I have built an app that creates 1-n tabs on Tab Control, and each tab has a
panel, and each panel has 1-n columns of checkboces and 1-n rows.  I build
the controls left to right (by column) and then row by row (top down).  I
assign a TabIndex to each such that column 1 boxes are ...

Calling on all you VS 2008 experts!  
Just started using VS2008. Created a windows service to deploy on my remotes
to automate some tasks. I created a solution and added a windows service
project using v2.0 of the framework. Once done I added a setup and deployment

I've been trying everything.  I try to run Visual Studio and just get
the splash screen.  I've tried running it in safe mode, I've tried
another profile, I've uninstalled and reinstalled it, I've checked the
event logs... nothing.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>wsdl.exe
http://localhost/_vti_b
in/ReportServer/ReportService2006.asmx?WSDL
Microsoft (R) Web Services Description Language Utility

How does VSTA relate to VSTO?

i have developed a simply Excel 2003 Application with VSTO 3.0 (VB 2008).
The application shows only a message on startup.
On the develop-pc the application runs without problems.
When i deploy the application on another pc i receive a message like the

I printed out the above reference paper from MSDN and attempted to
create the VS2008 project described.  I think I may be missing some
pages....  I could not get the ribbon button to work - there didn't
appear to be any callback code?

Is there a VSTO option for Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition?  Or is it
only packaged with the Professional edition?
I ask because I have 2008 Standard ed. (not yet installed on my new laptop),
but doubt my IS dept will spring to upgrade me to Professional.  

We are migrating a major development to .NET/VS2008 and have encountered the
same error as many others (acorrding to the number of posts), however most
of these posts are over 7 months old and none really offered a solution, so
I thought I would try again.

I have migrated my web asp (VB) application to my windows 2003 server, but
now when i open the solutuion whit Visual Studio , Visual Studio is very low
to open it and to debug it!!!
THANK's

I Using Visual Studio 2005 for develope a web application; Durig debug It
don't stop at brakpoint, why this ???

I use Visual Studio 2003 Pro on Windows XP SP2, firewall disabled and
with IIS running local, a limited (non-admin) user account (Domain
Account). I am able to Debug ASP.NET web projects but not Classic ASP
on my machine.

One of the My organization recently upgraded to TFS 2008.
For project A, I have two project administrators.  Both project
administrators have rights (allow) to "Administer a build".
One of the administrators can create a new build definition and queue

Team Foundation Server 2008 is going through the installation and stops with
the error:
Error 28805: The setup program cannot complete the request to the server
that is running SQL Server Reporting Services. Verify that SQL Server

I am having trouble with the vsmdi files created by the Unit Testing system
of VS2008 for Software Developers.
1. I go to the 'Test List Editor' I create some new groups attached to the
'Lists of Tests' node.

2 assemblies, ClassLibrary1, and TestProject1 (a test project that references
ClassLibrary1).
ClassLibrary1 consists of the following:
namespace ClassLibrary1

My DSL has some supporting files, which need to be accessed at run-time. The
installed package is running from GAC, so the location of the executing
assembly does not point to these files.
What would be the preferred way to find the installed location?

I've created a Comment Shape with a multiline TextField according to the
available example.
Using VS2005, the in-place-editor provides a fully sized input rectangle.
But using VS2008 the input rectangle is sized according to the initial

I've been working on some command-line utils (JScript running under WSH) to
extract and summarize dependency information from VS solutions.
I've been able to succesfully connect to and interract with VS automation
via the DTE interface (new ActiveXObject("VisualStudio.DTE.8.0"), ...

Hi, there:
   I'm trying to build a tool with VS shell isolated. I'm using VS2008
professional and VSSDK 1.0. After I created the project via the template
provided by the VSSDK, I tried to build and run it immediately and it failed

I have a form with a generic type, like this one:
public partial class BaseForm<T> : Form
{
/* ... */

I have found many websites that refer to Visual Studio 2003 Powertoys.
Like this one:
http://sharptoolbox.com/tools/powertoys-for-visual-studio-net-2003
Unfortunately they all refer to  

I'm Hooking system mouse events in my application, and when debugging the
mouse locks for several seconds or forever. Is there anyway to prevent this?
This is related to the thread in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb : Hook
system mouse down? (4/29/2008)

I only use TFS Explorer to manage my TFS2008 projects. Is there any specific
TFS management task that I cannot do it through TFS explorer and I have to
go to actual server to do it?
I just wanted to confirm that I am not loosing any feature by using only TFS

I have created an application with about 20 assemblies (C#/.NET 3.5).  I have
just added a windows installer/setup deployment project to my solution and I
found it reports "1 failed" without any error message when I build it:
------ Starting pre-build validation for project ...

I'm not sure I'm in the right newsgroup as it seems this may be for problems
installing Visual Studio itself rather than creating installations with it,
so please feel free to re-direct me.
I'm using VS2008 and trying to create a setup program for my application

Installing Team Suite 2005 and I decided on a 'hunch' to pick
"Team Settings" or whatever it's called - instead of my tried and true
"Visual Basic" developer -  environment
But I never saw Server Explorer or the toolbox... so how do I get it back?

At work we use Visual Studio 2005 Pro. On a coworker’s computer under “Recent
Projects” (on the “Start Page” tab) they have two options. Open and Create.
From these two lines they can either open/create a forms based project or a
web based project. On my Visual Studio 2005 Pro I ...

I'm going through our VSS and I'm noticing that there are projects checked
by people that are no longer here. Is there a way to do a force check in or
undo check out? We need to make changes to some of these file that are
checked out.

I have one single server Microsoft TFS solution running (single tier). I
have been asked to enhance the security and up time. My plan is to install
TFS on another server and mirror the SQL-server databases. But as far as I
can figure out this way is mainly used when running dual ...

We have found, after installing VSS 2005, that our .pdf files get corrupted
when moving them into VSS.
If you try to open them directly from or VSS (view or edit) or Get Latest
and open them on your local machine, they are corrupted.

How do I guarantee that changing the working folder of a project with
subprojects also changes the working folders of subprojects? In my case
subprojects reflect the subfolders on the hard drive that contain the source
files.