Hello everyone! I am using the book ASP.NET Unleashed by Stephen Walther. I have general VB programming and html programming experience. My problem is figuring out how to use Visual Studio. I have just done a lesson in the book(completing my first .aspx page), and when I run debug I get an e...more >>

I've tried by direct download and through VS.net... in either case, the system hangs on "Preparing to install", taking 100% of CPU. I've been waiting over an hour now... 3rd try. Can't find any clues on how to work around this... except perhaps upgrading to 2003. Is that what M$ is trying t...more >>

Hello all When inside VS.NET 2003 and coding using C# I find using the F11 key to jump into my code and step through it line by line examining what each line has done, very, very helpfull when it comes to teaching me the langauge it's self. I was wondering if VS.NET 2003 can do this wit...more >>

Hello. I am developing a web solution and I haven't yet got to grips with this issue. I am using VS.Net (vb) and SQL server as the data engine. I am develping a web solution. I use FormsAuthentication to log the user on. What I want to do is to store an ID parameter at the web applicat...more >>

Help! I am using vb.net with VS 2003 and dotnet framework 1.1 Problem: I am reading a text file, one line at a time, to extract book titles. Many are in Spanish. For some reason I am unaware of, special characters are not "read", and automatically dropped! Original: ¡Adiós, pequeño! ...more >>

I have 2 problems with VS2005 that do not appear to be mentioned anywhere else and maybe related. 1) I cannot get Console.WriteLine to write to the Immediate Window (or anywhere else that I can see). In Tools\Option\Debugging\General I have checked the option "Output: Send Output to the Im...more >>

I have a problem to install VS 2003 in Windows 98? The SETUP.EXE show me a advise windows with several instructions to update the sistem after to starts the setup process. All of the instructions are OK and i cant execute the setup program.. Is the VS 2003 incompatible with windows 98??? Anybo...more >>

I was wondering if anyone knows how to authenticate a user on one server and receive a cookie so if the user browses to another server in the group can authenticate with that cookie. -- droob&@...more >>

We need a Treeview control with rich functionality that supports Drag-Drop feature in web forms, for our application. Please suggest few vendors and their products. TIA Sundar...more >>

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce that after several months of development, DPack 2.0.6 has been finally released. DPack is a free VS.NET 2003/2005 add-in collection. DPack includes various browser tools that allow the developer to quickly narrow the search down to a particular class, metho...more >>

Where can I find list of patches and fixes for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 ? So far I was able to get fixes one by one, and I found it very difficult to fully upgrade my VS.NET to the latest fix. Thank You...more >>

This is a recent development... I have a windows 2003 and a windows 2000 servers both set up as File Servers. I have Shares setup on both. Begining 2 days ago I am getting strange errors from all my XP workstations when in Visual Studio.Net 2003... I open a project located on a mapped...more >>

I'm a Windows XP and VS.net newbie, so be gentle. I like my listings on fanfold paper for debugging, so I bought an Oki ML391turbo dot matrix printer. I hooked it up and everything works great except that when I print out listings from within VS, it sends out printer formatting commands that a...more >>

What's up with this SP: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c41d8159-b42f-4d06-a797-e510494976ee&displaylang=en It's for VS.2002 But I'm using the latest release 2003...is there an SP for that??? ...more >>

Hi all, A Windows service (which obviously starts before any user logs in) is failing to: - read something from registry from a key under the HKCU - try to find out the user path by doing the following call: SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_APPDATA, NULL, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, path) if any of these...more >>

Hi all, Somehow the main menu in VS.NET 2003 has dissapeared. I have no idea how to display it again. Reinstalling VS didn't help at all. Any one knows how to solve this problem. Thx for any info. ...more >>

I am receiving a compiler error on simple remoting test code from a book when attempting to use the System.Remoting.Channels.Tcp. I am using Visual Studio ..Net 2003 Ent. Architect Edition and re-installed the application with no success. Additionally the assembly does not autofill or show i...more >>

After I build a DLL, I want it copied to a few locations. I wrote a simple batch file that does this, but I am wondering if anyone knows if there is any way to automate this within the VS.NET IDE? I guess what I am looking for is something like a "After build completes, run this:" box....more >>

