I am migrating a project from VS2003 to VS2005.
Within my web application space there is a folder which holds very
large text files (eg sitemaps, products feeds) which are written to
regularly.

windows xp - vb .net - vs 2005 - web forms
I added a button to a web form today and when I went to IE to test it I got
a compiler error, something about controls needs with events!
I deleted the button1 and the code in it and double clicked on the button in

I am starting to research a large body of VB script written by a former
employee, and I need to solve a problem I have simply worked around before,
i.e., searching all the scripts in a project for a specified character
string, e.g., "blnCustFound". When I attempt such a ...

I've been running 'VS2005 + SP1 + Patch' on Vista for months without
problems, but today I got the above message. Others have described it in
this blog
<http://blogs.msdn ...

I'm trying to import a database schema in my Database project in VS2005  and
I got:
Error: Import Database Schema error: Invalid length parameter passed to the
substring function.

Using Crystal in VS 2005, I use the database wizard and try to create a
database connection via "OLE DB".  When the applet window opens, the
"Provider:" window is empty.  This was never the case before.  I certainly
didn't purposely do anything to clear the list.  I'm wondering ...

I am in the market for a new laptop; however, it has been a number of
years since I've bought a new computer.
For Web and PocketPC development on VS.net 2005, what can I expect
from a 1.5GHZ-1.7GHZ Centrino with 1GB ram?

After uninstalling Visual Basic and Visual C# Express versions and
installing the 180 Day evaluation of Visual Studio 2005 Pro I now no longer
have any Help files or Dynamic Help. Any time I try to load MSDN or any Help
files I get the following error message

I am running VS2005 with SP1. At least I think I installed SP1 even though
in the "About Visual Studio" window, it says SP.050727-7600.
Anyway, now when I am in Source mode, and when I put my cursor over a
control, then look at the Properties Window, everything is BLANK.

On my computer I was running Windows XP sp2 with all the current updates.
I updated the OS to Win XP Pro with sp2.
Now, when I try to add to my Visual Studio, it notices that my MSI file is
3.0... and tries to install Windows Installer 3.1 which fails during

I am working at a company where I am the only .net programmer. I want to be
able to test sql server 2000 t-sql commands using Visual Studio.net 2005
professional version.
I have read articles from Microsoft saying that you should not test on a

I haven't seen a newsgroup for team foundation server.  Should I post
questions here?

Is it possible to change the company name in Visual Studio so when I get the
properties of a project and look at the assembly information I dont have to
change that each time with the new company name?
I looked in the registry but couldn't find much!!!

Why are Visual Studio 2005 Start Page events so out of date?
Is there a way to get a refreshed upto-date list?

How does one do this:
TRY
DIM w as new Filestream(filename,File.mode.OpenOrCreate)
catch ex as exception