I have an aspx page which I am using Dreamweaver to modify. The page is about 3 screens long. The problem is that VS.NET is showing the first screen without showing the vertical scrollbars in the designer. Therefore I can't make any changes beyond the first screen. I am guessing VS encounte...more >>

I'm new to VS 2003 so please bear with me... is there any way to build (or compile, or just error-check) a C# file without it being part of a project? In other words, to just build the Object defined in a .cs file that is not in a project? ...more >>

Hello, I recently reinstalled the VS.NET 2003 IDE and my tool bar got all screwed up. I tried to manually add/remove the items on the bar to reset it to a default configuration; but, certain items didn't want to be removed or moved into their default location. Screen-shot available here: ht...more >>

Hi, Recently I build a Addin application from scratch based on Addin application source that I got on the internet. While building, installing and starting the based Add-in in debug mode, once the OnConnection method is called, while looking at the Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode connect...more >>

Hi, ENV: Windows 2003 Server, VS 2003, .Net Framework 1.1 SP1 A number of our developers have raised an issue with DevStudio removing event handlers from our ASP.Net pages - in the C# code-behind. It mostly happens when editing in the HTML view of the page and sometimes in design mode; De...more >>

After installing ReSharper my navigation keys (arrow keys, delete, backsp, tab, end, home, pgup, pgdn) have stopped working in Visual Studio .NET 2003. I have removed resharper and uninstalled / reinstalled visual studio but still no joy. All is fine in other text editors (notepad, word, et...more >>

My macros don't seem to be working anymore. I can create a new macro and save it, but when I try to run it, either by right-clicking in Macro Explorer or through a keyboard shortcut, it doesn't work. It shows "running macro" down at the bottom of the IDE, but it won't do anything. I can't e...more >>

Hi, Environment: Windows XP with SP2, Visual Studio.NET 2003 Architect, Java Web Start; I switched to HTML Source Environemnt, and add an applet into there(In this case I'm using EasyChart from Objectplanet). I was able to build my project and run it as well, and the content did displayed...more >>

I would like to double check something. It appears that VisualStudio 2k3's IntelliSense feature is case sensitive, is that correct? Why am I asking? Cause one "feature" I like with JBuilder is it's CodeInsight is not case sensitive, therefore I can just focus on the correct spelling of a met...more >>

Hi, Recently, I created a simple Add-in that add a command bar buttons to Visual Studio .NET and did it with success. Then once I uninstalled my Add-in, the associated toolbar is still displayed in the Tools->Customize dialog. While trying to delete the toolbar by selecting THE Toolbar, the...more >>

I would like to add support for VS to recognize custom hyperlinks in code comments (as opposed to only http, etc.). Any ideas? For me this would be a useful way to launch our bug tracking database from the relevant code. For example: // The following line fixes bugdb:123456 or if need b...more >>

Hi, We have a project that was originally developed in VC++ 6.0. It had a dsw, a dsp, and a number of c, cpp, and h files. We upgraded to .NET (Microsoft Development Environment 2003 7.1.3088) and opened the DSP file. It was converted into a vcproj and a sln. After making necessary cha...more >>

I'm running Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, and VS 2003. I have an ASP.NET project I previously created, and went to open it back up to make modifications. Now VS won't open http://localhost When I try to open that location, it just goes to "My Documents" I haven't changed anything on ...more >>

The problem: Macro Explorer window shows the tree with Samples and MyMacros and allows me to expand nodes under Samples but whenever I pick some macro and try to invoke editor by selecting Edit from the context menu, all I'm getting is a modal dialog saying "No such interface supported". ...more >>

I installed Codeswap on two different machines running VS.NET 2003 and the event log shows the error below in both. Why the path not found error... what is it looking for? I am going to guess that this tool works in vs 2002 only as it has been developed years ago. Also is there any logical...more >>

