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Thanks. Silly somebody! Best regards, Paul. Paul Selormey, Bsc (Elect Eng), MSc (Mobile Communication) is currently Windows open source developer in Japan.

It is very easy. Just look under the appropriate directory open the appropriate file and modify it. For example if you want to modify the default Class generated by C# in it under VC#/CSharpNewItems directory. ..this is a VB Programmers' world and we all are just visitors - Someone in a MSJ article

Strange, I have done it many times. Is your active tab the resource view? (solution view or class view will not work) ..this is a VB Programmers' world and we all are just visitors - Someone in a MSJ article

Davey wrote: Go to the "Tools" menu and choose "External Tools...". You can then add QA (isqlw.exe) to your tools menu. Thanks! I live and learn. Still, Query Analyzer is so useful it should be part of the VS.NET server explorer IDE. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.

Ah ha Found the reason why my MRU list doesn't show up. It's because I had disabled recent document history under windows itself. See http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/545/ for more info. So, the workaround is either reset the key mentioned above which means recent documents start appearing under your start menu so to remove the recent documents menu altogether see http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/8/ . The other way is to hack vshome.js or vshome.xsl (your pick) to generate MRU lists for the start page - I don't think making this hack, will make the MRU list appear under the menu items. Jignesh

Ahh, ok, thx much for the reply! -Lunchy

The multiple clipboard feature works in a much more usable way in VS than it does in Office 2000/XP. I think this feature (in VS, at least) is very useful. Presumably lots of others do or they wouldn't have introduced it. It's not intrusive in the sense that you don't notice it if you don't use it, so it doesn't interfere with your normal copy and paste. However, different users have different preferences and that's why MS products are so bloated. Supposedly most of us only use 5% of the functionality of MS Office but we all use a different 5% according to MS. Whenever I was in a team of developers using VC6 I generally found that no two developers were using the IDE in quite the same way. That's why you need lots of flexibility and it should be customisable. No doubt there's probably some undocumented way of disabling the "copy without selection" feature. (You're the only person I've come across who's complained about it, BTW.) Kevin

When I first heard back in 1998 that microsoft were going to produce a combined VB-style IDE (i.e., an evolution of Visual Interdev - which originally came from the VB IDE code base) for all the languages I expected that subsuming the functionality of the excellent VC++ Developer Studio IDE would be problematic. Sure enough, most complaints about the IDE have come from VC++ guys. For example see the Microsoft .NET newsgroups. Someone from the MS VC++ compiler team said that the IDE is likely to be significantly improved in the next version to address VC++ issues. I've posted an article on the site showing how to help out a bit on tool window management using a combination of command aliases and macros. It's not perfect but it cuts down a bit on the mouse. You might like to give it a try. http://www.codeproject.com/macro/vstogglewindow.asp I guess that between now and the next release the Add-In gurus (I'm not one of them!) will churn out some helpful IDE utilities. Joshua Jensen's Workspace Whizz for VS.NET is in Beta, for example. Kevin

Thanks Tom, all I'd like is how to change the color of all namespaces, classes in .NET Framework, it will be really cool, which we have done with Win32 APIs in VS6. Tien,

First issue: Go to Tools->Options then click Text Editor, then click HTML/XML, then click HTML specific and uncheck the Close Tag check box. You might want to do the same for XML specific if you're editing config files. Second issue (not tested, but I have a hunch that it'll work): Go to Tools->Options then click Text Editor, then click HTML/XML, then click Format. Take a look at the Apply Automatic Formatting section. Andy Gaskell, MCSD MCDBA

Thank you, I was afraid i'de have to reinstall everything

I've found that setting the following registry value gets rid of most of the problems with the Dynamic Help stuff: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.0\Dynamic Help\Never Show DH on F1 = "YES" Jason Wilden

He could well be "Isn't that the "write once, debug everwhere" language?" Tom Archer on Java... :)