customer's add-on UI not showing on their screen
We have a user that is having problem with the add-on UI on their installation. Many many other users this works just fine. For some reason, the purchase dialog does not appear when prompted. He is getting this with our application and another…
Developer technologies | Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
Some of the items size in collectionview is not aligned with values provided, How to fix this
I am capturing images and adding it to CollectionView. Sometimes 1st,3rd,5th,7th,9th images are changing in size after capturing 2nd,4th,8th,10th images. Below the code I am using <CollectionView ItemsSource="{Binding Model.CapturedImages}"…
Developer technologies | .NET | .NET MAUI
After update to Visual Studio, designer quit working. Says base class could not be loaded.
Developing a Windows Application using Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.11.50. I was able to use designer for all forms prior to updating to latest version. I have a base class for forms that provides the information necessary to connect to database. The…
Developer technologies | Windows Forms

code error
Option Explicit Sub Merge_Latest_CSVs() Dim folderPath As String, pasteRow As Long Dim mainSheet As Worksheet, headers As Variant Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Application.Calculation =…
Developer technologies | Visual Basic for Applications
UWP OcrEngine does not support Ukrainian language
Hello. I am working with OcrEngine from the "Windows.Media.Ocr" namespace in UWP. It seems that this engine has a limited number of languages it supports. My app includes Ukrainian in the list of available languages, which apparently is not…
Developer technologies | Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
How to fix Azure recomendation "Windows servers should be configured to use secure communication protocols"
Hi I want to fix recomendation "Windows servers should be configured to use secure communication protocols" on Azure but the provided link in Defender for Cloud could not help me. This the link ->…
Developer technologies | .NET | Other

Visual Studio Professional 2022 offline installation fails (not starts) version [17.14.9 , 17.14.10 , 17.14.11)
Hi, in my company , on a developer machine, we can as usual download visual studio professional 2022, offline. Currently using latest bootstrapper vs_Professional.exe 17.14.36401.2. After successful download, offline installation failing, see below…
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Other
What does the error message mean: DataTable internal index is corrupted: '5' ?
What does the error message mean: DataTable internal index is corrupted: '5' ?
Developer technologies | C#

Dev Centre request denied
We applied for access to the Dev Centre so we could use M365 and Teams SDK to complete our App build. We were denied an account and cannot find out how to fix it / make contact with a human to assist. All digital links either are not answered or support…
Developer technologies | C#
System.Management currently is only supported for Windows desktop applications.
I use ManagementObject which is in System.Management.dll(4.6.0) in a class library The class libray 's TargetFramework is netstandard2.0. Then I reference the class library in a service whick is based on BackgroundService, when I run the service , there…
Developer technologies | .NET | .NET Runtime
How to write a Visual Studio extension that injects environment variables into a .NET 4.8 application on debug launch
I want to write a Visual Studio 2022 extension, that injects environment variables into a debugged application when launching the debugger. The debugged project is a .NET 4.8 application, so I cannot set additional environment variables via debug…
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Extensions
Trace the source
Hi, VS 2022 is Open source right? Any way to trace its source?
Developer technologies | C#
The correct CChildFrame is not activated after the predecessor is closed.
MFC MDI application. Opened several CChildFrame s. (To illustrate better my issue I identified every CChildFrame with an unique id.) Opened, lets say, 5 CChildFrame. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. List the order of the CChildFrame by menu: About: List…
Developer technologies | C++
Usage of TLS 1.3 protocol using SCHANNEL in C++ language for TCP/IP
We are trying to build one sample application using only TLS 1.3(No fallback to older TLS versions) protocol with below registries added, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.3\Client]…
Developer technologies | C++
I cannot get RDLC Report Designer 2022 Extension to appear
I have followed various guides and troubleshooting. Installed VS and the extension muitple times yet I still cannot get the MS RDLC Report Designer to appear as a file opening option
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Extensions


Visual Studio 2019 offline does not work
I am attempting to update Visual Studio 2019 in an offline environment, using vs_enterprise.exe --layout command like I have for the last 3 years, but starting with 16.11.49, the installer does not complete. When I try running setup.exe in the offline…
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Setup
Excel Interop throws exception with reference added
Hi, I am trying to develop a vb.net application to open an XLSX file, change every occurrence of a label in the file, then save the file. See the exception I am receiving. I have included the Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel and a COM reference to…
Developer technologies | VB
ASP.NET Core Web API with Google Cloud
Hello Developer's, I'm builded a .NET Core Web API using .NET 8. And I'm interested to use Google Cloud Operation Suite for Logs Monitoring and Logging Purposes. Is there any references which I can follow and suggestions how to integrate .NET Core with…
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET API


.NET 9 Aspire project: SQL Server login failed and database becomes unhealthy on restart
Hi, I have a project running on .NET 9 using .NET Aspire. When I start the project for the first time, everything works fine. But if I stop and start it again, I see the following error in the Aspire logs related to the database: Login failed for user…
Developer technologies | .NET | Other
How Long does Visual Studio install take?
I just got Visual Studio, How long does it take? Hours? or minutes? Cause some people installed it, and they said it took 3 hours.