Can someone please help before I remove this thing from my system.

I have 2 installations of VB.Net ( a 2003 and 2005) but the problem with them is that the message box will not display the prompt message at runtime. Also the combo box drop down will not show the items contained in the list. I thought it is my hardware problem but a friend who had a simlar problem said it resolved spontaneously. So I changed my RAM to 512 (from 128). But to no avail. What way out? someone encounter similar problem?

try and un-install VB 2003 and leave 2005 on board

Thanks smartsoft
The 2003 alone was like that. That's what made me try the 2005 which was no different.

use 2005 instead of 2003

Man, I appreciate your help.
No o they are on different windowsXP installation on different hard disc though on the same system. I got another hard disc purposely for this reason. Could they have any effect on each other? I don't think so. What do you think? I will try out your suggestion when I get home as I'm at work now? But then can you give me the basis for your suggestion.

just try figure out what i said first and you hit me later on.

Thanks Smartsoft. I don't have solution to this problem yet. Seems no one has seen this problem before. I'll do some thing else.

VS 2005 sucks.

hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

dunno about vb but if u try working with c++ projects, intellisense drains the cpu like woah. the only way to fix it (that i know of) is to delete or rename some dll.

apart from that, the start up is slow. why can't it be as fast as 2003. what's in that bloody GUI?

I have both VS2003 & VS2005 installed on my machine and I don't have any problems with either of them. I also don't see any performance degradation with VS2005 but that may be because I have a fast processor and 2GB RAM installed.

Are you using original genuine distribution copies?

Fdeveloper:

Are you using original genuine distribution copies?

yes i am and i'm not the only one complaining -> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=132651&SiteID=1

@c0dec, I take your point.

Well, my general rule of thumb is I never have more than 5 projects in a solution. Some may find this cumbersome but I guess that is the reason why I don't see any intellisense update delays and/or general performance degradation issues.  I generally always tend to be conservative in my outlook and strongly subscribe to the view that sometimes just because you can do something doesn't mean it's the best thing to do. For example, yes I can have a solution with 50 projects but it's patently obvious you don't get the best out of the IDE by doing so.

I should add that I have never seen any real advantage in having a large number of projects in the same solution as far as editing in the IDE is concerned. In the event that I have to combine several projects together, then I use a master build script which I initiate from the command line thus eliminating any intellisense update issues.

Having said that I fully appreciate that this is not a solution acceptable to all.

my current solution contains 4 projects for dependency reasons and i need to work on them together and code frequently gets changed.

my point is that it never happened on 2003, so it shouldn't happen on 2005. Things should get better.

I agree with you and for me things have certainly got better however I guess it's also true to say that perhaps Microsoft have more work to do to ensure that everyone can enjoy as painless upgrade as I have had.