I have a user object placed on a form and want to replace it at runtime. Each version of the object being replaced is a page in a wizard process... I didn't want to load all objects then to show/hide for memory considerations. -- PB10.2 Thank you, R.Chauvin ...more >>

I have created a setup project and want to conditionally install a file, depending on whether a registry key exists. How can I do this? I have added a registry key search and have tried setting the condition property on the file, but cannot get it to work. Any ideas?...more >>

Hello, In creating redistributable setup for an ink enabled application, the documentation states: Note: You must add SelfRegModules Action and SelfUnregModules Action actions to the installation sequence. The MsiPublishAssemblies Action and MsiUnpublishAssemblies Action actions rece...more >>

Please help. I am working with (inherited) a VB.Net desktop app that has an Excel spreadsheet control embedded (AxOWC11) on one form. Whenever that form is loaded and then unloaded, the memory is not released. When the memory gets to about 265,000 k on my computer running in debug mode (soo...more >>

HOWTO Make VS.NET not auto insert ID attribute in HTML. Please help, I'm using VS.NET 2003 to edit HTML files, and no matter what I do in the Tools-Options-Text Editor-HTML/XML or any other "Tools-Options-Text Editor" feature, the editor ALWAYS adds "ID" attributes to my HTML elements, eve...more >>

Hello Developers, I have developed Server and Client applications that are communicating by TCP/IP sockets. My application is developed on Visual C++ .NET Standard v2003 Windows Forms. When one of the program is closed unintensionally, other is automatically trying to re-connect. But, wheneve...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know of tools that search for usages of definitions? For example, you could select 'find usages' from a context menu on Class ... public void method ^ ...and it would show a list of where Class.method is being used across a solution. A simple 'search' doesnt work b...more >>

Hi, I have a simple form with a button, a dropdownlist and a label. If I press the button, the collection in the dropdown list is populated. I would like to be able to select an item from the list and then for the text of the label to change. However,the SelectedIndexChanged event just is no...more >>

How do I go about signing my DLL so that users don't get the security popup from Outlook? Thanks in advance, Randy ...more >>

I have small app with jost few commands which are using My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile, so ut's using .NET Framework. Is there a way to compile that application so it doesn't need .NET Framework to installed on user computers. Which references should I check to have application without setup...more >>

I have a software tool that has 15 check boxes. I'm trying to add a CheckAll and a ClearAll button that will check all the boxes and uncheck all the boxes. I've tried the several ways of coding it such as: ((CButton *)GetDlgItem(IDC_CHECKALL))->SetCheck(TRUE); This works in the older micro...more >>

I am trying to post some information using the httpwebrequest object. I am getting an error of "The underlying connection was closed: The request was canceled." evertime I close the stream writer. I have already set the keepalive property to false and even tried changing the protocal version t...more >>

I am trying to create an html document in Polish using VS.NET. When using Polish special diacritic characters I am inserting their hexadecimal codes, e.g., ą for an ‘a with ogonek’. However, when saving the document or switching between Design and HTLM views, the VS substitutes my cod...more >>

Hello. Does anyone know where VS.NET stores the task data that is displayed in the "Task List"? I would like to be able to accessing this data directly so that I can try to integrate the VS.NET task list with a Sharepoint task list. Thanks for any insight! ...more >>

I have written a simple test report using crystal report for visual studio.net than I copied the project on my server(windows 2003) and created a virtual directory crtest http://66.98.188.240/crtest/Report.aspx do i need to copy any additional CR components crystal report is not in...more >>

Hi, I installed the beta release of VS.NET 2005. I created a C# project and I was looking forward to have Hashtable that allow to have at least a base type for key/value pair. But it seem to be objects as the input type. Is it still objects? How could we set a specific type to avoid to c...more >>

I want to create a new .NET Webproject in the plece an older ASP App is running today. I want to upgrade it, so I want to create a new one and reimport the older ASP Files there so it still works, but I can use .NET functionality and aspx Files. But creating a new project on server via htt...more >>

