Has anyone have trouble obtaining the free activation key for 2005 beta2? I
have tried numerous times with differ e-mails to no avail. ANd of course,
microsoft isn't no help at all.

The XML Schema Editor in VS2003 Enterprise Architect is no longer working. I
have reinstalled the entire product twice to try and resolve but continue to
have the same problem. When an .XSD file is double-clicked, the editor window
attempts to show but only the bottom tabs are ...

I'm new to Visual Studio...
I successfully installed VS and I've tried starting an ASP project but the
process hangs after some brief activity and the only way out is to kill VS.
I've got IIS installed locally and it's able to serve pages as "localhost".

I have build an ASP.NET based website using VS2003.  I wish to move the
solution to a new server (the development was on my machine and now I wish to
move it to production).  I am having difficulties doing this.  Can anyone
point me in the right direction so I can continue to ...

What's the standard way of dealing with different web.config files/options
based on Release or Debug builds?  It's too bad there wasn't another level
beyond web.config (like release.config, debug.config) that could override
application level settings based on release-type settings.

I am developping a Visual C++ .NET multiple forms application, which
uses FTP connection. When I use more than one form, and include the
<afxinet.h> library (necessary for FTP connection), the linker errors
occur:

I am developping a Visual C++ .NET multiple forms application, which
uses FTP connection. When I use more than one form, and include the
<afxinet.h> library (necessary for FTP connection), the linker errors
occur:

While evaluating VS2005 beta 1, I copied a VS2003 form and its .resx file
from a VS2003 project to a VS2005 project and did an add of an existing
form.  The VS2005 GUI designer was unable to handle the copied file.  I
noticed that the Microsoft code for GUI controls code is in a ...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this.  If it's not, I'm
truly sorry.  I have a couple of questions regarding Whidbey (VS.NET
2005) Beta 2.
1. Is it safe to install it on my production machine?  Working in a

Sorry for silly question.
I am developing with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.
I put a datagrid, and I am looking for events for datagrid, like
CancelCommand, etc..

My company purchased VS 2003 .net Pro under Microsoft's Volume Licensing
Program through CDW.
While installing the MSDN Library files the installer ask for a Disc 3. The
media pack I received only contained two disc titled MSDN Library files,

Our firm is going to buy new computers for developers. We are going to work
in new VStudio 2k5 (beta) and play a lot with Virtual Machines. What kind of
computers should we choose?
I tought about Pentium 4HT 3,2GHz, with 2GB RAM and 2*160GBHDD.

I know this could be a dumb question.
I installed "Visual Studio 2005 Standard Beta 2" with every option except VB
and C++. The installation process went successfully at the end. When I tried
to open a new project from the IDE, I noticed some templates were missing. I

Hi --
For embedded development, I'd like to use Visual Studio as the IDE. By
replacing the compiler and linker with a third-party cross-compiler, I could
still use the VS IDE as my build environment.

I have a solution that builds multiple projects.  One of the projects has a
web reference to Reporting Services.  I have created a tool that uses the
VisualStudio.DTE to open and build solutions.  I am currently building using
the Debug configuration.  During each build of the ...