Dispatch is compatible with all editions of Visual Studio 2005 except the Express versions. This is a limitation imposed by Microsoft.

Unfortunately not, since the Visual Studio Express Edition has a limited support for extensibility that does not match the tight integration needs of Mainsoft for Java EE. You need to install Visual Studio Standard or Professional Edition to use Mainsoft for Java EE.

Use our Mono Migration Analysis tool to check if everything that your application uses has been implemented in Mono or if there are special considerations to keep in mind. The Mono API today is somewhere in between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, see our Roadmap for details about what is implemented.

The service has been tested with a C# client auto-generated from WSDL by the wsdl.exe tool. It should work fine from any .NET language.

I have code snippets that I use often. How can I manage them so I can easily used them? In Visual Studio, you can store commonly used code snippets on a tab (other than the Clipboard ring) in your Toolbox. You use drag and drop techniques to move the...

Use the ToolboxItem attribute set to false on your component or control class. This will prevent it from appearing in the Toolbox. [ ToolboxItem( false ) ] public class MyComponent : Component{..} Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

No. While Visual Studio makes deploying "ClickOnce" applications simple, there are several other ways to deploy "ClickOnce" applications. The .NET Framework SDK includes a tool named MAGE(Manifest Editor & Generator) that provides both a UI (mageui...

Yes. In order to do this you will need to buy Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and a Client Access License for proper communication with the server. Team Explorer, which is included with Team Foundation Server, is a stand alone client that uses the Visual Studio 2005 shell providing a UI for source control, work item tracking and all the other features. For more information on licensing Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) see the Team System Licensing White Paper.

Assuming that you have successfully installed C-Sharpener For VB, the menu option should automatically appear. If it doesn't appear, then try the following: Turn on the checkbox to the left of C-Sharpener For VB and click the OK button. The menu option should now appear.

You need to use a second instance of Visual Studio to debug the one that's running the code. Put your control on a form. Start a second instance of Visual Studio and choose the Debug | Processes menu item. Double-click devenv.exe and choose Common...

In VS2003, debug info for unmanaged code is turned off by default. This is why you will not see the call stack including code in the System DLLs. To enable debugging for unmanaged code go to your project properties dialog and turn on as shown here: Contributed...

Wise for Visual Studio .NET is a specially designed Wise product that operates within the Visual Studio interface, with the full functionality of the Wise installation authoring environment. Wise for Visual Studio .NET™ is the only full-featured installation product embedded directly into Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET. Our participation in the Visual Studio Integration Program and our close partnership with Microsoft gives us exclusive access to Microsoft technology.

Blue Ink was designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Blue Ink's default set of templates output .sln and .proj files so you can immediately open and work with a generated solution using Microsoft Visual Studio. Yes, in most respects Blue Ink generated solutions are no different than manually coded solutions. Blue Ink generated solutions integrate fully with source control applications such as Microsoft SourceSafe either through Microsoft Visual Studio or externally.

No. QuickAdmin is a standard .NET control, so just needs to be referenced when compiling your C# code.

This project is my hobby and the last thing I want to do in my spare time was use a language or environment I don't enjoy (I code on Macs during the day, and that's enough pain ^_^). I like C#, and I love Visual Studio. Just about any argument you can create against it can be countered, so don't even try. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it; I know that this is certainly my philosophy with other languages/environments!

Mainsoft for Java EE provides two new project types, Visual C# for Java EE and Visual Basic for Java EE, which are very similar to Visual Studio C# and VB project types. The Mainsoft project types extend multiple functionalities, such as: Build process: The Microsoft compiler creates the MSIL DLL and then invokes the Mainsoft for Java EE compiler. Once the build is complete, Mainsoft for Java EE deploys the final Web Java binary as a WAR (Web Archive) file, onto the Java EE application server.

Mainsoft provides Java EE project templates for Web applications, portal applications, Web services, Web control libraries, console applications, and class libraries. You can use any Java class library in your project and consume Web services. Yes. Mainsoft-based ASP.NET Web applications and Web services are Java EE servlets. Mainsoft ASP.NET project templates include the web.xml servlet deployment descriptor file that you can update to configure your Java EE security settings.

Launch Visual Studio .NET 2003. Select Tools | External Tools | Add . Add the settings show below: Title: ILDASM (or anything else of your choice) Command: C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin\ildasm.exe Arguments: $(TargetPath) Initial Directory...

In Visual Studio go to the Debug | Exceptions | Common Language Runtime Exceptions | System and select System.NullReferenceException . In the When the exception is thrown group box, select Break into the debugger . Run your scenario. When the exception...

When your application is launched from Visual Studio in Debug mode, you will see all trace and debug messages in the Output window. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