I tried to install VS 2005 SP1 and when it goes through the middle of
the process my computer shuts down.
I have no idea why this is happening. I tried to install VS 2005 and
the same thing happens.

Is there a way to use the installation path in a registry key which I want to
add when the setup program is run? How?

Is ther any way to disable to navigation "click" sound when I am using an
Embedded IE control in my Windows Forms application? It seems like a really
strange "forced User Interface" feature, especially when it's in its
component form.

Hi - In VS2005 ClickOnce I have one URL for Publish, a different URL
for Installation.  I click on "Publish Now" and I get the warning
"unable to view published app at (the Installation URL)/Publish.htm."
I would not expect "Publish Now" to raise that objection since all I

I am using VS2005 Professional, and have the .NET framework 3.0 installed.
I am trying to enable the SpellCheck functionality on a textbox, which msdn
documentation claims is possible with .Net 3.0
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.spellcheck.aspx)

If you have Visual Studio 2002 and the upgrade to Visual Studio 2005, does
that upgrade allow you to have both versions installed on one machine under
Virtual Machine on Windows 2000 Pro, where each is under a completely
different environment via VMWare?  My question is primarily ...

Is this a newsgroup where I can ask VB.NET questions?
If so, can any tell me how I can have the cursor remain at the end of:
Console.WriteLine("Press <enter> to continue: ") - without a
<carriage-return>/<line-feed>

What should one be careful at, when buying VS6 Professional on ebay? (i.e.
questions to ask the seller to insure the product will be
legit/unregistered/etcetera)
Also, is there anywhere else this product can be bought from these days?

I am trying to obtain my computer name by using the code
std::string Scene::GetLocalComputerName() {
 TCHAR chrComputerName[32];
 std::string strRetVal;

I downloaded the Visual Studio .net 5.0 trial edition and burned it to a
DVDbut when I go to install it after a while I get the message - Error 1305
reading from file D:\vs\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SDK\v2 ...

I have a small post-build copy statement which has always worked before. But
now I get a strange error for which I don't find any documentation. I get the
following error when trying to execute the command mkdir
C:\Source\myapp\trunk\..\output\Resources

I have tried to send mail from Windows Mail, and I am not able to send it.  I
get an error message.  I am able to receive messages (i think) but I have
several messages that need to be sent.
Any ideas??  I have gone to oehelp.com and didn't have any success there.

We have Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition installed in our teaching labs.
 One of the lecturers wants XNA Game Studio Express which requires Visual C#
2005 Express Edition.
Does anyone have any experience with using VS2005 Professional Edition and VC#

I have a VC++ project built in VS6.0. I now want to migrate the
project to .NET with Visual studio 2003. The only reason being the
availability of the function "_strtoi64" in .NET which has a critical
role in my project. Also i guess migrating to this environment is

Hi;
My project file property is set to use "Visual Studio Development
Server". I am able to debug and see the corresponding values when I
mouseover but as soon as I change to the project file property to use