whenever I open our company solution here, Visual Studio 2005 checks out one
C# library project file and the solution file. Examining both files after
this check-out shows no difference to the checked-in version.
What makes VS always want to check-out these to files? How can I ...

I've just installed SP3 for windows XP and have noticed that my
hyperthreading cpu is no longer recognised as 2 cpu's in system info. Does
anyone know the reason for this?
It did the same on a friends computer as well. Bios recognizes the cpu and

I have a project developed in Visual Studion 2005 with .net 2.0.  Are there
any known issues that would affect converting that to Visual Studio 2008 and
.net 3.5?
Thanks.

I have a (development) website, where I have used role based security, and a
sitemap with SecurityTrimingEnabled as True. In this situation, I have
sections of the site which are accessible or not, depending on the role a
user is in.

At first I learned to call a style sheet by the command
EnableTheming, as in
<%@ Master EnableTheming="true" Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="MasterPage.master.cs" Inherits="MasterPage" %>

I have a 2 x 20 array, and want to display the values in table format (2
columns, 20 rows)..
What is the simplest way to do this?
thanks,

HI,
We have recently migrated out VB6 app to VB2005(framework 2.0) and resulted
in lot of errors. We wish to address each error one at a time. The problem
is, everytime an issue is fixed by changing a line of code in the VB2005 IDE,

I'm looking at upgrading to VS 2008 Pro so I downloaded the trial edition and
got the file VS2008ProEdition90dayTrialENUX1435622.iso (CD/DVD image file).
I'm running Vista Ultimate and there are no programs that I can find that
will open this file so I can not install the trial ...

I'm hoping someone here knows how to get something like the
VSWindowManager addin, only for Visual Studio 2008.
I have a laptop with a dual-monitor solution at work, but I frequently
need to undock the laptop and use on travels, home, in meetings, etc..

Is there a command line utility to encrypt the connections strings in an
App.Config file similar to how aspnet_regiis -pef works for Web.Config?

Is it possible to have multiple connection strings stored in the Web.Config
and to have the DataSource pick from among the connection strings based on
the role of the user?

I am getting the error
'desktop_login_CreateAccount.Createuserwizard1_SendingMail(object,
System.Web.UI.WebControls.MailMessageEventArgs)' is inaccessible due to its
protection level

Is there any way to define a custom color, in the code files of a web site
project?
I'd like to be able to define a pallette, using my own names, and then be
able to use those names in aspx files.

 i am new to visual studio for programming, so may be primitive
question .
 i am having an application which draws on the canvas using opengl.
While debugging, can i pause the gui at a breakpoint and see the

Hi,I'm new to VB.Net and I can't find an explanation in the help what the
<...> for function have in the code. I know what the DllImport(..) does but
why is it placed between these <> brackets.<DllImport("KERNEL32.DLL",
EntryPoint:="MoveFileW", SetLastError:=True, _