoft. What causes this problem and how do I fix it? -...more >>

Especially Investment Banks. Does C# give more performance on real-time systems? Thank you....more >>

Hello all, the following page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxconTextboxesUserInterfaceDialogBox.asp describes how to conditionally create a registry key using a value provided by the user during installation. Following this example, I cre...more >>

I am using Visual Studio 2005 Release Version 2.0.50727. Whenever I try to develop a query (with a join) using the Query Builder (via the DataAdapter or TableAdapter Wizards) the SQL generated works and returns rows, but when the wizard goes off to generate the Select Commands, I get a synt...more >>

Hi folks, i'm using ObjectDataSource and it work fine with retrieve data, but when i want update any data get this error... ObjectDataSource 'obDataSource' could not find a non-generic method 'Update' that has parameters: Descripcion, FechaCreacion, UsuarioCreacion, FechaModificacion, Usuario...more >>

On my current project we work on basically 1 big intranet site that is made up of about 20 or so projects. There are some differing opinions as to if we should have 1 large solution with each project referencing each other, or if we should be compiling the projects into assemblies and referenc...more >>

On my current project we work on basically 1 big intranet site that is made up of about 20 or so projects. There are some differing opinions as to if we should have 1 large solution with each project referencing each other, or if we should be compiling the projects into assemblies and referenc...more >>

Hello, I would like to have information about 4GL which uses .NET framework. My problem is that I need to develop a applications from on which most of the operations are Forms input/output and reports. At the current stage their is no sacle issue and the application is should work undr termi...more >>

Hi I'm about to switch to VS2003-VBasic from VisualBasic6. I'm building a testproject (mdiparent form with some childforms) and I came across a strange problem. When I click on a form then normally the form receives focus and is shown in front of the other child forms. However this only happe...more >>