Hello, I work on a unit testing framework called csUnit (www.csunit.org). How do we get our product icon to appear on the VS2005 splash page as an installed product?? Thanks -- Jacob W Anderson --- http://www.beyond-ordinary.com http://www.accessquery.com http://www.csunit.org -...more >>

I have a fairly arge classic ASP website, whch I must continue maintaining for the forseeable future. I'm using VS 2005 to edit the ASP pages, and it works well enough, except for one minor annoyance. In the VS options for the HTML Designer, I have "Start Pages in" set to "Design View" This...more >>

Hi all, What? Yes: ModelMaker Tools are giving away three single user licenses for a ModelMaker Tools product of your choice! To participate in this one off prize draw, all you have to do is send an email before May 31st 2006. Check the details on http://www.modelmakertools.com/free-license...more >>

Hi. If I have an ASPX page (or HTML page) in VS in a project where it's LINKed to a CSS file, is there a way that I can select a page object on the ASPX page and sort of have it show me how it's deriving its style information from the CSS? I guess I'm talking about some kind of way to debug an...more >>

Is there a good site with info on writing IDE macros? I've examined the sample macros and that helps a little, but I'd really like some more in-depth info. For example, when would you use an EditPoint over a TextSelection? They both seem to have very similar methods and properties. ...more >>

Is there a counterpart to Alt+Shift+T which is Edit.LineTranspose? I guess not, right? But this imho is awkward. Like an indicator on a car but only for the left side, not for the right? If it doesn't exist could a macro do the same thing? If so could someone kindly post a macro? Chee...more >>

After I open vs 2005, the first time I hover my mouse over the Index or select it from the menu, it takes a very long time before it appears (30 seconds - 1 minute, or so). Is there some setting I can toggle to speed this up? Thanks, -- Benjamin Lewis...more >>

Hi, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get intellisense working in visual studio 2005 for WSF files. What does work: - WSF schema works, e.g. intellisense for the <job> markup - V.S. checks for existance of external scripts referenced via <script src="..." > What doesn't Wor...more >>

Hi! I've just installed VS2005 Team Developer and wanted to install new C# code snippets, but surprisingly there is no Code Snippet Manager in Tools menu of my VS IDE. Is this any setting I miss to set (I've looked at them all, but with no result) or some add-in that was not installed for a...more >>

I have, in approximate order, over a few months, done the following: 1) Installed Visual Studio 2005 Pro with C# and C++ languages 2) Installed December 2005 DirectX SDK 3) Installed AMD CodeAnalyst 4) Installed February 2006 DirectX SDK 5) Uninstalled December DirectX SDK 6) Installed XNA B...more >>

I am posting this message to two newsgroups because I don't know which one covers the issue, and I need to get a quick resolution. I have a custom license provider (actually, a license framework) that I have used successfully in a number of Framework v1.1 projects. Part of what it does is create...more >>

Last night my configuration manager suddenly stopped working. This is C# 2005 Express Edition I can not switch from release or debug in any existing or new projects... Anyone have any ideas? ...more >>

Hi there i have visual studio 2005 in english and now im looking for how to put spanish language on it so all the ui shows in the spanish language but i cant find any package that puts me the VS UI in spanish Somebody knows how to do this?...more >>

In VS2003 I could enlarge the output window during compilation and see the details as it proceeded. Now in VS2005 I only see a tiny 1-liner on the status bar. Is there a way to see the details as before?...more >>

I have more then 5 projects in one solution. (c# VS 2005) GUI , BOL , DAL , Common Library , Extended Grid Component etc. All are compiled as strongly named assemblies. I am using public key(generating this key from public/private pair, securing private key to later usage at release) and d...more >>

Hi, I am trying to write a macro that can write a line such as: LogPrint("Subroutine <SubName> in Module <ModName>" and I am stuck getting the current subroutine name <SubName>. The module name is OK - it is Dim instance As CodeElement2 MsgBox(item.Name ) Any help is much appreciated....more >>

I originally posted this over in the base Framework forum, but the MS folks there said that IDesignerHost is implemented by Visual Studio, so I thought I'd post the questions here to see if anyone can answer them. Here's an example of a solution that demonstrates, conceptually, some questions/is...more >>

In my dataset when I have a table without a dataadapter I cannot add one to the table. The add->tableadapter popup menu item is grey. How can I add it in the ide? Thanks Bart...more >>

Hi, From today, when I try to open a rdl report in visual studio 2003 I get the error message above. I've checked the xml of the rdl file and there is no Arial font used neither the keyword Regular. I can open reports in VS 2005 but when I preview the report in the ide I get the same ...more >>

I'm in need of some leads/pointers on handling reflection of project assemblies in VS2005. Here's an example of what I'd like to do: say I have a custom UITypeEditor which lets me pick Types descended from a class called BaseType. There might be many classes derived from BaseType in the current ...more >>

