Hi, I was having some problems so I decided that repair installation of VS.NET 2003 would solve it. Instead, now I have a new problem: the IDE will not let me create projects! It throws a dialog saying "Automation server can't create object". What happened to the installation? -- Th...more >>

Hi. When I developed ASP.NET page, I code at the end of a page in "HTML" mode this </form> </body> <!-- InstanceEnd --> </HTML> but when I switch to "Design" mode and switch back "HTML" mode, my code is changed: </form> <!-- InstanceEnd --> </body> </HTML> The order of this ...more >>

Hi, According to the documentation, in the "find & replace" dialog I should be able to use a regular expression as a replacement string if the "Use:" checkbox is enabled and "Regular Expressions" is selected. I'm trying to do the following: replace the first string with the second strin...more >>

Moving from VS2003 to VS2005, I expected that the idea of a Solution would be similar. However, I can't seem to be able to create a Solution that has more than one Project in it. For example, I wanted a Solution that had one Project that was a library of windows controls and another Project th...more >>

This is weird and I don't know why I've never noticed it before. VS.Net 2003, dialog editor display in the lower right corner says my dialog is 450 X 300. However, it's actually something much larger. What gives?...more >>

I've just used Find - Mark All and all occurrences of the sought after text were marked in the gutter. Now how do I get rid of those marks? ...more >>

I have installed the Visual Studio 2005 RC on my wireless laptop. I do not have a DVD on that laptop, so I access the Visual Studio install files accross my wifi network and installed VS2005 (I don't know if that is relevent or not). Once VS2005 is installed, I loose network connectivity. I...more >>

I have a C++ unmanaged .exe project in VC++ .net (7.1) I get the linker warning: LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/EDITANDCONTINUE' due to '/INCREMENTAL:NO' specification In my global options (Tools/Options/Debugging/Edit and Continue), Enable Edit and Continue is not checked. It is not...more >>

How do you determine the language (C#, VB, etc.) of a VS 2005 web project through automation? I have tried Project.Kind (prjKind), but that only works for non-web projects. Also, there doesn't appear to be anything useful in VSWebSite to use for this problem. Thanks! ...more >>

What is the equivalent mechanism to replace it (i.e. How do I look at my console output in the IDE after the program terminates). It was such a useful option........more >>

I receive this message and nothing. I am not able to use refactoring at all. I can't extract interface,can't do encapsulation. I can however use "rename" feature Any Ideas how to fix it I am using .NET Beta 2 Thanks Jim ...more >>

I need to intercept ECMD_SHOWMEMBERLIST and ECMD_COMPLETEWORD events and remove certain classes, methods, etc. that aren't supported for a project subtype. There are samples on how to do this (ProjectSubType, FigPkg), but I'd like to target the Express products as well as Professional, and...more >>

The docs for Application Settings in VS.Net 2005 only has some things for VB.Net, is it not going to work in c#? My real question is how can you get an assembly to read a settings file that is not in the application config of the application referencing it? My need is to perhaps have a file...more >>

Hi, How can I debug in VS2003? I have an 3-tier application composed of: - 1) ASP.NET client (migrated from old .ASP application) using - 2) VB.NET component (converted from VB6 application). This component uses other - 3) VB.NET converted applications such as SQL server connection wrapper...more >>

Hi All, I have (am developing) an OLE DB provider for a proprietary database format. Among other things, I'd like to be able to browse the table contents from the Server Explorer built into the Visual Studio 2003 IDE. At this point, I am able to connect to my provider and browse the schema inf...more >>

Using VSNET 2003 and C# I am having issues with Intellisense, syntax highlighting, and intelligent formatting often disappearing within the IDE. Sometimes doing a build recovers them, but it is happening many times a day and seems to be getting worse. The only changes I can remember making ...more >>

Hi. I'm using MS Visual Studio 2003 .Net Enterprise Architect edition (from MSDN Universal) on Windows XP Professional SP2 Polish and I have problems with editing HTML files. If a HTML file is encoded using Unicode, then there's no problem, but when it's encoded using some ANSI ...more >>

This is using C++ in VS .net 2003. I notice that when I make any manual changes to Form1.h code, switching to the Form1.h design view takes *an age*, like up to 5 minutes. I only have perhaps 50 controls, this should be possible? Anyway, I looked hard on the net and eventually came up wit...more >>

Hi All, Just started using VS 2005 and have created a number of 'test' web sites. Now I want to start a fresh and clear the recent projects list. Anyone know how? Matt A ...more >>

Please help.. If I put a Response.Redirect or Server.Transfer in a web form this action produce a severe delay when I run my web application with the 'debug > start' mode in my home machine (the web form calls another page in the Page_Load event handler). This not occurs when I run the web ap...more >>

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Hi; Where are we supposed to put suggestions for VS 2005? If it's this NG, then here are a couple: My java IDE is IntelliJ and my C# IDE is Visual Studio with ReSharper. And I miss the functionality IntelliJ/ReSharper provides a LOT. It shows syntax errors so there is no need to compile ...more >>

Hi; Where are we supposed to report VS 2005 bugs. I have had it lock up a bunch of times while trying to build (J# project). After killing it with task manager I have had it send the report - is that sufficient? -- thanks - dave...more >>

