It appears that if you have an overloaded property in VB.NET (2003), e.g. Default Public Overloads ReadOnly Property Item(ByVal sName As String) As Object Get End Get End Property Default Public Overloads ReadOnly Property Item(ByVal iIndex As Integer) As Object Get End Ge...more >>

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I have a ASP Dot Net web forms application that I created (It may have been upgraded from VS 2002) and am working on in Visual Studio .NET 2003. I have created a custom web control that I want to add to a page. Every time I have added it to the page (Drag and Drop) it causes VS to use 100% CPU and...more >>

I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. I had a macro I wrote for VC6 that reformats comments. Nothing fancy or complicated: it just makes each line as long as it can be, up to 80 chars. Pretty simple, and in VC6, it runs virtually instantaneously. So, I "ported" it to the VS.NET 2003 m...more >>

My company purchased VB.NET 2003 Standard Edition, but it does not include Source Control integration and you can not produce dll's. I was thinking about purchasing C#.NET Standard edition for personal use, but if I can not produce dll's this is not possible. Can you purchase C#.NET Profession...more >>

(this didn't seem to post, so I'm trying again) How do the various IDE actions which retrieve lists of DataSets, and referenced DataSets, from within the IDE work? I want to be able to "borrow" the methodology so I can "scan" the active project for components of an arbitrary defined type (e.g.,...more >>

hi guys. Is there a way to retrieve the Data Connection "localhost.master.dbo" ConnectionStrings, DataBase values Etc.... from the Server Explorer of Visual Studio.Net? I am abled to retrieve the Node Name by using EnvDTE.UIHierachy. but I am facing Reflection problems ... take a look at my ...more >>

Hi. I'm on WinXP Sp1 running VS .net 2003 7.1. I've my classes defined in my .h file which I did a #include in my ..cpp file. And my project's "Source Files" folder only contain the c++ files. There's nothing in the "Header Files". The program able to compile well. But the intellisense does not...more >>

*sigh* Can't Microsoft get anything right? Just installed FP 2000 for some troubleshooting that I need to do and now whenver I start the VS 2K3 IDE I have to wait 20 minutes while is has to "configure MSDN Libarary - April 2003"... Why does this keep happening and how do I stop it? ...more >>

I am working on a solution that contains several projects. I have 10-20 files open in the editor. Every once in a while (usually when switching between debug and edit modes) VS decides to close some of the files. This is very annoying! How do I prevent it from happening?...more >>

How does MSDN\2003FEB relate? With Visual Studio .NET 2003 and MSDN both installed on the same machine I have the following subdirectories in the MSDN directory ... 2003FEB 2004APR Are both required or is 2003FEB replaced by 2004APR? -- -- Thom Little -- www.tlaNET.net -- Thom Littl...more >>

Hi there, does anybody know if there's a tool for automatically recording my working hours within the IDE? You know the problem: if you are working on a project, you spend hour and hour for it. Sometimes you got an idea, that you implement immediately. This takes some minutes again. Mayb...more >>

Why does the VS.Net IDE insist on trying to make my life difficult... I copy some text from a webpage and try to paste it into the IDE text editor and it gets mangled beyond recognition. If I wanted it to be interpreted as HTML coding, I'd choose "paste as HTML", but I don't want HTML! i.e. ...more >>

Hello I have this strange problem with some of my projects After I fiinish coding a small line of code, the ide stops for about 20-30 seconds and the responds. This also happens when I press the return key for a carriege return or when i copy/paste a piece of code I have searched the groups an...more >>

Hi, I have a custom control project on my solution. So I have test program for the custom control but I can't see my custom control on Toolbox. How I can add/see to Toolbox of IDE? Thanks, KPH...more >>

Hi I have 71 C++ projects in one solution, if one project get build error( compile/link), the current setting of my IDE will go ahead to build instead of stopping. But I would like to stop build when error happen, do you have any idea how to modify this setting.?...more >>

After using Visual Studio for years, I just discovered the 'exclude from build' property on the property pages for source files, a feature which I find extremely useful on other IDEs, such as Codewarrior. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to tell at a glance which files are excluded. Can this be ...more >>

I'm using VS .NET 2003 (English) under Windows XP Professional (German) and have an annoying problem: The Properties Window spontaneously decided to remain permanently empty. Just the title bar is visible, everything else is uniform gray. Only one account is affected. In another, the window stil...more >>

I'm using VS .NET 2003 (English) under Windows XP Professional (German) and have an annoying problem: The Properties Window spontaneously decided to remain permanently empty. Just the title bar is visible, everything else is uniform gray. Only one account is affected. In another, the Windows s...more >>

I just started using MS Visual Studio 6.0 C++ in windows XP professional. IT seemed to be working OK for several simple exercises The first time I tried to make a new Dialog Resouce, the resource was added OK, the Dialog resource editor started up, I selected "Edit Properties" from the right but...more >>

Hi Guys, all of a sudden when I try to generate a dataset fro a properly configured data adapter I get a messagebox displaying "Unspecified Error". This problem is happening throughout the project and the whole solution. The project compiles and runs great. Any ideas to what migh be happening? Thank...more >>

About 6 months ago I finished writing a few macros that I have used on and off during development. All of a sudden, I got to run one of them and I get a compile error. "Type VSLangProj.VSProject is not defined" I haven't changed anything in the macro code in months, so I have no idea why ...more >>

When I annotate my code with "// TODO", "// HACK" or "// UNDONE", set the bookmark with "Add Task List Shortcut", my task list does not show that line as it should. I'm coding in C#. Using VS.Net 2003 The bookmark arrow shows up in the margin of my code, but the shortcut does not get created...more >>

Hi, According to the NUnit documenation (in ReadMe.pdf) : "When the nunit-console program is run in debug mode under Visual Studio, it detects that it is running in this mode and sends output to the Visual Studio output window." I have NOT been able to get the nunit-console program to sen...more >>

Hi Everybody I just discovered that the following code (in C++) will not be correctly interpreted by intellisence in the Class View and Object Browser window (VS 2003). 1. namespace MyNameSpace 2. { 3. template<class Source> 4. void concatenate() 5. { 6. } 7. } In th...more >>

Hi there, I'm doing a small macro for VS.NET to insert "context sensitive" comment blocks above code constructs. In order to determine the code construct under the cursor I use the CodeElementFromPoint function in the VCFileCodeModel class: Function GetCodeElement() As VCCodeElement ...more >>