Create an html page in FrontPage2003 using design mode.  Open the html page
with VS2005 ...
VS2005 refuses to go into design mode because of html syntax errors in the
page created by FP2003.

Some older PSDK samples are not "unicode-friendly".
In VS 2005, the default C++ Preprocessor definitions has
UNICODE and _UNICODE defined.
Is the simplest way to disable these denfinitions to just

I'm using Visual C++ 6.0 (VS6.0 SP6) on Windows XP Professional SP2.
I experience a problem with a custom build setting that executes my
executable after compilation and linkage, to perform some registration.
The problem is that apparently some DLLs fail to load, because my exe

please Excuse my bad English... :-)
Maybe I am wrong but I think I have seen someday, that it is possible to
bind 2 Forms to one Dataset....
Whenever I want to use the Datasource in Form 2 wich I recently create for

I've been using VS 6 for small projects off and on but need to move to
something more current and I need to start using .Net.  In the process of
trying to figure out what to use I've gotten confused.  One of our
programmers has been using Visual Studio.Net.  I've been checking the

I am trying to figure out how to modify the default work item for a new bug
in TFS. There are some field sI would like to add (and some I would like to
remove) but can find no information about how to do this. The docs are very
sparse but they do describe the different form field ...

For themost part I am impressed with VS2005 (well, perf could be better
but...). However I am having two problems that I can't seem to do anything
about:
1) Exception Assistant refuses to work, period. I cant figure out why

When a user logs into my website i user their username and password to
retrieve their "Role ID" from the database. This "Role ID" determines the
visibility that each user has within the website. I put this in a session
variable on the login page and i

Is Visual C++ a subset of Visual Studio .net?
I know in Visual C++ there is a Cluster Resource Wizard when creating a new
project. But I couldn't find it in Visual Studio .net 2003. Am I wrong or
Visual C++ is not covered completely by Visual Studio .net?

When I try to import one web service with VC++ 2005 Express Edition I got
this error message, while compiling it:
1>------ Build started: Project: Test2, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Creating web service proxy file for WebReference ...

I cannot figure out how to delete a solution or a project.
I created a couple of test solutions and now I need to get rid of them.
There is nothing in the menu, nor right clking the solution or project names
in the main form.

Dear MS VS.NET 2005 development team,
This is a disappointing product. I work for a large govt department and
EVERY team I work with and know of (over 400 developers) has decided to
stay AWAY from vs.net 2005. I love the new features it offers but this

Is there a way to change the default behaviour where Double Click on a
File in my project opens it in Design mode, where I would like by
default to start in Code view.

For a VS 2005 Setup/Deployment project for Visual C++, since
both the setup.exe and the msi are required, how do folks usually
package these two files together for actual deployment?
- Mitch

I have this known issue that occurs regularly on my development PC with VS
2005:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915038
The resolution is a hot fix in which I have to call Microsoft to get??  Why