Project settings and how does one report a bug to Microsoft

[Jim Bassett]

I have what I believe is a bug with the .NET VC studio. I have a solution that is built from 6 sub projects and some third party software where we only access the third party's header and library files during the build process. The third party's software is huge (262 meg) and we don't what to have a copy of it on each developer's machine so we have a copy of it on a server and reference it from each sub project's properties settings that needs it.

This works fine except for one sub project's rc file. This rc file references one of the third parties include file, which in turn references another of it's own header files that is in a different folder path then itself. I have included that folder path but that still fails. The only way I got it to work was to include the path in the solution's option area "additional include files" that can be found under tools on the menu bar.

I have search the help files, etc. and cannot find anything about this. Does anyone know how one reports a bug to Microsoft?

[grv575]

Hit the send this bug to microsoft button.

[Jim Bassett]

Thanks. I don't get the type of error message where it prompts me with the option to send a bug report.

I did resolve the problem. It turned out not to be a problem with the VC .NET environment but rather someone else had set the rc file's "additional Include files" option and those setting over rode the ones I was setting at the sub project level. Of course the Solution level over rode both the sub project and rc file level.