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When you build from the development environment in Visual C++, the screen repeatedly flashes to a blank text-mode screen with no text on it. A text cursor may show up if you move the mouse while the blank screen is showing. The screen returns to Visual C++ and then blanks out again. The blanking occurs at least twice but possibly more times during the entire build process. CAUSE loadTOCNode(1, 'cause'); The default settings for the Command Prompt on Microsoft Windows Server ... Read more..

VCRedist from VC++ 2008 installs temporary files in system root directoryView products that this article applies to.Article ID:950683Last Review:March 21, 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 topActionInstalling the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (VCRedist_x86.exe, VCRedist_x64.exe, VCRedist_ia64.exe) for Visual Studio 2008 RTM.Back to the topResultFollowing files are ... Read more..

You are not Prompted to Edit a file under Source Control when you begin making changesView products that this article applies to.Article ID:953345Last Review:May 19, 2008Revision:1.1Source: 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 are using Visual SourceSafe 6.0 or 2005.  You attempt to edit a file from ... Read more..

RAPID 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. Action Debugging managed code that contains a lot of dynamically created types. Result High memory usage accompanied by high cpu usage. Cause High Memory Usage: The Visual Studio debugger makes a copy of meta-data every time a managed dynamic type is created, even when it already has a previous copy of the same type ... Read more..

Detection and deployment guidance for the March 11, 2008 security releaseView products that this article applies to.Article ID:950137Last Review:March 11, 2008Revision:1.3On 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 types of scenarios that may exist in various Microsoft operating ... Read more..

Article ID: 963017 - Last Review: January 19, 2009 - Revision: 1.0Cannot add Controls from 64-bit Assemblies to the Toolbox or Use in Designers Within the Visual Studio IDEView products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSource: 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 ... Read more..

The Visual Studio Designer does not Respect Assembly Binding RedirectionView products that this article applies to.Article ID:955600Last Review:July 11, 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 topActionSo we recently came across an issue where Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Designers were not respecting assembly binding ... Read more..

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta release notes and a list of fixed issuesView products that this article applies to.Article ID:945140Last Review:April 29, 2008Revision:1.2NoticeBeta 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 with the ... Read more..

After you use the ReportResult method to customize the error icon when a logon failure occurs in Windows Vista, the general error icon (CPSI_ERROR) is displayed unexpectedlyView products that this article applies to.Article ID:953181Last Review:May 22, 2008Revision:1.0On This PageSYMPTOMSTo develop a custom credential provider for Windows Vista, you use the ReportResult method to customize the string and the error icon that are displayed in a logon failure situation. However, when a logon failure occurs, the general error icon (CPSI_ERROR) ... Read more..

List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for the Visual Studio Tools for Office System 3.0 RuntimeView products that this article applies to.Article ID:949258Last 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 ... Read more..

Article ID: 961932 - Last Review: January 21, 2009 - Revision: 1.0FIX: The HTML tag may become distorted when you edit a segment of relative HTML text that is big and complex, or random Web code corruption occurs when you work on an ASP Web page in the Design view in Visual Studio 2008View products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSYou may experience one of the following problems when you use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008: In Visual ... Read more..

Calling A .NET Managed Method from Native CodeView products that this article applies to.Article ID:953836Last Review:May 31, 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 topActionThis is a sample native console application which will query the registry to verify if a specific version of the .NET ... Read more..

FIX: The DataSets panel is not available in the report designer when you open a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 RDLC file in Visual Studio 2008View products that this article applies to.Article ID:947173Last Review:March 6, 2008Revision:1.0SYMPTOMSIn Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the following behavior occurs:•You perform one of the following actions:•You double-click a Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 RDLC file.•You right-click the RDLC file, click Open With, and then click Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.•The report design window and the DataSets ... Read more..

Article ID: 967173 - Last Review: January 29, 2009 - Revision: 1.0Restoring a Maximized or Minimized MDI Parent Form Causes its Height to ShrinkView products that this article applies to.Expand all | Collapse allSource: 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 topSymptomWhen restoring a maximized or ... Read more..

Action 1. Open Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 and create default MFC Single Document application. 2. Add the following code in the OnDraw() method of the wizard-generated custom view class: COleDateTime t = COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime(); DBTIMESTAMP ts; t.GetAsDBTIMESTAMP( ts ); // retrieves the time in t into the ts structure 3. Now compile the project. Result You receive the following error: "testoleview.cpp(59) : error C2039: 'GetAsDBTIMESTAMP' : is not a member of 'ATL::COleDateTime' C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\atlcomtime.h(104) : see declaration of 'ATL::COleDateTime'" [Even including the required header files in the View class does ... Read more..

You cannot use Microsoft Visual Basic for Application (VBA) to modify a chart that you have inserted in PowerPoint 2007View products that this article applies to.Article ID:948683Last Review:March 3, 2008Revision:1.0SYMPTOMSYou cannot use Microsoft Visual Basic for Application (VBA) to modify a chart that you have inserted in PowerPoint 2007. Note You can use VBA modify a chart that you insert in earlier versions of PowerPoint.Back to the topCAUSEIn Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, the chart object model (OM) is ... Read more..

The Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) AppWizard or MFC Application Wizard in Visual C++ .NET or in Visual C++ 2005 does not generate resources in sublanguages if the language setting of the operating system is set to a sublanguage instead of one of the five standard languages that Visual C++ supports. CAUSE loadTOCNode(1, 'cause'); AppWizard or Application Wizard does not allow selection of sublanguage during application creation. If the language setting of the operating system is set to a sublanguage instead of ... 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..

Article ID: 953196 - Last Review: November 10, 2008 - Revision: 1.0FIX: In the WPF Designer for Visual Studio 2008, IntelliSense for XAML may stop working after you install the Windows SDK or MSDNView products that this article applies to.On This PageExpand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSIn the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Designer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, you can use Microsoft IntelliSense for Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). However, IntelliSense for XAML may stop working after you install the Microsoft ... Read more..

Article ID: 954740 - Last Review: December 17, 2008 - Revision: 1.0FIX: Error message in the Data Source Configuration Wizard in Visual Studio 2008: Failed to add relation(s) Unexpected errorView products that this article applies to.On This PageExpand all | Collapse allSYMPTOMSConsider the following scenario:You create two tables. In the first table, you set the ID column as the primary key column.You set up the primary-key-to-foreign-key (PK-FK) relationship between the tables. However, the primary key column is not the column ... Read more..