I am writing an add-in that wants to persist some data to the solution file
using DTE.Solution.Globals, but I can't get it to work.  Here is the code I'm
using:
 Public Sub OnConnection(...) _

How do I force or trigger Visual Studio and also Management Studio to offer
to restore recovered files?  
Last week, Visual Studio offered to restore files days after a Visual Studio
2005 crash and after I had redone all of the work.  it was a little late by

I have a VS 2005 project (actually, a "solution" containing a bunch of
"projects") in which I want to implement some custom logic for setting assembly
versions.  Specifically, I define some constants in one of my assemblies that
identify the product version.  I want to use those ...

I am having problems with VS 2008 that I installed after installing Vista +
SP1. The IDE would say "Could not load file or assembly
'Microsoft.Web.Authoring' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find
the file specified." whenever editing user controls in Design mode and ...

When working in Visual Studio 2008 with a large C++ solution of 179 projects,
the whole environment is very slow. Simple things such as selecting text in
the editor (without modifying anything), resizing Visual Studio, right
clicking projects to bring up contextmenus and so on, ...

Is there any way to stop the vs2005 winform designer from creating an event
handler in your code when you double click on a control?
I find that the ide has a very loose definition of "double click" so I often
find myself being automatically switched into code view in the middle ...

I just upgraded a CR2008 install to SP0, which was supposed to provide
integration with VS 2008.  Now, when I load an existing project that has some
Crystal Report objects in it, I get a prompt stating that the Windows Forms
components for the toolbox failed to load properly.  I ...

I actually got a problem with the find in fiels option (VS 05 - VSS 6 -
Files on an remote Server).
when I search with the "find in File"-dialog the results appear in the "Find
Results" as expected. If I choose "gotoNextLocation" then, I can't use any

I have VS.Net 2008 Team System installed on Vista/64 w/ SP1 installed.  I'm
building a WPF application (lots of <Pages>, <Windows>, <UserControls>,
etc.).  I cannot get the XAML Designer window to display ANY of my XAML files
- in all cases, it displays "An Unhandled Exception ...

My company has recently upgraded to visual studio 2008 and we are in the
process of migrating our unit tests from NUnit to MSTest.  We have
approximatly 4000 unit tests across 12 test assemblies in our solution.
I have migrated all the test assemblies across to mstest and the ...

When I build my Web project and the output shows:
------ Build started: Project: WebRoot, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
(this takes about a minute or so, a lot longer then it did in VS2005) VS2008
freezes up I can't even minimize or show desktop, and Task Manager shows

anyone knows how to clean the Recent Projects list in the home page of
Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition?
I would like to clean projects/websites not present in my pc anymore.
Thanks a lot.

When I create a console mode application and run it using F5 from visual
studio, it runs in a tiny console. How do I make visual studio create a wider
console mode box?
Thanks,

I have been working on a project with no problems for a few monhs now.
All of a sudden I am getting errors when trying to declare a variable.
I Have the foloowing code:
           string DataToParse = "";

I don't know why, but in one of my projects some ordinary classes are
displayed as "components" whenever I save them.
This is quite disturbing because opening these files makes VS open some
Component Designer show up instead of the source code.