Right click on an .aspx file and click “Browse with…” then select Chrome and click “Set as Default.” You can select more than one browser in the list if you want. There’s also this really great WoVS Default Browser Switcher Visual Studio extension.
You can add a Post Build Event to copy the files. Go to project properties, Build Events tab and add the following to the Post-build event command line: copy “$(ProjectDir)\common\browserhawk\*.*” “$(TargetDir)” Be sure to include the quotes if your project path has spaces in it.
Usually this happens when the OutputPath property of the project file is blank. Project files are just MSBuild files. To edit in Visual Studio: Right click on the project, pick “Unload project” then right click on the unloaded project and select “Edit …”. Look for the Release-Versionincrement property group. It should look something like <PropertyGroup … Read more
Check out this article ‘Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection’. The only catch here is that the author didn’t mention that you need to install/reinstall Service Pack 1 ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Installer)’ for Visual Studio 2008 after installing Team Explorer 2008. This will take care of the invalid characters error … Read more
I’ve got hard data for Visual C# 2008. The short version is that you are best of spending your money on a faster CPU than faster I/O. Longer answer follows… Our C# (.NET 3.5) solution contains 81 projects with over 2M lines of code (including comments and blank lines). A couple of years ago we … Read more
Download and install Team Foundation Power Tools. Open up the Visual Studio command prompt Navigate to the directory on the file system that TFS is mapped to. If you don’t do this you’ll get an “Unable to determine the workspace” error when you try to roll back Make sure everything else is checked in or … Read more
UPDATE: VS 2017 supports EditorConfig natively: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/12/15/code-style-configuration-in-the-vs2017-rc-update/ In VS 2010 and above, there’s an extension that sets the indentation based on .editorconfig file in the solution/project root: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c8bccfe2-650c-4b42-bc5c-845e21f96328 There’s also similar extension for Visual Studio Code.
i had the similar issue where “metadata could not be found”. on the solution property, make sure that the “build” check box is marked in Build/Configuration Manager for each project.
Team Foundation Server 2015 (on-premises) and Visual Studio Team Services (cloud version) include built-in support for searching across all your code and work items. You can do simple string searches like foo, boolean operations like foo OR bar or more complex language-specific things like class:WebRequest You can read more about it here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/search/overview