You can share an AssemblyInfo.cs file between all projects in the solution. This shared file should contain the version numbers. To share it, you must use Add Existing File in VS and select Add as Link in the file dialog. Every project has its private and the shared AssemblyInfo.cs. The private one still contains the … Read more
Change a value to None for “Current source control plug-in:” combobox here Tools | Options | Source Control | Plugin Selection. It seems as if “Microsoft Git provider” is selected there now. And it is a known issue due to a bug in “Microsoft Git provider” shipped with VS 2013. [August 2022] Update for users … Read more
One more thing. When you don’t use the referenced DLL in your code at all, it will ignore the CopyLocal and won’t copy it to your output directory.
For anyone arriving here after installing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 and then updating some packages, here is what fixed it for me: Close Visual Studio Delete %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache Re-open Visual Studio I was getting this error message in VS2015 and the fix worked for me, so it seems to apply to 2013 and 2015. I … Read more
You do not need Resharper for this. You can use the “surround with” with a custom snippet. Then you can select your text with Ctrl + K, Ctrl + S and select the snippet {} in the custom snippet. In order to create such a snippet : Create a “.snippet” file containing the content below … Read more
If there’s anyone with version 16.4.x or later wondering where it went, it got moved from the Status Bar to the bottom right of the editor window. Please note that Col (column) is omitted from the status bar when it has the same value as Ch (character), as is the case when using spaces for … Read more
Just found your question here because it happened to me as well. Here’s what I did and hopefully it will fix / help find the problem. Deleted all .suo Terminate IIS Express Close VS2013 and re-open Open your project and try to start it (F5) You probably have an error on your web.config file. For … Read more
Right-click on the project file, then “Reload” If your solution opens, but your project is showing as “incompatible”, it may need to just reload. This worked for me when running an update from VS, and it did not recognize my njsproj
The reason most people advise to do separate repositories is because it separates out changes and change sets. If someone makes a change to the client projects (which you say doesn’t really effect others), there is no reason for someone to update the entire code base. They can simply just get the changes from the … Read more
I’ve created the Disable Outlining Undo extension that excludes expanding and collapsing operations from recording to the undo/redo stack in Visual Studio 2017/2019. Thanks to Rick Sladkey for the idea!