What group is appropriate for whidbey questions?
Geoff Evans
Insomniac Games

I succeeded to pass some project properties like 'Manufacturer' or
'ProductName' as custom action arguments, but it impossible to pass
'Version'.
Why ?

Hi everyone, i'm now using Visual Studio .NET 2002
Is there some way to use System.Windows.Forms
in a Visual C++ .NET 2002 project?
If I download .NET Framework 1.1 will I be able

Implementing the page controller pattern in Visual Studio 2003 cause the Web Forms Designer to give the following error.
"The file could not be loaded into the Web Forms Designer.   …   The class 'App.Web.Client.Common.UI.BasePage'  could not be loaded."
Specifically the code ...

In VS .NET 2003 Pro, how do I create a Database Project that will create a
new database if the source files that are used to create it change?
Someone else has already created .BAT and .SQL files and the database is
currently created via a .MAK file.  This was all done before the ...

I am creating a setup project for an application and need to edit the
Metabase.xml file during setup.  Does anyone know of a way to stop and
then restart services programatically before and after I edit this
file?

When I try to edit my macros in Visual Studio 7.1 I get
an error "Error Loading type library/Dll" and then the
editor opens...but when I try to run any of the macros
there is no effect.

I have recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2003 .NET on Windows XP.  Both VS and XP are US english (as is my keyboard).  So far I have been using Language Bar features to switch between german and english keyboard layouts.  In Visual Studio 6.0 I had no problems using the language ...

i am working with source safe.
I have two databases. In each database there are few projects
How can i choose in the command line to use one of the data base?
I need it to build some command line to get all the file with the same labal -

I am learning a new programming language (D), and while the learning process
is fun, building my projects is not. :) Going from Visual Studio back to
Notepad and a command window is very frustrating.
Is it possible to use vstudio as a generic development environment with an

I am trying to write a VB program to read in a MS Word document, then create a text file and write the document out in a plain text format.  Now, I have gotten as far as openning the Word document, but I'm stuck on how do I tell the SaveAs method to write the output in a text ...

I missed all of the MSDN articles giving detailed overviews of the upcoming
.Net Framework and the Visual Studio 2005 Team System product suite.  One of
the architects in my company is threating that ASP.Net will be removed in
the next release of the framework and replaced with XAML ...

I have Visual Studio 6 running on my Computer. When I edit my C++ source
files in VS, I have a lag/delay of appr. 5 seconds when I insert a new
line, remove a line via undo or backspace, etc. The lag increases with
filesize, a 60k file may hang for 8-10 secs.

Does anyone know how to compile a VS.NET project into
windows executables that do not need .NET runtime to run?
Thanks.

Does anyone know how i can access crystal reports through
my VS .Net 2003 software. I have tried to through - add
items list but crystal reports is not  on it.