Hi. I have shipped an MSI to my users (for a C# winforms app). On my machine the setup correctly installs the application to the expected directory: c:\program files\my company\my application\ However, when my users run setup the UI says the application will be installed to the above direc...more >>

When I try to create a new C# Windows Application, I get a "the operation could not be completed" error and no source files are generated. If I then try to add a Form I get "Could not run the '...\CSharpAddWinFormWiz.vsz'" -------------------------------- From: Pete Burgess ---------------...more >>

I'm trying to use the Copy Project feature to copy my web to my public server. No matter what I do I keep getting the error dialog box that says: Unable to oper Web project'/'. the web server does not appear to have the FrontPage server extensions installed. If the FrontPage server extensi...more >>

Hi all, ModelMaker Tools is happy to annonuce the release of +++++ ModelMaker Structured Difference Viewer 1.10 +++++ New in this release: Class Difference (for C# and Pascal) Class Difference mode compares any two classes or methods in any two files. This allows you to: += Compare ren...more >>

I am trying to evaluate VS Studio, so I don't have a support agreement. Was wondering if anyone has encountered this and had any suggestions. Problem: When I create a new Project or Item within a project (web form, class library, etc.), VS2003 quits unexpectedly without any error messages. ...more >>

I have a team of three developers who are all using Visual Studio.Net 2003. The problem we are having is that when one builds the project to test and debug the others get a popup explaining that something has been modified in their page by someone else. Also when there are errors in developer ...more >>

hi I never use ASP but now I wanted to learn ASP.Net 2005, could someone please give me any name of books, which can help me to learn ASP.Net 2005 with examples? If its with the VB.Net 2005, that will be great. Many thanks ...more >>

Need Newbie help with Visual Studio. Is there a project that I can start that will show me a blank white page where I can just type HTML? Don't know which application to use in Studio. Too many to choose from. Thanks for any help you can provide. ...more >>

hello everyone. I am new to Visual Studio and am trying to teach myself asp.net programming. The beginning of the book starts you off with simple html pages. My question is this: When I open up Visual Studio, what do I use to create simple HTML pages that I will add more code to? Is it a n...more >>

Need Newbie help with Visual Studio. Is there a project that I can start that will show me a blank white page where I can just type HTML? Don't know which application to use in Studio. Too many to choose from. Thanks for any help you can provide. ...more >>

Hi all, Apologies for the cross-post but I can't determine if this is a VS .NET problem or a VB.NET language issue. I'm using .NET 1.1 SP1, VS 2003 EA, VB.NET. I'm coding a custom component which is designed to be dropped onto a form and have it's properties manipulated at runtime. I have...more >>

What are the steps needed to create an app with a connection to Access 97? -- Christopher Weaver...more >>

Well, not total newbie, but vbscripting experience only. I need help getting my head around so OOP concepts. Using VBScript, I have created instances of objects and called the methods associated with them. I am looking to get into more real programming with .net and would like to know if an AP...more >>

Hi, I have a VS.net solution project and I need to export this project to a batch file (or a makefile) so build can just run this batch/makefile from command line to build the whole project. How to export it? I see this feature on VS6.0 but could find on vs.net. Thanks for any help. ...more >>

I am new to programming. I am picking up where our old programmer left off when he passed away. So please forgive me ignorance. I'm working with a vb.net application, and I don't know what I changed, but I get these messages: Namespace or type 'AxMSHierarchicalFlexGridLib' for the Imports ...more >>

I am actually one of the folks that like outlining but for one "feature" which I hate - collapsing comments as part of the outlining! Good Grief the IDE even collapses a single comment line. Ideally I would like to keep all comments just before a procedure collapsed with the procedure or pe...more >>

Hi, Can anyone point me to a resource or download for Hi-Color/XP style glyphs button images for use with VS. Freeware would be preferable although any would do for a start. Alternatively, I have some that I used with Borland products in the past, but the background color is pink (which ...more >>

Hi, I was thinking of putting sql server express 2005 on dev server and then putting on sql server reporting services 2005. First can I do this? Will RS2005 run on top of express 2005? Also if I want to create asp.net apps using reporting services 2005 do I have to use VS 2005 in orde...more >>

I am trying to have XML data show results in a combobox (Which works) and when the combobox has a selection, change the text in a label field. I am following the video from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/dataandxml/default.aspx (reading XML data) almost step by step (changing ...more >>