Hello, I've been having this problem with C# Express, and now, when I installed VS 2005 Professional, thought it went away, but it started to happen now even in VS. The icons in toolbox are continuously disappearing, being switched to the same (uppermost one I think) icon. Here is a picture ...more >>

Hi, Is there any option to make VS open files by collapsing to definitions by default? Thanks...more >>

Okay we are pushing out one of our first real web projects with VS 2005. Setup is as follows: We have a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0 running on it. FrontPage 2002 server extensions are installed. Framework 2.0 is installed. We have a default web with a virtual directory that is pointi...more >>

hi, in vs.net 2003, i want to use colo(u{1}r|r) to search colour or color, but it only matchs colour! 1) if i use colo(u{1}r|a), it will match colour or coloua. 2) if i use colo(ur|r), it will match color or colour. it seems that something different between only literal expression and expr...more >>

Hi. I'm just starting to use VS.NET 2005 to create Smart Phone applications. As I try to work my way through the sample "Walk-throughs," I create a new Smartphone 2003 project and then it tells me to drag a Button control onto the form. Well there IS NOT BUTTON control in the toolbox. The tool...more >>

It takes 30 seconds or more to populate the dropdown list in the open file dialog. This makes navigation to distant directories more than painful. It is absolutely unacceptable. Anyone found a work around? XP pro, latest sp, 768mb. ...more >>

In VS03 you had the option to copy ONLY files required to run. VS05 copies all files and I can't find a similar option in VS05 to turn off ALL files. Seems to me you would want to avoid having all your .cs and .resx files up on some public server. Can you turn this off? Thanks....more >>

The IDE will not stop reformatting the HTML. //Desired Example <dt class="..." onclick="...">Example</dt> <dd id="..." class="..."> Monday </dd> </dt> //FUBAR VS 2005 <dt class="..." onclick="...">Example</dt><dd id="..." class="...">Monday </dd> </dt> Is there a way...more >>

I have an application that has several project references and fixed path references. When I perform a rebuild all, my project references for the application point to each respective project's bin folder. When I debug the application, I can watch the project references redirect to another dir...more >>

I hit some (to me) unknown keyboard shortcut a bit earlier. All spaces show up as dots halfway up the character space. (Approx the same height as the horisontal line in an "e".) How do I remove this? I don't want to see these spaces as dots. Thanks. ...more >>

Is there a way to display what a given key is bound to? I have this functionality in another editor I use and I find it incredibly useful both to help find a command I vaguely remember the keystroke for (is it ^K^N or ^K^M?) and to discover new functionality. Currently the only way I found ...more >>

In VS2005, are the extensibility objects such as DTE2 based on .NET? I.e. are they themselves .NET objects? Thank You -- Greg McPherran www.McPherran.com...more >>

I have a component class that has a sqldataadpater that i created to query my DB. For some reason i get this error when i try to generate the dataset. i can take this class and open it in a diff. solution and generate it that way. I need the generated .cs & .xsx files to be children to the .x...more >>

Hi, I have always an empty kind of property window above my vside 2005. When I close this windows it come back after I start the project again or when I stop a debugging session. I have it on all my projects, webbased and formbased. Anyone having the same? Thanks Bart...more >>

In VS 2003 I added a couple of external tools, one was Window Explorer and the other was Command prompt. The configuration for Explorer is shown below: Tile: Explorer Command : %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe Arguments: /e,$(ProjectDir) Initial Directory: $(ProjectDir) The idea is that it wi...more >>

This has been bugging me for awhile and I've finally had enough and thought I would ask for help... How comes in VS 2005, if you select any part of the below line (just an example that I know does it) and press F1, I get context help on the Dim keyword, not SqlParameter. Dim p As New Sql...more >>

I have an app.config file that is used for debugging, so I would like to have it in the project, but not under source control. Is there a way to do this is Visual Studio 2005 Professional? mike...more >>

