Is it possible to add LINQ functionality to Visual Studio 2005 ??
Best Regards
Peter

I don't know if this is the proper place to post this, but I don't see any
other group that is appropriate.  I am using Visual Web Developer 2005
Express addition.  I would like data source controls to read the tables
without a dsn.  Is that possible and if so could someone point ...

Having VS 2005(using VB 2005) with .NET 2.0 (no SP), everytime i open
my project, i have to resize properties window to fit with solution
explorer. Is it by design or how can i fix it?
Note: Also i have to resize help area that displays definitions of

here is two quick questions for you all,
1) will it be a good practice to have one solution that contains all
the 3 layer project (currently using 2003 with all three layers as 3
different solutions)

Can we be carefree in installing VS2008 in the same machine (with XP SP2)
that has VS2005 SP1?
Will there be conflicts?

My MSDN DVD for Visual Studio (Disc 4400 January 2008) just says "Visual
Studio 2008 Professional Edition."  I have always assumed it was a 32bit
application.  On the MSDN download site it says "32bit and 64bit WoW".  Is
this a different version?  Does this also contain a 64 bit ...

I can't believe what pain having to put the VC90 'redist' folders under my
application subdirectory is turning out to be in our XP Embedded, download
application environment.  I really need an answer as to why I can't put all
of the 'redist' DLL files in some common location, or ...

I have downloaded the VS 2008 Pro trial version and I'm having problems
installing it.Visual Studio installs OK but when I install the MSDN Library
for VS2008 it stops with an error message
"Error 1330: A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet

A VB 2005 project that has been successfully built and published in the past
will build but will not publish at this time.  The project builds
successfully from the Build menu, however, when I attempt to publish it, VS
gives the following two errors:

How do you build (compile) the currently selected file only
rather than the entire project?  Often when editing several
files at once you don't want to wade through errors in all
files to get just one file to build.

In VS2008 Pro:
For example if my dll file name is "MyCompany.MyLib.dll" the documentation
file end up as "MyCompany.xml"
and I expect "MyCompany.MyLib.xml"

If I have a solution with many projects, how can I set teh build option such
that, only the project that I make changes to get rebuilt, and not all the
other projects.
For example. If I have projects A to Z, first time, I build the entire

I have an application that goes way back to vs2003.  It covered to vs2005
with no problem, but when I convert it to vs2008 I get the following error
calling a form that uses crystal reports:
************** Exception Text **************

I'm building an application that will read very big tables, so I want to
read the records one bye one.
I DON'T want reading all data and loading it to DataTable and reading from
DataTable, I want to read the records directly from database

I'm new to Studio, as in a few weeks. I'm going through a book to teach
myself ASP.NET, and all of a sudden, the Properties window is blank. That
is, when I highlight something, say a div or a control, the Properties
window on the right no longer lists any of the things it ...