Hi, Currently, I manually override functions. How can I add overrides "automatically" with the IDE. H.B. ...more >>

Hi, When I select "add connection..." from the server explorer Data Connections node the atttributes dialog does not come up. I'm wondering if there is some way I can check to see what is necessary to open this dialog from VS .NET 2003. Background: I originally had VS 2005 installed, th...more >>

I have a completed VS Add-in, but I trashed the setup accidentally. I've tried to recreate the setup but cannot get it to install the add-in and have the add-in show up on the user's VS in the Tool menu. It will put the DLL on the users machine, it will even show the Add-In if we go into Add-in ...more >>

Hi again, The datagrid will get a dataset. We can find out what record the user double-clicks by the this.myDataGrid.CurrentCell.RowNumber property. But if the user 'sorts' the datagrid, then this RowNumber property is no longer valid - is that right? If so, how can this be tracked? Than...more >>

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I need to turn off C++ warning C4996 (deprecated function). According to the docs this should work: #pragma warning(disable:4996) It doesn't. Am I missing something, or is it not possible to suppress this warning? Thanks....more >>

hello everyone, i'm just curious, i've read several threads (most about a year old) about the horrible rearrangement issues with MS VS.NET 2003. are these issues STILL around? have they not given us a way to turn off all html re-formatting? at this point, i could care less if i lose intelli...more >>

A comparison among six VSS remote tools including SourceOffSite , SourceAnyWhere, VSS Connect, SourceXT, VSS Remoting, VSS.NET To view the full article, please visit http://www.BetterVssRemoting.com Better VSS Remote Access Tool This article makes a detailed comparison among SourceAnyWher...more >>

In VS2005 beta 2 there a great feature that lets you open a website through FTP suppling ftp-url, username and password. But how do I get VS to remember the username and password?...more >>

When I press Ctrl-Tab to move between tabs, it moves through them in the order of last use, rather than left->right across the top. As I'm generally looking at which tabs I have open, and wanting to move 5 right (or 4 left, or whatever), this is entirely un-useful. Is there an option to make ...more >>

HI, i have this dll that i am using in my project. Whenever i would step into the method of the dll object, it would automatically open the source file and step into the correct line of code so i could debug in it. Now it won't do it. Anyone know why and what has changed? thanks ...more >>

Hello, I have just purchased Visual Studio.NET 2003 [Version 7.1.3088.] The undo/redo seems to be completely disabled - i.e. I cannot undo anything. If it matters - I am developing in VC++. Can anyone help? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I am using EnvDTE to modify and control a solution and its projects in VS.NET 2003, however I have not found how to change programatically the Active Configuration for the solution. Am I missing something? -- Thanks in advance, Juan Dent, M.Sc. ...more >>

I would like to ask, if we could get a tooltip in the Solution Explorer. When hovering over a filename. The reason for asking, is the need to be able to see the whole path to the file, since treeview isn't the optimal way to show this structure, without moving, especially, when we have lar...more >>

I have an add-in to VS.NET 2005 that needs to analyse the source code VS.NET solutions. I would like to ignore all the items that are in 'My Project'. Is is safe for me to assume that the all the items (ie Application.Designer.VB, Application.myapp, MyApplication.myapp, MyResorces.vb, MySettin...more >>

Hi All, Getting error message: "The following unexpected error has occurred: There were errors dropping "acctrecv" onto the designer. The XML Schema could not be interpreted from this object." when I am trying to create Strongly Typed Dataset from Visual FoxPro table. Does anybody know how t...more >>

I can not seem to find the button which automatically indents the selected code. Would anyone know what it's called and how I could make it appear? Thanks in advance ...more >>

we have been using vs 6.0. the title bar of the ide would take the name of the dsw file and include that in the title bar. this was rather nice when working with multiple projects, i knew which project i was working on by looking at the title bar. we're now moving to vs.net 2003 and this new ...more >>

Hi I am having the following problem almost on daily bases. QUOTE Could not copy temporary files to the output directory. The file 'assembly name' cannot be copied to the run directory. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. UNQUOTE I've checked th...more >>

I am trying to create an add-in in Visual Studio. Anytime I reboot my computer (or log off), I get an error when I try to re-build the add-in as it says that it's being used by another process. I have to get out of the add-in, delete the DLL that's been built and then try again. But then the a...more >>

Hi, i have a VB.NET web application. i need to configure pre/post build commands. is this possible? i need to copy file before compilation and copy file after compilation. (this is because i can't compile to a bin directory that is not under the proejct folder.) TIA. ...more >>

Hi, when compiling errorneous code you'll get a list of errors and warnings in your task list. I use F8 to jump from one error/wraning to the next. Is there a way to skip the warnings when jumping. brgds Jesper....more >>