Hello, I'm using the first version of VS.NET with SP1. For some reason, whenever I try to run a project VS.NET will compile the project, but gives an error about the debugger not being installed properly. I've tried repairing the installation of VS.NET. I've also tried completely unins...more >>

Hi folks When I start VS.NET the start page displays a list of recent projects. However, some of those projects no longer exist, so I would like to remove those Projects from the list that appears. How do I do it? I am sure that somebody can help. Kind regards Ross Petersen...more >>

Hello friends, I am new to this VS.NET but have got good exp in ASP. Till last year i was using asp to develop websites and then i decided to use asp.net i started with webmatrix and got adapted to the coding style of using subs and functions on top of the page with html at bottom. so all the...more >>

I've downloaded and installed VS2005 Express Beta 2 C# and it works fine. However, my friend want's to install this too, but he doesn't have fast internet connection to download it and install. So, my question is: is there a way I can find this install file(49MB) and burn it on CD ? Where is t...more >>

When the header text of DataGrid is Right aligned ,then the last few pixels of the header text is clipped off.I tried padding the text with a space or two but this seems to be trimmed before the text is rendered. This problem is detected in windows XP.But when the same code is run on Window...more >>

hi, does visual studio 2005 have a database modeller, with reverse engineering and generating, like visio & vs2k3 enterprise architect? if so, anyone got any resources on how to find/use it? cheers, andy ps. anyone know anything about it's ORM features/ how it compares to LLBLGen? t...more >>

I can't access internet from VS Basic.NET. In my Internet explorer settings there is proxy setup for every protocol we use (HTTP, FTP etc.) But when I start downloading files from code I got following error (407) Proxy error or something like this I found this: "The .NET Framework does n...more >>

Hi all.. I installed VS.NET 2005 in my PC with 256 MB of RAM and a 2.8 GHz Pentium IV processor but it is extremely slow. What hadware requirements do I need to have? Thanks Jaime...more >>

Hi, i recently installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 2 on my XPsp2 machine. The installation finished without any problems. The problem is that I can't use it at all. When I try to create a new project (regardless of the project type) it always gives me a messagebox saying "Absolute path i...more >>

I created a new web site using the VS Beta2 Personal Website Starter Kit template. When I try to modify the Menu component to show multiple levels I get blank menu items that don't work. I set the foreground colors for dynamic menus but I always get "white-on-white" text and no links in the ...more >>

I am upgrading from VS6/eVC and have a custom auto-build script that I run. I just downloaded VS2005 B2 and am trying out the command line build options. I got the build to work properly using devenv /rebuild. I did notice that devenv returns right away and spawns other processes to do the bu...more >>

One of my clients when she starts my app, immediately gets an error: Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id=0xffebb4a5 (01330011). Thread id=0xffe48c8d (-1799027). Is there any way I can figure out what the error is and what is causing the problem? D...more >>

Hi! I kept searching and got no real help... So I decided to start structuring my one of my own. Now here's the deal I make the software and you guys give me your knowledge on the matter. Everything you have and know about the applications life cycle (thoughts, knowledge gain over time, s...more >>

Hi, Visual Studio.net is a big package. I'd like to upgrade to a newer version. Should I follow the general practice and uninstall an older version before installing a newer version? Ian St. John ...more >>

My SQL is defined like this, select 0 AS ccheckbox, col1, col2 from mytable where pkey=@keyvalue I have mapped the col in the vs dataset to boolean, and when I create a grid, it creates a checkbox, which is what I want. My true value is 1, false value 0. When I change the Readonly to F...more >>

If I call: gacutil /if <assemblyname.dll> from the command line, it reports "assembly successfully added to the cache." But if I put the same line in a post-build event in vs2005 beta2, the post build event fails and returns error code 9009. I googled and msdn'ed gacutil 9009 and found ...more >>

