I purchased the Visual Studio .NET 2003 evaluation product and installed and activated it on an XP Pro SP2 machine that was fairly crufty from many install/ uninstall cycles of various applications, services, development tools, etc.. My goal was to try out C# and ASP.NET for web development. ...more >>

Visual Studio.net 2003 will not reconize my local server or MSDE database, when i try and connect flag indicates "DB does not exist", however it's running and I can access from Enterprise Manager and Query Analayser, any ideas about a solution? TKS for the help, BB3...more >>

Hi,since long time that i'm trying to install visual studio 2003 on my computer without sucess. After solving some problems I have now another that i'm not abble to solve it I've installed Microsoft Framework 1.1 and J# 1.1, but when I run de vs setup one dialog message appear: "Setup as detec...more >>

I am setting up Visual Studio .NET 2003 using SMS by following this Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327792 : "How to deploy Visual Studio .NET 2003 by using Systems Management Server" I've created the collections, packages, programs and advertisem...more >>

I am experiencing some trouble deploying Visual Studio .Net Enterprise Architect using GPO. I have followed the instructions at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vstchdeployingVSusingActiveDirectory.asp When i was authoring my msi package I...more >>

help! I've been dealing with this for 2 weeks. VS.net 2003 hangs when trying to run ANY web projects - including the bare bones auto generated one. I've already tried: - uninstalling / reinstalling IIS 5.1 - uninstalling / reinstalling both VS.net pro and VS.net enterprise - uninstalling...more >>

I've got a web application that should be installed as multiple instances according to the environments (i.e. Test, Production, Educational). Using the Visual Studio Setup Project I've created a Windows Installer. All's fine if I just want to install 1 instance, but when I want to run the Install...more >>

Hi, How can I force a default UTF-8 file encoding for all .xml files edited in Visual Studio 2003? I set fileEncoding="utf-8" (<globalization>) in my Web.cofig file in order to force a default encoding for all .aspx files. But for .xml files, I manually select "UTF-8 with signature" from...more >>

I am having problem installing vs .net 2002 (initial install on new win2k pro pc). I had it installed on my older win2k pro pc fine. I get following error log message: 02/01/05,22:22:02] Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect - English: [2] ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 22:22:02: InstallFinal...more >>

Hi, I have created a setup project for my main project, and it works fine except for one small point. I am submitting the project for MS certification, and one of the requirements is that the setup allows installation for all users ('Everyone'), or merely the current user ('Just me'). The d...more >>

Hello, I have trouble installing VS.net. When I click on setup and see the window with 4 options (prerequisites, vs .net, msdn...), i could start the prerequisites installation. I got an installshield error which you can see here: http://www.cloudkiller.com/installshield.jpg I could stil...more >>

I have a new machine on which I have installed... - Win XP Pro SP2 - IIS - SQL Server - VS.NET 2003 When I try to create a new Web Service project i get the following error... Visual Studio .NET gas detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You wil...more >>