We have one EXE program and are trying out two different alternatives for implementing underlying functionality. We place each alternative into it's own DLL, place all three projects into one solution, and just change the references of the EXE to point to the particular DLL we want to test. The...more >>

[reposting this -- I think the original flew under the radar before my no-spam alias was in the system] Hello, I have a solution that contains some C# class library projects, C++ DLL projects, and C++ windows application projects. Some of the C++ DLL and app projects are built with /clr ...more >>

Hello, The soft was successfully installed. Then I was asked to activate the evaluation license by means of an internet connection which is correctly done. And then I'm asked to close the tool and restart it to register the changes. And now, every time I start the IDE, I got this window displayed :...more >>

Hi, I am getting this error in VS.NET IDE when ever i try to run the application[web app] error: Error while trying to run project:Unable to start debugging on the web server.Catastrophic failure would you like to disable future attempts to debug ASP.NET pages for this project. I h...more >>

In the C# IDE where are the event procedures for controls dropped on a form? In VB all the event procedures show up in the right drop-down for each of the controls listed in the left drop-down on the code page. In C# the controls don't even show up in the left drop-down. Any ideas?...more >>

Hello- I'm working on a component designer where I am adding additional components through IDesignerHost. I would like to hide the components I am adding in the designer interface. These components are normally visible. An example of similar behavior is when the data commands are created ...more >>

Is there a way to sort the "ListMembers" dropdown feature of Intellisense? It sorts the members alphabetically, but many objects can have so many members, we'd like to have it sort by other MemberInfo properties, or by custom attributes on the member. For example, we'd like to group memb...more >>

Recently my company migrated VS.NET to VS.NET 2003. I found there is a shortcut key Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L to expand or collapse all outlining, but it doesn't work as it supposed to in VS.NET 2003. Does anyone know what shortcut it is in VS.NET 2003 for this function? Thanks, Michael X. ...more >>

I have written an add in to the IDE that fires an event to check for processes that have started up that are in a user specified list. If one of them is found it will attach the debugger to the process. This works great when the client and my server drone are the same machine, but as soon as I...more >>

I want to use the addional features on framework 1.1 in my c# project. The about indicates v1.0 of framework. I have done the updates, but what controls the environment? ...more >>

Does VSnet have a .NET plugin API or is all this going to be COM based? ...more >>

I have created an addin to use in visual studio 2002. How to port the addin to Visual studio 2003? When I installed setupmsi in the machine containing visual studio 2003, the addin is not appearing. -seeni ...more >>

Hi, A considerably sized project has developed a problem with minimal rebuild... it consistently rebuilds about 10 source files every time I try to build the project (even if no changes have been made, and in fact it happens if I build straight after a build). It's not rebuilding EVER...more >>

When attempting to run "check for updates" from the help menu a pou up windows appears with the following message: "Please wait while Visual Studio.Net checks for available service releases". The following message appears next "Visual Studio .Net setup encountered errors while attempting to do...more >>

Hi, We have installed Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 as we wanted our code to be compiled in the latest .NET compiler 7.1. A solution (.sln) was prepared by my colleague and he checked it in ClearCase. I proceeded to add to the code. But when I try opening the ..sln file on my machine in ...more >>

I have several properties that have similar names like: MyProperty MyPropertyCollection MyOtherProperty MyOtherPropertyCollection I find when I type the name of the first of the pairs, often the intellisense select box moves right past the first one to the second one and I have to arrow b...more >>

I instlled vsnet 2002, with 1.1 dotnet runtime and 6.0c VSS and I have 3 MS Vstudio dirs 2003.10.28 21:23 <DIR> Microsoft Visual Studio 2003.08.06 12:48 <DIR> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.08.06 12:53 <DIR> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003...more >>

Hi all, It seems that I have found one case when the Windows Forms desginer silently removes controls from a form. The sequence of steps that would cause the designer to silently kill a control is as follows: 1. Create a simple user control that would successfully compile and run 2. Create ...more >>

Hi! I've once opened a project on a location and now that project is among the "Open an existing projects" all the time, start page in VS.NET IDE. Is there a way to remove it from that list? It has the same name as another project on another location and I don't want to use the wrong l...more >>

Hi, I installed the VSNET IDE and then later i installed the VSS 6.0c and while I have it configured correctly the right click context menu on the source explorer does not show source control options, anyideas`? I do not intend to reinstall the IDE as its bloat and takes ages. Is there a...more >>

Whenever I use IDesignerHost.Create() or IDesignerHost.Container.Add() to add my component to a form, it always displays the component on the form (in the component tray, since my component does not have a visual representation). I notice, however, that when I use some of the VS.NET data design...more >>

We want to upgrade to VS.NET 2003, but first of all have to determine changes that are needed. So we decided to install the new version parallel to the "old" one. Evidently, this caused several problems. Code regions that were not available in 2002 for C++ have suddenly been enabled and c...more >>