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    context-sensitive help detached from vs.net (4 replies, VIP)
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    wxp sp1 , vs.net 2003 somehow, my F1 context sensitive help now only brings up a shell help screen ..... the title is still Visual Studio .NET 2003 Combined Collection but there "Filtered by" box is empty, and no results are displayed following searches .... my "Programs" applet shows that i have "MSDN Collection April 2004 DVD" installed
    download latest msdn lib (3 replies)
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    for msdn enterprise subscribers ... what is the url to the location to download the latest msdn library ? is jul 2004 the latest ? the msdn subscribers downloads section seems to have become unnecessarily complicated
    Starting point? (3 replies, VIP)
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    Please forgive the long explanation but I feel I need to explain some context before my question(s). I'm a hardware and infrastructure grunt with 15 years of experience in the field. I have some very rudimentary programming skills, namely some Legacy BASIC, DOS BATch language and other mostly proprietary scripting languages (old world spaghetti kind of stuff that isn't very useful anymore) and of ...
    Collection editor causes mis-prioritization of F1/dynamic help top (3 replies, VIP)
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    In VS.NET 2003, if you drop a Tab control, use the collection editor to add a tab page, close the collection editor, drop a Button control, and then hit F1, the help for the TabPage.Text property comes up. I would expect the help for Button to come up. Looking at the Active Context debug information in the dynamic help window, it looks to me like the items from the collection editor are given high...
    Cannot start VS IDE. (2 replies, VIP)
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    I'm a beginner in vb.net programming. My problem is that when I installed VS.NET, i get a message 'Help is updating to reflect your recent changes'. After about a min, it gives me prompt saying that Windows has encountered an error and whether i'd like to send an error report. The IDE then restarts. When i checked the details of the error, it said that the error is with devenv.exe and mod hxds.dll...
    Missing documentation in Visual Studio .Net 2003 (8 replies, VIP)
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    Tried everything Uninstalling MSDN Uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio .Net Reinstalling all Tried Renaming the help directory in "Programmer/FÃ lles filer" Repairing MSDN But not help. The problem is that no documentation shows up when I call help in Microsoft Visual Studio 2003. Actually no help shows up when I call then net framwork SDK help documentation. I think the problem lies in some of t...
    April 2004 MSDN Library Installation Fails with "Missing File" (2 replies, VIP)
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    Last week I downloaded the MSDN image files, extracted them and tried to install but partly through the installation I received a message about not being able to access a particular file. Thinking the files might have been corrupted during the download, extraction or install (via network) process I burned installation disks using newely downloaded image files from MSDN. These too failed with an er...
    help tweak? (2 replies, VIP)
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    hi every one when i search visual studio.net documentation the maximum number of results that i can get is 500 is there a way to make more than 500?
    MSDN Help Filters (5 replies, VIP)
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    I am posting this a second time, because I am a MSDN subscriber and haven't got a reply yet. Iâ m having problems using MSDN library for Visual Studio.NET 2003. For some reason, no matter what I search for, it says no results are found. The filters also do not work. The only time anything shows up in the index list is if â œ(no filter)â is selected. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, remo...
    Documentation Update (2 replies)
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    I am getting the following error when trying to install the documentation update: Internal Error 2709. DDPatch.UpdateGac I have MSDN Library for VS.NET 2003 install with a Full Installation. I have redownloaded the installation file twice. Any help in getting this resolved will be appreciated. Thanks, Mario Acevedo
    Problem with help in MSDN and VS (2 replies, VIP)
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    When I try to search for anything in MSDN (or VS) I got 0 results. Index works until it's filtered when returns empty list Content seems to be right. I have reinstalled VS, MSDN from apr 2004 and from Jan 2004. Same effect. I have re registered hxds.dll as advised.
    Trouble integrated MSDN with Visual Studio 2003 (4 replies)
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    Hey guys, I installed VS 2003 presumably along with the MSDN package. Apparently it was only about 400 MB, so i assume it wasn't the "Full" installation. So whenever I was in the VS, and i'd do a search (for example: FormsAuthentication), it would show me the search results. When i'd click any of the results, it would demand me pop in the MSDN DVD. I desired to get around that so today i installed...
