Visual Studio 2010 “Preparing Solution” dialog

Here’s the official history, from Cameron McColl: In Dev10 we invested in improving solution load time by looking at making the load asynchronous. Unfortunately due to time constraints this work didn’t make it into Dev10 so instead we decided to at least make the user experience slightly better by giving the user feedback on what … Read more

How do I configure MSBuild to use a saved publishProfile for WebDeploy?

I’m sorry to tell you that the publish.xml file which VS2010 uses was not designed to be used in this way. In fact it was not even designed to be checked-in/shared with others. The logic for reading/writing those files are strictly contained inside Visual Studio and not available through MSBuild. So there is no straight … Read more

Why can’t I add a subfolder in a F# project?

Actually, you can add folders to F# projects but it’s not supported directly through Visual Studio (you have to edit the project file yourself): http://fsprojectextender.codeplex.com/ (edit: old link was broken, updated to F# Project Extender home page which has links to the original blog posts which were moved) (which I found in this answer). I … Read more

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ‘kernel32.lib’

Check the VC++ directories, in VS 2010 these can be found in your project properties. Check whether $(WindowsSdkDir)\lib is included in the directories list, if not, manually add it. If you’re building for X64 platform, you should select X64 from the “Platform” ComboBox, and make sure that $(WindowsSdkDir)\lib\x64 is included in the directories list.

Visual Studio 2010 setup project: How to set company name used in default install location?

Open the Properties Window (NOT the right-click on the set-up project) Use the toolbar View -> Properties Window VS 2013/2017 on windows 7: Keyboard shortcut F4 VS 2010 on windows 7: Keyboard shortcut sequence Ctrl + W and then Ctrl + P Now select your set-up project in the Solution Explorer window, the Properties window … Read more

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