Does anyone know of an IDE for working with scripts (Microsoft.Vsa library) that works with VS.NET 2003? Summsoft provided one that works with the original version of VS.NET but not 2003. Thanks Ari Perelman ...more >>

I would like to know if someone has worked out a macro or other add-in that will search through all of the projects in a solution, increment the [assembly: AssemblyVersion ("1.0.9")], this would involve checking out the file containing the directive and checking it back in once the version ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to VS.NET and I'm struglling with it. I would expect to have some VS manual coming with it but my boss told me that what we have are CDs only. There are a number of books on .NET and C# but I need good written documentation just about VS and I do not want on-line documentation. A...more >>

Hello, I just install VS .NET 2003 on my computer and When I want create un new WebServices VS hang and Status bar show "Initializing Offline Cache" >> I must kill VS with Task Manager ! I search with Google "Initializing Offline Cache" and lot of people have this error too !! If I copy an ...more >>

I have found a bug in VS.NET 2003 that I can't seem to find a solution for. When I am at a break point, I want to expand a variable node in the local windows to see the properites of the corresponding object. However, when I press the + sign, the + sign goes away and nothing happens! I ...more >>

1. click any menu item under File -> Source Control, report "The operation could not be completed" 2. Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> SCC Provider, report the same error. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Regards, Black Ice Çë²»Òª»Ø¸´µ½ÎÒµÄÓÊÏä ×ÔÓÉ£¨liberty£©Î޷ǾÍÊ...more >>

I can't seem to find any common circumstance. Occasionally when debugging, a code change made during a breakpoint is ignored. Sometimes, but not always, saving the file before F10, will do the trick. A typical scene: bool testVal=evalMethod(); //breakpoint, stopped here if(testVal){ ...more >>

Is it possible to configure VS not to recompile whole solution every time? Why the hell does it want to recompile everything when I do not even make any changes (like every time when starting debug)? ...more >>

Is this possible? I've setup a very appealing (to my eyes) color scheme and want to port this easily to my home pc. I'm wondering if its as easy as moving a config file of some sorts... ? ? ...more >>

I would like to completely turn off VSS/IDE integration for .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 6.0. I use to konw of registry setting that did this nicely but I can't seem to locate it these days. I'm running on Windows 2000 Professional and soon to update to XP - Professinal. TIA, arnold...more >>

I want to reuse some dialogs that I created with another project. Unfortunately I cannot just cut & paste the dialogs from one Visual Studio .NET 2003 Session to another. Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks...more >>

I know this is kinda wierd, but there is a problem when you are using the Visual Database Tools & even the XML Schema viewer for Visual Studio.Net 2002 on an AMD athlon machine with Office 2003 Beta 2 (Technical Refresh Edition) Professional. I tried connecting to a database using the Server Exp...more >>

HELP! I can't see any results from any Help Search that I try. There is a small "tab" at the bottom of my screen with text "Search Results for blah" but I can't see anything. I have tried various searches, many of which I know would have results. What's happening? Thanks. Larry Wood...more >>

Hi, I have been trying to automate our builds through scripts and have come across this problem: When I open a solution and build via the IDE, the build will succeed. However if I run "devenv /build debug <solutionFile>" then the build will not succeed. I have narrowed down the problem...more >>

I have a setup/deployment project where I'm using Authenticode to sign the resulting msi. I've found that I can't specify a relative path to the Certificate and Private Key files. VSNet seems to use the current IDE directory when using these relative paths rather than the directory of the Setu...more >>

I'm a version 6 developer. VS6, VB6 and classic ASP. I want to start transitioning to .NET. I wanted to know if there are any issues with upgrading from VS6 to VS.Net. Either with the software,platform or being able to work on existing classic ASP or VB6 apps. I'm running Win2K Server, SQL...more >>

