It appears that the IDE is spawning cmd.exe in C:\ instead of the project directory that results in the cmd shell unable to find the .bat file. [used FileMon from SysInternals to track the file access] Here's the error i see in the output window Performing Post-Build Event... 'PostBuild...more >>

I would like to see "Open" added to the context menu, so that when a file is closed I don't have to find the file in the solution explorer. Frank...more >>

I've found a "feature" of the extensibility model that is driving me nuts. In C# and J#, if you call CreateElementFromPoint from the filecodemodel and ask for the class for the given point, the routine returns a function if the point indicated is in a function. This seems pretty bone-headed to me...more >>

Does anyone know how much the extensibility model will change in the Whidbey release of Visual Studio? Are there bug fixes???? ...more >>

Hi, I have an Add-In developed with VS 2002. We would like to make it work with VS 2003 also. Is there any way to do that? Must we have not make to different versions? Is it necessary to migrate it? Thanks a lot Lucas ...more >>

Given the following Regular Expression: ^:Wh*Stuff and the following Replacement: OtherStuff I would expect that occurances of "Stuff" that are preceded by nothing but white-space and anchored to the beginning of the line would be replaced by "OtherStuff". The problem is that the anc...more >>

I'm having a couple of problems that could be memory issues. If I have a large number of documents open in Visual Studio (e.g., 20+) the names of the last set documents do not appear on their tabs. The characters sometimes end in the middle of a file name. So, File1.cs | File2.cs ........ File20.c ...more >>

Does anyone know of a way to save Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files as project and workspace files that are compatible with VC++ 6.0? Basically, I need to generate a .dsw and .dsp file for the same project since some of my developers are still running Visual C++ 6.0....more >>

I'm looking basically for UI enhancements for VS.NET 2003. I program in C/C++ almost exclusively. I use VisualAssist, which is pretty nice -- wondering if anyone has any other recommendations. thanks, MB ...more >>

Hello, I cannot find the option under the Project menu that lets you forward generate to Visio. I have VS2003 installed along with Visio for Enterprise Architects. I know I have done this before...but can't figure out how I did it. Regards, Paul ...more >>

I am writing a VS .NET Addin and I need to create menu items (CommandBarButtons) at run-time. I can do that but the event handlers do not work. They are registered using AddHandler (wich was created for that, isn't it?), but I think I am using it wrongly, because only the last registered button ...more >>

If I have the VS.Net IDE open and I attempt to 'Tile Windows', the windows will be arranged in a pattern for (n+1) windows, where 'n' is the number of windows i really have open! If I have the VS.Net IDE open, while using external help, and i attempt to 'Tile Windows', i get a tiling scheme de...more >>

I'm used to using VBA from within office tools When I edit a .vbs in VS.NET, it seems to not recognize the language as VB For example, it does not capitalize the keywords, it does not change endif to End If like it does in VBA It also does not provide parameter choices....more >>

Hello, I've created UserControl that implements IDTToolsOptionsPage, all in managed code, registered and use it in my add in. It works fine. However I then found info in msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxtskcreatingcustomtoolsoptionspages.a...more >>

We have a large solution with a large (unmanaged) C++ code base. We started adding .NET projects in C++ and C# recently. If we add a C# project, when we try to debug (e.g. by pushing F5,) the IDE insists on touching every project to see if it is up-to-date If something has changed, the pop-up th...more >>

I'm trying to get the My User Controls tab to work for me. (VS.Net 2003, Winform controls in C#) Here's my problem, I'm building out a number of controls (a lot right now, because I'm doing prototyping/proof of concept work) If I inherit from UserControl, the control automagically appears in...more >>

Hi, I have great difficulty with forms I've designed in VS.NET (my projects are all VB). If I put some controls on a form and then start adding splitters and docking controls everything works fine.. UNTIL I want to rearrange things and the I find I cannot move things around without the whole thin...more >>

I have a [rather large] C# project in VS.Net 2003. We have three developers working on the same project, each with their own local copies, which we coordinate via WinCVS The other two developers have no problems with VS.Net, but I have one bizarre problem: When I call up the Configuration manager ...more >>

The AddFromTemplate statues that you must use the complete path to add a new project item. But how I do know the path where the user has installed his .NET ? What I try to do is to add a new Form ( in C# ). Thank you for your time, Andrei ...more >>

is it possible to save (e.g. to an xml-format) and restore vs.ide settings like font, colors, docking-window positions etc.? thanks pat ...more >>

In the VC6 IDE, I could add an icon to the tool bar called "Definitions & References". By placing the cursor over either a variable or a function and clicking on this button, a dialog box was brought up that showed me everywhere in the program where the variable or function was used. It was very...more >>

The VS.Net 2003 IDE crashes everytime I exit VS.Net. This seems to only happen after development on the ASP.Net portion of my application. No harm is done to the application, however, IDE-specific settings are frequently lost. Has anyone else experienced this frustrating, albeit benign probl...more >>

Using VS 2003, VB.net, MSDE, In break mode, under the debug menu, there is an option called Detach All. I have been unable to find an explanation of what it is for and how it is used. Can you direct me to a url? Thanks! Bob Day ...more >>

My Start Up Page, On Line Resources tab, has such late breaking news that the VS 2003 Beta is now available. Of course, the final release has been out sometime now, and I am using it (I think anyway). So, I guess I don't understand why such outdated information is appearing. It there somet...more >>

While I am coding I would like to watch video using wmp. Is there a way to dock wmp inside the vs.net ide?...more >>

I am working with Visual Studio .NET 2003 on a solution with ~ 10 projects and at least 200 files. The files are under source control (Dimensions) Sometimes it happens, that I cannot open a form in the design view. The error message "Unspecified error" is very helpfull :-). Until today various acti...more >>