I'm porting a wizard library from v1.1/VS2003 to v2/VS2005. Part of the library involves custom designers for components. These involve the following pattern: [ Designer(typeof(WizardRootDesigner), typeof(IRootDesigner)), ] public class Wizard : System.ComponentModel.Component, IPageInfoCo...more >>

Is there a shortcut in VS.NET like Shift+F3 (Changes Case) in MS Word? ...more >>

VS 2003 .NET OS XP pro, sp2 I've installed Sql Server 2005 Express on this computer and tryed to connect to Sql Server 2005 Express from the IDE of VS 2003 but in the Data Link Properties window I get this error message: "[DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or ac...more >>

I seem to have lost the ability to use the context menu "Add" when I right click on a class in the class view window. Before it went missing I was able to right click a class and the add menu would allow things like add->Method, or add->property, etc. For the life me I can not figure it out. I...more >>

Hi, I frequently use #region blocks in my C# code. I've noticed that = occasionally, while typing code, all #region blocks in the file I'm = working on will expand themselves. This is incredibly annoying. Is = anyone else experiencing this? Thanks, Jules Winfield...more >>

Hi Guys.. I have seen added other lanugage support rather than existing .net lanugaes added to VS.net 2005 (Ex: PHP http://www.jcxsoftware.com . ) Does anybody know how to do that ??? Any link, documentation, SDK or tutorial will be much helpfull to me. Thanx Fiqri ...more >>

Hello, I'm using VS2003 and have created a toolbar with several buttons for external tools on it. However, only the title text is displayed for each button. Is there a way to associate an icon and a tooltip with each so they'll look nice and clean like all the other tool buttons? Thank...more >>

using VS.Net 2003 and VSS 6.0d Have had set up for a long, long time. Today, I see a change in behavior in the VSS options in the IDE (project/solution view in Solution Explorer). The VSS features available when right clicking a file in the solution explorer formerly showed the check in o...more >>

While building or rebuilding my VB.Net project (VS2005), I got the following error: ----------------------------------------------------------------- error MSB4057: The target "Update" does not exist in The project. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Does anyb...more >>

Hello: I cannot find the "Overrides" option that was previously in the code view drop down list...Where did it go?...more >>

Hello, I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (8.0.50727.42 RTM 050727) and have noticed that when opening a project the system is very sluggish. Actually where it is slow is *before* opening the project. It is when I use the Open Project dialog and I'm navigating to the drive/folder of the project. W...more >>

I'm considering adding a new machine to start looking at VS2005 and .NET 2.0. I figure as long as I meet the 600MHz, 192MB requirement I just saw on the back of the box, I should be good, right? Yeah, sure. That might be enough to load the bitmap screenshot of Studio as wallpaper, but I'd so...more >>

When I took my laptop home last night, I couldn't successfully start-up SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. I got the following message: "Timed out waiting for a program to execute. The command being executed was "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framwork\v2.0.50727\csc.exe" /noconfi...more >>

Is there any reason why my pending checkins window stops expanding after a while for all my projects? thanks ...more >>

hi all, i am completely new to this creation of add in s.. i need help in creating an Add in the MS developer studio in VC++.... the addin should be able to take as input a string which shud then be executed in cmd.exe more over the addin should be invoked before the build process and also a...more >>

Hi, is it possible somehow to drag a source file that is already open in the VS editor into the project, so that it gets added? Now, I always have to go through the menu using "Project" -> "Add existing item" or use the shorcut key, and then browse for the file. I usually double-click a sour...more >>

When I try to copy and paste a control in the Visual Studio 2005 (vb.net windows forms) IDE I get the message. "An error occurred while processing this command. Source array type cannot be assigned to destination array type." Why can't I copy and paste a control? Chris...more >>

I am porting projects from VS2003 to VS2005, using Managed C++ for both until I have the time to convert the VS2005 projects to C++/CLI. In porting one of my projects I had a WinForm. In VS2003 the form shows up under my header files for the project with a special dark icon for the header f...more >>

In my VS2003, I have an external tool set up that openes up Explorer to a specified directory, such as the solution directory, or the project directory. It's quite easy to do and extremely useful. However it doesn't work in VS2005, and I think it's because the macros used in the Argume...more >>

I have install VS2005 Team Suite edition. I don't have any menu options for source control any more. I do have VSS installed on the machine. What am I missing? Now when I open projects under source control in VS2005, it does no recoganize the source control and asks me if I want to remove the ...more >>

I have a pre-owned ActiveX component and GotDotNet's XmlCSVReader set up in my development environment such that I can see the methods and attributes of both. That is, Intellisense shows them, when they are typed in they light up in the correct colors, and mouse-over show their signature and o...more >>

How do I stop vs.net 2005 from automatically including all files into the project? I have a project that generates a log file, and it is being included into my project tree. This is very annoying since I do not want to check that log file into source control. If it matters, it is a c# web...more >>