In this article, we numerically solve the two‐dimensional stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the case of multiplicative and additive white noises. The aim is to investigate their influence on well‐known deterministic solutions: stationary states and blowing‐up solutions. In the first case, we find that a multiplicative noise has a damping effect very similar to diffusion. However, for small amplitudes of the noise, the structure of solitary state is still localized. In the second case, a local refinement algorithm is used to overcome the difficulty arising for the computation of singular solutions. Our experiments show that multiplicative white noise stops the deterministic blow‐up that occurs in the critical case. This extends the results of Debussche and Di Menza (Physica D, 162(3–4) 2002, 131–154) in the one‐dimensional case. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential, 2005.