Is there any way of embedding vista-style hi-res icons for advertised
shortcuts, because I've got .ico files with them in that look good on the
app .exe, but the advertised shortcut that is set up using the icon doesn't
seem to get it...

I have both VS2005 and VS2008 installed on similar VMware virtual
machines with 1.5 GB RAM. VS2005 is slow, but useable. VS 2008 is at
least 3X slower to the point of not being useable, and tends to crash
quite a bit. Is this what you would expect?

I have a question on available text encoding standards (UTF-8, UTF-8 without
BOM, UTF-16, and so on) that VSTS 2005/2008 Database GDR and non-GDR
editions support while generating the SQL files for deployment or integrating
with

If there is a better group to post this in, please let me know. I am
using VS 2005.
Does anyone know why this recordset is read only?
Sub PopMainForm()

Using Visual C# 2008 Express Edition and trying to compile source code, the
error message indicates that my .EXE file "does not contain a STATIC MAIN
METHOD suitable for an entry point". My question is where do I insert the
Static Void Main() statement in my source file? Any help ...

I have a question on available text encoding standards (UTF-8, UTF-8 without
BOM, UTF-16, and so on) that VSTS 2005/2008 Database GDR and non-GDR editions
support while generating the SQL files for deployment or integrating with
CA’s ERwin Data Modeler (database modeling tool). I ...

normally when i create a DataSet i add DataTable to it and configure it
through wizard to link it to a table, normaly the select command and update
is auto generated but lately it generate only the select command dont
generate the update command is there any problem ?

I just learned how to host a WPF browser application within my existing web
application, but once the link has opened and the xbap is running, I'm now
not sure how to return to the web application.
Is it possible to host an xbap application within the content of a web page?

I have a VB.NET 2005 application that should start up in a minimized state.  The code sets
Me.WindowState to 1 at the end of the Form Load event but the application window opens normally.
I put the following as the last bit of code in the Form Load event:
MsgBox("Load Ending -- ...

I'm running vs 2005 professional and coding in c.
dbgheap.c  has a function for debugging read/writes that may not refer
to valid heap locations
Here is the description from the run-time library reference for

Greetings all,
          I am new to programming and development in general and have found
that I am having a large problem in learning Visual Studio. I am wanting to
work in ASP.net using either VB or C# and want to work on developing web

I have a *.vb file (although my situation could happen in many different
file types) in which I want to look at one area of the file while editing
another. However, because of the amount of code between these two areas
(mostly things such as if statements and for loops in this ...

I inherited this vs2005 native win32 dll project and when I try to debug it,
I get "no symbols loaded" for the thing, no matter what I do. The
command-line options, as shown in the project properties, is:
/Od /I "..\inc" /D "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE" /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D

i have the below class to get the default icon of any file when i give its
extension, problem is when i set the output to a photoedit or imageedit
controls i get the below error
"Error      2      Value of type 'System.Drawing.Icon' cannot be converted

I need to put char(5) into 'selected' columns in an excel 2003 worksheet
using vb.net 2005.
 The problem is some of the data looks like '00123' and ends in the
spreadsheet looking like '123'. I am losing the leading zeroes. The only way