We have a large 73 project WinForms application that we are attempting
to move to VS2005 and .Net 2.0 from VS2003 and .Net 1.1.  As I work
with it I'm finding numerous performance hickups that are making
VS2005 effectively unusable.

I'm new to Visual Studio 2005 (the last version I used was 6), and I'm
trying to work out how I should get MSVCR80.DLL (and MSVCP80.DLL) to my
users.
I use a third-party library that wants to dynamically link to those

We have a outside consultant building a solution for us in VS.2005 C#.  When
we bring the code on site and try to load it into our VS it hangs the
environment and we have to kill the VS process to clear the hung VS.  
Any ideas on what we should be look at?

I have .Net 3.0 installed, and the VS extentions for WF.  I've been able to
create and run Workflows.  But I do not see the System.Workflow namespace in
the VS 2005 object browser, and cannot browse Workflow classes.
When I view any Namespace, the Object Browser tells me it's ...

this problem is driving me mad!!
i have created a .vbs script that simply searchs for an applications
unistall file, if it finds it, it runs it and the app is uninstalled
i have added the .vbs as a custom action on the Install folder in

Hi, all!
I've got a website with a Web Deployment Project (WDP), Custom Action (CA),
and Web Setup Project (WSP). After a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, I
finally got everything working well. I have now come across a new problem

When you create a DataSet in the Data er (in VS2005) then the connection will
be stored as an Application Setting of type connection in the Project
Settings.
Howver, a user is unable to update those settings, so if you wants to change

i've tried to uninstall visual studio 2003.net through the add/remove
programs option in windows, because i don't see any other way to install it.
when i attempt to uninstall this software, i get the following message
"setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the ...

can i round 18,4948 to 18,50?

I have created a setup and deployment project for my application.  However
it contains 4 primary output files for the 4 exe's the applicaion requires.
My problem is that when I create a shortcut it doesn't seem to matter which
primary output file I choose, the shortcut always runs ...

I have a fresh install of VS2005, Visual C++ only, on a drive that isn't
the OS drive. If I run VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe, the "extracting"
dialog runs to completion, then the "Preparing to install" dialog comes
up. There's lots of disk activity, then none. An instance of ...

This program :
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#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdlib.h>

I have a fresh install of Visual Studio 2005 and I'm trying to get my
setting up the way I like it. Under tools -> options -> Projects and
Solutions there's a check box that says "Always show Error List if build
finishes with errors" that is unchecked. Checking does nothing. This ...

Hello, in Visual Studio 2005 I am trying to add a Microsoft SQL Server
connection to sample database AdventureWorks_data.mdf from VS2005/Server
Explorer/DataConnections/Add Connection / Select SQL Server Database File -
when I click open I get the following message:

I hope someone can help me in this rare issue.
I was installing VS2005 from a DVD copy, and suddenly, I got this error
message: "Error 1305. Error reading from file e:\vs\Program Files\Microsoft
Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\GuiDebug\shortcutCLRDbg32.txt. Verify that the file