To those that have used both VS.NET 2002 and 2003:
Besides the .NET Framework version, is there any
significant difference between the two? I have the
acedemic version of 2002, so I can't do the $29 upgrade,

During debugging in VS2003, I type variables into the immediate window and
get this:
?e.KeyValue
&H55

After having installed windows 2000 sp4 my visual
studio .net is marking the activeDS com reference with an
exclamation mark. Also the library is no longer in the
defaul references section and when I try to browse to it

Are there any known problems with converting a Visual
Studio .Net 2002 application into a Visual Studio .Net
2003 application? I'm using the professional edition. I
have an application that runs fine from the compile I

I'm trying to use the Base64Decode() ATL function with VS.NET 2003 but the
compiler complains with error :
"'Base64Decode': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup "
I've included atlenc.h and am 'using namespace ATL' .

I m a developer switching to Dot net. We write
applications for handheld devices. In dot net we write
application using Smart Device Extensions. Now my question
is this that we should choose VB.net or C# as a platform

I'm trying to use the "Generate Create Scripts" option to export the format
of my databases in VS.Net 2003, but it's always greyed out. Does anyone know
why this might be? I know the connection is working as the test connection"
reports that it's Ok.

I have used the Studio.NET 2003 for building a custom
control. After I build the .dll. I create a test project
and add the custom control to the windows forms tool box.
But when I double click the icon, no control added to the

I'm just starting with VS.NET and can't figure out how to
call classes from within an ASPX page.  I've scoured the
MS documentation and website to no avail.  Can someone
please see why the following doesn't work ? I keep

Everytime I start VS I have to wait for it to "configure". This is on
a XP Pro machine. Any suggestions??
Paul S

Like many people we have also run into problems with Intellisense working and not working randomly, compared to VS 2002.
A workaround which has worked consitently for us (*): if you have access to the source file of the "offending" type, go there, and declare anything new in the ...

This is a VC++ 6 question.
I am calling CreateThread() where the parameter is a pointer to an array of
variants. The ThreadFunc parameter is a pointer to void. I am able to cast
the parameter to a pointer to a variant, but I don't know the syntax to tell

Hello,
Does anybody know if there is a way of creating a service
in any VS.NET 2002 or VS6 language (if C++ please give
details as I'm a newbie of it) that will, on pressing of

I'm a newbie. This may be a dumb question, but how can I
give access to the test form of my .asmx web service,
which I developed with Visual Studio .NET in Visual Basic,
to other computers besides my own?

I have got the Visual Studio .NET Beta 2. I installed it on my Win XP
computer. Everything works, but one very important thig doesn't:
When I want to see the code of a Form, everything is ok. But if I want to
see the Form there comes this error (it's german):