    Advantages of .NET (2 replies, VIP)
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    1)Could you please brief me on the advantages and disadvantages of .NET over Jade Technology ? 2)What is the possibility of global usage of Microsoft products? Thanking You Regards Sheetal Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) Id jWKuRoqF0E6UVIQGWAoCgA /Id
    MSHELPL:link not working (5 replies)
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    I have VS .NET 2003 and MSDN Oct 03 on Win XP Prof. and recently installed the current MS Platform SDK. Since then many links in the combinded VS help do not work anymore: all links with MSHELP:link tags don't work anymore! I tried uninstalling the platform sdk and the repair function of the MSDN library. Nothing changes. I was close to do an complete re install of VS and MSDN when I noticed that ...
    asp.net (2 replies)
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    Hi guys. I'm newbie in asp.net and net platform. I'm learning asn.net and have a question. If I make an web page can it run in apach server or other server which is linux server? thanks
    Broken MSDN library help links (4 replies, VIP)
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    This is the third time I have posted this in the last 3 weeks. I though that MSDN subscribers were supposed to get an answer in less than 2 business days. I have been having problems with links in the MSDN help files from the January 2004 (and now April 2004) MSDN library. Many of the links on the various help pages do not work. For example, on the page ms help://MS.MSDNQTR.2004JAN.1033/devio/base...
    vb6/vb.net (2 replies)
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    I have VB.net installed on my computer. Is there an option to run vb6 or vb.net in the menu bar? So basically I want to be able to be able to run vb6 or vb.net from vb.net menu.
    Deployment Shortcut Instruction error (2 replies)
    microsoft.public.vsnet.documentation
    In the "Deploying A Windows Application" instructions for VS2003 there's a section titled "Creating a shortcut" After performing the first 2 steps, step 3 states the ACTION menu should be in view. It's not. How do I create a desktop shortcut for my application?
    .NET Framework 2.0 in Visual Studio 2003 ? (2 replies)
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    I have Visual Studio .NET 2003 that currently supports framework version 1.1, 1.0 or both. When .NET Framework 2.0 is released with Visual Studio 2005, will I be able to use framework 2.0 with Visual Studio .NET 2003 by somehow selecting the framework 2.0 run time ?? Or I will have to shell my money out again even if I don't want 2005 version with advanced features .....
    October VS.NET Doc update breaks help system (4 replies)
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    After installing the October 2003 VS.NET documentation update (found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid a3334aed 4803 4495 8817 c8637ae902dc&displaylang en ) I can no longer access help from within VS.NET 2003. If I select "Contents" from the Help menu I get a dialog that says: "Help Update in Progress" "Help is updating to reflect your recent changes. This may take sev...
    Solution to MSDN Install Problems on VS.NET 2003 (6 replies, VIP)
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    Earlier I saw that many people had experienced the same frustrations that I had when installing Visual Studio.Net 2003 Enterprise Architect edition, namely, that even after choosing the third installation option (install MSDN) and installing successfully, Visual Studio complains that no help is installed! This happens even if you uninstall/reinstall the MSDN by using the setup.exe command directly...
    MSDN Library 2004 (2 replies)
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    After installing MSDN Library 2004 I can't show index and summary within Visual Studio Help (dexplore.exe).
    data aware component (2 replies)
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    is there a sample from ms documentation or anywhere else which shows a .net data aware component? tia, dk
    C# Documentation Builder (3 replies)
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    Hi, i wold like to know if there is in the market some documentation builder for C#, its important to me know where wich class is referenced... Tks Alexandre Campos Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.576 / Virus Database: 365 Release Date: 1/30/2004
    Please help, i am tired of VS.NET nonsense error message (10 replies)
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    i reinstalled everything but the problem still persists. Really, i am tired to restart the IDE every 10 mn. classes doesn't have constructors but i have 5 constructors Variable xxx is not declared but variable xxx is declared Component is private.....etc
    Cominbed Help Not Updating (2 replies)
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    I have had VS.NET installed for several months with no major problems, but last night I installed the Dundas chart and Component One Suite from the VB Resource Kit, and now the 2003 Combined Help is broken as follows: 1. In VS 2003 Help, the only namespaces which show up under the contents screen are Dundas and ComponentOne. Several other namespaces should be listed also. The various items for the...