Hi all, Is there any way to stop VS.net convertting theta style joins to ANSI style, as some of the DBs we use can do ANSI yet( one version off! ) ie if you type select c.name, a.number , a.street from customers c , addresses a where c.id = a.id vs.ne...more >>

I'm using .h file automatically generate from ide when I choose to create a new form, and after I using .cpp to writing functions, event code , but the intellisense on public, protected or private pointer variables don't work. It's give me this message 'No additional information available'. Why...more >>

I have a custom control that I build that derives from UserControl. I added my control to the controls Toolbox for use in the VS.NET Windows Form Editor. The form editor recognizes my control and allows me to drop it onto a form. So far so good. The problem that I am having is that my contr...more >>

All righty... this one is starting to aggravate me. I was digging on the way vs.net2k3 auto format's your code. i.e. blocking the if...else..endif, select case, subs etc... Now for no reason whatsoever, it has stopped. It doesn't auto indent, nor auto case lines anymore until I build t...more >>

Hello, In a dll I'm building, I do this: CLSIDFromProgID(L"VisualStudio.DTE", &clsid); HRESULT hr = GetActiveObject(clsid,NULL, &punk); If that fails (VisStudio isn't running), I'd like to start it. CComPtr<EnvDTE::_DTE> pDTE; hr = pDTE.CoCreateInstance(clsid, 0, CLSCTX_...more >>

Hi, after using the VB.NET 2003 upgrade wizard, there are comments like 'UPGRADE_WARNING: .... 'ms-help://bli/bla/blub' As the lines are often very long, I enable word-wrapping (wrapping at the right border of the screen). This also results in wrapped links, like 'UPGRADE_WARNING: .......more >>

I have created a solution in vs.net which has two projects in it. One of the projects is located where I want it, but the other (main project created with the solution) is not. I want to move it somewhere else. how do I do that? ...more >>

From within an Add-In, how would I obtain the currently opened project' Default Namespace? Thanks Ben ...more >>

This code is in MSDN as example for attach to active instance EnvDTE.DTE. (example in C#) EnvDTE.DTE myDTE = (EnvDTE.DTE) System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE"); I run application and my VS.NET 2002 advise error in casting. Why ? Thanks for help. Jin...more >>

I'm seeing something I think is odd. When defining a Variable withevents it appears the same variable is also implicity declared with a leading underscore. For example public withevents mybox as textbox mybox = "abc" _mybox = "abc" First of all this works ??? which threw me. Se...more >>

i've started a project to convert our existing web application to asp.net. when i include the existing asp files in my project, and then open one to start working on it, it displays a combination of non-printing characters, wingdings and chinese characters. the documents open just fine i...more >>

Hi all, I'm having an application (.exe) that I'm building on Win 2000. When running the .exe on a Windows 98/NT I get the following error: "Expects a newer version of Windows. Upgrade your Windows version" I'm building the application using a makefile that looks like: !include <win32.mak> ...more >>

I am working on a C# project using VS.net 2002. I can build the project quickly, but when I try to run the project in debug mode using Debug>Start, I get a delay of about 4 minutes until the app appears (always behind the IDE environment window). The application is simple: a single form w...more >>

In Tools, options, keyboard I appear command "Windows.CloseDocumentWindow" . Does it exist commands for Maximize/minimize document window ? If not can it help me to record macro ? Peter ...more >>

I have 3 monitors, with my main monitor with the start menu and task bar in the middle. For some reason, VS.NET 2003 does not respect this - and when I click on open project or new project, etc. - it puts the dialog on my 3rd monitor. Is there any way to fix this? -- Thanks in advance, Les...more >>

Where'd the Locate button go in VS.NET2003 Help? I don't always know exactly what to look for in help, so I use the index/search to find something close. I used to be able to then click the Locate button to display the Contents opened to the current item. Thanks, Jeff ...more >>

Is there any way to prevent the "Solution Explorer" window from opening a bunch of seemingly-random subtrees when you open it? We have a big project and this is *really* annoying....more >>

