How do you paint transparent sections of a bitmap with the VS.Net 2003
image editor?
I have a bitmap that's been imported into a project.  I want to make the
outer parts of the bitmap transparent.  I've tried MSDN - the instruction

I am using VS .NET 2003 and planning to migrate to VS .NET 2005 in the
near future for our 'unmanaged' C++ code.
   Currently to set some environment variables for the build process,
I start the IDE from a .bat script, which accepts a parameter which is

It seems like there should be an option for this somewhere, but I've been
unable to find it.
Can I tell Studio to keep the tabs for related files (WebForm1.aspx,
WebForm1.aspx.cs) adjacent?  Ideally, I'd like to be able to sort them by

Is there a way to increase the virtual page height in the VS2003 IDE when
designing ASPX pages? There seems to be a lot more virtual width than
virtual height available.  I want to design (visually) a lot of panels and
set their visibility with client-side code. It would be easier ...

I follow few simple steps to add a project to a solution and get errors.
please help me do it correctly.
I have a web application that is in source safe.
If i open the project directly it works with source safe and the web and

When i try to open the solution, by clicking on it, which contains 1 web
project and other projects, when it starts to load the web project, the
whole ide closes down.  when i try to open just the web project by clicking
on it, the same thing happens. when i open vs.net then go ...

I have .NET 2003 installed on my desktop and want to have the same colours
and toolbar customisations on my laptop. The /migratesettings command line
switch only appears to work for different Visual Studio versions on the same
system.

i need that my assembly will be available to choose from the add reference
list in the visual studio IDE.
where should i configure that?
TIA.

I'm developing a fairly large (currently 26 sub-projects and 100000 lines)
project in VB.NET 2003, using Visual Studio .NET.  There seems to be a very
annoying bug that crops up.
From time to time, when I save my code, the IDE decides to add lines to the

We have just recently switched to VS .NET 2003 from VS 6 and have found what
appears to be a problem with the dialog editor.
It appears that in some situations the editor incorrectly formats CONTROL
statements. This only seems to happen when the control has a Help ID, but it

I would like my Add-in to add properties to the build configuration (Project
Menu -> Properties -> Configuration Properties) so that I can create build
configurations that selectively run features of my Add-in. I can only find
information about how to create Tools -> Options ...

Is there any way to expand the value of an IDE
variable like $(ProjectName); $(BuildPath), etc.,
into compiled code?
I know there are no macros in C#, but it sure

I need to build a simple IDE macro that connects to
a running ActiveX server, and invokes a method on it,
passing in the equivalent of what the $(TargetPath)
macro returns (the assembly .dll built by my project).

I've built a macro which shows up under "MyMacros" in the macro ide.  
However, when I go to tools-customize-commands, there's no "macros" choice
that I can select in order to look at my macros and assign a shortcut or
toolbar button to them.  In addition, if I go to

since a few weeks ago the paste key (control + v / shift + Ins)
does not work anymore.
I have check the keyboard shortcuts in the options but they are OK.
If I create another shortcut for paste like Control + "," it works..