Does anyone know whether MSFT has a comprehensive link describing the
"Properties" member (collection) of the main extensibility classes such as
"Project", "ProjectItem", etc. I've searched high and low and the
documentation is extremely sparse or virtually non-existent (when ...

I already know how to set the active configuration of a solution:
       CComBSTR bszGUID = "{5EFC7975-14BC-11CF-9B2B-00AA00573819}";
       long lID = 684;
       CString csActiveConfig("Release");

I am using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office.
I am writing a COM add-in for Office 2002.
I have downloaded and installed the Office 2002 PIAs successfully and can
get everything to work fine.

I'm new to writing AddIns for 2005 and I'm just trying to do the basics
at this point.
I'm having trouble understanding why OnConnection() is only being
called when I debug the Add-in from the IDE and not when I enable the

I want to migrate a software in 64-bit with VS2005.  I use a parser
generator like lex/yacc (2.07 Bumble-Bee software
http://www.bumblebeesoftware.com/ ).  Unfortunately, this software
isn't available for WinXP x64.  So, I have to use an another tools.

I work on a very large VS2005 solution which has over 75 with mixed C++
and C#
VS doesn't give you much information about what it is doing durring a
big compile like this.

I'm working on an ASP.net project that uses typeconverters to save the
state of a page to a Data transfer object and also uses typeconverters
elsewhere.
I'm finding that I'm writing an awful lot of control.value =

Is there a way to write Macros for Visual Studio 2005 in using C#
instead of visual basic? The Macro IDE only seem to support Visual
Basic. Is that correct?

Does anyone know how you can determine which type a project file in the
solution is? For example i have a C# Class Library, an ASP.NET 2.0 Website
and a VB.NET Class Library and I would like to differentiate between these
three.

Can someone confirm that these two models will always contain the same
hierarchy. In particular, let's say I have an "EnvDTE.ProjectItem" which I
find by traversing "EnvDTE.Solution". I now want to save this to a DB
(table) so I bundle it up as its corresponding string in the ...

Could you please help me how I can detect in my installation program if Team
Foundation Server is installed and path to the it's installation folder?
I've found this key in the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Visual Studio ...

I want to jump the cursor 5 lines down. Instead of hit "down arrow" key  5
times, is there any way I can use a keyboard shortcut to do it?
Another question is there a place I can assign keyboard shortcut. I know in
tools/options/environment/keyboard you can do it. But in my case, ...

I'm trying to catch an event when a file is added to my project. I'm using
macros in VS2005. In the event I want to set some custom properties on my
newly added file.
I cannot get itemAdded to be fired. I've tried using DTE.ProjectsEvents in

I'm working with a class that is a wrapper for std::basic_string.  (We wrap
it so we can use our allocator class.)  I'd like to get VisStudio2005 to
display the value of one of these variables, just as it does for
std::basic_string.  I've been trying various expressions in ...

We need to run the output from CL preprocessing through a filter before CL's
compilation phase. Can you think of a clean way of doing this?
Here are some details: We are using VS to build SUA (POSIX) applications.
Everything is fine with 32 bit builds, but x64 in the SUA ...