Every time I start a new project such as a console or a winforms project, I get the following error popup message "Dynamic link library (dll) initialization failed I've un-installed and re-installed VS.NET and the Framework 1.1. three times and I still get the same error. Any ideas are greatly ap...more >>

I have an application that I have been working on for 2 years in VB .NET and just recently, This particular application has been crashing the VS .NET IDE. Other applications seem to compile/link/debug just fine. However, this one application generates the following error messages after a "Build Solu...more >>

Hi, In VC6.0 it was easy to find out, if some control has assigned some variable or no, and eventually delete that variable with help form Class Wizard. How is it in Visul Studio 2002.NET? I don't know if is any different way there, than look inside a surce code, when I want to find out which ...more >>

I used Norton Utilities to clean up a mess left by an app that had no uninstall, and it ended up breaking VS.Net. When the IDE started, I got a message about DTE.olb being missing, and that I needed to reinstall VS.Net. I found this article on the web explaining a problem assocaited with uninstal...more >>

I recently upgraded to VS2003 and now when I right-click on a project reference, I just get a blank properties dialog. This is preventing me from setting "copy local" etc. Anyone have any ideas about this problem? Thanks, Tim. ...more >>

For whatever reason VS 2003 does not allow me to use System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http? The higher System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels works fine but I cannot access Http in a C Sharp "using" context or directly in the code. The documentation however refers to this namespace under C Sharp in ...more >>

MS Access had a nifty implementation whereby the context menus for any screen could be exposed & modified by viewing the 'Menus' toolbar. (don't remember the exact name) I don't see anything similar in VS.Net. All i want to do is add one (existing!) command to the code view context menu - ...more >>

Fist of all, I think my problem is similar to Rick Austin (Missing Project Properties). My VS.Net 2003 (using VB.Net) was working fine until yesterday after I upgraded the Visual SourceSafe on my machine. I installed VSS 6.0d (client only) over my existing VSS 6.0b. I'm not sure if it was the o...more >>

Under Visual Studio .NET 2003 I have been using .NET Framework to create diverse C# Winforms and controls through the visual interface. I have never used the command-line interface. To compile a module that is not yet included in any assembly I am instructed to ... - Open the Visual Studio...more >>

Since we upgraded our project from Visual Studio 6 to 2003, whenever we try to run our C++ solution from the Visual Studio IDE we always get the warning: "These project configuration(s) are out of date... Would you like to rebuild them?". Our solution is made up of two projects, where we run...more >>

Is there any Rhyme or Reason as to how this tab works? From what I gather, if you create a toolbox tab named "My User Controls", and if you have a control library in your solution, the control should automatically appear on this tab (for easy testing). Now the reality: Sometimes if I create...more >>

From inside an c++ add-in, what's the easiest way to open an XML file in the XML editor? TIA ...more >>

Help, I need to make Visual Studio quieter. I have not been able to figure out how to change the build complete (or maybe it is build failed) Sound. I go into: control panel -> Sound Speech, and Audio Devices -> Change the sound scheme, and change every sound listed in any of the 'program event...more >>

Sometimes I have help open with several tabbed pages. If I restart Visual Studio and start help, the tabbed pages are lost. I wish the tabbed pages were restored. Thanks, Frank...more >>

Hello all, I've written an add-in for VS.NET 2003 that works great at home and that I wanted to install on my PC at work. Running the installer seems to work in that the add-in appears in the Add-In Manager, but even after I check the option to enable it, I can't see it in the Tools|Customiz...more >>

Sometimes I would like to exclude specific project files from the search. It would be nice to have a checkbox to allow a file to be excluded from the search, similar to the checkbox for excluding a file from the build. Thanks, Frank...more >>

I am new to VS.net and C++, When I try to compile and run an application for the console, the cmd window will open, run the program, and close within a fraction of a second. I know that the code is fine because it runs with no problems on the college lab computers (and debug finds no problems). ...more >>

Hi, I have created an Outlook addin using Extensibility wizard in VS.Net 2003. In the wizard I have selected addin to be installed only for the user who installs the addin, and that's how the setup project was created. So far everything is ready, but we have decided to make the addin to be ...more >>

Hello, Using VS7 (v7.0.9466), I have created a c++ namespace called Garbage_File To my great misfortune, the ide believes eveything on the line occuring directly after _File:: is a url. So if I have typed garbage_file::dosomething() then the cursor changes to a pointing hand when hovered ove...more >>

Anyone know why when I first record or play a macro the IDE idles for a few seconds (i.e. the mouse pointer becomes an hourglass and nothing happens)? I have a fairly fast machine (AMD XP 1800+) so I don't understand why the delay. Thanks, Nick ...more >>

Hi. I wrote two simple custom controls to help me learn asp.net. Each control is his own project, I didn't put them on the same assembly. The first control derives from BaseValidator and the second derives from Textbox. I created a new web application and selected my controls on the Tools - Ad...more >>

I have run into a problem that I can find explanation to nor find a fix for. I can no longer debug an application I have developed through the VS.NET 03 IDE. I hit debug and the IDE locks up. In the task manager I see the executable that I am trying to debug, it has only consumed some small n...more >>

I'm new to C#, just learning. I came from VB. In a VB project, within the code editor you can see all your classes in the left hand drop down called "classes". In the right hand drop down you see all the events, methods for the class. In a C# project, all I can get to show up in the left hand ...more >>

I've changed my text editor options in Visual Studio .Net to use bold font (ie ticked the bold box). I have also changed the font away from Courier New (tried a few choices). Now when I start typing, the caret heads out to the right of where I'm actually up to. If I stop typing, the caret comes back...more >>