I have had VS2005 and 2003 installed side by side for a couple months now, with no serious problems. Today, I decided to uninstall vs2003 and its corresponding msdn install. After doing so, all of my VS2005 addins are hosed. When I try to run an add-in command, I get this: ------------...more >>

When I try to Build (F5) my Project, I get the following error (VS 2005 - using Visual Basic): "The operation could not be completed. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." If I copy the entire project folder to my local drive, it works fine. I l...more >>

Hello all, About a year ago I wrote a VB.NET 2003 solution that consists of a number of assemblies (1 EXE and 15 DLLS). As I recall, in order to deploy the solution to a testing server I simply copied the contents of the Bin folder in the development area where the compiled assemblies res...more >>

I recently installed SQL Server Management Studio on my dev box, where VS2003 was installed and working fine. Sql Server mgmt studio required .net framework 2.0, which I thought would play nice with v1.1. However, since installing I haven't been able to run or debug an ASP.Net 1.1 app. The ...more >>

Hi all, I have just started to convert a web project built in VS2003 to VS2005. I am looking to find what happened to the project.dll in the bin folder. I see the other projects dlls there but not the web project. Which location of files do I need now need to send to the server? Thanks H...more >>

I'm running Visual Studio 2005 and attempting to add a new data source to a project. In the data source configuration wizard I get an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I have many project references, and anticipate that one of these has a problem with how visual studio is...more >>

I am a seasoned developer, and I had been running ASP.NET apps without issue on my local machine, on which IIS 5.1 and SQL Server 2K are both installed. All of a sudden, seemingly without any significant changes being made to my system (new software, firewall changes, etc.), I get the standard...more >>

Hi, We have a product with bunch of dlls which are now built with Visual Studio 2003. We want to switch the build to use VS2005. I have read that in VS2005 runtime libraries come as side-by-side assemblies and that application has to have a manifest binding it to those assemblies. My ques...more >>

Hello How can I Open XML file from EXCEL 2000 ? Thsk ...more >>

Does anybody have a sample of how to read/delete NTFS streams ADS on Windows XP? I have found some info but most of it is based on API code. I prefer to learn on .NET. TIA...more >>

Created a VS Window application with crystal report viewer. I can view the crystal report on the machine I created the solution. However, if I create a deployment from the solution and install it on another machine, everything works the same except it will give me an error of "Cannot find ...more >>

With visual studio web projects, there is no project file. So what ever is in the directory is in the project. So if I delete a file from sourcesafe, other developers will still have the file on their PC, and so it will show up in their project. This can get in a spiral. Is there anyway when I...more >>

I have a console application that contains database connection strings. What is the best way to protect the information contained in these strings?...more >>

The user clicks on a button in a grid table to open the doc. I have a function which returns the name of the word document from a database query, once I have the name of the doc, like: \\docserver\docs\mydoc1.doc I need to open it and display it too. Too bad server.transfer can't seem to op...more >>

How do you set the title of a user control placed in a web part zone from the code behind or any other way except hardcoding. -- Jerry ...more >>

when i develop a web site with visual studio.net, i write the code, the art designer design the picture and put it into html page, then i integrate to ..net web form, then i put it to VSS database that other programer can modify them, but when the art designer modify the html code or picture, ...more >>

Hello, i have a problem on more than one machine (four) with VS2005 & IE7. It Goes like this: - Open an MFC project - Go to class View and Add new MFC class - Click on the "Base class" Combo the Wizard just quits with no error. Any idea? If i uninstall IE7, VS works as espected. ...more >>

Working on the PersonalWebsite starter kit on my laptop. I say publish to http://machine/folder from vs2005; it goes busy for awhile and finally says publish succeeded. I see the folder and subfolders on target machine but no actual files were transferred. I've googled several phrases & sear...more >>

I want to use the ExceptionMessageBox spoken of here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365274(SQL.90).aspx however I can't figure out how to make the installation of the redistributable msi as part of the setup for my project. Can anyone help?...more >>

We currently use VS2003 setup and deployment projects for installing our apps, but we are starting to build some assemblies using VS2005 (out of necessity) I am finding that if I add a VS2003 aasembly to my VS2003 setup project then it is recognised as an assembly, and I can set it to be re...more >>

Hey folks Anyone know if .net was up to par to develop Vista ? Or MS doesn't use what is promotes ? Better yet, anyone have a list of actual application Microsoft has developed using .net ? I mean, come on, we are in 2.0 now. Surely someone somewhere has a fully functional desktop s...more >>

Hello. I have a web consuming VB program in VS.NET2003 on Win XP Pro SP2. It uses "file.WriteLine(FileString)" to create a text file and it works fine when the program does not bomb. However, if the programs bombs with: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapE...more >>

I have a solution A with some projects inside.Now I need to create solution B, which will be another version of the A solution.How can I do this? Is it possible that the only way is creating solution B step by step (I mean creating projects, adding references, creating files and copying code fro...more >>

Guys, Can anyone highlight any important issues / best practises we should use when upgrading our assemblies from 2003 .NET 1.1 projects to 2005 using .NET 2.0 We have over 100 assemblies and are obviously keen to a) Use the new .NET 2.0 framework for additional language features such a...more >>

Hi How do i Display CheckedItems from a checkedListBox which is associated with a datasource to listBox which is not associated to any datasource ie, Using a query i pick the Items of checkedListBox, Now i have to display the checkedItems in a listbox Anyone pls help me out Thanks Sreel...more >>

This is a puzzle. Just about everyone on my team has no step into or step out debug buttons. They also don't have "Macros" listed as an item on the Tools menu like I do, or the Navigate Back / Forward buttons that let you jump around in your code. I have tried customizing their toolbars ...more >>

When I attempt to create a new Visual C++ CLR project (e.g. CLR Empty Project) I immediately get the pop-up error message "Automation server can't create object". I'm able to create unmanaged C++ project e..g "Win32 Project", and I'm able to create C# projects e.g. "Empty Project". I'm run...more >>