_sometimes_ when I save a file in the IDE, I get a blue screen of death. It _seems_ to happen most often when saving web user controls. this also happened in the RC build. The blue screen says: "a thread tried to release a resource it did not own" MS Docs say it is a driver problem, but ...more >>

I installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition on my workstation and selected pretty much all the options. I then installed Visual Studio Team Developer on my system with all but C++ and J#. When I launched Visual Studio, the top left web part did not have Create/Open links for Web Projects....more >>

Hi, My problem is that suddenly I cannot right-click on a project in .NET Studio 2003 (any project, both C# or C++) and open the properties window. Nothing happens. If I click on Project -> "my project" properties from the menu, the IDE hangs and must be killed from the task manager. It...more >>

Hi, I make a dialog in my MFC project, and double-click it to open the class wizard. I put in a class name, set the base class as CDialog, and click finish. Nothing happens. No files are created. I'm having the same problems when trying to create event handlers. The window opens, but nothing ha...more >>

Hi, I just installed the vs.net 2005 prof. and I cannot find the SQL Server node in the Servers tab. In vs.net 2003, that node was there and I was able to manage everything I needed (regarding mssql db) from there. From what I read, it should be there in this version, maybe I miss s...more >>

Does anyone know how to open new files/tabs to the right of the other tabs instead of the left in VS 2005? There is a setting in 2003 but I can't find it in 2005. Thanks, William ...more >>

Does anybody know how to migrate the settings from VS2005 Beta 2 for reuse with the VS2005 Professional Edition which was just released? Isn't there a settings file somewhere I can just copy over? <%= Clinton Gallagher ...more >>

I seem to have lost this and have been looking for days. I've tried every View or Windows opiton I can find. I tried various ways to add taks. I searched the edges of every window in sight to see if it may be shrunk too small to see. I have no idea how to proceded. Thanks,...more >>

I'm loving VS 2005. These are my questions and comments so far: BUG: Autoformatting ================ I've turned off virtually all autoformatting, but there is still one place where it rears it's head even after it's been turned off. Reproduce the problem as follows: 1) Turn off all auto...more >>

I can't help but notice that Brief emulation is BACK! Gotta give you guys huge props for this. It's the little things sometimes that matter and this is huge. great job vs.net team, thanks! ...more >>

I’ve a question that requires some expert advice. Currently, we have a code generator, which generate some classes based on an existing compiled class (in assembly). The problem is, however, to use the tool there’s a few steps: 1) The developer need to first write a class and compile that...more >>

How can i bring a control to the fromt without selecting it on the form first? I have a number of panels whose doc prop is set to full and some controlls on each wohse doc prop is set to full I can select the control from the drop down in the properties tool box but i cannot bring the contr...more >>

Every time I compile a solution I want it to run "editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE" on the resulting .exe. I have tried putting editbin in the project properties "Post-build Event Command Line", but no matter how I try it won't work. Even if I hardcode the path to editbin (which is not very help...more >>

I am trying to create an app. that would use the Windows XP styles, using comctl32.dll version 6.0. I have tryied to follow some examples which use an assembly manifest. One example from MSDN and another from Codeproject, but I can't make it work. I only get faceless (not caption) command but...more >>

Hi all, I'm stuck here on this nasty little problem with the WebForm designer of VS.NET 2003 (Enterprise Architect Edition). Whenever I open an aspx page, it gets displayed properly in designer. Now, if I switch to source view and then again back to designer view, Visual Studio changes t...more >>

Product: MSVC .net 2003 7.1 69462-270-0000007-18536 How do I change the background/text/other colors in the Solution Explorer? Thanks for your help, Chris ...more >>

I'm looking for code samples on .NET addins that change the display of the code. For example, something that shows how you could change the syntax coloring on the fly (change all the words that say "foo" to be red) or draw a wavy underline under certain words (spell checker for example) and c...more >>

I have the following HTML on my web site: <a href="Job-Openings/">employment opportunities</a> Visual Studio 2005 gives the error: "File 'Job-Openings/' was not found." When you browse the site, that link will use the default page of "Default.aspx". That is a valid link and I do that eve...more >>

How can you increase the number of errors shown in the error window. ...more >>

My VS.NET 2003 installation cd contains .NET Framework 1.0. If I re-install VS.NET, can VS.NET be run with Framework 1.1? Jenssey...more >>

When installing Visual Studio .NET for just C# development, the installer seems to demand that J# Redistributable be included. Is J# really necessary if only C# development will be done? Jenssey...more >>

I am having a problem. My toolbars (Data, Security, etc - i.e. on the left) go missing when I leave VS2005RC and come back in. This may or may not have something to do with the Infragistics toolbar that I install. I am searching in both sets of newsgroups. I have just installed VS2005RC. Since...more >>

I have a windows control that executes at runtime correctly but at designtime is invisible because certain segments of the code are run. I know that there is a way to tell the IDE to ignore certain code segments while in the Designer. Could you please remind me how to do that. -- Michae...more >>

I have a problem with Visual Studio.net 2003 which only shows up when a = visual C++ project is loaded. It's hard to describe, but it appears that the main editor window is = continually trying to grab focus. It's a big problem because any = nonmodal dialog such as search isn't usable, IntelliSe...more >>

I'm trying to get my custom OLE DB provider to work with the database browser in Visual Studio. At the moment, I am stuck with the following problem: when I try to retrieve data from a table, VDT properly instantiates a rowset, creates an accessor with bindings for all available columns and iter...more >>