I hope this is not a totally stupid question :) What is the "Pointer" in the Toolbox for?. I was looking at VS.NET 2005 where the controls have been separated into categories. Each category has "Pointer" as the first control. Actually, it is similar in VS.NET 2003. I guess I only notice it now...more >>

I need to be able to run a batch file command when a solution is loaded into VS.NET 2003. Is there anyway to have the solution file automatically do this? -- ----------------------------------- Ken Varn Senior Software Engineer Diebold Inc. EmailID = varnk Domain = Diebold.com ------...more >>

Hi, I've already asked this in the directx.graphics group but didn't get a satisfying answer: "I'm using VB.Net 2003, WinXPProf/SP2, DirectX SDK April 05. What is the menu item mentioned in the subject (menu Debug -> Direct3D) supposed to do? The only thing it does, is build the project....more >>

I have Vs.Net 2003 on 3 CD + MSDN on 3 CD = 6 CD Is there any option I can burn them all to one DVD and run future setup from the DVD ? Second question I have MSDN installed on my hard drive, how can I install just the IDE and tell the IDE where is the MSDN location ? Tha...more >>

Hi, I have recently moved back to a desktop PC and off my laptop. because of this i have bought a new PC that comes with Service pack 2 already installed. Now the issue i am having is the following. If i open a asp.net project that is managed from within source safe and vs.net i get t...more >>

Hello, sorry for X-posting Hope you are able to help with this one as its really urgent. I have two unmanaged VC++ 7.0 projects which requre the use of ActiveX controls within the dialog designer (not Winforms!). Both projects are identical (except for the name) both in project settings and ...more >>

I've been using GridView and DetailsView in ASP.NET 2.0. Are they or will they be available for Windows forms too? If so, how do I add them to the VS 2005 toolbox in a Windows forms project?...more >>

I have been running the July CTP of VS2005 Professional for over a week now. Until yesterday, I have had no problems. Yesterday afternoon, it started taking longer and longer to do things, and now every time it becomes the current process it suddenly jumps to 100% CPU time - even for just cli...more >>

Hi All, In VC6.0, whenever I did a "Find in Files" search, I used to be able to just push F4 and the results would take me to the lines in the source files where the search item was located. (In other words pushing F4 F4 F4 would show the search result location in the files, where it found th...more >>

When my application runs it looks for a folder in the installation directory called Graphics. This folder contains images that are used for icons etc. within the application. They are read from this folder at startup because it allows the user to change them if they wish. I want to add this ...more >>

Is so, could you please redirect or post me an example ? Thank you. ...more >>

I posted a while back about my frustration with the lack of shortcut keys in VisualStudio 7 vs. the shortcut keys in VC6.0. A very nice guy from MSFT responded and asked that I keep a list of issues and/or shortcut keys as I try to work with 7.1. Having been using DevStudio since version ...more >>

This is a strange one. I opened a Web form with a Dataset, SqlConnection, SqlAdapters and SqlCommands ( all selects). The SqlCommand used stored procedures. The Web form is under VSS control and NOT checked out. I rebuild the solution and ALL the SqlAdapters select properties lost their lin...more >>

Is there a way to force VS2003 IDE to stop auto reformatting (or should I say "damaging" an existing format) of aspx pages ? I have all "Apply Autoamtic Formatting" checkboxes in Tools/Options/Text Editor/HTML/XML *unchecked*. Anything more I could do to stop this (stupid) VS IDE behavior ...more >>

When I'm working in the dialog editor in VS.NET 2003, the arrow keys do not function. On other developers' machines that I've seen, the arrow keys move the selected object (button, static text, editbox, etc.) 1-pixel in the requested direction. In my IDE they do nothing at all. I can't find...more >>

Can I use the .net framework 2.0 with visual studio.net 2003. LDD ...more >>

Hi, is there a possibility in VStudio.NET 2003 to set a virtual line end (e.g. after 80 chars) so I can see a vertical drawn line at this point? Thx ...more >>

Hi, after intallation of VS.Net 2003, I changed the option from starting with "Start page" to "Empty environment". This worked for weeks now. I've been using and starting it many times. Some days ago, it suddenly started with the "Start page". I looked in the options and it has been changed to...more >>

Other then viewing shortcut keys via the options window, one by one, is there another method. CTRL+R is not showing "Solution Explorer" anymore although typing View.SolutionExlorer into the command window works and also selecting it from View->Solution Explorer in the IDE menu. So any ideas...more >>

Is there any reason why the VS IDE shuts down when doing a build? This happens primarily every morning (but not the rule) after we get the latest version from source safe. I have deleted the cached file directories but still get this problem multiple times every morning. This happens to ...more >>