Here's a very novice question. I accidentally closed my Immediate Window and
cannot open it again. According to the VS Help, it should be available as a
selection from the Debug|Windows menu. But it isn't. I can still use the
Command Window to display variables, etc. But how can ...

I'm running VS 2005 SP1 with the Update for Vista.  I'm trying to set the
before to Prompt me on check-out.  I have other desktop that I'm done the
same thing (mainly running Win2k3 though) and the Environment page is just
not there.

I was attempting to get around the VS2005 designer giving error messages
because a usercontrol is inherited from an abstract class.
Made use of   TypeDescriptionProvider   to try this  (found in a online
article).  And it does work, until the project gets recompiled after the

I have followed the instruction in this article:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bs2bkwxc(VS.80).aspx
However whenever I load a visual studio project from the network share i
still get the "Project location is not trusted" message. I have rebooted

vs2005:
I drag a new control onto an existing web form in the designer, do some work on
it, but the control is never really created. When I open the form again, the
control and all my work is gone. I just noticed this, and it appears to happen

How do you remove the field/expression shading on code snippets after they
are complete?
-Scott

Am I correct in thinking that in VS 2005, we no longer have a Debug vs.
Release mode drop down because when you build, both Debug and Release
versions are built and placed in the appropriate project folders?
Also, what does the "Clean Solution" choice do?

It takes 30-45 seconds from the time I click the VS2005 icon to the time the
IDE is displayed.  The splash screen comes up, and then the long delay during
which nothing seems to be happening.  I've tried uninstalling and
reinstalling to no effect.  When I run "devenv /Log", the ...

In VS 2005,
When I create a new Project it has disappeared windows service template.
How can I reinstall this template?

I'm asking how two developers can work at the same time on a Windows
Form project, both of them working with the designer of the same form.
The problem arise when you need to synchronize the
[FormName].Designer.cs file, that even with little changes, seems to

I had a DVD rom installed on my computer, then when I tried to install a
DVD+/-RAM, both the drives no longer show up under my computer and when i try
to restart the computer it takes about an hour.

is there a site or does anyone have a good black scheme for VS? id rather
not go through and set all the colors to work on a black background myself,
i would imagine someone has that out there some place...
also is there a way to move the design/source buttons to the top of the

  I am running Version 8.0.50727.867  (vsvista.050727-8600) of
VS2005.   In my C# program Find All References returns only a subset
of all references, the definition of the variable and where the
variable appears in a return statement.   No other references to the

Debug.WriteLine does not show in VS Output;Debug window?
Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks,
Schneider

in visual c# 2005, if I type "prop" I get the intellisense thing pop up with
a tooltip that says "code snippet for property and backing field"
based on previous experience I would expect to press tab or click to select
it from the pop-up list and some code would automatically ...