Situation: ========== noob developer on VS.Net 2003 XP Workstation for developing Win2003 IIS6 for Serving website I support maybe 20 users total. I have been asked to create a pretty simple intranet site on a work-station which is currently serving as a development server. Problems: ...more >>

hi All, Could anyone confirm that I only need Visual Studio .Net Professional and *NOT* Enterprise Architect to allow me to edit/create Stored Procedures on a SQL Server 2000 database? Cheers! Kyle ...more >>

Has anyone made this combination work? My laptop (Fujitsu M7400) only seems to support XP Home. I've got IIS running on XP Home, but Visual Studio 2003 doesn't recognise it. Any thoughts? Thanks Seb...more >>

I installed vs.net w/o iis configured. How do I configure vs.net now so it will acknowledge my web settings. Thanks. ...more >>

I've put my VS2003 Professional CDs on a single DVD, following some documents found on the Net. And each time I try to install this version I get a weird issue. The installation process always asks me for the CD. But that is really strange is when I put the CD in the drive, the files are in...more >>

How can I add a .cpp to Visual Studio .Net that I do not want compiled in a build? I have a C++ project, and I want to have some unit test classes in the project. However, I do not want them compiled in VS because I haven't gotten cppunit configured for VS. Hence, I would only get errors when ...more >>

Hi! I have just run into a great urgent problem with my VB.Net application. I have no idea what happend and why it happend. Here goes: For almost 2 months now I have been developing a VB.Net Window.Forms application doing a lot of stuff with Datasets and a DB an so on. Every thing has wo...more >>

I downloaded the .iso file of "VS 2005 Beta1 Refresh with Team System" from MSDN. Iam trying to install this on Win XP SP1 running on Virtual PC 2004. Since I don't have a DVD burner, I mounted the .iso image as a virtual drive (using Virtual CD control panel utility) and ran the installatio...more >>

Hi, I'd like to install the October 2004 MSDN Library but I have a situation with my current Library that I'd like to resolve first. If you choose "Contents" from the VS Help menu I get three items... Jul 2004 MSDN Library Visual Studio.Net MSDN Library When I do help searches, I alw...more >>

I would like to update my MSDN Library with the new October 2004 version. However, I have some problems that I'd like to resolve before I install the new version. Problem 1: Somehow I have installed TWO parallel versions of the Library installed. When you look at Help Contents from the ...more >>

When I try to install VS.net 2003, I get the following error before the prereqs can be installed: "Setup has detected that another program requires the computer to reboot. You must reboot the computer before installing Visual Studio .NET Prerequisites. Once the system reboots, you need to restart...more >>

Hi All. The Visual Studio help says that I can use the Server Explorer to create/edit stored procedures. The example says to right click the server explorer database "stored procedure" node and a popup menu will enable the creation of a new stored procedure. When i do this - i only get "re...more >>

Hi, I am in the process of assessing Windows XP Service Pack 2 before I deploy it to the hundreds of PCs in our department. The first problem I have encountered is with Visual Studio.net 2003: When attempting to "start" (press F5) a project as a non-privileged user the following error is e...more >>

Hello, When I go to install VS .Net 2003, it gets to a part that says Generating setup scirpt and then it stops. I left it on while I went to school and when I got home it said there was an error. But when I clicked on the link to show the error or setup log, it gives me a message saying it d...more >>

Hi, Whenever I try and create a new project using VC++ or VB I recieve this message. MS website says to re-install but unfortunatly this is not possible on the 1000 machines I have to manage remotely. Is there a way to resolve this error message without having to repair using the Contro...more >>

I successfully installed the VS .NET 2003 Pro Trial from the Action Pak CD on an XP machine at work that had SP1 installed. Trying the same install at home so I could learn in my "spare time" results in problems. The machine at home is a clean install of Win XP with SP2, IIS with Frontpage ...more >>

Hi I recently purchased an Epson Perfection 4870 Pro Flatbed Scanner and I installed the scanner driver prior to installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Academic on Windows XP with SP2. The IIS and FrontPage prerequisites installed without a problem. Then CD 1 of VS told me to insert the P...more >>

Hello, I've developed an MSI installer (Basic MSI project) that installs the product correctly, but when user wants to uninstall it from control panel using "Remove", the uninstaller fails. The dialog comes up "Do you want to uninstall the product", after choosing "Yes", another dialog comes...more >>

For your information, the following is the current configuration of my PC: 1. Windows XP Service pack 2 with latest windows updates (including .NET framework 1.1 sp1) 2. I recently installed then unsinstalled the following: visual basic express 2005 beta, visual web developer 2005 beta, msdn f...more >>

I try to find out why i can't install the "MS Frontpage 2000 Web Extensions Client" and the "Setup Runtime Files". I've got a win xp (sp1) system and did all the security patches, installed the web-extension-client manually by adding a windows component under "software". The lock-file says: [0...more >>

I have the problem described in Knowledge Base Article 836454, wich causes the VS Update function not to work. According to the article this is an error, and there is a new version available. However I can't find the file, but the article suggests that I should contact MS to get the update...more >>

Hi, I recently downloaded VS.NET Pro 2k3 from my university server and its contained within 3 zip files. I have to extract install.zip to install, msdn.zip to install MSDN, and another tools.zip for other tools. I wanted to recreate the VS disks from which these were packaged. I thought if so...more >>

I've been trying to find a solution for this problem without any success, therefore I'm posting here. I've created a setup/deployment project in VS.NET 2003 to make a .MSI containing my application. If I use the VS.NET registry editor to add a string registry key containing an escaped characte...more >>

I currently have a setup.msi with ALLUSERS=1 property. The application is installed under c:\\Program Files\ProductName. The admin has full rights to the ProductName folder butother users have the read right only. How can I set read/write rights to all users for c:\\Program Files\Produc...more >>

(Type your message here) ----------------------------while creating ASP.net application I got this error message "a connection with the server could not be established" From: agha qasim ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>JPSQdRB+H0qOSZ6Z...more >>

This is in addition to my previous post: Subject: MSDN - VS 2003.NET Ent. Ed. setup error: 906 I have WinXP & brand new HP PC. I have the MSDN Uinviseral Subscription So I downloaed the DVD full install eng ed of VS 2003.NET Enterprise Edition. I followed all the setup instrucitons about se...more >>