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 >>