Hello, We have a lot of files in different directories in our project. I wrote a macro to find and open a source file based on the filename rather than using the solution explorer. But it's so slow as to be unusable. Is there something obvious in my code, or is there another way to do this? ...more >>

I'm using Dreamweaver for most of my production work. I'm editing some files that have been edited in VS.net and running into all sorts of headaches in terms of getting proper xhtml...invalid doctypes, all uppercase tags, no quotes around entities, etc. Is there a setting in VS.NET to get it t...more >>

Hi there, I'm trying to iterate and retrieve all C# and VB projects in a solution. The solution has enterprise template projects, so I need to know the constant to use to compare with teh Project.Kind property, or something like that. Any help is much appretiated, thanks! -- Daniel Cazzulin...more >>

I just installed =2ENET 2003 last week, and I'm fairly certain that= the "Find in Files" feature was working initially=2E However, it= is certainly not working now=2E When I try to find any string, it= immediately returns with "No files were found to look in=2EFind= was stopped in progress...more >>

Hello group Is there an 'auto indent' for opening and closing braces? If there is, how do I set the spaces to indent TIA Ray K....more >>

We have a really large solution that we're working on an automated build process for. We use the command-line functionality of devenv.exe to build individual projects. My question is this, is there a command-line switch that I'm not aware of that will allow me to build one particular project ...more >>

There has to be some way to get the design view and html to be synchronized. Can someone please point me in the right direction. It's just sooooo annoying to click on a control in design view and then click html view and the cursor not be at the controls code but instead always go to the top o...more >>

hi i am developing an application to transfer files from desktop to pda and vice-versa in visual c#.net . how do i do this? i have tried using microsoft namespace. but i am not able to do it to transfer file from pda to pc. do u have any such examples? how do i know about microsoft namespa...more >>

What kind projects can be registered for Com Interop? I noticed that Windows Applications, ASP.net projects, database projects and blank solutions have this option disabled. -- KEITH DAVIS Systems Support Analyst County of San Bernardino mizoguchi42@email.uophx.edu ...more >>

I have a server with SQL 2000 and VSS 6d on it. I don't have a problem with two of the DBs. I added the connections using windows integrated security and then it promopted me for login, I entered my login and pwd, and it sucessfully added the connections and showed sotred procedures under sourc...more >>

I have looked in .csproj and in .sln file and cannot locate where the Project/Web Settings/Path is stored. Also looked in csproj.webinfo file and cannot find it. I have run out of places to look. Please help. -- ----------------------------------- Ken Varn Senior Software Engineer D...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to add a file multiple times to an Installer project and get the MSI compiler not to package that file multiple times? It seems to me it'd make more sense for it just to set up four locations to install a single file to, rather than packing the file four times each with its ...more >>

I get an error message each time I try to run "Check for Updates" within vs.net 2003. From searching the newsgroups, I see this is a well known issue, but yet nothing I've found clears up the problem for me. Thus, I continue to ponder the question of how to know if/when there might be an upd...more >>

Hi! I have an annoying problem. When I view an apsx page in design view everything shows up fine. I then switch to HTML view and everything is still fine. But if I then try to switch back to design view the page will simply not display. All other windows switch so they are "prepared" to work ...more >>

Suddenly, after many months of problem free usage of vs.net 2003 ( version 7.1.3088), when I open the IDE, select "new project", select folder, assign name ("testcode"), and then click "OK"... I get a dialog box with the following error message: "The folder 'testcode' isn't accessible. The ...more >>

I'm doing most of my .net work with DreamWeaver, but would like to start using VS.NET more (but not exclusively). I've developed some pages (namely user controls) as single-files...in otherwords, I'm not using code-behind. When I open these pages in VS.NET, I just get to look at the source c...more >>

hi I know this issue has been discussed before - back in February - but no solution or bugfix has been offered so far. I work on an application with only a few forms. All but one cause no trouble at all. the one that causes trouble has a tabcontrol with over 20 tabpages and about 300 co...more >>

