Help! When working in your code window, you can click on your mouse wheel to scroll horizontally and vertically. In my code window, only vertical is enabled. Some class files are several hundred lines long! Why only vertical arrows appear, and not horizontal ones! Help!...more >>

Using VS 2005, C#. I want to make 3 class libraries that differ only by conditional symbols. If I create multiple projects in my solution, and refer to the source file and assembly info file, each gets copied to each project's own directory - leaving me with three identical sets of files to ...more >>

Can't find how anywhere - and I've searched the help and googled. -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm ...more >>

Ctrl+E, C and Ctrl+E, U will comment and uncomment out multiple lines (there's buttons in the Text Editor toolbar for this). It has two issues: 1. It will not include the // for empty lines, which makes it hard to visualize a single commented group. Since programmers very often use spaces t...more >>

Hi, I have a web service which works fine under the ASP.NET development server (on default port 4219) and also from an ASP.NET client with a reference to the deployed service. However, I'm unable to access the service from a windows application. I have only used ASP.NET in the past to consu...more >>

I am trying to add a report and a ReportViewer to an ASP.Net 2.0 website application. The data source for the report should be the output of a web service. When I look at the report in design mode, the Website Data Sources panel displays as it should but the web service is not listed. The...more >>

Is there any Addin to Visual Studio to measure how long time a build takes? It would be interesting if I could find out how much of my day is spent waiting for the application to build. I know it is possible to add pre- and post build events that measure the time, but as our application consis...more >>

I suspect that I have an IDE configuration issue - but I just haven't been able to find it... I am trying to "publish" build my website and I get a: Error 22 Access to the path C:\Documents and Settings\<my temp folder>\temp^144\bin\<some file> is denied. The subfolders and files do not...more >>

only on one specific solution when i try to close the IDE (either the X button or the file->exit) or when i try to close the solution (file->close solution) nothing happens. on other solutions i have everything is fine. on this specific solution (it has about 11 projects in it) i can exit the ...more >>

I'm running Visual Studio 2005 SP1 on Vista with the Vista Update. If I double-click on a solution to open it, nothing happens. The cursor flashes briefly, but the IDE does not open. It has been this way ever since I put Visual Studio on Vista, even without the SP1 updates. I do not have a...more >>

Hi All, Does anyone else have this problem? When in a web application project, not a web site project, if I change the ID of a control (textbox, button, etc) The whole IDE usually hangs for about 15-20 seconds. It seems to do the same thing regardless of whether I'm working locally or on ...more >>

I am using VS.Net 2005 sp1. While editing code(vb), my editor constantly locks up for minutes at a time. My cpu usage jumps to about 50%(could be 100% as I am using a google widget to monitor while I am recreating these issues).The crazy thing is my network connection goes crazy too, like the ...more >>

I cannot find the database controls (SQLConnection, SQLDataAdapter,etc) in the tool box in VS .NET 2005. Where did they go as they were in VS .NET 2003....more >>

I’m using Visual Studio 2005 with SP1. Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600) I am confused by a behavior I believe might be a bug. Anyone from the Microsoft Visual Team could comment please. Here is the reproducing step. 1-Open a .cpp file for text edition in a C++ project. 2-Make su...more >>

I have a series of .Net 2.0 solutions in VS2005. Each solution consists of a web site and a web service. The web site in the solution always has a web reference to the web service in the solution. Some of the solutions also have a class library or two in them. The solutions are a mix of ...more >>

Hi There I just can't find out why I don't see a grid in my forms designer for aspx pages. I used to see in vs 2003. Any idea to get it back in vs 2005 Thanks Ganesh ...more >>

In .Net 1.1, after adding a web refernce to a project, you have the option to configure that web reference to be static or dynamic. If it is dynamic, it adds the URL to the web.config. In .Net 2.0, I do not see how to change this setting and the default behavior in .Net 2.0 is to, apparent...more >>

Hello, is there any limit for projects per solutions? Is there any advice for maximum number of projects? best regards volkhard...more >>

Hi guys. I want to access the build events tab of a given project properties page? Is this feasible? What I want is to copy a xml data file data.xml (this file was generated by my add-in and when program runs, it depends on this xml file) under $(ProjectDir) directory to $(OutDir) after the pr...more >>

