Is it possible to automatically add to choose items dialog in the vs.net IDE so that the user does not have to browse for them? if it makes a difference, the dll is in the GAC so i dont think they can browse to it anyway...more >>

I'm trying to make a custom build .rules file for DirectX effects. The compiler, fxc.exe, doesn't want multiple input files on one command line. But VS insists on setting that parameter to true! If I set it to false, then OK my way out of the dialogues, it just doesn't get saved. What am I ...more >>

I've recently installed and began using VS 2005 Professional and I can't find the clipboard ring anywhere that was in VS 2003. How do I make the clipboard ring appear in the toolbar? Thanks, John...more >>

Hello, When I create a new project in Visual Studio 2003.net, (under - New Project - Visual C# Projects - Windows Application a dialog box "The specific module could not be found" will pop up. And then, a blank project will be created which is not what I want. It also happen to oth...more >>

When I create a Distributed System project, I can drop any type of "Application" on the design surface and it works except "ASP.NET WebService" or "ASP.NETWeb Application". Both of these complain: 'Could not load file or assembly "System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neut...more >>

Hi; I was given a project by someone else and when I added it, it has a folder for bin and obj. They are shown with a dotted outline of a folder. I have deleted the directories on disk and in the solution explorer but as soon as I build, they come back. It's just this one project. How do...more >>

I'm sorry if this has already been asked before but I have a problem that has only just started to happen. When I first open a particular project it compiles and runs as expected. However when I return to the IDE and try to F5(Debug), rebuild again I get the following message ------ Buil...more >>

Hi Guys, I just have a little niggle that im trying to sort out - basically on my startup screen in visual studio it display the most recently openend solutions. I have done a bit of house keeping on my PC and have deleted a few solutions that i no longer use but they remain in the list on st...more >>

Hi I have been working my way through "Visual Basic 2005: The Language", a Microsoft Press book by Francesco Balena and in the "Debugging Windows Applications" chapter a walkthrough example states that I need to "Select the Test Manager command from the Window submenu of the Test top-level ...more >>

Hi All, I am a c++ developer. I was using VS.NEt 2003 IDE for some time. Recently I installed VS.NET 2005 IDE. Now I have problems with intellisense. I am developing a win 32 dll (A.dll), which is using another win 32 dll develped by me (B.dll). in VS.NET 2003, I had no problems with In...more >>

Hi all, I used until now Visual Studio 2003 and now I updated to Visual Studio 2005 and I have problems with the bookmarks. 1) until now if you had several bookmarks into one document, with F2 you were jumping from the current one to the next one, next one meaning the closest when going to ...more >>

Hey all, I'm new to the .NET world coming from Java. Is there a way in Visual Studio .NET 2003 to be able to find 'all the uses of a method'. For example, in Eclipse w/ Java you could highlight a method object.doSomething() and then it would search through all open source files to find exa...more >>

Hi There I have a problem in VS 2005. This only started recently and I have tried everything but reinstalling. When I'm editing source code, (C# .cs files) it seems to take about 30 seconds to save the file when I click save, or CTRL+S. This also happens on plain .txt files, Crystal .rpt fi...more >>

Hello, Anyone knows, how to modify the following .vstemplate file in a way that each project of the solutions starts with the solution name? I already tried all parameters, without success... <VSTemplate Version="2.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005" Type="P...more >>

I was under the impression that components that do not have a visual presence on a form show up in the component tray of the designer but controls do not. However, the ToolStrip is a control that does have a visual presence, but it also shows up in the component tray. Why is that, and in gen...more >>

Hello i have an old project from Visual studio 2003, and when i convert it to the new Visual Studio 2005 project, everything works perfectly, the exception being the look/feel of the application !!! When i create a new app in VS2005 the combo boxes, and edit boxes have this sleek thin blue ...more >>

Hi, how do I go about getting this so called hotfix? This problem is really making me suffer. Please don't tell me I need to pay for support to access this :(...more >>

How come on most of MS software there is a send as email option but not on VS? Is it there and I have not found it yet. vs.dotnet vs.dotnet2003 vs.dotnet2005 cannot find it. ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone else get this occurring? In VB2005, occassionally, but usually after a debug session, the IDE will decide for itself to insert what seems to be a carriage return after every character. This results in the most annoying () brackets being placed after each letter typed, someti...more >>

