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 >>