I need Visual Studio Tools for Off 2003 to be able to ship MS Access
applications withouth MS Access on the client. VST fo Office 2003 is pretty
cheap. What I really want is the whole Visual Studio Suite 2003, which costs
a lot more. If I buy Visual Studio Suite 2003, do I have ...

I have two PCs (well, one's a laptop). Both XP pro SP2 with all the
latest updates. Both been through the same side-by-side install
sequence (after stopping all AV and antispy s/w):
Activesync 3.8, Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect, Windows

If I have a variable that contains the name of a textbox object, what would
be the syntax to obtain the value that is in that textbox (vb.net windows
application)?
dim intValue as integer = ???? strNameOfTextBox

I have an application in VB 6 that collects data and is able to print a
report.  I am able to "printer.print" text from within the application
without having to create a file.  I am able to do printer.fontbold and so-on.
I see examples of how to print in .net, but the examples ...

I'm working with a client who's coding style include tons and tons of
regions and I am wondering if there is a setting to expand them
automatically
thanks

I want extend XML Comments in visual Studio with my own tag
It is easy to enter this tag with the " keyboard" BUT If I want have the
same syntax every where, it would be better if intellisens give me a good
example, like summary, remarks or seealso tag ...

I've been fighting with this. Solution Explorer items appear in the
order you add them.
Is it possible, by any automatic or manual method, to change this sort?
I either want files to be in order of important set by myself or in

I was using Visual Studio 2003, and there was an option in the code behind
(using vb) to click on +/- to expand/collapse each procedure or function.
All of a sudden that option is gone, and the only thing I can expand and
collapse are the regions.  What did I lose and how do I ...

Upon installing an application with VS Installer / Microsoft Installer , how
do I automatically open one of the files installed?

    Now we are doing a project, to identify some external APIs used in
our source code. What we do is, we comment out those included header
file, and do a compilation.
    But the problem is, it seems the compiler doesn't give much errors,

If you have a VS7 project and want to rebuild all the code using VS6, what
is the best wya to achieve this? Presumably VS6 will not be able to read in
the VS7 project, but there might be a way to do this "by hand"?
And in the reverse direction, what is the best way to get VS6 ...

We are developing application on Win XP
that sends messages according to accured events in our system in the real
time to our clients.
For now we send e-mail messages to our clients using SMTP protocol.

http://www.theregister.com/2005/06/01/_visual_studio_2005/
"Visual Studio's Intellisense feature, which acts as an auto-complete
and pre-empts what the user is typing to speed development, will be
less quick off the draw. Microsoft has tweaked Intellisense so it does

I downloaded the latest ISO file for VS 2005 (Apr CTP is what I believe they
call).  Using the Virtual CD-ROM software I tried mounting the ISO file, but
it said the ISO file is corrupted.  I downloaded the file 2 times and both
the time it gave me the same error.

Hi,
I am new to .NET. I have previous experience with classic asp. I've
installed and started working with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Beta. I made some small applications which run fine on my local IIS.