Can F5 (start debug) be made to attach to a process?
I want to specify the process by name, I can accept problems if the name is
ambiguous, which it isn't in this case, my own windows service should
prevent multiple instances with a mutex.

Wonder if anyone has any idea's what could be going on here with VS2008 SP1
I'm trying to run then code analysis on a website (compiled against .Net 2.0
with Ajax extentions). When I run code analysis the website builds but then
fails to run code analysis on the website, no errors ...

I have a problem using Visual Studio Setup projects.
I have developed a COM server in Delphi, created a setup project with Visual
Studio 2008, set the "Register" property of my server to "vsdrfCOM", and, on
compilation of my setup project, I am always getting a generic error.

First there was Chris Sells wonderful custom tool "XsdClassesGen"
(SBXsdClassesGenerator - see
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#xsdClassesGen) for VS2003.
Stephane Tombeur helpfully got this working in VS2005 (see

With VB6 Enterprise, it was not hard to set up a multi-tier scenerio.  But
with VB.NET, if you want to create a DLL to be located on a server and for
various clients to be able to use that DLL, do you have to set that server
up as a web server?  It doesn't let me create a new simple ...

I have SP1 beta installed and the I need to run the Visual Studio 2008
Service Pack Preparation Tool program but when I do it asks for my VS 2008
DVD which I don't have with me because I'm traveling.  Can anything be done
to install VS2008 SP1 without the original DVD if I have ...

I have implemented a new domain controller in our environment.  I already
transferred all the fsmo roles.  I powered down the old dc.  My plan is to
leave the old dc down for about 4-5 days to vaildate the new domain
controller is functioning properly.  Then, I will power up the ...

We have an application that we distribute to several hundred users across our
network and have in the past used SMS to push the software updates out to the
users. However, we only have gotten a 20% success rate doing that as often
the user did not have local admin rights to the ...

I have an application using a grid control.  I have set up user settings for
each column of the grid to enable the user to determine various properties
of those columns.  For example whether a particular user wants this column
Visible or not.  Everything works fine for this.

I started to post this a while ago, then thought, NO, I'll go search
myself before wasting bandwidth. However I have not been successful.
I've just started using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 (after only getting used
to 2.0 for a few months!).  But I am finding some differences in

I've recently made the switch from VS2005 to VS2008 ... I've noticed
that if I copy/paste a javascript function such as
function foo ()
{

I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and (perhaps after a machine crash) xml/
xsd/xslt files are no longer recognized by Visual Studio for what they
are. That is, their syntax is no longer highlighted and intellisense
no longer works. Visual Studio 2008 treats xml/xsd/xslt files as

We have a custom service,which was running earlier with Localsystem
account.In last 15 days,the service fails and when "Allow service to interact
with desktop" is enabled it is working fine.
We need to resolve the issue without enabling the "Allow service to interact

I've just upgraded to SP1. I noticed that all of the standard controls in
the toolbox where repeated. Now when I reset the toolbox another set of the
same controls are added. I currently have 5 lots of the same controls and I
can't see anyway to fix it.

I noticed that VS2008 is constantly updating intellisense at 70-100%
CPU usage - and I mean constantly.  I have left my laptop on overnight
and it was still updating this morning.  I found several references to
this issue in VS2005 but it appears to not have been fixed - hence my