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Description of the Word 2007 hotfix package: June 20, 2008View products that this article applies to.Article ID:954576Last Review:July 17, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageSUMMARYThis article describes the Microsoft Office Word 2007 issue that is fixed in the Word 2007 hotfix package that is dated June 20, 2008.This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:•The issues that the hotfix package fixes.•The prerequisites for installing the hotfix package.•Whether you must restart the computer after you install the hotfix package.•Whether the ... Read more..

How to disable the ADO.NET Entity Designer from the Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) with Service Pack 1View products that this article applies to.Article ID:956252Last Review:August 11, 2008Revision:1.2INTRODUCTIONThe Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Designer is included in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Shell (isolated mode). However, when you run the Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode), the ADO.NET Entity Designer is not supported. This article describes how to disable the ADO.NET Entity Designer.MORE INFORMATIONWhen you browse to an ... Read more..

List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows SDKView products that this article applies to.Article ID:951844Last Review:April 29, 2008Revision:1.1NoticeBeta InformationThis article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.No formal product support is available from Microsoft for this beta product. For information about how to obtain support for a beta release, see the documentation that is included ... Read more..

MS08-036: Vulnerabilities in Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) could allow denial of serviceView products that this article applies to.Article ID:950762Last Review:June 10, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageINTRODUCTIONMicrosoft has released security bulletin MS08-036. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This information includes deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites: •Home users:http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200806.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200806.mspx)Skip the details: Download the updates for your home computer or laptop from ... Read more..

Article ID: 967483 - Last Review: March 9, 2009 - Revision: 1.0A hotfix that enables Team Foundation Server 2008 to work with Expression Studio 3View products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSThe article describes a hotfix that enables Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 to work with Expression Studio 3.Back to the topRESOLUTIONA supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, it is intended to correct only the problem that is described in ... Read more..

Visual Studio 2008 IDE may crash while building a VC++ Project after modifying Linker propertiesView products that this article applies to.Article ID:956322Last Review:July 29, 2008Revision:1.0Source: Microsoft SupportBack to the topRAPID PUBLISHINGRAPID PUBLISHING ARTICLES PROVIDE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM WITHIN THE MICROSOFT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING OR UNIQUE TOPICS, OR IS INTENDED SUPPLEMENT OTHER KNOWLEDGE BASE INFORMATION.Back to the topActionYou create a VC++ project and, in the linker options of the Project Properties, you ... Read more..

Article ID: 958477 - Last Review: December 12, 2008 - Revision: 1.0FIX: Error message when you compile a Visual C++ project that contains the try-catch block but does not contain a brace for the function body in Visual Studio 2008 SP1: error C2590View products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSYou create a Visual C++ project on a computer that has Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed. You use a function that contains the ... Read more..

An error message occurs when you run Sysprep /generalize in Windows Vista: A fatal error occurred while trying to Sysprep the machineView products that this article applies to.Article ID:929828Last Review:August 13, 2007Revision:2.0SYMPTOMSWhen you try to run the System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) in Windows Vista, and you use the /generalize option, you may receive the following error message:A fatal error occurred while trying to Sysprep the machine.The Setupper.log file may contain lines that resemble the following:Error ... Read more..

Article ID: 958502 - Last Review: November 19, 2008 - Revision: 1.0A hotfix that provides the IntelliSense flavor for Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript files is availableView products that this article applies to.On This PageExpand all | Collapse allINTRODUCTION This article describes a hotfix that provides the IntelliSense flavor for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript files. This flavor is an addition to the existing JavaScript file flavors, which are the Release flavor and the ... Read more..

Error message when you link a Visual C++ project by using the /INCREMENTAL build option in Visual Studio 2008: LNK1000: Internal error during IncrBuildImageView products that this article applies to.Article ID:948127Last Review:March 31, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageSYMPTOMSWhen you link a Visual C++ project by using the /INCREMENTAL build option in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, you may receive the following error message:LNK1000: Internal error during IncrBuildImageBack to the topRESOLUTIONHotfix information A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. But the hotfix is ... Read more..

How to locate a value or closest match in a Visual FoxPro table from VB .NET using the VFP OLE DB ProviderView products that this article applies to.Article ID:956277Last Review:July 28, 2008Revision:1.0Source: Microsoft SupportBack to the topRAPID PUBLISHINGRAPID PUBLISHING ARTICLES PROVIDE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM WITHIN THE MICROSOFT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING OR UNIQUE TOPICS, OR IS INTENDED SUPPLEMENT OTHER KNOWLEDGE BASE INFORMATION.Back to the topActionYou have a Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP) ... Read more..