    Solution to "Error 1606" with MSDN Library and User accounts (4 replies)
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    I have been plagued with problems when running VS.NET 2003 on clean installs of Win XP. I install under the Administrator account but have a normal user account for running VS.NET in (plus the VS Devs and Debuggers groups). VS will run fine but when accessing the MSDN Library, navigating to a document in the sidebar, then clicking that document, the Installer dialog will pop up and start going on ...
    Help Is Not Installed for Visual Studio (4 replies)
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    My group recently upgraded from vc6 to VS Enterprise Arch 2003. We have installed the version of MSDN that came with it and we all still get errors saying that help is not installed.
    Help Filter Syntax (2 replies, VIP)
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    I asked this in vsnet.general but no replies, so cross posting it here... Is there a way to only specify which collections you DO NOT want included? something like... "DocSet"! "NetCompactFramework" or NOT "DocSet" "NetCompactFramework" Thanks Jeremy
    VS 2002 Dynamic help, MSDN library and VS.NET links dead or broken. (2 replies, VIP)
    microsoft.public.vsnet.documentation
    OS: WinXp pro SP1. Installed MSDN version and can't get any links under help or library to work. example: ms help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/htmlhelp/html/vsconOverbig.htm Gives "Cannot find server error." I have IIS up and running and http://localhost works okay in VS. I have uninstalled 2 and tried repair nothing. Any IDEAS?
    Asynchronous I/O example racy (2 replies, VIP)
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    The example for Asynchronous I/O (and I/O Asynchronous Completion) is racy. Two locks are used to protect the same information, but their use is inconsistent. Try, for example, to add a Thread.Sleep(30000) in the main thread after unlocking NumImageMutex but before acquiring LockObject: bool mustBlock false; lock (NumImagesMutex) { if (NumImagesToFinish 0) mustBlock true; } if (mustBlock) { Consol...
    Context sensitive help for win32 APIs? (2 replies, VIP)
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    Hello! I recently upgraded from Visual Studio 6 to 2003 .NET and the context senitive help is driving me nuts. I work mainly with the win32 api and it's treated like a 2nd class citizen. Example 1: Open up a .C file, type GetMessage and hit F1. The help viewer will open up but instead of showing the relevant page it just fills in the search box with GetMessage. To get to the help page for the GetM...
    Help file does not show. (2 replies, VIP)
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    I am using vs.net 2003. When I try to search or use the help files in any way, I get the list of found items but not the help file. The main page says server not found. I have repaired and reinsalled all msdn librarys. And I have reinstalled .net. I am getting desprate. Thanks in advance. scottgarrard
    Help in VS.2003 (2 replies, VIP)
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    I have installed over 400 MB of MSDN but that thing still does not work. It prompts me for CDs every time I do select something in the search result. I have MSDN in the default location. What's the problem? Thanks
    Help Feedback in Visual Studio (4 replies, VIP)
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    Anyone else find the help in VS7 to be inexplicable? Search for "FileTimeToSystemTime".. a platform SDK function with the filter "Visual C and Related". You get, Example Code for Binding to a Partitions Container Example Code for Reading Properties Example Code for Searching for Users .... You don't get the SDK reference. With no filter, it comes up but only after, Registry Microsoft Entries for S...
    Full Dynamic Help? (3 replies, VIP)
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    Is there some secret to getting Dynamic Help working fully? I have installed MSDN April 2003 and VS.NET 2003. When I begin editing an aspx file containing VB.NET code, Dynamic Help will work on some keywords, but it doesn't seem to show the proper topics. For instance, if I move the cursor over the word Sub in my code, I see 1 item for "Sub" show up in Dynamic Help, but it is only for the HTML Sub...
    Problem: Viewing MSDN Help with User account (4 replies)
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    I'm not sure if this is a bug. If i push the F1 key over the word "WriteLine" in a Console.WriteLine() statement i get msi windows installer pop up dialogs viewing some content in the msdn July 2003 library. This only happens when I'm running under a non administrator account as microsoft recommends for development work with .net. If i deinstall the VS.NET 2003 and use the MSDN documentation direc...
    Migration to VStudio 2003 from VS C++ 6 (6 replies)
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    Hello, I try to migrate a program from VStudio C 6 to VStudio C .NET. The convertion from the C 6 project has been made by VS.NET. This are some of the compilation error: /********************************************************************/ d:\dev\Xvtdsc45\w32 x86\include\XVT TYPE.H(54) : error C2040: 'LONG PTR' : les niveaux d'indirection de 'long *' et de ' w64 long' sont différents d:\dev\Xvtd...