I have just added a reference to System.Web.Services within a project and everytime I close the solution VS .NET 2003 crashes, here is the info from the event log (eventID 1000) Faulting application devenv.exe, version 7.10.3077.0, faulting module cslangsvc.dll, version 7.10.3077.0, fault address ...more >>

Hello all Don't know what I did, but for this one particular project I can't activate 'View->Designer'. I had the form an toolbox when I started the project yesterday, but today the form and toolbox(toolbox is there but 'empty') are gone I've tried other projects and they're OK. But, fo...more >>

Hello all, Does anyone know where in the system settings I could go to change the name of the events that get wired up automatically by VS.NET 2003? For example, in C#, use any method to auto-create an event handler (dbl click a button, use the tab trick when manually wiring up events), and ...more >>

Hi All i used vc6 ide and now i move to .net i want to debug my project with command line argument (args) in visual studio i was open the settings and put my argument where in .net i put the same argument? Thanks...more >>

Is there a LIST of all services provided by the DTE object through the IOleServiceProvider interface? Thanks! -- Daniel Cazzulino [MVP XML] Clarius Consulting SA http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu http://aspnet2.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus sy...more >>

As I'm debugging my application, I get compilation error, but quite often, Task List doesn't expand. I end up with having close VS .NET and start it again. If it's like once or twice a day, I can live with it, but this happens a few times an hour. Does anyone know how to get around this problem?...more >>

Hi, I am using Visual Studio.NET for creating ASP.NET pages. This page has a Repeater control, place holder and some code <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Location") % >. Here I can not see Design preview of this page because I am getting error like "Could not open in design v...more >>

I just installed Visual Studio =2ENET 2003, MSDE sp3a, and MDAC= 2=2E8=2E When I try to connect to MSDE in Server Explorer in the= IDE, my instance shows up with an x through it=2E I can't expand= the server to view databases or tables=2E Also, when I choose new= connection by right clicking...more >>

Every time i put a data adapter on my form, i get the following error after clicking "next" An unexpected error has occured. Error Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Call Stack: at Microsoft.VSDesigner.Data.VS.VsConnectionManager.CheckConnection(Int32 index, ...more >>

Hello, is there a way to turn off dynamic help from displaying when clicking F1??? Every time I call help on a word the external MSDN opens up (just as I want) BUT also the dynamic pane inside the Visual Studio (VS .NET 2003) opens up. I've looked in the VS options and have found no way to dis...more >>

Is there any way to comment a whole section easily? Ideally, I'd like to highlight the section I want to comment, right click and select something like "comment". Is anything like this available? Mostly I just want to exclude a section while developing when I'm feeling too lazy to type /*...more >>

hi all. please, sorry my little skills and stupid question (and my eanglish too). i use code like that - var dte = WScript.CreateObject("VisualStudio.DTE.7.1"); WScript.Echo("open solution: " + SomeFile); dte.Solution.open(SomeFile); var ce = dte.Solution.Projects.Item(1).CodeModel.CodeE...more >>

Dear all, I would like to include a few lines of comment code which are some copyright statements at the header of every C# source code pages I created in the project, is it possible to do this so that VS.NET can generate this comments for me every time I create a new source code page i...more >>

I'm looking for an email address or web link where I can send feature requests for future versions of the VS IDE. Can anyone point me in the right direction? ...more >>

Hi, if i change values in my resx file, the changes are not used until i reload the solution. Is there another way to inform the ide, that the resource was changed? best regards, Jan...more >>

Is it possible to have the IDE change the background color of the line that the cursor is on? That would be nice....more >>

How can one sort the files in the solution explorer by name? VC++ 6.0 did this automatically, but VS7.1 keeps them in the order added. I've been reading through documentation and searching online, but I haven't succeded in finding such a feature.. Maybe someone has written a macro to do ...more >>

