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Current available KB-Articles which applies to Microsoft Visual * 2005

Here is a (alphabetical) list of all Knowledgebase articles which are currently available for Microsoft Visual * 2005.

• ‘Upgrade Visual Basic 6 Code’ may be missing on the Tools menu when you open a .vb file by using the devenv command in Visual Studio 2005 or in Visual Studio .NET 2003
• A LNK1175 error message is not returned when you specify an invalid base address of your application executable file in Visual Studio 2005
• A TAB character may be inserted instead of the code snippet when you use a code snippet shortcut in Visual Studio 2005
• A Visual Basic 6 project that was upgraded by using Visual Studio .NET 2003 no longer functions as expected when you click to select the ‘Enable application framework’ check box in Visual Studio 2005 1
• A macro does not play as expected in the Macros IDE when you record the macro in Visual Studio 2005
• A new project contains build errors when you use a template that you exported from a project if the name of the old project contains space characters or other invalid identifying characters in Visual Studio 2005
• A warning message contains an incomplete name of a pop-up menu when you set the Popup property of the pop-up menu to False in Visual Studio 2005
• An application that is developed in Visual Studio 2005 and that uses COM components stops responding when the application is deployed by using ClickOnce technology
• An update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard in Visual Studio 2005 is available
• BUG: Add-ins, smart documents, or smart tags that you create by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 do not work in Microsoft Word or in Microsoft Excel
• BUG: Error message when you enable the Debug in Zone feature for projects in a solution and then you debug the solution in Visual Studio 2005: ‘The security debugging option is set but it requires the Visual Studio hosting process which is unavailable’
• BUG: Error message when you try to view the Properties grid of any control in an HTML resource in Visual C++ 2005: ‘There are no property pages for the selection’
• BUG: Event handlers that are associated with a ListObject control stop responding on an Office Excel worksheet that is hosted in Visual Studio 2005
• BUG: In Visual Studio 2005, you may receive a ‘Cannot write the file instmsia.exe to the DotNetFX directory’ error message if you try to distribute an application to a Web server where UNIX or Linux is the operating system
• BUG: IntelliSense may not work correctly when you type code in the code window for an application that was built by using ASP.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005
• BUG: Merge module files have the same ComponentID in different Visual Studio projects
• BUG: The History dialog box does not appear in Visual SourceSafe Explorer when you use Visual SourceSafe 2005 on Windows 2000
• BUG: The resource context for the Image property of multiple controls is changed to a local resource image after you set it to the project resource image in Visual Studio 2005
• BUG: Your application may stop responding when you use the XmlReader.ReadToNextSibling method in Visual Studio 2005
• Contents of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Setup Issues Readme file
• Contents of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Setup Issues Readme file
• Description of the new covariance and contravariance features and how the lookup behavior for delegates has changed in Visual C# 2005
• Error message when you try to add a new form to a Visual C++ Smartphone project in Visual Studio 2005: ‘Object doesn’t support this property or method’
• Error message when you try to build a C++ Web project by using Visual Studio 2005: ‘Error VCD0038’
• Error message when you try to run an updated version of an application that was created by using Visual Studio 2005 application and the ClickOnce feature: ‘System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException’
• Error message when you try to set the image property of a control in Design view in Visual Studio: ‘Empty path is not legal’
• Explains that you cannot find the MFC ISAPI Extension DLL template under ‘Visual C++’ in the ‘New Project’ dialog box in Visual Studio 2005.
