Hi, I would known how to create a formated solution ( with severals piece of code already coded, class format, name, etc.. ) with an add in ? If somebody know a link to a web site, please foward me. Thx all. Have fun to code....more >>

Any add-in for vb.net code generation of Public Property from Private Field? thx....more >>

hi All, Could anyone confirm that I only need Visual Studio .Net Professional and *NOT* Enterprise Architect to allow me to edit/create Stored Procedures on a SQL Server 2000 database? Cheers! Kyle ...more >>

Hello, 20 minutes ago I was building and running my VS.Net 2003 C# project. Now when I try to build, I get this message: Could not find 'MyCompany.NewProduct.Windows.Forms.AppMain' specified for Main method What the heck happened? This code is in a file that is in the project: nam...more >>

If I BUILD the code below, all works fine. But if I REBUILD the solution at any time, the following errors are found in the WrapperCOMEXE.idl: 1) error MIDL2337 : unsatisfied forward declaration : IQBEventCallBack [Coclass 'MyWrapper' ] --> This error occurs within the My...more >>

When I try to use certain tags such as <example> or <exception>, no output is generated in the Comment Web Page. <summary>, <remark>, <params> and <returns> work as advertised. I have the output xml file name set to match the project and it is being generated successfully. Is the documentation...more >>

Hi, ENV: Windows 2003 Enterprise, Devstudio 2003, .Net framework 1.1, Office 2003 SP1 Since applying the Visual Studio/Office/Windows hotfixes for the JPEG issue, I am having problems debugging an ASP.Net application. Visual Studio will hang and consume anywhere from 10% to 90% CPU when ...more >>

Hi, In intellisense, when I instantiate a .NET object and view the object and methods, I get a description for each and any overloads. With my custom objects, how do I provide markup and get this functionality? Thanks, Don ...more >>

Hello, I have a VisStudio.Net project with 16 forms. I had one of the forms open in design view earlier today. Now, however, I can't open any form in design view. I get this message: "An error occurred while loading the document. Fix the error, then try loading the document again. The er...more >>

Hi All, Is there anyway to prevent/switch off the VS.NET IDE from mangling up my HTML when I switch between HTML (source) view and Design view and then back? I have HTML coding standards with regards to indentation that the IDE keeps wanting to screw up for me. Thanks! Corey. ...more >>

Hi All, I am writing a c# console application in VS.net, every time I run the program, the console showed and disappeared very quickly, I can't see what is displayed. Are there some settings that let the window stay there after my program terminates? I know I can write my program to wait for a k...more >>

Hi Our IT department is planning to deploy Windows XP SP2 these days. They assured me, that if I switch off the firewall it will not affect the operation of my Visual Studio.NET 2003. Is this correct? Is there other issues, that I should be aware of? Any complication with the ..NET installe...more >>

How do you set the what the properties are when you drag a control onto a report? For example, When I add a textbox, it automatically has .2pts padding. I need that to default to 0pts. ...more >>

Is there a way to stop the debugger from stepping into some places, specifically places like where operator new is defined. I know there was a way before Visual Studio.NET, but haven't been able to find a way to do it now. ...more >>

On some machines we are not able to shell out devenv.exe. I did find information telling me to run the vsvars32.bat file, but we did and after a reboot we are still not able to shell devenv. It keeps coming back with devenv is not reconized. Any help is much appreciated. Cory ...more >>

Hi, I'm using VS.Net 2003 and I have a question (or if the answer is "no way", consider this as a feature request for the next version). When a user tries to open or create a new project (non-web) the IDE suggests as default folder "Visual Studio Projects" under MyDocuments. In most cases...more >>

Is it possible to instruct devenv to not build a dependent project when building a specific project of a solution via command line args in VS 2003. By default it always seems time wise to be building dependent projects. Thanks in advance C Malone ...more >>

Hi All. The Visual Studio help says that I can use the Server Explorer to create/edit stored procedures. The example says to right click the server explorer database "stored procedure" node and a popup menu will enable the creation of a new stored procedure. When i do this - i only get "re...more >>

Hi, I'm using visual studio .net 2003. Part of my development tree consists of some miscellaneous files that I would like to see in solution explorer (config files, XML, XSD etc) but they aren't source files, and they aren't in a subdirectory of a source directory. I tried to create a pr...more >>

In my add-in, this works if I bring up the IDE and open a solution file which modify the location of the source code(s) with unload and reload command. It doesn't work when I double click on the solution file that is outside of IDE like in 'My Computer' and will get a different output - IDE...more >>

I have a vs.net 2002 solution that contains a number of projects All projects are created in folders under the solution folder. The idea here is that this entire solution should be 'moveable' ie. copied to and useable from a new directory or computer. And it almost is. One project makes refer...more >>

The context menu for a data connection in the server explorer tab for a co worker doesn't give him the option to generate create scripts to populate his database project. Why? thanks ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue. Controls in my webform just suddenly disappeared. No error message, no warning just wiped out a days worth of work. Using Visual Studio 2003....more >>

In Notepad, I can specify the format of the page header using simple simbols like &f (file name), &d (date) and &t (time) I need to control the way that VS.NET prints code pages in a similar fashion, but I can't find a dialog that lets me specify the format of the page header or footer. Is ther...more >>

Hey all, So, my situation is that I have a visual studio .net 2003 solution that is a collection of unmanaged C++ DLL and EXE projects. Now, there are a handfull of classes that I would like to share between those exes at build time, but I have no runtime need to warrant making COM objects o...more >>

We have a multi-project VS 2002 solution that compiled for months until we installed .Net Framework 1.0 SP3 and .Net Framework 1.1 SP1 at the same time from WindowsUpdate.Microsoft.com. Now the compile hangs at Preparing resources... Updating references... Performing main compilation... ...more >>