Hi all, Once again lots of people who have migrate from previous .NET version is facing lots of problems with VSNET 2005 form designer. I´m Not an exception. This post is to ask to Microsoft when is going to be relased the fix for this bug. I supose for what i have searched in the Internet,...more >>

Hi, When I try to view an XML that's generated from ms word, I see the entire document structure on four lines. It's painful- As nice as my widescreen mediacenter laptop is, I'm afraid it's just not capable of handling that much horizontal text. When I click on the "format whole docum...more >>

I have a VB.NET solution setup with 3 projects. 2 are forms Projects the other is a control/class library project. All were upgraded/imported from VS 2003 Solution. When step into debugging using F8 the IDE seems fine for a few lines of code and then slows to virtually a standstill. The window...more >>

I dont' know what happened, but the check in turned into this menu option. Anyone know why this is and how to change it back? (I'm using Version Manager source control, but i don't think its an issue). It was working like normal till a couple of days ago. thanks to anyone! ...more >>

In Visual Studio 2003 you can set the debugger to break into code when an exception is raised even if it is caught by a exception handler. How do you do this in Visual Studio 2005? It doesn't seem to have Debug menu->Exceptions ...more >>

Every time I open my solution, (upgraded from vs.net 2003) the ide crashes, and tells me it needs to close. Every once in a while it just informs me of a serious error, and allows me to work with the solution. After that the IDE won't close properly. This only occurs with one specific solutio...more >>

Hi. I was using VB under VS2003 but having received VS2005 I have decided to start using C#. One little thing seems to be a step in the wrong direction although I just may have to customise the IDE properly. When in VB, for instance, I had a listview control and wanted to change the View...more >>

Hello, I am currently developing an add-in for Visual Studio .NET 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0. I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to develop it and C# as a programming language. I have installed Microsoft .NET framework 1.0, 1.0 and 2.0 on my machine. Normally, my add-in registers his own commands,...more >>

This is my first post on Google groups so I hope I have done this in the right place. When I am developing in visual studio, sometimes I would like to go to the next line with out having to use the mouse to click at the end of the line and then hit enter or use the arrows to move to the end o...more >>

I have noticed that every time I debug a web application, when I finish debugging Visual Studio 2005 crashes. This seems to happen if I start typing too quickly after stopping debugging. It happens every time, and it happens to everyone on my team. Anyone else experience this? Know any w...more >>

whenever we create a new website, we are observing that the solution files are getting created in My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\projects folder whereas when we create a project we see the solution files are copied into the same folder as application files. Is there any option we can set ...more >>

VS2005 Pro Version 8.0.50727.42 RTM I've tried posting this several different ways and no one seems to know the answer to my problem. I'm trying to set a keyboard binding; example Alt-D. I know it's assigned to the Debug menu. However; no matter what I do I can't seem to set this or any key...more >>

Hi Sometimes when debugging this particular piece of software from within Visual Studio 2005, the program being debugged suddently stops responding and starts pulling a 100% CPU load. The problem most often occurs when stepping through the code - I press the F10 but control is not given back ...more >>

VS 2005 has nice menu options to format source code: Edit/Advanced/Format Selection and Edit/Advanced/Format Document. Is there an option to Format an entire project or solution? If not, is anybody aware of any macros or addins that will assist with formatting more than a single document...more >>

Hello, Can I integrate VS 2005 Express with Visual Source Safe from VC6.0? Additionally can I integrate this environment with an other source control systems: WinCVS , ClearCase ... ??? Best regards Mariusz ...more >>

Hi, When I open VS2005 solutions by clicking on them in the Explorer the IDE opens them OK, but seems to always start out minimized on the task bar, rather than as a full active window. Is there some setting that controls this behavior? Thanks, Alan Cobb...more >>

Hello, I have 3 projects in a solution - 1 web project and 2 class libraries. I keep having this problem over and over again when i build the solution. These class libraries don't update their dll's in the web project's bin folder. I have removed and added the references as project referenc...more >>

