Change visual studio caret color

In Windows 7 I resolved this by modifying my Windows system settings to use the Windows Black (system scheme). The caret I-Beam shape is surrounded by a white stroke that stands out over dark backgrounds and invisible over pure white backgrounds. Go to Control Panel–>Appearance–>Ease of Access–>Make the mouse easier to use and choose “Regular … Read more

Visual Studio incredibly slow when renaming files

Visual Studio can be extremely slow in renaming files if you are using TFS with a “local” workspace as oppose to a “server” workspace, and the total number of files including different versions in the TFS repository exceeds 10,000 items. Contrary to Microsoft’s recommendation, I suggest using a server workspace instead of a local one … Read more

IIS express: Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type ‘add’ with unique key attribute ‘name’ set to

I think IIS Express probably has 2 <application>-blocks and both will be pointing to the same physicalPath. Go to the IIS Express config file in: My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config Search for NewProjectName Change the physicalPath for the root application to something else. Point it to an empty folder. Should look something like this: <site name=”NewProjectName” id=”1″> <application … Read more

Why missing in project file cause “The project file is not bound to source control”

This happens because the Solution file has the Source Control Information in it and the .csproj file will just implement what the solution file tells it. <SccProjectName>SAK</SccProjectName> <SccLocalPath>SAK</SccLocalPath> <SccAuxPath>SAK</SccAuxPath> <SccProvider>SAK</SccProvider> The SAK referes to “Should Already Know” as it pulls the information from the solution file. The solution file should contain something similar to what … Read more

The “SlowCheetah.Xdt.TransformXml” task could not be loaded from the assembly

In my case the error occured while compiling a web project. The folder %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\SlowCheetah\v2.5.10.2 was empty. All the SlowCheetah components were in SlowCheetah\v1 folder instead. I’ve copied all files from V1 folder to v2.5.10.2 and everything compiled and transformed fine. To make non web projects compile, I also had to delete V1 folder as suggested … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)