An irritating behaviour:
When I pressed F5 in VC 6.0, the program (C++) was
build and then the debugger started.
But only if the build was successful.

After installing VS2003 SP1, right clicking on a project and selecting
Project Only-Rebuild Only <Project Name> does nothing when the project is
already up to date.  It's like it's doing a Build Only instead of Rebuild
Only.

Hello, I'm trying to dock my addin tool window within the "main ide
window" (ie where code or designer documents normally live in tabs) but
I can't seem to make that happen.
I can use a wide variety of constants to obtain a window to link to...

I wrote some Tool Window add-in that should process current active document
in IDE. How could I catch an event of changing of the current document?  It
means that when an user of IDE opens a new document then my tool should
process it automatically. I can reach this aim with a ...

This apparent bug has cropped up a few times in the past, but I finally
decided to pursue it this time.  I picked up a query from SQL Profiler and
pasted it into a new text file in Visual Studio 2005.  I wanted to economize
on screen space a bit, so I wanted to collapse the ...

I've installed the latest version of ASP.NET Web Application Projects and
created a new project of this type (all prerequisites are present).  When
attempting to view the "Web" tab in the project Properties, I get the
following message along side a red X:

I use VS.NET 2005 Team Foundation with Team Foundation server as source
control. When I get latest version of sources I couldn't see what files have
been updated. In previous version (VS.NET 2003 + VSS) it could be seen in
Output window when selected Source control in combo box. ...

I thought that resetting the toolbox in VS2005 would leave me with the
default component which where installed during the installation of
VS2005, but I choose the option "resetting the toolbox" and the only
tab left now is "General". No webcontrols, novalidators etc.

I am looking to be able to use the Visual Studio 2005 IDE to manage ALL
of my configurations.  It is easy to create custom configurations
throught he configuration manager and then to write code that is
sensitive to the active configuation.  That is easy except when it

I'm having some severe problems with Intellisense in VS2005 Professional
that are just about preventing me from developing my c# web project. When I
first go into a c# source file and start to type a line of code, the
statement completion will give me what appears to be a list of ...

I ran into a problem recently with my VS2005.  I am attempting to do some C#
bluetooth coding, and I found the libraries I needed on the "Windows Embedded
Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology" page located here:  
http://msdn.microsoft ...

I just can't find out why I don't see a grid in my forms designer. I've set
the following grid settings under Tools->Options->Windows Forms Designer"
GridSize = 4;4
ShowGrid = True

Ok.. I have tried and tried to get this to work but still no luck.
Here is what I have installed on my box:
VS6
VS2003

Since 1 and a half year I am responsible for bug fixing, updating a house
internal solution - visualisation of diagnostic data from an embedded system.
3 weeks ago, i changed to lines of code, design mode could be opned and
everything was displayed correctly. Last week I wanted to ...

If a public class which not create a GUID by itself, Visual studio will
generate one and install it into system registry, is it right?
Actrually, I had a project with some public class defined. but I don't
want system registry aware of them.