• FIX: Error message when you use the debugger in Visual Studio 2005 to debug an MFC class library application: ‘Managed Debugging Assistant ‘LoaderLock’ has detected a problem in ‘‘’
• FIX: Out of memory exceptions may occur when you run an application that is built by using the .NET Framework 2.0 in a high-load environment
• FIX: The IDE stops responding when you modify C# code in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: Visual Studio 2005 may unexpectedly quit when you try to view MSDN documentation or when you try to create a new Visual C++ project on Windows XP Service Pack 2
• FIX: You may receive Visual Basic compiler error messages when you are developing a Visual Basic 2005 project in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: You may receive an error message when you rebuild a solution and try to view a Windows Form in Design view in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: You may receive an error message when you use the VCBuild.exe command-line tool or the MSBuild.exe command-line tool to build a solution in Visual Studio 2005
• How to access serial ports by using Visual Basic 2005
• How to build an OLE DB application for SQL Server CE in Visual Studio 2005
• How to create a network installation point for Visual Studio 2005 deployment
• How to deploy Visual Studio 2005 by using Systems Management Server
• How to detect the status of the SQL Server Express service or start the SQL Server Express service by using Visual Basic or Visual C#
• How to enable the ‘Option Strict’ and ‘Option Explicit’ statements in Visual Basic applications
• How to perform the basic file I/O operations in Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
• How to silently remove Visual Studio 2005 when it has been installed in administrator mode
• How to troubleshoot the installation of Visual Studio 2005
• How to turn on remote debugging for Visual Studio 2005 in Windows XP with Service Pack 2
• INFO: Japanese Font Problem with Some Visual Basic Applications on Windows 2000
• Known issues for the ADODB Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) that is included with Visual Studio 2005
• Many syntax errors and type specifier errors occur when you try to build a DirectX-based C++ application in Visual Studio 2005
• Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step Comments and Corrections
• Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Page Now! Comments and Corrections
• Non-Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 do not function correctly when a Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition is installed on the same computer and has an installation path that contains more than 57 characters
• PRB: Cannot Re-Choose in Bug Property Sheet
• Question marks unexpectedly appear instead of localized characters when you use the Microsoft Visual Studio
• The ‘Configure TCP/IP Transport’ dialog box does not appear when you try to configure a device by using Visual Studio Remote Tools
• The .NET Framework 2.0 SDK or the MSDN Express Library may lose content if you uninstall the other product
• The License Compiler (Lc.exe) throws an exception when a .NET Framework 2.0 application consumes licensed components on a computer that is running a 64-bit operating system
• The VCCodeParameter.Name property returns an empty string in Visual Studio 2005
• The computer may restart unexpectedly when you install Visual Studio 2005 in unattended mode
• The consumption fails when you try to consume a Web service from the Device Emulator in Visual Studio 2005
• The installer does not run the custom action when you try to run a new version of a setup project in Visual Studio 2005
• Versions of the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio .NET that are supported on 64-bit computers
• When you create a registry key and a value in a Visual Studio Setup project, the value for the registry key may be empty when you install the application on a computer
• When you press the Back key on a Smartphone device, 60 seconds may elapse before the MFC dialog box fully reappears in an application that you created in Visual Studio 2005
• Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Comments and Corrections
• Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Comments and Corrections
• You cannot access fields for types that are defined in a partial class when you use the Visual Basic Code Model to extend Visual Studio 2005
• You cannot use Visual Basic 2005 to read the Currency data type values back from a file
• You cannot view items in the Resource View window in Visual C++ 2005 when the project name contains unicode character U+00CF
• You may experience problems in Visual Studio 2005 when you uninstall Visual Studio .NET 2003 from a computer that has Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed side-by-side
• You may receive a ‘Could not find file ‘Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime’ error message when you build a solution of a Visual Basic 2005 Windows Application project in Visual Studio 2005
• You may receive a ‘Document not Found’ error message, and the results for a work item query do not appear as expected on a computer where Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 is installed
• You may receive an error message when you try to modify a workbook that is under source code control in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
• You receive a ‘Proxy authentication required’ error message when you try to use Visual Studio 2005 online features
• You receive a build error message when you use the Assembly Registration tool (Regasm.exe) in Visual C#
• You receive an error message when you try to create a new namespace that is named my in a Visual Basic 2005 project