SYMPTOMS loadTOCNode(1, \\'symptoms\\'); A Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Active Template Library (ATL) Server project contains performance counters. This project is configured to register an Internet Server API (ISAPI) DLL on a Windows Vista-based computer. However, the ISAPI DLL is not registered when you run the ATL Server application. Additionally, when you try to register the ISAPI DLL manually, you may receive an error message that resembles the following: 0x80070002 COR_E_FILENOTFOUND CAUSE loadTOCNode(1, \\'cause\\'); This problem occurs because the performance counter infrastructure in ... Read more..

Unable to uninstall/Re-install VCRedistView products that this article applies to.Article ID:955748Last Review:July 16, 2008Revision:1.0Source: Microsoft SupportBack to the topRAPID PUBLISHINGRAPID PUBLISHING ARTICLES PROVIDE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM WITHIN THE MICROSOFT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING OR UNIQUE TOPICS, OR IS INTENDED SUPPLEMENT OTHER KNOWLEDGE BASE INFORMATION.Back to the topActionYou try to do one of the following:Remove Microsoft Visual C++ Redist from the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel applet, orInstall Microsoft Visual C++ Redist on ... Read more..

When linking a debug version of your application, you may get the following warning message: LINK : warning LNK4018: too many type indexes in PDB "filename", discarding subsequent type information NOTE: You will not be able to see the subsequent types in the debugger. CAUSE loadTOCNode(1, 'cause'); The number of type indexes in the Program Database File (.pdb file) for your project exceeded 64K for Visual C++ 4.x and 16M for later versions. This is a limitation of the debugging format in a ... Read more..

Attempting to delete a pointer to a constant causes the compiler to generate the following correct error message: Error C2710 : cannot delete a pointer to a const object NOTE: Visual C++ .NET compiler does not demonstrate this issue in conformance to the changes made in the C++ ANSI Standards. CAUSE loadTOCNode(1, 'cause'); Deleting a pointer to a constant should not be allowed by definition (ARM section 5.3.4) because it modifies the object pointed to. However, if you deliberately or accidentally use the ... Read more..

Consider the following scenario: • You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to build a Microsoft Visual Basic project. • The Visual Basic project contains many XML comments in a single file. • The file is probably a designer-generated file for a dataset or for a Web reference. In this scenario, you may experience the following performance issues in the IDE: • The IDE takes a long time to build the solution and to rebuild the solution. • You experience a slow response time when you press F5 to start debugging. • You experience ... Read more..

How to: Is there a 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008?View products that this article applies to.Article ID:951801Last Review:April 16, 2008Revision:1.0Source: Microsoft SupportBack to the topRAPID PUBLISHINGRAPID PUBLISHING ARTICLES PROVIDE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM WITHIN THE MICROSOFT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING OR UNIQUE TOPICS, OR IS INTENDED SUPPLEMENT OTHER KNOWLEDGE BASE INFORMATION.Back to the topActionThe question has been asked: Is there a 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2005 ... Read more..

FIX: A floating-point exception occurs when an application contains an uninitialized floating-point variable and is compiled with the /fp:expect option in Visual Studio 2008View products that this article applies to.Article ID:956089Last Review:September 17, 2008Revision:1.0SYMPTOMSWhen you run a C++ application that contains an uninitialized floating-point variable in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, a floating-point exception occurs. Additionally, you may receive the following error message: 0xC0000090: Floating-point invalid operationThis problem occurs if the following conditions are true:•You add the /fp:except option to ... Read more..

When you run the Permission Calculator in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, the Permission Calculator may add exaggerated permissions or overly restrictive permissions to the application. CAUSE This problem occurs when the Permission Calculator cache files are not installed on the computer that is running Visual Studio 2008. WORKAROUND To work around this problem, use one of the following methods. Method 1 In Visual Studio 2008, turn on the Exception Assistant. When you debug the application, the Exception Assistant is displayed. You can use the Exception Assistant ... Read more..

Detection and deployment guidance for the May 13, 2008 security releaseView products that this article applies to.Article ID:952726Last Review:May 13, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageINTRODUCTIONAs part of an ongoing commitment to provide detection tools and deployment recommendations for security updates, Microsoft is delivering this detection and deployment guidance for all updates that are released during a Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) release cycle. This guidance contains recommendations that are based on the kinds of scenarios that may exist in various Microsoft operating ... Read more..