Normally, the dialog box displayed by Debug|Exceptions has 3 columns: Name, Thrown, and User-unhandled. However, in my VB.Net project (Visual Studio 2005 SP1), if I disable "Just My Code" (under Tools|Options|Debugging|General), then the Debug|Exceptions dialog no longer shows the "User un...more >>

I am working with VS2005 doing C++ development. Back in the old days (VS2003 and earlier) when I started a build, the Output window would be displayed so I could see the progress of the build. How do I get that to happen in VS2005? ...more >>

When a make a change in code, then do a ctrl shift b, then attach to my process, my breakpoints won't be hit because symbols weren't loaded it says. i'm running vs 2005 prof. So what i do to fix it is to hit F5 which launches a browser and then the breakpoints are hit. I can then stop debu...more >>

We develop professional development libraries. I created a Visual Studio 2005 solution that includes several solution folder with projects. e.g) Solution SolutionFolder1 ProjectA ProjectB SolutionFolder2 ProjectA ProjectB The solution is under source control...more >>

I am using Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for unmanaged C++ development. If I enable C/C++ navigation bars in the options->editor page, then devenv continually consumes 50% cpu whenever the cursor is in a text editor for a C++ file. I have let devenv do this overnight and the cpu usage never reall...more >>

When I run my C# WinForms project either by pressing F5 or clicking Start button on toolbar, it sometimes doesn't execute the currently changed code and runs previously compiled code and this strange thing happens occasionally no matter its started in Debug or Release mode. I have tried all...more >>

Hi I have a web solution (2005) with 22 projects, and very often when there is an error (simple error) it crashes (I offered about 20 times the opportunity to send Microsoft error report) Is the installation corrupt or is it related to some settings or possibly it is related to the Virtu...more >>

I want to add a new command to the server explorer after creating a new connection and selecting the Table Item. I do this: try { // Create a Command with name SolnExplContextMenuCS and then add it to the "Item" menubar for the Solution...more >>

Hi All, I recently had to jump into a vb.net project after using c# for a few months. I've noticed that when I dim a public variable and then in a function below, if I start typing the name of the variable in a new line, it doesn't automatically start to list local/public variable names like...more >>

I figured out how to add my own templates to VS2003, so that I could add to a VB.Net project new files that were pre-populated with my own code. It involved creating the template files and some supporting JScript, in directories under \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vb7\VBWi...more >>

What's the keyboard shortcut in VS2005 to move to the next error/warning in the source code? Ctrl-Shift-F12 doesn't seem to work. Thanks, Rob ...more >>

I'm using Visual Studio 2005. I'd like to make a solution that build 4 win32 dll's. All are built from almost exactly the same set of source files, but differ in compiler options. Is there a way to handle the list of source files so that it appears once only, and is referenced by the proje...more >>

Dear lovely NG, by using the properties of my C# project, i can add a Win32 resource. But now i need to add this resource by using a relative path, but everytime i try to insert something like ".\myresource.res" or "$(ProjectPath)\myresource.res", i get an error. Is this possible to add res...more >>

i am running vs 2005 professional and i don't have this option to do this from server explorer like I did in '03. is that not supported in this version or what? t thanks ...more >>

I have a partial class whose implementation is broken into about 15 separate files. Each partial class definition has its own XML comment. On build, all but one of the XML comments causes a warning similar to the following: Warning 4 XML comment is not placed on a valid language element C:\E...more >>

Hello, I am not able to view the "Property Windows" in Visual Studio IDE. I have tried repairing as well as re-installing but all in vain. Can anyone help me out with this. Both F4 and View>Properties dont work. When I select to view "Property Window" the IDE gets de-activated and no "Pro...more >>