Working with a project in VS 2005, I recently got the following error: Error 1 Unable to sign assembly: Not enough storage is available to process this command. I am using a machine with 2GB of RAM for development. What to do? -- John...more >>

What does it take to get VS 8 to install on a drive other than the C drive? The installer is telling me this: You cannot change the installation location for these products. These products have a dependency on a file already installed in another location, which prevents these products from bei...more >>

Now that the XML hierarchical/nested element problem is solved with .NET 2.0 (ie: same named child node can exist within multiple parent nodes - child node of <City> can now exist in parent node <Address1> and <Address2>) I've run into a question. I noticed that I have the "View Data Grid" ...more >>

In VS 2003 I setup Windows Explorer to fire up in the project directory with the following. Command: C:\Windows\explorer.exe Arguments: /select,/e,$(ProjectDir) Initial directory: $(ProjectDir) Under 2005 when executing the menu related to the above it say the directory does not exists a...more >>

I've noticed that Visual Studio 2005 is smart about finding online help info from the MSDN website. If I have a good, fast internet connection, is there any reason why I must install the latest MSDN Library bits on my PC? If I accept the defaults when installing Visual Studio 2005 documentation...more >>

It appears that the commands for toggling the 'match case' and 'match whole word' options in the find / find in files dialogs has been removed in Visual Studio 2005. They existed in Visual Studio 2003 as "Edit.MatchCase" and "Edit.WholeWord". Does anyone know if they are there in VS 2005, bu...more >>

I'm using VS 2005 and am fairly new to it. I knew VS6.0 like the back of my hand.... I've created a Win32 console app using the App wizard w/ default values to work with some code I was previously working with in 6.0. However, none my OutputDebugString statements (and thus my TRACEs) are pr...more >>

When I load my solution, 'Updating Intellisense' appears in the status bar and stays there indefintely. The CPU consumption is 100%. I've renamed the file 'feacp.dll' as a work around solution but this means the class view is disabled and this really slows development down. Does anyone know...more >>

Is there any way to have the Command Prompt in the tools menu open in my project directory instead of in the VS bin dir? ...more >>

Hi there. I need to detect what languages are supported by an application using the VS automation IDE (for a VS add-in). Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any clean way of doing this other than searching for all (embedded) resource files and checking for the appropriate language extension (e...more >>

Hi all, I have installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 with MSDN 2005 and the dynamic help does not work correctly. If I create a project and type a function i.e. printf, the function context hint text is displayed correctly, but when I hit f1, it brings up printf function in the index menu, b...more >>

Hi, I have just recently installed VS2005 Professional Edition on my workstation (Win 2k SP4). I also have VS6 and VS2003 installed. Whenever I build any C++ solution, the build output prefixes every line in the output window with the "1>" character sequence, like this: 1>------ Build s...more >>

Hi, I crated some user controls, how can I create a category in VS2003 Toolbox and put user controls in it when I setup these controls? Do I have to do it in a setup project, if so, how can I do it? allen pan 2006/6/8 ...more >>

Hi, I have a maybe strange problem: on my machine I installed a "custom tool", associated to a file extension ".wsmaps", which helps me generating default implementation for certain interfaces. The custom tool works perfectly for projects like class libraries, but if I try to create a file wi...more >>

Visual Studio is locking up on me whenever I open a file (*.vb, *.aspx, etc) from an upgraded ASP.NET project. The text for the file opens in the editor, and then...nothing. I can't highlight any of the text, select anything from solution explorer, or any other menu's - total freeze. To be ...more >>

Hi all, I'm having some problems with Visual Studio 2005 and even though I read everything I could find in MSDNL I still couldn't find the answer. Mainly my problem is that even though the manifest needed for the MS runtime library is embedded into the binary, the C:\Program Files\Microsoft V...more >>

I'm running multi-monitor and would like to view my winforms form in one window and undoc the tab that has the code in it and float it over to the other monitor. I don't want to have to stretch the IDE's entire surface over the 2 and create a new vertical tab group (I'm running different resolut...more >>