This is not so severe, but is annoying and non intuitive.
Description:
If you have "content" files in a subfolder of your project, and you add
Project Output/content files in your setup project, it will create the

I hope this is the correct place to post this question, I am using VS to
build a c++ application  with lots of projects in a single workspace. Most
of them do not change from build to build but when compiling the others, the
compiler seems to stop for about half a second to tell me ...

I am using visual studio.net 2003 on a fast PC and perfrmance is generally
good.
However, I find that on some web forms when I rename a web control the CPU
goes crazy and  VS stops responding for about 10 seconds. I guess it is

Working through/into (?) Petzold, I recently bought VC++ .NET Std. to
step from Dev-C++ that I was using in my attempt to teach myself
Win32 programming. Instead, my learning has come to an ubrupt halt as
I bang heads with this at times (seemingly) less-than-cooperative

I would like to write a short macro, which programmatically sets some of my
favorite Command shortcut keys.
What I figured out that it can be done via assignment to Command object's
Bindings array property.

According to a recent Microsoft article, we should do this:
void Application_BeginRequest(object source, EventArgs e) {
   if (Request.Path.IndexOf('\\') >= 0 ||
       System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(Request.PhysicalPath) !=

I would like to port my VS2003 AddIn to Whidbey (Beta1 refresh).
Because I didn't want to write a ActiveX shim control, I wrote my AddIn (for
2003) with a little dialog box opened through a menu commande.
I've read that Whidbey will dramatically simplify the option page writing

In my add-in, this works if I bring up the IDE and open a
solution file which modify the location of the source code(s)
with unload and reload command.
It doesn't work when I double click on the solution file that is

    VS is automatically linking to a specific library during build when I
don't want it to, and I can't find where it's set to do so.
    I originally had my project implicitly linked to a .LIB, but I wanted
to change it to explicitly link with the DLL.  So I removed the .LIB ...

If I create a C# form or control in a project and I try to resize the
form/control with the mouse cursor, I get always the error message "Object
reference not set to an instance...".
I reinstalled VS 2005 and created a new project too, but get alway the same

I have a vs.net 2002 solution that contains a number of projects
All projects are created in folders under the solution folder.
The idea here is that this entire solution should be 'moveable' ie. copied
to and useable from a new directory or computer.

The IDE cannot successfully incrementally build my (very large) solution. If
I just hit F5 then I get build errors that are not really there. If I choose
Rebuild from the menu and then hit F5 I get no spurious build errors. Is
there a way to force the IDE to perform a Rebuild when I ...

Is there a way to stop the debugger from stepping into some places,
specifically places like where operator new is defined.
I know there was a way before Visual Studio.NET, but haven't been able to
find a way to do it now.

Over the last year I have put a ton of time into configuring the various
windows in VS, and setting the colors of the text in the editor. It has been
extremely productive for me and I can really get things done quickly and
easily.

I am practicing some C# programming and I want to test a Console Application
which prints out the CommandLine Parameters.
I cannot figure out how to input the commandline parameters in the IDE in
Debug mode?