It sure would be nice if the Visual Studio .Net (2003) IDE had a tab bar at the bottom of the editor window that allowed you to easily switch between code and design views instead of having to open two different files on the top tab bar. ...more >>

Is there ANY way to stop VS.NET from automatically closing HTML tags, capitalizing tags, removing line breaks, etc., when the HTML designer is opened? This is driving me stark-raving mad....more >>

I'm looking for clarification on what should be a very simple point yet I havnt found good info in documentation so far... What aspects of the online documentation within VS.NET come from the content of the "MSDN Subscription" DVDs that come to me in the mail each month (from my MSDN Universal...more >>

Using a DataSet dragged from the Toolbox's Data tab and placing it on a webform's page, I get the Add Dataset dialog. All the datasets show up in a listbox that exist in the web project by choosing Typed DataSet. The last selection is Referenced DataSets... and choosing this I get PPLibs.D...more >>

We have a VC++ project we'd like to add to a Solution. We are able to "File > Open > Project ..." , and the vcproj project opens. The code builds and runs with no problems. When we try to "Solution > Add > Existing Project ..." the VC++ project, we get this error dialog: Project 'C:\th...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to having a working DWMX - VS.NET combination i.e. DW for creating a master design template and VS.NET for code behind. However, things get screwed up. - DW: create a design template (ASP.NET - VB) having a single editable region in which will put e.g. some ASP control...more >>

Hi: Intellisense is not working for me for STL classes. In particular, I tried string and vector. The scenerio here is that I've taken an old VC++ 6.0 project and opened it up in .NET. It compiles and runs fine. The intellisense functionality within 6.0 works fine for strings. I creat...more >>

I have created a class that derives from System.Data.Common.DataAdapter, which has a TableMappings property of type System.Data.Common.DataTableMappingCollection. Upon examining the metadata for DataTableMappingCollection, I see that it has an attribute [System.ComponentModel.EditorAttribute("M...more >>

Hi, Since we will be getting PARTIAL file types, how will the IDE file listing and class listing highlight this? Would we have to do workarounds in the filenames to indicate partials obviously or will the IDE have some kind of visual cue? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how/if it is possible to add further / replace existing styles to the Autoformats that can be applied to Datagrid objects? I quite like "Colorful 1" but corporate standards now dictate the use of other colours and it's a pain to go and adjust each one manually. Thanks...more >>

Hi all, Is there some way to view the resulting MSIL code from within the VS ide? Is an external program the only way? Thanks Ken ...more >>

Hi, sorry for the cross-post. This msg was posted in developer.outlook.addins also. Repost: Hi, I have seen similar posts in the groups, but in no one there was a final solution. So, I have Outlook 2000 addin, build in C#/VS.Net 2003. I'm using the setup project, build by Extensibility p...more >>

Hi, I have downloaded the EventWatcher Addin sample from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/samples/automa tion2002/ I built and run the addin. Many of the events are fired when create a visual studio C# project, adding and deleting project items. However, the SolutionItemsEven...more >>

Why is VS.NET remember the name of a folder which had been excluded from project? For example, the following steps describes my question: 1. create a C# project "project1" 2. add a new folder "folder1" under the "project1" in solution explorer. 3. exclude "folder1" from "project1" using t...more >>

I would like to write a BAT file that automatically configures the C++ optional directory information (Include/Lib/Exec) for a user without having to go through the UI. This was fairly straightforward in Visual Studio 6.0 because all of this information was stored in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_U...more >>

When you have windows docked across the bottom of the IDE, but not pinned (so they collapse), and you start the debugger, when the debugger stops, the editor window doesn't resize correctly. The bottom scrollbar (horizontal scrollbar) is pushed down off the screen. The only way I've foun...more >>

I am experienceing a problem in VS.NET 2003 where any change int he designer (Windows.Forms) causes intellisense and code formatting to stop working until either 1) the project is built or 2) You close and reopen that form. This started out being just certain forms or controls (like Inherited u...more >>

I have a Picture control on my dialog (taking up about 40% of the area). I load several bitmaps during InitDialog as follows: m_Image1.LoadBitmap (IDB_IMAGE1); // Load now for later use m_Image2.LoadBitmap (IDB_IMAGE2); // " " I have a member variable for the Picture control m_Pi...more >>

Hi there everyone! How can I change the width of a datagrid column in runtime? I have the following code: DataGrid dg = new DataGrid(); dg.DataSource = ds; dg.DataBind(); dg.Columns.Count gives me 0(zero) at this point, so I can't do dg.Columns[i].Width = 100, because the array would be...more >>

Sorry, I have been using the borland classic IDE/Sidekick/Wordstar key mappings for a -VERY- long time, and frankly, I'm a little surprised that MS never added a mapping in for them. Does anyone else have a keymapping for this they could make available?? (I believe its just a registry exp...more >>

Hi, I have Visual Studio.NET 2003 Enterprise Architect with MSDN installed. I can view the index/contents pages and browse the help, but when I do a Search it kills Visual Studio with the following error: An unhandled exception has been caught by the VSW exception filter. AppName: deven...more >>

I started getting this out of nowhere on my vs.net 2003 install. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and it's still the same. Anytime I try to start a new project I get a simple "Specified Module Could not be found" error. Also, when i try to add a WebForm or WinForm, I get a very friendly "Unspec...more >>

hi all Whenever i try to add a webform using the project right-click add webform i get an error sayin could not run "c:\programme file.......\csharpaddwebformwiz.vsz" wizard This is a sudden error and before this and after this i had no installations on my development machine OS = windows 2000 ...more >>

How would like to automate the creation/update of XSD files in my VS.NET 2003 project. Of course I can always do raw text editing (and perhaps the XmlDocument class), but I wonder if there is any high-level support for this in the VS.NET Automation/Extensibility classes. Maybe something like th...more >>

What I would like to do is navigate through code with a keystroke, following methods from their invocation to their definitions, such that current position is saved in a stack and the navigation can be unwound with another keystroke. e.g. place cursor on method name, invoke keystro...more >>

I see that the <See> tag is considered part of the standard C# XML documentation tags (along with a slew of others), and I noticed that VS's Intellisense actually provides this tag as an option. However, when you use VS.Net 2003's Tools|Build Comment Web Pages... , the <see> tag is eithe...more >>