When I am dev a ASP.net application and switch between Design and HTML in VS, the HTML code's layout is modified by putting Carriage Returns. For instance I keep each control per line and when switching between views it scrambles the clean lines into unreadable garbage. I tried changing the "...more >>

Hi, I use VS.Net 2003/C#. In my project I have a file which I need to include as embeded resource. So far, so good. The file is added to the project, and in the properties/build action is set as such. It works ok. The problem is, that if I change something in that file, save it and then...more >>

Hi ther, in VS .NET 2003, C++, if I have a form with cpp,h and resx, and I want to copy them to some other project directory and then add them to the project, the cpp and h files appear in the solution/project no trouble, but the resx file isn't associated with the .h and .cpp file, so I can't an...more >>

Is there a way to export blocks of code from the VS.NET code editor into HTML while preserving the color and formatting of the code? The idea is to create an online code library that displays blocks of code as they would appear in the IDE. Thanks ...more >>

(Type your message here) In some of the forms that has custom controls i add a simple button & some code on its click event.. Dim resources As System.Resources.ResourceManager = New System.Resources.ResourceManager(GetType(form1.)) The above line gets added under the Private Sub InitializeCompone...more >>

Dear All, I am writing an application which uses image list for listview and tree view usage. I encountered a problem in windows 2003 this is working fine and I don't have any problems. In Windows XP the images of this image list is not shown in ListViews and Tree Views. I don't know what is t...more >>

Dear All, I just wanted to know, how can I register a service using Visual studio setup project. I can create a Setup Project successfully, it installs all the program, but I need a hint on how to run "InstallUtil.exe <ApplicationDirectory>\ApplicationName.exe" in order to install and register ...more >>

I'd like to make a macro to copy the project outputs of all the projects in my solution to a different folder. Seems simple enough, and something that the automation of the IDE ought to be able to give me pretty easily. But I can't find out where to get the project output! I've looked at the ...more >>

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Combined Collection... Are we limited to one tabbed page open at a time or is there some way to open multiple pages in help and use the tabs to toggle between desired pages? -- <%= Clinton Gallagher, "Twice the Results -- Half the Cost" Architectural & ...more >>

Dear All, I just wanted to know, how can I register a service using Visual studio setup project. I can create a Setup Project successfully, it installs all the program, but I need a hint on how to run "InstallUtil.exe <ApplicationDirectory>\ApplicationName.exe" in order to install and register ...more >>

Hi all, Due to the horrendous job that studio currently does generating and preserving html "code," I tend to use FrontPage (version 2003) to edit the html in my aspx pages. VS.Net is setup to auot--reload the aspx pages into the IDE after detecting a change in them. The problem is that...more >>

I am trying to add a menu item to the context menu of the code page tab. Using the CommandBrowser from the download site, I found the name of this to be the "Easy MDI Document Window"; however, I am unable to add my own item to it. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here: ...more >>

I can't open an .aspx page in html view or the web.config file inside VS.Net 03 (Win XP Pro SP1, Office 03), it causes vs to crash and I can send or don't send the error to MS. This is a production asp.net app that needs changes now and I can't modify any aspx pages. Also whenever I right click...more >>

Hi, During compilation, a C# project in my solution triggers the following warning: "warning CS0168: The variable 'ex' is declared but never used" To trigger this warning, it appears the C# compiler WarningLevel needs to be 3 or above. In the same solution, I also have a VB project, ...more >>

Hi, lately, when I try to create a new C# project in VS .NET 2002 I get this "Error in loading Dll" message; the project is created with no references at all; the same error apears when I try to add a new item, be it form, class, component class; when I try to add a dataset, xml file, co...more >>

We have several forms designed with VSNet's VC++ Forms Designer. Some of our simplest forms have 20 - 30 controls and will take approximately 2 minutes to load. A very complicated multi-layer form takes approximately 12 minutes to load into the designer. Sometimes it even fails to load ...more >>

[might be a bit off-topic] Hi, I recently read (but can't find again) an article on VS 2005 which described a (for me at least) long-missed feature: templates for project settings that could be reused between different projects. Unfortunately I've also forgotten what it was actually called ...more >>

I have created a setup project that consists of 4 custom folders - only. The files being installed are: 1) an xml file in 1 custom folder, whose location is [TARGETDIR]\folder1 2) a single DLL assembly in the remaining custom folders, where each location is [TARGETDIR]\folder[2,3,4] respective...more >>

Hello everybody, I'm currently developing an Add-In for VS.Net 2003. I already got beyond all the obstacles like Win32 resource DLL, transparent images, placing the toolbar, etc. Only for placing toolwindows I couldn't find anything. Instead of having toolwindows float initially, I'd like t...more >>

I never got an answer to my first post or my second post. This managed newsgroup service is NOT working well at all. I have a solution with about 6 projects in it. When using one particular project in that solution, intellisense does not work. It will not pop up a list of anything. I tri...more >>

The IDE has a nasty habit of changing the code type from "form" to "code" in the project file on occasion. This isn't the consequence of migration/conversion from vs 02 to 03, but just seems to occasionally happen. It happens on several of my development machines, and I can't find a pattern. ...more >>

Is there any way to get rid of that stupid 'slide' effect in the VS toolbox when switching between the component sections? Damn UI fluff effects....more >>

I have a solution with four distinct projects. I have found that methods in a class in one project are not accessible to another project's classes unless they are set as "public". This definitely does not seem right. What do I need to do to make accessibility more restricted? I am new to VS...more >>

Hi, When I copy /paste some code in the VS IDE it automatocally adds an ID attribute... How do I get it to stop doing this... Thanks Donal ...more >>