I have a program where the user inputs some proprietary code in an editor. I would like to use a windows form editor control that automatically does syntax highlighting & intellisense (after I define the vocabulary). 1) How would I do that myself? Any tips and/or links? 2) Are there any open ...more >>

I have a solution of C++ projects using VS 2005 SP1 on Windows XP SP2. I am using project dependencies to keep the correct build order. But I am having a problem where VS 2005 is unnecessarily re-building an up-to-date project. That is, I build the entire solution, and everything builds su...more >>

When I am debugging and have a variable that is a button, the locals/ autos windows in Visual Studio display the value of the button variable as {Text="button1"}. Does anyone know where this functionality comes from, and how would I add it to my classes? Thanks. ...more >>

I work only with native C++ projects. After installing SP1 for VS2005 Pro, I find that the line of text I'm editing occasionally vanishes! Eveything else is fine, just that one line stops rendering. Is this a known bug with SP1? It's pretty inconvenient, you're left typing in the dark! The ...more >>

OK. I haven't changed anything in my solution, which still builds with 0 errors 0 warnings. I type ''' And nothing happens. PLUS all of my comments in my other classes have no syntax highlighting on them now :(. IE the whole XML comment is just green) Whats going on. ...more >>

Hi All, We build a lot of our solutions unattended, from the command line. When parallel builds are enabled, the project build console output is all mixed up - making it almost readible when a project has build errors. Is there any way to turn off parallel builds via command line? Then s...more >>

I apologize for becoming the most prolific poster in the group, it seems but I am having a LOT of weird problems since installing SP1. I can't say for sure it's related to SP1 but today's problem is an application that I have worked on since early betas of Whidbey and not had these problems i...more >>

When I create a new project, then I try to add a new reference (not a web reference, web reference works), the IDE will crash. the error message is AppName: devenv.exe AppVer: 8.0.50727.42 AppStamp:4333e699 ModName: msvcr80.dll ModVer: 8.0.50727.163 ModStamp:44849dd9 fDeb...more >>

All of a sudden, I can't load one of my forms in design mode. I've been working on making it Localizable, but haven't done any direct editing of the resource files or the formname.designer.cs file. What I'm seeing in VS.NET 2005 is an error window saying: ----------------------------------...more >>

Here's yet another instance of Visual Studio 2005 Japanese version unable to cope with Japanese. Notice that this isn't a Unicode or I18N issue, it doesn't matter if VS2005 does everything in ANSI (code page 932), there's no need for any language other than Japanese. A sufficiently cynical...more >>

I have never had this problem before, even on the project I am working with currently, but suddenly today, every time I do any refactoring or even find all references, I get a window that says something about preparing files for refactoring. This window cycles through every file in the soluti...more >>

I see where procedure line separators appear to be a VB.Net only option. Is there not a way to add them in c#? Seems like it would make the code less confusing. Thanks, Joel WZ ---------- ...more >>

Is there any shortcut which rolls #region area? Or maybe an option that rolls all regions after closing file ? ...more >>

hello, I am having a problem since installing the DB Pro version of visual studio. I am hoping to get some help. Ever since I have installed DB Pro when i close the IDE, I get a debug window pop up and it asks if I want to have VS restarted. The message that most often gets logged to the...more >>

I have a package in VS2005, and within it I need to find out if the current operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit. Is there a way to do this? I've looked at the System.Environment.OSVersion property, but the OperatingSystem class doesn't contain this information. Thanks!...more >>

VB2005, web page I add a single usercontrol, then I select to project the component ( i dont' know the menu name in english, in my italian VS the menu is "progettazione componente") I put on it a sqlconnectionn and a sql data adapter. I configure sql data adapter to read and save data to a s...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with my VS2005 IDE. I'm not able to see any Addin that I download and install. The path to my Addin files are correct. But, I don't see the Addin's in my Addin manager and they don't show on my IDE either. Can you please point me to known issues or settings that I must co...more >>

Hi. There is no "Snippet Manager" in the Tools menu of my Vs2005 standard when I'm in the code design of a class or any other code. HOWEVER, pressing Control K + Control B causes the Snippet Manger to appear. What gives here?? There have been no beta installs of Vs on this machine. Thanks...more >>