Hi all, This is realling starting to drive me mad now!! I'm using the Visual Studio .NET RC1 and about a week ago the Ctrl+F stopped working! Actually it's all the find options! They won't even work from the menu! I have trying repairing my installation but that had no effect.. Was wond...more >>

i would like to show a get/set property of a public interface in the properties window for a control. i have implemented the interface on the control and have properly implemented the property get/set methods to the point where they work by setting them manually. my non-interface public ge...more >>

I am having a problem getting debugging to work in a C# Class Library I am calling from a Macro written in the Visual Studio 2003 Macro IDE. I copied the C# Class Library to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies", so that it will appear in the Macros ...more >>

Our development team has a problem where the IDE will automatically change the code type in the .csproj files from one type to another, typically from 'Form' to 'Code'. Everything still builds, but now the IDE displays forms as code and it gets very hard to open the form in the designer. W...more >>

I would like to know how to turn off the Debug.WriteLine entries that I've made. Seems like there ought to be a compiler setting somewhere. I'm hoping that I don't have to comment out each one of them. I've looked in the help text and found that in order to make the whole Debug.Write thing...more >>

Hi... I originally posted these in the .net framework group by mistake; I didn't know there was an ide-specific news group. Anyway, I'm using VS .Net 2003 on a W2K box and I've run into a couple of things that are odd and I was wondering if anyone knew what they were and how to work around...more >>

So I've figured out how to iterate over all the CodeElements in my project and can get a listing of every class, enum, global variable, and all the contents of a class including its functions and members. The only thing I can't figure out how to do is to actually get the list of local variable...more >>

Been doing a few walkthroughs to familiarize myself with Vs2005, How does one clean up the recent projects lists in the IDE? Thanks, Bob ...more >>

While I am working on a program P I am also making changes in a library L imported by P. How can I make VS.NET to reload the new build of L? Many thanks, Dan ...more >>

Is it possible to load a VS2005 project(solution) by using VS2003? If not, what is the best way to load the project that is created in VS2005 beta2? Should I ask the owner to rebuild in VS2003? Or any way that I can manually convert it to be compatable with vs2003 if the new version is not usi...more >>

I'm getting the following error when I try and update VS.NET 2003: Visual Studio .NET 2003 setup encountered errors while attempting to download required files. Check you Web browser configuration settings and your connection hardware, and then try again. Help. Thanks in advance....more >>

Hi, Was wondering if anybody could help.. I have been using VS.NET 2005 RC1 for the last few weeks and have been very happy with it. But today for some unknown reason the Find options have stopped working!! Ctrl+F doesn't work Ctrl+Shift+F doesn't work Even if I try these options fro...more >>

I have a problem with Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect, while editing some of .cs files after having inserted a new line or moved cariage to another line visual studio starts using 100% of CPU and for some seconds does not respond (our company is developing Web applications with ASP.N...more >>

Hi I have written a plugin to Visual C++ 6.0 what receives requests from my application (Code-Navigator). I want to get the handle of the active window. But didn't figure out how to get it from the IApplication and it's active window (IWindow). GetActiveWindow wouldn't help me here, since i...more >>

I Work in an environment with a lot of code that was written by previous contractors. These contractors have placed methods all over the files and we want to be able to reorganize our classes. For example, place all methods together, all event handlers together, all module level variable d...more >>

I have a solution with multiple C# command line application projects. At one point I wanted to change the output type of one of these command line applications to a class library, but then I found this problem. After changing the project output to class library in the project properties a...more >>

Hi, I have VS 2005 RC installed on 2 machines, only one is seeing this issue. I can add a datasource test the connection and everything is ok. But when i have the forms designer open, the datasource window is empty if i switch to the code editor the data sources show up. Any ideas how to ...more >>

Hi, We're making extensive use of inherited user controls in our application and since we converted to RC1 we commonly get the following error when trying to display the user controls in the designer. We've tried all the usual things like rebuilding, exiting visual studio, opening ancestor...more >>

Hi - I program in C++ but I'm not good with VC++ (yet). I will like to create a custom project for which a specific template or wizard does not exist. Because the program is a console application, I started out with the Win32 Console Project template. Having done that, the problem is that ...more >>

Hi; In VS 2005 how can I tell it to not warn me when I edit the source during a debug session and then tell it to continue debugging? -- thanks - dave...more >>

Hi; How do I turn off the highlighting of matching parenthesis in VS 2005? I deselected Options, Text Editor, General, "Automatic delimiter highlighting" but that didn't do it. -- thanks - dave...more >>

Does anyone know how to get at the environment variables when running a jscript in the new project wizard? When I start a new project, I would like to get the logged in user name. I would like to set up templates that fill in the file header when a new project is started or new item is added...more >>

I have a version string embedded in my app which is based on a #define in a header containing __TIME__ and __DATE__ macros. In my release build, I'd like to have the files that depend on this header always rebuild, even when the header has not changed (so that my binary always has the lates...more >>

I can't create any new objects in Visual Studio 2003 VB.NET anymore. I can edit exisiting objects (forms, classes, etc) and I can add icons and cursors, but not add "new" objects. I get a dialog that just says "unspecified error". I'm guessing that recently installed software may have corrpute...more >>

All - I'm experiencing a problem removing a toolbar I've created in the VS2005 IDE with an add-in. I've included some simple code at the end that reproduces the problem. I'm calling TestAddRemove from the OnConnection event when the add-in fires. Here's the problem: 1. When I run the whole rout...more >>