Hi, all of a sudden MSDN documentation for both VS2003 and VS2005 beta 2 seems to be on strike on my machine. Opening many topics in VS2003, particularly .Net Framework class doc, which usually display a language filter on top of the page, result in "Library not registered" messages. Man...more >>

I created a form w/ a datagrid, and when I try to populate the dg in code, the datasource assigned to the dg shows rows, but the dg doesn't display them. This VS2005, but probably not specific, I hope... Here's the related code: '***dg create code Me.dg_Client_Matters = New S...more >>

Hi I have an application that uses compiler flags to include or not include certain options, which may or may not be GUI elements. Since Visual Studio doesn't like people messing around in the InitializeComponent method, even if it's just a adding a few #if and #endif directives, and ten...more >>

I finally took the plunge and upgraded to SP2 for Windows XP. All seemed to go well until I tried to add and OleDBAdapter/DBConnection in the designer of VS 2003. The wizard opens as usual, and I can select any of the DB connections that were previously defined. However, if I click on t...more >>

Is there a way to turn off the tooltip-like watch windows that appear when you mouse over a variable when debugging a programming in VS 2005? ...more >>

When one of my clients has their font settings in display options set to 120 dpi (Large Fonts) compared to the standard 96 dpi, everything gets adjusted with the pixel sizes I use for my .Net App. Ends up that a minimum window size of 575 pixels goes off the screen when the resolution is set ...more >>

When a user-written class library changes, is it possible for a project to recognise this without dropping and re-adding the reference? Sorry if this is a no-brainer, but as sole developer in a small company, it's not arisen before. Cheers, Rof...more >>

When i am using the find function in VS.NET, I select to find an occurence in files: *.* it only find occurences in .aspx, but my code behind, .aspx.vb is not searched... How can i tell VS.NET to search my code behind page also... I have to abandon vs.net search capability and create my own ...more >>

Hello, In Visual Studio every function in a VB or C file have a "+" sign on its start so i can make the code in it visible or invisible. By default, when i open an script file all function have their code visible. How can i make the code to be invisible by default? Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

I am getting the following error message when trying to install Team Foundation Server Beta 2: "Sharepoint Web Server Extensions is not compatible with Visual Studio Team Foundation or is not installed" I have not been able to find any documentation on this error. Please Advise. Thanks,...more >>

I've got a program that needs to access files such as .csv files, and it runs in both english and portuguese, but in Brasil the translation would make the acronym vsc instead of csv, so does the name of the file extension change with the wording? (this question is for all file extensions, no...more >>

When creating a new dataset: "An error occured while creating the new dataset Could not get type information for 'Myapp.MJ_EnterpriseDataSet'" The code is generated, but does not display in the Data Source list. The Code generated has errors: 'Convert' is not a member of 'String' 'DBNull...more >>

I am interested in writing a plugin that deals partly with the outlining Visual Studio performs by default (regions, classes, methods, comments, etc). I've created a plugin in C#, but I cannot seem to find any way of accessing this feature of the IDE. What objects/methods should I be looki...more >>

I'have installed Visual studio 2005 and I have try to port some applicatios that I have written on 2003 They build but I cannot connect to the device emulator. The emilator run correctly but when Visual Studio ( The device manager ) tries to connect i receive the error. The problem is may...more >>

I'm using Visual Studio to create an ASP.NET application. I'm getting a strange result when submitting a traditional HTML form (ie not a Web form) to an ASPX page. My purpose is to be able to submit some form data to a different page other than the page that I originate from (ie not a post bac...more >>

What is the difference in vs.net when you add a reference to a project by the 3 methods, .NET, COM or projects. thanks ...more >>

What does the FreeFile() function do? A program I didn't write uses it alot to return an integer, but I can't find the function declared anywhere and my vb.net books aren't helping. Please inform this poor, ignorante wanna be programmer....more >>