In a multi-project/multi-language solution I end up with multiple instances of the same library showing in the Object Browser. Interestingly, they may present different views depending on the language of the project that references them. The only way I've foudn to correlate which language...more >>

Sometime this afternoon while switching back and forth between the web form design window and the related code- behind file also open, my IDE started showing every web control on the page with a large whitespace margin around its contents (like its contents were being displayed as being pad...more >>

This is for VS.NET IDE 2002 - not sure if any of those have been improved in the 2003 version..... 1) Why on earth does the Toolbox keep changing all the time?? I've installed some self-created components onto a tab of my own, plus a set of third-party components on another one - but every no...more >>

for some reasons, currently .inc files aren`t highlighted at all. Does anybody know, is it possible to make IDE to treat them exactly like .asp, including appropriate syntax element highlighting and autocomplete features? Thanx in advance. ...more >>

Hi I am developing a software using VB.NET I am facing following problems - 1. Though I have placed the NotifyIcon control on the window service application, after starting the service I am not able to view the icon on the system tray. 2. Secondly how to add a new item in the Windo...more >>

I'm working on an addin that runs a external executable. It then feeds commands to the executable using stdin, stdout, and stderr. To prevent blocking, each stream (in, out, err) run in their own thread. When the user presses an AddIn button in the IDE, the addin sends a message to yet another t...more >>

I have a web setup project that works fine with two exceptions. The web site default virtual directory is 'SetupScan' (The name of the setup project) instead of 'ScanWeb' (The name of the web project) . Which object and property controls this default value. Second issue: The web projects start...more >>

Now that I got your attention Microsoft, for gods sake do something about it! I don't usually scream about the net, but VS .NET sux big time. Look at all the unanswered messages here from other users having the same problems. Why don't you people respond and let the users who pay your salary k...more >>

Hi, I have installed msdn Jan 2003 help on my machine. When i try to do F1 in my VS.net 2003 IDE it displays this ... Any ideas as to why this is happening ? thnx, Priya Help Is Not Installed for Visual Studio Help is not installed for Visual Studio. The MSDN Library contains the Help...more >>

Hi, I knew that OnBuildProjConfigBegin and OnBuildProjConfigDone event will pass the project and configuratuin name. Is there any other way (or method)that can get the active project and configuration name? I have add-in for MSVC 6.0. It can get active project and active configuration name...more >>

just like it is done for .asp ones? Actually, .inc is very common file extension and I don`t understand why IDE doesn`t treat them as .asp yet. Also, working with .inc files i miss very much those useful autocomplete features existing while working with .asp...more >>

VS .NET 2003 When I double click on a source file in Solution Explorer, the hourglass gets displayed and the IDE seems to hang. I have VS installed on my desktop and laptop and both exhibit the same behaviour. Sometimes (rarely) this doesn't happen and the files open immediately for the firs...more >>

Hello: I'm editing vbscript in the .net ide. I have the window split into 2 panes I copy something from the lower pane, paste it into the upper pane, and the upper pane immediately jumps to the location current in the lower pane. ( I'd much prefer it to stay where it was ) Any ide...more >>

When I try to place controls from the toolbox onto a form in VS.NET, I get the following: The error dialog is titled "Microsoft Development Environment" The error message is: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" Note that I am not even using fancy controls - I can't even ...more >>

When I first installed VS .NET, I recall that some windows, such as Solutions and Class View, were combined into a single pane in such a way, that one could display one or the other, by selecting a tab at the bottom of the window. How can I combine two dockable windows to behave like this?...more >>

Hi, I start this thread to discuss or better say to find out "HOW TO design & build an Intellisense Editor". I just explain what I mean by the word Intellisense as I'm sure most of you know it already. I give you an example of one editor that is my target to build. It is Visual Studio .NET ID...more >>

Hi, why are only controls derived from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl automatically shown in the toolbox but not those derived from System.Windows.Forms.Control? Armin ...more >>