    System Clock (2 replies, VIP)
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    I'm a Visual Basic .NET developer. I would like to know if there is any code block which enables me to set the time (hh:mm:ss only) of the System clock to my favourite values. Is it possible to make a form with 3 text boxes where I can put the hours/minutes/seconds values and 1 button which can apply these values to the System's clock? And if it's possible, how shall I proceed? I really need a hin...
    study .net (2 replies)
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    Dear all, I am a new .net Programmer, So I ask a tiny question: 1. What are necessary Tools to program .net ? exam :install visual studio .net ? how disk CD rom ? 2. Tools to desinger .Net ?
    Bug in VS.NET Help Collection (11 replies, VIP)
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    Since I haven't heard about this before I thought I'd report it . . . (1) Install or remove a program that modifies the VS.NET Combined Help Collection. (2) After opening the IDE, instead of selecting the help pane and waiting for Help to update itself (as in maybe you forgot you installed the new program and don't do this.) (3) Open a project. (In my case it was a remote ASP.NET project. I'm not ...
    Persisting Language Filters (12 replies, VIP)
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    I find I spend an exorbitant amount of time selecting the C# language filter while browsing help pages in VS.NET 2003. Is there a way to permanently set the filter so that the default on any help page is set to a specific language? On a related subject, whenever I enter terms or phrases in the search pane, they are missing the next time I open the IDE and attempt a new search. Is this normal behav...
    Addin - context menu - target project name (5 replies)
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    I have added a custom menuitem in the context menu (See attachment) to the solution explorer for a project. I require to read the target project name on clicking the menu. I am unable to find any classes/functions to get the target project name(MBRClass in my case) and project kind(CSproj or VBproj). And also I require the command name for the contextmenu which appear for the c# projectItem(.cs fi...
    System.Windows.Forms.Control.ContextMenuChanged event, bad example (3 replies, VIP)
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    example is for TextChanged event Eric Newton C#/ASP Application Developer eric@cc.ensoft software.com [remove the first "CC."]
    How to automate common editing tasks in VS.NET 2003? (2 replies)
    microsoft.public.vsnet.documentation
    Can someone point me to the documentation on programming VS.NET to manipulate source code? Let us say I have a function with 20 arguments in C or C#: class A{ void func(int x, string w, float t, double u, Point a, Rect b, ...){ } } Now suppose I have a lot of these functions I've just written each having a lot of arguments and I want to sort the arguments like so: class A{ void func (Point a, Rect...
    MSDN subscription question (4 replies)
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    I just purchased Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect edition? Does that in any way qualify me for the "renewal" rate if I purchase a MSDN subscription? Thanks in advance. Nate
    _scriptlibrary doesn't work in subfolder iis6 (4 replies, VIP)
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    i have an iis5 web server that is running some asp pages created in vstudio6 i am trying to move these files to another server that is on iis6. It appears that the scripting object model will not work on subfolders in iis6...; an Example that works just fine: I have a web directory like this: wwwroot ScriptLibrary (folder) test.asp and inside the test.asp file.. it has the following line of code: ...
    Changing Web Servers (2 replies, VIP)
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    I have a bunch of ASPX apps. The solution files are saved locally, and the updates are automatically saved to a web server in another location. (Vstudio 2000 and 2003). I have recently changed web servers... but my applications, when i try to make any programming modifications are still looking to the old web server... how do i change the location of the web server in the solution file? (sln or vb...
    VS .NET 2003 vb question - opening a database/getting version info (4 replies, VIP)
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    Hi, I just started on my very first .NET application and it is for my pocket pc. I managed to create my forms and show then when I want to, but there are two things I cannot seem to find: 1) In eVB one can get the version info like this: CStr(app.major) "." CStr(App.Minor) " " App.LegalCopyright How is this done in VB.NET 2003? 2) In eVB one can open a database with CREATEOBJECT("ADOCE.CONNECTION....
    SEARCHFILE in VB .NET (2 replies, VIP)
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    Do you know how to browse a directory in VB .NET and extract files to show them on a window ? Thanks
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