The projects and folders in the solution explorer are all displayed in
alphabetical order. This is driving me nuts  - I'd like them to be displayed
in the order that I want - is there anyway I can do this?
 Thanks

I'm using a Web Deployment project to create a Web Setup for a Web
Application Project I've got, and I've noticed thay the Web Deployment
Project deploys a lot of files that I'm not sure are needed...
The files are:

I am using VS.NET 2005 8.0.50627.762 (SP.050727.7600), for C# project.
Whenever I rename a variable then click on it to apply refactoring, it works
just twice. The third time I rename a variable the IDE just crashes!!!
Any advices?

i have VS 2005 PRO and SQL SERVER DEV installed. my VS's "server exloer"
doesn't show my SQL server. every time i want to edit or view a DB i have to
"add a connection". any ideas?

it seems as though my regions in VB 2005 are closed when I didn't
close them.  this happens when i reload a project / solution.  i am
not deleting the user data file or anything like that, so whatever is
stored is still stored.  is this a quirk in the environment?

I'm trying to create a setup program for a WinForms application I've written.
The program is in hebrew, so I want the shortcuts created by the setup
program to be in hebrew as well.
However, When I change the text of the shortcuts to contain hebrew text I

When I run my C# WinForms project either by pressing F5 or clicking Start
button on toolbar, it sometimes doesn't execute the currently changed code
and runs previously compiled code and this strange thing happens occasionally
no matter its started in Debug or Release mode.

I have a web solution (2005) with 22 projects, and very often when there is
an error (simple error) it crashes (I offered about 20 times the opportunity
to send Microsoft error report)
Is the installation corrupt or is it related to some settings or possibly it

When im in debugging mode - and let say that im watching a object. to
the left of the objects name in the watch window is a (+) meaning i
can drill down. but when i click on it it simply disapears without
drilling down. few weks ago my watch window was working ok - meaning i

Whenever I make a change to a line that has the line continued into
the next line with _, the auto formatter adjusts the tab spacing of
that next line.  Is there any way to fix this problem?
Normally, the auto formatter makes the continued line start at the

I have an ASP.NET application.  Visual Studio 2003.  I add a DIV to the HTML
side of a page.  I set the style as: style="padding-left: 10px;" and despite
the fact that I have tried setting the Capitalization under HTML/XML to "As
entered" AND "Lowercase", it refuses ot leave them ...

Does anybody know if there is documentation containing all the setup
properties (like TARGETDIR,TARGETSITE,TARGETVDIR) in the VS2005 setup
projects?
Thanks,

I'm developing an add in for my client and I'm creating a tool window using
the
createtoolwindow function.The tool window is actually an ATL activex
control.

I am using Visual Studio 2005, with SP1.  My code is peppered with 'TODO:'
comments with the expectation that they will appear in the Task List and I
can address them when I am ready.
This works to a certain extent, but after I run my app (ASP.Net) in debug

I hit some key combo that made VS 2005 format every text file with .
characters for spaces and arrows for tabs, etc.  Sort of like the paragraph
format option for Word.  I won't go into why this is the stupidest thing for
a developer IDE.  Can someone simply tell me how to turn ...