I have developed only one graphical app using the VS6 IDE. I would now like to develop an app using VS.NET. In both cases the apps are dialog based so I used the wizard to specify a C++ MFC SDI app with a dialog starting class. Among the resources the VS6 wizard created was an icon resource...more >>

Hi, Does anybody knows how to create a toolbar with button for an Add-in within Visual Studio .NET. Thanks....more >>

When I am using Visual Studio.net in the debug mode for a Visual basic.net appliocation, I want to be able to increase the size of values that can be displayed. For example when using the "watch" or other debug windows, I know I want to see a field that is 8k. However, the size of the display ...more >>

We are having a severe problem with Visual Studio 2003. When modifying items in the form designer or working with the html for data in the designer, the control events are being deleted from the InitializeComponent method of Web Form Designer generated code. This is driving us crazy and the ct...more >>

Really weird problem.... I add code in the #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " section, and the IDE deletes a part of it. One program reads an ini file before executing the form's load procedure, and in another program, it deletes my oledb connection string! Here is...more >>

I am having a problem when I double click on a function within Class View, it goes to the declaration of the function as opposed to the definition. Some functions seem to work but others don't. I am working with a C++ project in VS .NET 2003. I have read most of the post relating to this p...more >>

I have started getting the following error message when loading existing forms which use user controls, or when adding a user control to windows forms: Culture name neutral is not supported. Parameter name: name All the forms compile correctly and run fine - they just cannot be viewed an...more >>

As per a suggestion (http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/articles/361363.aspx) I read, putting copyright notices sounds like a great idea. However, implementing this for personal development is a pain. :< Is there a way to coax VS to put in a static text block for me whenever it creates a new class ...more >>

I am a little confused on how the toolbars in the IDE behave. My toolbars on the left side of the IDE have some items that are represented by icon only, and some that are represented by icon and name. My question is, how can I get the items to appear by icon and name? If I mouse over the icon,...more >>

I'm a bit of a keyboard junky, and I'm trying to learn about VS' keyboard shortcuts and there's two that confuse me. There's shortcuts (http://safari.oreilly.com/?XmlId=0-596-00360-9/mastvsnet-APP-C) to get to the Declaration (CTRL+F12) and then to goto the Definition (F12). Waht is the di...more >>

Hi, Can any one provide me with a link to site or can send me hotfixes/updates to the Visual Studio.NET 2002 IDE? The MS site says you have to call them to get hotfixes etc... which is ridiculous! Example, in 2002 IDE if you choose "Check for Updates" on the help menu you get an error. T...more >>

When I "Add existing Item" the source code is copied from my "common" directory to the project directory. There must be some other way....more >>

I want to add a new project type in Visual Studio .NET 2003; this is not an add-in a new project type. How can I do this?...more >>

There must be somewhere else all the VStudio .Net professionals hang out because there are very few posts in these groups. Where can I go to ask for help where someone can read it? I would like to ask questions about the Crystal Report feature included in version 2003. TIA Jon ...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to copy a list of references from one project in a solution to another project in the same solution? Or one should use the Add Reference dialog, then Browse for projects or assemblies each time again for each of the different projects? -- Yours, respectfully Ruslan ...more >>

Hi, since yesterday I have a really strange behaviour if VS.NET 2003. When using CTRL-F5 or F5 to start an application with or without debugger, the IDE disappears without any warning or error message. I tried several projects - same behaviour. I tried "Debug->Processes" --> same behaviour wit...more >>

In VS2003 EA the "Data Adapter Configuration Wizard" has stopped working. Dragging connections and objects from server explorer works ok, but configuration halts with error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". This also occurs when accessing the drop-down button in a SQLCon...more >>

Hi, I've deleted the HTML tab unintentionally (the result of trying to delete a new tab which had no caption). I'd like to restore it but can't work out how to do it. Any suggestions? (VS .NET 2003 E.A.) -- Regards, Craig...more >>

