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 >>