If you want to add custom information to your application’s manifest, you can follow these steps: Right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer. Click “Add New Item”. Select “Application Manifest File”. This adds a file named app.manifest to your project, which you can open and modify as desired. Similar steps, with screenshots, lifted from … Read more
To specify an application icon In Solution Explorer, choose a project node (not the Solution node). On the menu bar, choose Project, Properties. When the Project Designer appears, choose the Application tab. In the Icon list, choose an icon (.ico) file. To specify an application icon and add it to your project In Solution Explorer, … Read more
This actually has nothing to do with config transforms. I just posted a very detailed blog at http://sedodream.com/2010/11/11/ASPNETWebApplicationPublishPackageTokenizingParameters.aspx. But some info here for you. In the Web Publishing Pipeline (WPP) we handle connection strings as special artifacts. We will automatically create parameters for you for all connection strings. This is because in many cases when … Read more
I had this problem with a Solution containing *.vcxproj project files, that were previously migrated from VS2008 to VS2010. The path to TFS was defined in both the .sln file and the .vcxproj files. The simplest fix was to update the *.vcxproj project files to use the SAK keyword. ie update from the format: <SccProjectName>$/MyProject/Directory/abc</SccProjectName> … Read more
The visual studio installer is not the most user friendly compared to commercial products or even WiX if you are after a good level of control over you installation. When you have a Visual Studio Setup project you have several properties that are involved in the Upgrade process 1) The Upgrade Code – this is … Read more
You can right click on the project and choose ‘regenerate feature files’ to do them all at once.
Yes, your hunch was right. It does mean that the project has its Build option ticked to build under the build configuration. I just tested this by opening the solution in one instance of Visual Studio and the .sln file in the text editor (open with) of another Visual Studio instance. If you change the … Read more
In my experience, an SVC file is a WCF service – create a WCF application from the projects list and then do an “Add new item” and add a new WCF service. For it to do anything it will need the appropriate bindings and endpoints configuring and wiring up – before it can be called. … Read more
There exists the same question on social.msdn: Quiet: only shows the result of your build. Minimal: shows some configurations of your msbuild, and the CSC task. Normal: This will show all the targets and its mainly steps. Details: In addition to normal, this flag shows the task and it’s implementation within the each target. Diagnostic: … Read more
Funnily enough, publish from right-click on the project menu seems to work. It fires up the wizard rather than just publishing, so not ideal, but I do have 2 workarounds now (including the one stated in my original post).