Is there any way to change the default XmlResolver used by the xml designer in vs2005 to resolve custom URI schemes (res://, for instance)? I'm using a custom XmlResolver in my .NET project to resolve a few non-standard URI schemes that I adopted to add some flexibility in where my extern...more >>

Is there any way to make VS.2005 compile selected and only selected project in solution? I don't want it to build all references. Even if it prevents project from building. I want build error to occur if references we're not compiled earlier (we add references to dll's that are outputs o...more >>

Hello, I have a very fustrating problems while debugging ASP.NET applications. When I am debugging and stepping thru code (with F10 or F11) Visual Studio some times suddenly just stop responding and the only way get it up and running again is to kill the aspnet_wp.exe process. When the de...more >>

Hi, My VS.NET 2005 (Professional) IDE is freezing very frequently while working in it. I opn a new file, it freezes. I click on an entry in the compile error window to go to the corresponding file and line, it freezes. It just freezes left and right. I have only started using VS.NET 2...more >>

Hello all, We have several minor issues on two different computers with the VS2005 Pro Edition environment: 1. Getting Started... on the start page is showing SQL 2005 information and not VS 2005 content. We tried uninstalling and reinstalling. 2. The configuration only shows Debug mode ...more >>

Does any have a link to the proper procedure? My B1 to B2 upgrade didn't go too well. Thanks, - Arnie ...more >>

I'm looking for a couple free VS 2003 (VB) add-ins if there are any available. I hope this is an appropriate question for this group so I don't get anybody stirred-up. Is there a decent snippet manager available? Also, a nice property builder would great. Thank you for any help. Do...more >>

In Visual Studio 2003, if I open the Task List and add a new task directly, the task is remembered on my computer. Note that I'm not talking about a comment task (e.g. a TODO). I know these are kept in the source code :-) Are these non-comment tasks kept with the solution? I.e., if I copy th...more >>

I have a mouse problem. When I am in the design view using a Device Application, I can place controls, but I cannot move or resize using my mouse, I can do it using the keyboard. I tried using several mouses, but it seems the IDE can not recieve de events. Please advice. ...more >>

Does anyone here know how to connect to Borland's Interbase through the VS2003 IDE? I can get data with components instantiated at runtime, but I can't get an odbcConnection or oledbConnection to work in the IDE. The issue has to do with design time created DataSets vs runtime instantiated ...more >>

I too find the very annoying. Every time I run a temporary/recorded macro to perform multiple successive edits, the balloon pops-up/ping/then disappears. 1) Having a tip balloon display and immediately disappear in annoying, because you cannot read it. And if it is that important you shou...more >>

I have just produced an Oulook Add-in in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. It works fine from the IDE using debug on my PC (with Outlook 2003) but I am having trouble knowing what I need to do to create the correct files for installation into Oulook 2003 on another PC ...more >>

I am using VC++ 2005. 1. Created an unmanaged library 'LibA.lib' // ClassA.h #pragma once class ClassA { public: ClassA(void); ~ ClassA(void); }; // ClassA.cpp #include "ClassA.h" ClassA:: ClassA(void) { } ClassA::~ ClassA(void) { } 2. Created a Windows Forms Applic...more >>

I'm using HTML Editor of MS Visual Studio to edit HTML pages, containing cascading style sheets (CSS). There is a "Style" combo box in Design View of HTML Editor in VS.NET 2003. This combo box is populated with CSS class names that are defined in the CSS, so I format document much like I for...more >>

Hi, In VS.NET 2003 I had (via sounds and audio devices in control panel) assigned sounds for succesful and unsuccesful builds. Now in 2005 I don't see any events or where to do this. Any ideas? It is incredible how helpful those sounds were! -- Thanks in advance, Juan Dent, M.Sc....more >>

Is there anywhere I could learn how to create a VB.Net 2005 add-in? ...more >>