I cannot save edited files using the VS.NET IDE to mapped server drives. I get an Access Denied error. Using windows explorer, I map a drive letter to a shared folder on a server. Then, using VS.NET 2003, I create a text file. Type 'this is a test' and save it to my mapped drive. Then I typ...more >>

I am currently writing an article on Visual Studio extensibility, one that also covers Visual Studio.Net 2005. As of Beta 1 of VS2005, there appears to be some bugs with the Code Model support. Perhaps Microsoft insiders on this group might be kind enough to shed some light on these issues: ...more >>

I would dearly love to know when MS will realize that changing a developer's IDE for no good reason is a really bad thing to do. Here's my latest peeve, and I want to know how to fix it, since neither the documentation nor MSDN seem to even reference it. To wit -- in the following sample li...more >>

[This has been posted on vstudio.extensibility as well] Hello, I have a VS project that has the Configuration type set to Makefile and basically calls a ToolApp (EXE) I wrote that goes through the project's sources and calls the compiler/linker, etc. It all works well when I have the solu...more >>

Hi folks, When I shutdown my IDE I get a dialogbox that says "Unspecified Error". My rest of the solution files are working fine except this one. And all of them are under ClearCase. I checked the registry entries and everthing looks fine to me. But I never understood the reason for one specif...more >>

I moved to a new computer that is supposedly > 3x faster. However opening a project or any sourcafe integration action has become 5x slower. I am quite sure that this is a difference between xp and 2000). Opening the dialog box "Change source control" now takes minutes instead of seconds. At ...more >>

Hi, I am sure this question has been asked before and I have searched but could not find anything in here on it. Does anyone know if there is any brief key map scheme files / patches available for vc .net. I really do need to start using net as everyone else im working with are now using ...more >>

Hi, I've recently started using VS.Net and, just some queries; 1) In plain-vanilla VS (not .Net), when you went on to a new line, the cursor would indent automatically, but if you didn't type anything, instead opting to continue on to the next line, the previous indent would be removed....more >>

Hi All, In VC 6 I often build with Browse Info and use the Source Browser. In Dev Studio 2003 I can build with Browse Info but I can't find the same functionality that the Source Browse provided, specifically the Call and Callers Graphs. Has this functionality been elminated? ...more >>

I would like to create a Source Code Control plug-in for Visual Studio.NET 2003. I am a MSDN Universal subscriber so I have access to all the downloads available but am not sure where to start. I would like to develop it in Visual C# if possible. What SDK should I use? ...more >>

I wish to download the Hot Fix as detailed in the article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;842706 I can't belive that I have to email / phone microsoft support to request a bug fix? Is there a url anybody can point me to? ...more >>

I created and saved new solution After reload the property tab disappear ...more >>

I wanted to let you know about something that happened in VS.NET 2003. I was working in a windows forms app, on the code view page. I started to write Private Sub, then changed my mind and went to the controls dropdown, picked a control, and went to the events dropdown, and tried to get the ...more >>

Hi, I just started on a different project that requires me to use VS.NET 2002 instead of VS.NET 2003 because the client base has hundreds (maybe thousands) of framework 1.0 installs. However 2002 is like a dam with a crack in it - it is possible for it to leak memory up to 260MB with me n...more >>

Hi, I'm writing an Add-In for Visual Studio.NET. I want to display properties of several objects that are used within this Add-In, so I started to play around with the PropertyGrid, and created a few custom TypeConverters. I encounter a frustrating problem, however. It seems that while my custom ...more >>

Greetings! Any good trick/hint/add-in/script for opening the associated .h file for an existing .cpp and vice-versa on VS 2003 ? Thanks, Fabro ...more >>

This happens often enough to be a nuisance and I cannot recreate it. But obviously from all the threads complaining about IDE freeze ups there is an obvious problem. I have yet to find a thread where MS has answered the issue with an end all solution and I see a lot of posts were never answered....more >>