I have VS 2005 installed on an XP Pro OS.
According to IIS Manager, my local IIS is version 5.1
But, our production websites run IIS 6.0
How do I get IIS 6.0 installed on my local box?

I'm experiencing various problems with Visual Studio 2005 Team edition for
software developers, Team Explorer and Biztalk 2006 developement.
I ran into this problem: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/926344 
and required the mentioned hotfix, whick solved one of my ...

Has anyone don an upgrade to 08 and if so what issues have you seen?
I have a small stand alone instance of tfs 05 with about 10 users. We
are hitting critical mass in regards to delivering code soon. However,
there is a huge push to upgrade to 08.

We recently installed a TFS server.  My workstation now takes about 4
seconds to switch between documents of a solution that is in TFS, but not
with solutions that are not bound to TFS.  Oddly it doesn't happen on my
laptop, only my desktop, and I'm trying to determine what might ...

I'm looking for vcbuild.exe for VS2003 so that I can build from the command
line. There was a download link available before but it has since
disappeared. Does anyone know where I can get access to this executable?
Thanks!

I'm developing a C++ MFC app in VS.net 2008 which I just upgraded from 2002.
It's been a long time since I modified my install project so I need to get
back up to speed on it. I've looked in the project and at the various
property pages but I can't find anything on the install ...

A friend of mine recently showed me how to wire up methods in VB.NET from the
code behind file in Visual Studio 2008.
For anyone who doesn't know (like I didn't until about 60 minutes ago) just
create a small VB.NET winform project and then in the default form add a

I am very confused, my company thinks to buy the license MSDN Visual Studio 2008 Professional con MSDN Premium but I have a doubt:
Does this license include the versions to install all the products that it includes or it is necessary to buy them apart (Visual Studio, Visual ...

I don't have anything against designers, but I almost never use them. I want
to be able to double-click on a file and have it open the code view -- and
if I want to see the designer I can right-click > View Designer. I did not
see an option to do this, and have not been able to ...

We have a WinForms application that we distribute using an MSI.  Whenever we
release a new version, we update the product code as specified here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aafz9hx4(VS.80).aspx and leave the
upgrade code static as specified here

I want to move a local database created with visual studio to a shared
network partion so I can use it on either of two local machines.
I believe moving the database is as straightforward as
- detach the ldf and mdf files (SQL studio GUI)

I have a Gridview (within an update panel), which has a CommandField in
Columns:
<asp:CommandField ShowDeleteButton="True" ShowEditButton="True" />
Is it possible to attach an action to these commands?

What if any of the newer IDEs will run side-by-side with VS2003?
By newer IDEs I'm referring to Visual Studio Express 2008.

Are here way to customize visual studio editor for showing
white(colored) letters on black background? Any way to customize
editor background?
I can't use visual studio because it very painful for eyes.

I am having something strange happen using VS2008 that NEVER happened
using VS2005.
I have an application level setting, called AppConnectionString, which
is a (ConnectionString) type. It has a particular value that I've