Does anyone know what the final release number is for Microsoft Visual
Studio 2005?
The RTM version is 8.0.5072.42 (RTM.050727-4200).. what is the final
version called?

I'm curious if anyone here regularly uses the 2005 refactoring
functionality.  I've found it practically useless to me because of how
incredibly slow it is (for instance, renaming a method-scoped variable with
the default refactoring settings results in VS looking through *every* ...

**Installation**
We have programer's computers where Biztalk is installed at "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004".
We have a server where Biztalk is installed at "D:\Program_Files\BTS2004".

When I go to File->New->Files... and open the New File dialog, under
the Visual C++ category I see 5 file types: idl, bmp, cur, ico, and
rct.  I've used VS2003 in the past and I'm pretty sure cpp and h files
should also be included here.

I am using MS VS 2005 and I'm trying to simply test the Security setup
of a basic web site as I learn ASP.NET 2.0.
The ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool seems to be really sluggish,
not does it seem to work very well.

I have a need to create a classic 'binary download from outside the document
root' application. This needs to be built for classic ASP pages. I've built
the code from the MS KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193998/
I've built the DLL, I had to modify the code so that it ...

Can you tell me is there a code for searching a particular mail in outlook
through visual studio .net 2003,if yes please do mention the code.
Thanks
Sri

I've got a largish solution -- nothing extreme -- under VS2003 which has
recently started doing two annoying things.
1. Every time I press F5 to debug, it rebuilds the solution. More
specifically, it skips the first project in the dependency hierarchy saying

I can't seem to view my report.  There is no Print Preview option on my File
menu, nor is there one on the standard toolbar.  I even clicked the toolbar,
went to custom and tried to find the option and it just plain ain't there!!
I'm running Visual Studio 2003, version 7.

I'm looking for the best way to create library documentation for code that
integrates and cross-references with the MSDN help files.  I found NDoc on
Sourceforge which seems to be able to do this with the XML documentation
files VS.NET generates (based off the XML comments in the ...

I found some interesting server controls which works fine in VS 2003
environment but not in 2002. Adding a reference to the dll in VS 2003 asp web
project works fine but when when I try to add the a refence to the same dll
in a 2002 VS asp project I get the folowing error :

I'm trying to get VS 2003 to work with IIS on xp pro x64, and seem to be
having some issues...  Everytime I try to create or open a project I recieve
the following error: "The Web server reported the following error when
attempting to create or open the Web project located at the ...

It is not the first time that I have had to restart my computer because a
crash of the IDE in 2005 leaves some file(s) "marked" as being in use by
another person or program.
There must be a way to determine which processes are doing this and kill

What's the recommended way to start an external application after a VS2005
Web Site Project has successfully been built ?
In VS 2003 we simply used a Post-Build Event:
<PathToExternalProgram> $(TargetDir)

I saw page at Microsoft website a couple days ago that would allow you to
buy VS Net 2005 for about $400-500. You have to be a business, satisfy
several conditions, fill in questionnary - something like that, don't
remember anymore details. Can't find that page anymore.