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• tamirms Overwhelmed

  I am interested in learning VS2005. I have read the requirements for the machine to install on however, can someone tell where to look for server requirements Specifically what OS needs to be running on a web server to host VS2005 web sites. I am coming from an ASP/Windows 2000 server background and have put off the transition as long as possible. Any help in getting me started down the right path would be appreciated. I ask about the server b ...Show All

• MadJax Can Sql Server Management Studio and Visual studio 2005 use the same solutions and projects in VSS?

  I like the SQL server management studio and VS 2005 to work with Visual Source Safe thru internet. But I do have one BIG problem is that I use VS 2005 to create a database solution (or poject) to check this solution/project in VSS. Can I use SQL server Management Studio to open "VS 2005 solution/project" instead of re-create a SQL project   I could not find any information on how to do ...Show All

• laja Editing XAML - am I missing something ?

  I have the latest release, AFAIK, and Cider is useless - I cannot type into the XAML editor, and using the drag and drop is a waste of time. Expression is a ton better ( read, it can be used ), but is missing the most basic features ( how about search, let alone search and replace, or auto indent of XML, or even being able to use TAB to indent a section of XAML ). I realise it's pre-release, but surely the code for those common features is trivi ...Show All

• nmanville Minimum installation requirement to run visio on VS team edition for soft. dev.

  Hello, I have a system which i want to install only visio to work with UML. But I don't need the the rest of the software that comes with visual studio. I want to keep the system as clean as possible. So my question is, what is the minimum installation requirement of visual studio to run visio on visual studio The version of Visio that comes with your Team Software Developer edition just requires Team so ...Show All

• Ti133700N Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.SVsSmartOpenScope'

  Hi Everyone, I have just installed the "Visual Web Developer 2005 Beta 2" on my XP Professional machine. After I create a .aspx page, when I click on "Design" button I am not able to see any control on "Design" mode, but simply a blank page (I have added few controls in "HTML" mode) and get following warning... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning 1 Could not load type 'Microsoft.Vis ...Show All

• Benjamin00 DSL Tools Licensing

  Hello, We are currently developing our own custom modeling language base on the VS DSL Tools. We understand we (as an ISV) need full Visual Studio 2005 DSL Tools licence but what will be the license requirements if an end-user uses our custom modeling language inside Visual Studio 2005 - Visual Studio 2005: which version (or SKU) - VSIP or VSIP redistribuable. In this case shall he need ay licence) - DSL Tools or DSL Tools redistribuable Thank ...Show All

• Vivek Puranik msvsmon.exe /__dbgautolaunch

  I am looking for some information on the msvsmon.exe command line argument used by Visual Studio 2005, specifically "/__dbgautolaunch". I need to know the purpose of this command and my searches are drawing a blank so far. Can anyone direct me to where I might find a description of it Thanks. I guess I need a bit more info on this. I am looking into how msvsmon.exe and VS communicate. Msvsmon.exe shutsdown whe ...Show All

• Picasso Can't install Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Win XP Tablet Edition PC

  Hi:  I get the following message when I try to start the installation of Visual Studio .NET on my Win XP Tablet Edition PC. Visual Studio .NET Prerequisites Setup has detected that some of the system components that are installed on your computer do not match the versions required for Visual Studio .NET. You must install a different version of these components. Any thoughts how I proceed with the installation Thx, QC ...Show All

• Joyce Moore New website IDTWizard

  I've got an IDTWizard that I want to kick off from the New Website dialogue. What's the best way of achieving this This has been identified as a bug, and assigned to the Web Project team for investigation. Craig ...Show All

• Alan Pa "yield enumerate"...

  (Slightly off-topic, but it at least deals with enumerations.) Lately, I've found myself using the following pattern: public IEnumerable<T> Foo(IEnumerable<T> values, IEnumerable<T> moreValues) {     foreach (T t in values)    {       yield return t;    }     foreach (T t in moreValues)    {     &nb ...Show All

• SoccerDude Can't install VS Team beta 2

  After downloading this file for 30 hours and getting it to a DVD, I immedialty get an error returned when starting setup.exe: 'Setup was unable to copy the file E:\VS\setup\DeleteTemp.exe to your temporary directory. Please make sure that the file exists and rerun setup.' In checking for this file I found that in does not exist. There is a DELETETE.exe file. I went back to my hard drive and renamed this file to DeleteTemp.exe and ran the setup.e ...Show All

• Bill Tang at ut Page N of M

  A special field exists that displays Page N of M where M is the total number of pages and N is the current page. I would like to display Page N of G, where N is the current page number reset after each new group and G is the total number of pages in the group. Does anyone know of a way to do this Note that I have a page break after the end of each group. Thanks You are most welcome. Glad it helped ...Show All

• shaherome How to add custom control to Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox?

  Hi all, I am working on a Windows Forms custom control now and I would like to place my control right on the Toolbox window after installation, however, this seems to be a problem now. I notice that EnvDTE and EnvDTE80 namespace and the DTE2 interface seem to provide customization of VS IDE environment, and I tried as follows: 1> Get a DTE2 instance by Activator; 2> Use DTE2.ToolWindows.ToolBox.ToolBoxTabs.Add to add a new tab; 3> ...Show All

• philmwebb Visual Studio MSDN Help Is Rubbish

  I realise that Micro$oft reject the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", but did they really have to change MSDN help in quite such an appalling fashion Does anyone have a way for me to access the VS2005 information without having to use Document Explorer Chris / Neophyte -- Our intent was certainly not to make you hate the help system; at least we didn't add Clippy :) From your posts, I'm no ...Show All

• Kobi Reiter There was a failure uploading the URL.... VSS 2005 Beta 2 Web Service

  Hi there, I hope someone is able to help me with a problem to do with VSS2005 Beta 2 Web Service. I've spent nearly a day trying to get it to work, however I've not been able to. Here is a detailed summary of the issue. I am trying to get  Visual Source Safe 2005 Beta 2  to connect to Visual Source Safe 2005 Beta 2 via the Web Service. I had problems actually getting the database to register in Visual Studio until I found this posting ...Show All