Here is a more-or-less complete guide to upgrading Visual Studio 2008 trial to pro in Windows 7. Download and install/unzip AnVir Task Manager Free (portable version here: http://www.anvir.com/downloads/taskfree.zip) Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features. Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional ENU, click Uninstall/Change at the top of the list. Wait for … Read more
The reason why is that your exceptions are not unhandled. The unit testing framework is handling the exceptions under the hood and converting them to failures. What you need to do instead is to break on thrown exceptions. If you combine this with enabling “Just My Code” (on by default) you should get the behavior … Read more
Have you tried the Debug > Break All (“pause”) button? (Ctrl+Break) It’ll usually break somewhere pretty low on the stack, like at Show() for your main form in a WinForms app, but if you then Step Into to get past that, it’ll often work pretty well for this sort of thing.
No, frustratingly. That’s why Style Cop is counter-productive. Consistent formatting looks nice, but there’s little productivity benefit to it (what really makes code hard to read is length and indirection). Perfect spacing is not worth spending hours adjusting lines by hand. Of course, if there were an automated tool to achieve consistent formatting, I’d hook … Read more
Sorry, you can’t use multiple HintPath’s. Visual Studio/MSBuild takes only the last <HintPath> definition and will ignore any previous ones. Confirmed in VS2010 and VS2012.
The NuGet Package Manager has a NuGet Package Manager Console which is a PowerShell host. Open the console by clicking Tools > Library Package Manager > Package Manager Console. The package manager is automatically installed in Visual Studio 2010 when you install ASP.NET MVC 3. You can install ASP.NET MVC 3 using the Microsoft Web … Read more
Here’s a blog post that talks about the vshost process and its purpose. http://blogs.msdn.com/dtemp/archive/2004/08/17/215764.aspx
I fixed this by replacing all $(SolutionDir) with $(ProjectDir)..\. It was due to MSBuild running each project independently, and thus not the solution. It worked fine in VS2010, but not on the build server.
From the documentation of the /Log command line switch: If LogFile is not specified, two files will be written to the current user’s non-localized application data folder. The non-localized application data folder for Visual Studio can be found from the APPDATA environment variable. For example, for Visual Studio 2008, the folder is %APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0, where %APPDATA% … Read more
I’ve seen two problems with updating a Stored Procedure after adding it to the entity framework: The Function Import created to call the SPROC wasn’t updated (incorrect, out-of-date parameters) The Complex Type created for the SPROC’s result set wasn’t updated (incorrect, out-of-date fields) Updating EDMX model (function import) Open the .edmx file (in the GUI … Read more