I am confused on how the renaming and copying of forms in VSNET 2003 works.
If I want to make a copy of an existing form and modify that copy for a
slightly different use, how should I do that? When I rename a form in the
IDE, it appears the original copy still exists?

After a file has been modified by an external tool,
VS2003 displays something like "File has changed, reload Yes/No/All".
Is there a way to reload the file using the extensibility objects to avoid
this dialog?

receving the dreaded "operation could not be complete - unspecified error"
message box .

I hope someone can help - I am getting desperate!
I have promised to do some work for someone developing an ASP.NET
application.
I have VS Studio 2002 installed on my pc which is running XP-Pro (and

Wouldn't it be nice when you're aligning controls that are children of
different containers (group boxes, panels, etc.) that VS.NET figured out to
use a higher level set of coordinates (form or screen) for alignment
purposes?

I am new to using Visual Studio .NET and in both VB and C# the
MeesageBox.Show command is only show blank windows no matter what te prompt
is. Anyone know what is up??
Confused!!!

The Dynamic Help on a few of our machines take 10-15 minutes to load the help
after the developer presses the F1 key - locking them out of doing anything
with that instance of VS.  The rest don't.  In the lower left status bar of
the IDE, it is set to "Downloading...".  In the ...

Hi,  
1. The tool save the roles but cannot create users. It keeps asking me to
use a different password. Am I doing something wrong
2. my default browser was mozilla at the time I installed VS.net 2005. I

Sometimes in my project, some forms are not recognised as type "form". (They
are actually inherited from another one of my forms).
However, when this happens I can only view the code. The icon in the
Solution Explorer is the type for a module, not a form. It also happens

Hey all
Does anyone know if it's possible, via add-on or any other means to
mimic the old VS 6.0 behavior of CTRL+SHIFT+Letter to get quick access
to the properties window?  I do a lot of re-using existing objects, and

When we highlight a class in class view and select 'Events' in the
'Properties' window, the events under 'Menu Commands' display numeric values
rather than string IDs. The other event sections display the proper string
IDs.

trying to get a demo addin to work in visual studio ...
used the addin wizard to create it, used configuration manager to check
"build" for both the addin and setup.
When I open a project I get an error message: "addin failed to load -

I've created a commandBar that appears when a user right-click the Class item in the Class View Explorer.
However, I want myButton to appear on top of "Go To Definition" button, followed by a separator.
visually:
myButton

I have re-installed the whole of xp 3 times now to try and resolve this issue
- needless to say i have work to do so im getting pretty annoyed!
Anyway, I've isolated it down to the latest bunch of Windows updates i've
installed, basically after installing them the VS IDE wont ...

I've noticed that solutions with VB projects cannot be "batch" built. I
like the "batch build" option available for solutions with C# and ATL
COM projects because it allows me to easily pick a subset of projects
to build. Particularly it allows me to pick both debug and release