I ran into a problem recently with my VS2005. I am attempting to do some C# bluetooth coding, and I found the libraries I needed on the "Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology" page located here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/sharedsrccode/west/default.aspx ...more >>

Hi all, I added the atlas control kit to my toolbox, and other commercial set of controls, but the controls did not persist in the toolbox when VS was closed and re-openned again. Does this occur by design ? Thanks in advance, Carlos. ...more >>

Hi! In the Editor (c++, C#) I can't use the Backspace, Arrows, Enter buttons. Text can I write, but the function-buttons don't go. When I make Import standard settings, I becom Error 1: Import error at settings for Keyboard. What is wrong? Laszlo ...more >>

Hi, I have a question about how "Go to Definition" works in VS. I have this situation... If you select a method call for a an object where the class defines an Override of a base class defined method, and then select "Go to Definition" in the context menu, in my system (VS 2005 - Visual...more >>

After I installed Visual Studio. NET 200 and create a C# project, the IDE tell me that "... can't create Microsoft Visual C# .NET compiler ... please reinstall Visual Studio." But After I reinstalled the Visual Studio, the error occurred again! What can I do? ...more >>

I am moving Win32 console app that works fine, as built by VS2003, to VS2005. This app automates Excel and in 2003 used Project/Add Class to create header files that included all methods and did not include an #import directive. In 2005, Add Class creates smaller header files with #import dir...more >>

I want to output some data in OutputWindowPane while a rather lengthy macro is running. The problem is that I don't see any output until the macro is finished - then all the output appears at once. When you click on the IDE of Visual Studio 2005 while the macro is running you see a delay no...more >>

Hi there, I'm creating an AddIn and I'd like to construct a "TreeView" control whose nodes match those seen in Solution Explorer. Is there any way to get hold of these? Thanks very much. ...more >>

How do you set Firefox as the default browser in vs.net 2003?...more >>

Does anyone know how to display "find results window" in grid? I want to see file name and code snippet in different column. This could be just me, but it makes much easier for me to look at search results. I think visual interDev used to do so. I am using VS2005 right now. Please help! ...more >>

Hi all, Sorry for the repost, but I never received any response when I first asked this a few weeks ago. I would really appreciate some feedback on this, it's driving me nuts... I'm beginning the process of moving some projects from VS.Net 7 to VS2005. I'm having problems getting a Cus...more >>

Using VS 2005 to build a C# application, I have noticed that if the setup project references Primary output from an executable project, the setup project uses the obj\Release folder to get the executable file while the dlls used by the exe come from their respective Release folders. What i...more >>

Hi, One of my office's development machine have this problem while debugging an ASP.NET project. Other machines debugging process are normal, just one our developers' machine responses very slowly while step debugging. Does anyone has similar experince? Any solutions or suggestions? Than...more >>

I am working with VS.NET 2003 Pro and I have 5 projects now I want to chose from on the VS.NET Start Page but VS.NET only display 4 projects. (Note: I see ver 2002 only had placeholder for 4 projects but now ver 2003 expands placeholder but only also 4 projects still). Is there anywhere MRU...more >>

Hey guys, I'm having some problems when I am viewing a form/control in the desing viewer in VS 2005. 1. Lets say I have a form with a button. I click on the button and then I want to view its code so I try to click the view code button in the Solution Explorer. However, clicking the Sol...more >>

After working with VS 2005 for a couple of months I somehow lost today the design (GUI) view for web forms as well as the web forms tool box entries. This applies to both new and existing aspnet project. When I select "View designer" in the aspx context menu I get an errormesaage saying "Th...more >>

I copied some text from a web page and when I pasted it it had the html code surrounding where the text was red, blue, etc. I thought I remembered a paste as HTML in previous versions of Visual Studio. It's not in my 2005 version. Any idea how to do this? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi. I'm attempting to reconfigure a Data Source using the "configure dataset wizard" and find that VS constantly crashes. I select (tick) the new table I want to add, click next and get "Unexpected Error" dialog box. The Wizard stops responding, then when I try to close the window I get...more >>

Hi group, I often write code like this: ShorVar = 1; LongNamedVariable = 2; But as soon as I type the final ; Visual Studio formats my code and removes the extra spaces I used for aligning my code: Shorvar = 1; LongNamedVariables = 2; I'd like to keep my...more >>

Hi there, Has anyone had any problems debugging a thread in VS 2005. If I put a breakpoint on a worker thread (the only one in the app) and then run the app two things happen: 1) It takes an unusually long time for the breakpoint to kick in once encountered 2) When it finally does break...more >>

For some reason my MSDN documentation didn't install with Visual studio. All the files are there but when I go to help there are no help files. Is there a way to manually install the help files? ...more >>

