I have some question about sharepoint service 3.0:
1. if i develope wss 3.0 application in visual studio, whick tools or sdk
that i need to download and install? can i develope in vista or xp?
2. do i need sharepoint server 2007?

I'm probably going to buy a new laptop pretty soon and I've been deciding
what to get.  I'll be using it with Visual Studio a lot.
If your running a couple of instances of Studio plus the Web Development
Server and maybe SQL Server or other things, the memory consumption adds up

Subject says it all: every time I click the Play button, VS 2005
decides it's time to rebuild my installer (a deployment project in the
same solution). This is a pain, because it takes much longer than
simply building the application, and I only need to build the

I'm using VS2005 Pro VB to follow along in an online course that will help
me pass the 70-536 exam.  At some point it talks about Interfaces.  I still
don't know the purpose of an interface.  I'm having a real hard time trying
to figure out the concept of an interface and what it ...

when I start editing a dialog resource, the properties window is
empty.
When I right click the properties window, there are three items (in
German named "Zurücksetzen" (this item is disabled), "Befehle" and

I need to dynamicly load a XAML file with XamelReader but the xaml contains
a xmlns for assembly (dll) of a user control so how can i dynamiclly load a
XAML that hold user controls in different dll`s
Thnaks.

I have built 2 .net applications for an experiment and I want to delete them
from VS2005 and it doesn't seem to be working. I can click remove them and it
still find them, if I delete them from the folder it give me a message that
they can't be found but it is still available to ...

We are currently using Visual Studio 2003 with Visual Source Safe 6.0d.
What is the recommended upgrade path to move to a Visual Studio 2008\TFS
2008 source control environment?
Do we go VS 2003 -> VS 2008 and then upgrade Source Safe to TFS?

I am using the aspnetdb.mdf data file in my website and I am able to write
code to make insert, update and deletes, but when I go through designer to do
it and use the advance tab on my sqldatasource configuration I get a greyed
out area for insert, update and delete.  Is it a ...

When creating a new Visual Studio project, why does "Business Intelligence
Projects" show up in my list of project types under VS2005 but not under
VS2008?
Thanks!

After trouble with the PIA, a setup file was created for the Excel Interop as
in the article  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa163987.aspx
The Interop is now located in the GAC but there remains the following error:
Retrieving the COM class factory for component with ...

Can Visual Studio 2005 be installed and used on the same system as
Visual Studio 2008 ?
and for bonus points:
Can SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and Busines Intelligence Studio

I just installed the released version of Visual Studio 2008 Professional.
This was a full install on a newly installed XP Pro SP2 machine. I tried to
create a new project for an XAML Browser Application. The new project dialog
box does not have a template for this. I have ...

Hi...
Didn't get a response over on vstudio.general, so I thought I'd ask over
here...
For better or worse, we've got one big honking solution that has all of our

I'm nowadays very comfortable developing all kind of applications with
VS2005 in my Windows XP environment. We basically develop applications
for smart devices and desktop applications targeting .NET Framework
2.0. Also some unmanaged applications...