Using VS Tools for Office 2003, I get the following error message when
attempting to establish a connection to my local SQL Server 2000 databases:
"Unable to connect to database.
It is only possible to connect to SQL Server Desktop Engine databases and

Any way to configure Visual Studio .NET 2002 to suppress the output window?
It doesn't provide any useful info, and it always pops up when I debug,
forcing me to close it afterwards.
Dave

I get this when running "Help->Check for Updates" in Microsoft Visual C# .NET:
"Visual studio .NET 2003 setup encountered errors while attempting to download required files. Check your web browser configuration settings and your connection hardware, and try again
My Internet ...

Hi List ~
i am building a Windows Application which utilizes command
line parameters. Where can I enter theses parameters in
the IDE to be passed to the program being built?

The IDE Start Page in .Net 2003 contains a list of the projects you have
recently worked on.  Clicking on any of these opens that particular project.
Fine.
Unfortunately, one of my projects has been moved to a new directory.  While

After I installed Whidbey I have no script debugger. I mean when a script
has an error debugger does not start when I say debug.
Any help?

I am working on a windows application with C#.net. What I need is to display a list of data in 2nd combo box based on the choice of the 1st combo box. I used SqlCommand object and SqlDataReader. It works fine. But when I use DataAdapter and DataSet objects, it doesn't work. Here ...

I installed VS.NET 2002, .NET Framework 1.0 and .NET
Framework 1.1. My OS is Windows Server 2003.
There are my questiones:
1. Does VS.NET 2002 only use .NET Framework 1.0?

Every time I try to connect to my localhost, I get the message that the
servername isn't wrong but nothing can be found to display. I tried using
another servername, logging in as another user, but nothing worked.
Can somebody help me?

I'm feeling both lazy and degenerate so I'm looking for sites
that provide a collection of macros I can steal.

I have an application that, during installation, needs to install a key in
the registry.
The installation would normally (but might not always) be done in an
administrator account, but could be _run_ from any user account.

I generated a MFC MDI application with AppWizard in Visual Studio .NET.
The generated code is equal to the generated code by the AppWizard version of Visual Studio 6.0, BUT, it doesn't seem to work correctly. Infact, when I double click on the document associated with the ...

I'm trying to install Visual Studio.Net on my laptop.  I get to the point noted in the subject line and at Computer Management>Services and Applications>Internet Information Services I am supposed to click on Web Tasks, but instead there are no items to view
How do I fix this so ...

I'm an experienced programmer new to VS and .NET. I'm learning C# and
WinForms, and have successfully located highly-recommended books on
those subjects.
I'm not having any luck finding a book that does a good job of

I am trying to install MSVC6-Ent off of the original CD set
in WinXP-SP1 (installed 2 days ago).
On running the "setup.exe" on the first MSVC CD, i get
"setup has encountered a problem and needs to close...."