Somehow my VB2005 IDE is getting in a mode where it thinks every character I type is the name of a function or procedure. It auto inserts parentheses for me and I cannot edit them out or delete them in anyway. The IDE thinks it knows better than I do what I am trying to type. For example...more >>

I receive the above message any time I try to add an item to an existing or new project. I have searched and found that the WSH may be the problem, but I have installed it, twice. I have tried re-registering msxml3.dll. Nothing seems to work. I can't add anything, so I am stuck... Any he...more >>

I am looking for a way to track build times. Documentation on msdn says the 'MSBuild project build output verbosity' setting will give me more data in the output window...for example, build start timestamp, project build times. I change this setting, but nothing changes in the output window....more >>

Hi, I'd like to escape the '('. I've defined a tagged regular expression find and replace. The replacement string is: "Function(\1" but the ( is getting interpretted as subgroup definition. I tried to escape it so that the replacement string is: "Function\(\1" but now it is interpretted...more >>

Hello, I now use VS.NET 2005 Team Ed. but wonder why the menu 'Macros' under Tools was removed. I wanted to import some macros I used in VS.NET 2003.. We use Team Edition for Developers and I checked that also my coleegs miss this menu item. However I can see in newsgroups talking about Macr...more >>

Hi, All I cannot change KEYWORD's default color in IDE, could you please help on this? thanks in advance. Rgds/Gosber ...more >>

The following errors have appeared since last Sunday. One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. No more data is available. Hide at Microsoft...more >>

Hi, Suddenly when I trying to view the Quick Find using CTRL + F or by the menu Edit -> Find and Replace the Quick Find does not pop up. Any clue why this is happening? Regards, Asaf ...more >>

When I iterate over the FileNames array of a project item in a C++ project I see 25 times the string "Source Files". FileCount is correct - there are indeed 25 cpp files in "Source Files". However when I fetch the values from FileNames I don't see the pathnames to the files but only the string...more >>

I got more than 200 warnings and 1 error after my compilation of the project. Is there a way I can jump to the error instead of scroll through the whole list? ...more >>

For some reason, the cursor/navigation keys do not work in the IDE of VS.Net 2003. THis includes backspace, enter, copy (ctrl-c), paste (ctrl-v), etc. Not sure what happened. The alpha and numeric keys work. This worked fine until I had a problem with a domain and had to unjoin/rejoin. The...more >>

Hello, Suddenly all my add-ins dissaperead from Visual Studio 2005. I tried to re-install the add-ins to no avail. With the Sysinternals Filemon I can see that VS2005 is reading the .addin files, but they are not listed and the addin functionality is not present. Any ideas? Thank yo...more >>

I just was at an MSDN event and saw that it is possible to type: dim someVar as SomeType = new or dim someVar as SomeType someVar = new Intellisense then defaulted to selecting the SomeType constructor and after hitting tab the constructor was entered in the IDE. On my machine, I...more >>

I'm sure this must have been asked before but I couldn't find a post regarding this topic. Since VS2003, I've always wondered why I couldn't create a link to a file instead of a copy, such as common C# files shared between projects etc. In VS2005, I was trying to use a common signing key...more >>

Hi, I have a project which has a test project defined for it. I want certain or all tests in that project to execute after a succesful compilation/build of the first project. Somewhere I read about MSBuild, yet I don't see how this can accomplish my goal. -- Thanks in advance, Ju...more >>

Console application in VB.NET (Visual Studio 2003) used to compile just fine. Now I get "Namespace or type Excel cannot be found" I have reference to COM object Microsoft Excel 10.0 Object Library and Excel 2002 SP3 is (and has been) installed on my machine. I deleted the Interop.Excel.d...more >>

Visual Studio 2005 Dev Ed., set the RSS Feed to refresh every 60 minutes and pointed it to http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx. It doesn't refresh at all. The only way that I can make it refresh is to change the refresh interval and then change it back. Even opening and closing VS doesn't m...more >>

Hello all, I have just installed Service Pack 1 for .NET2003, and have had an unpleasant surprise with makefile projects in the solution. Every time I hit F5 to start debugging the IDE asks if I want to build them, which is very annoying. The old behaviour (before SP1) was to just ignore th...more >>

In VS 2005 (and earlier) you can specify if you want to use tabs or spaces when you hit the TAB key, as well as how many spaces to use. Is it possible to access this information somehow? Through the API? Maybe using VSIP? -AC [MVP MCMS] www.andrewconnell.com ...more >>

After I see the splash screen, I'm getting a crash. Some things I've tried: repairing software, reinstalling entire software, installing VS80-KB916769-X86-ENU.exe, looking for strange items being searched in the registry, Any ideas? Mark ...more >>

I have a strange situation with TFS source control. I have several files (a sub tree of folders with files in them) that seem to be in a strange status. If I look at the history of the files, the last operation on all of them is Delete. So they should be deleted, right? However, the files ...more >>