Hello is it possible to display my own class properties (thru a treeview) in the default visual studio 2003 property window? I've got a reference to the property window, that works. but can't get it fixed to display my own properties there. So i wondering if it's possible anyway... thanx bra...more >>

I am attempting to create a simple asp.net project with visual studio.net using the frontpage server extensions on a windows 2003 server. When attempting to open the project I get a forbidden (403) message from the web server and I was only prompted once for login credentials. After the first attem...more >>

In my add-in I had to modify the csproj file directly due to certain properties not being available in Project, VSProject or the Properties collection However, as the project in question is currently loaded in the IDE I need to reload it I discovered Project.UnloadProject and Project.ReloadProject...more >>

Hello everybody I`m running Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Edition on a dual Intel Xeon 2,4 GHz, RAID 0 SCSI system. As you know Xeon procesors have hyperthreading I am puzzled by the fact that VS is using only 25% of the total CPU power, that is one of the four virtual procesors (half of one real...more >>

Hi I just bought VS.NET (academic). Whenever I type a simple: "#include <iostream>" in the IDE, then hit <return>, my entire computer reboots. Any ideas why? This make the product slightly difficult to use. : (I have p4 2.6, ram 768, WinXPPro SD1 Many thanks Earl Takasaki...more >>

We have a VB.Net solution in Visual Studio 2003 that suffers from phantom build errors whenever a change is made to source code. Source code that is correct and does not report errors will suddenly break and cause errors during background compilation. If the project is rebuilt or if you exit and rel...more >>

'd like to make such thing when user clicks right button in schema editor he can select some items in context menu which I add I know that the same thing can be implemented in VS text editor, but how I suppose that schema editor also allows to do this P.S. Sorry for my English....more >>

Sorry for the basic question, but... Just started using Visual Studio .Net 2003. When opening old VC projects, how can I see which .libs the project depends on? In Borland C++Builder (sorry) I could achieve this by looking at the Project->Edit Option Source. Anyone? Stew ...more >>

Hi, I have a Connect class implmenting IDTExtensibility2 and IDTCommandTarget. My QueryStatus looks like this: public void QueryStatus(string CmdName, vsCommandStatusTextWanted NeededText, ref vsCommandStatus StatusOption, ref object CommandText) { log.Debug("QueryStatus"); Mes...more >>

Hi, This should be simple, but I'm stumped. I can right click on a project in the solution explorer and add a new folder, but I can't figure out how to add an existing folder to a project. When I tried to add an existing item in an existing folder to a project, and the folder is not already ...more >>

Dear Sirs or Madams this Add-In sample works fine, but i have one problem In the OnConnection Event of the AddIn (connect.cs) we get the DTE object (OnConnection(object application,...), then the Class VSUserControlHostLib.IVSUserControlHostCtl is created via CreateToolWindow (..) and this object...more >>

Regarding VS.NET 2003 I have a solution with two projects in it. One is a C# class library, and the other is a C# win forms app. The winforms app has the class library as a dependency. Compiling the whole solution fails, because the IDE complains that it cannot 'copy the output file [of the clas...more >>

I have a rather large ATL project that I converted from VC++ 6. Whenever I build it, VS.NET concludes the whole thing is out of date and rebuilds the entire project. This happens even immediately following a successful build of the entire project. Any idea why? Thanks, Bill ...more >>

Hello all, Is there any way to stop the above editor functions from rolling over the end of the file? For example if I repeatedly press the keyboard shortcut for either function when it gets to the end of the file it starts over at the opposite end, which I find very confusing. thanks ...more >>

Just wondering, how would you insert the copyright symbol into your projects. Thankx in advance Radith Silva radith@xtra.co.nz ...more >>

Hi, Is there any way of telling the debugger which program types you want it to debug? I've just experienced a problem with mixed managed/unmanaged C++ where the debugger wasn't debugging native code and was doing all sorts of weird stuff in the unmanaged code. By running without debugging and...more >>