I am a new user of VS.NET 2003. I have successfully implemented a simple location service application and a client application accessing information from the service (both using C#). In order to make the service more useful, I want to rewrite it as a basic OGC web feature service. (This w...more >>

Hi; I am working in J#. When I create a class, it creates a package name of WindwardReports.net.windward.util (in the net/windward/util dir). Is there a way to have it not do the WindwardReports part? -- thanks - dave...more >>

Hi; How do I turn off the warning: Switch statement contains no 'default' -- thanks - dave...more >>

Hi; The hotkey for "bind the selected item is SHift-Alt-F10 - what is the command for this in the Options, Keyboard so I can reassign it? -- thanks - dave...more >>

Is there a way to transfer my current IDE setup i.e ToolBars and menu settings to a new computer? I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003 Thanks Ian ...more >>

Whenever I open a code file (c#) the code outlining is totally expanded. Is there a setting that says to open all file with outlining completely collapsed? thanks Kevin...more >>

How can i batch build few VB.NET projects? (without opening VS.NET IDE) and move output assemblies to other desired destination after this? TIA! ...more >>

(Microsoft Visual C# .NET 69586-335-0000007-18224) - vs.net 2003 I would like to navigate between two bookmarks in two separate documents in my C# project. It's not working now--I can only successfully navigate between two bookmarks within the SAME document. Is there an option or a registr...more >>

the build events configuration page in project settings is available for c# projects and not for VB projects. it took me some time to find this out, and i'm not sure that this is by design. does someone know of a manual way of configuring a VB.NET project to have this page (i saw few entries...more >>

Working on my first C++ project (unmanaged) in the VS.NET 2003 IDE (I've been using VC++6 up until this point), I've been struggling for a couple of days to simply embed a file as a resource into my executable. I started off by trying to add a .jpg file. I selected Project/Add Resource from...more >>

Hi All, How to add a menu/button in .net IDE for a script. I have a script, works fine on command prompt. I want to add this to .net ide as a button/menu Thanks in advance Vasanth ...more >>

I have a CBuilder project that uses VCL extensively as well as Borland UI components like forms. I need to convert the project to .NET. Are there any shortcuts/tools/tips to facilitate the conversion? Thanks, Alen ...more >>

Hi All: In VC6 with a little bit of effort it was possible to finding the a closing block of code " }" from the opening block "{". In this way you can find the ending brace for a long function definition or if statement. This can be found in many stand alone code editors. Does VS.Net have ...more >>

Is there a way to increase the virtual page height in the VS2003 IDE when designing ASPX pages? There seems to be a lot more virtual width than virtual height available. I want to design (visually) a lot of panels and set their visibility with client-side code. It would be easier if I could sta...more >>

How do you paint transparent sections of a bitmap with the VS.Net 2003 image editor? I have a bitmap that's been imported into a project. I want to make the outer parts of the bitmap transparent. I've tried MSDN - the instruction don't help much. I've searched newsgroups. Hopefully the...more >>

I am using VS .NET 2003 and planning to migrate to VS .NET 2005 in the near future for our 'unmanaged' C++ code. Currently to set some environment variables for the build process, I start the IDE from a .bat script, which accepts a parameter which is used in another .bat script invoked from ...more >>

It seems like there should be an option for this somewhere, but I've been unable to find it. Can I tell Studio to keep the tabs for related files (WebForm1.aspx, WebForm1.aspx.cs) adjacent? Ideally, I'd like to be able to sort them by name or by extension. I'm currently using Visual Studio...more >>

When i try to open the solution, by clicking on it, which contains 1 web project and other projects, when it starts to load the web project, the whole ide closes down. when i try to open just the web project by clicking on it, the same thing happens. when i open vs.net then go to open project...more >>

i need that my assembly will be available to choose from the add reference list in the visual studio IDE. where should i configure that? TIA. ...more >>

Hello I'm developing a fairly large (currently 26 sub-projects and 100000 lines) project in VB.NET 2003, using Visual Studio .NET. There seems to be a very annoying bug that crops up. From time to time, when I save my code, the IDE decides to add lines to the end of my code. Say the ...more >>

I have .NET 2003 installed on my desktop and want to have the same colours and toolbar customisations on my laptop. The /migratesettings command line switch only appears to work for different Visual Studio versions on the same system. Thanks...more >>

Hi, I follow few simple steps to add a project to a solution and get errors. please help me do it correctly. I have a web application that is in source safe. If i open the project directly it works with source safe and the web and it's OK. when I save the solution and re-open it i get the ...more >>

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Hi, We have just recently switched to VS .NET 2003 from VS 6 and have found what appears to be a problem with the dialog editor. It appears that in some situations the editor incorrectly formats CONTROL statements. This only seems to happen when the control has a Help ID, but it does not...more >>

I would like my Add-in to add properties to the build configuration (Project Menu -> Properties -> Configuration Properties) so that I can create build configurations that selectively run features of my Add-in. I can only find information about how to create Tools -> Options property pages. Do...more >>

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I've built a macro which shows up under "MyMacros" in the macro ide. However, when I go to tools-customize-commands, there's no "macros" choice that I can select in order to look at my macros and assign a shortcut or toolbar button to them. In addition, if I go to tools->options->environme...more >>