How to get Visual Studio 2010 to highlight instances of a variable
The Highlight all occurrences of selected word extension in Visual Studio Gallery does just that.
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How do I fix an “Invalid license data. Reinstall is required.” error in Visual C# 2010 Express?
I am using Visual Studio 2013 and I have the same issue but it occurs when I try to open a solution that was made using Visual Studio 2010. The solution for me is to open the solution file (.sln), using notepad and change this line: [# Visual Studio 2010] to this: [# Visual Studio … Read more
Visual Studio 2010: Projectitem unavailable
Simply restart Visual Studio, and it will get unstuck. It’s a bug in Visual Studio. Microsoft isn’t going to fix it. Microsoft isn’t going to release the source code so anyone else fix it. Microsoft isn’t going to even investigate the issue. So we are where we are: you have to workaround their bugs.
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
WSDL on SQL Server gives HTTP status 505 Version Not Supported
Today, years after I posted this question, we finally found the answer to this question. It was not a Squid proxy server as we had come to believe. We continued experiencing issues like this with various web services/sites. The last straw was when we finally needed to deploy an SVN server that was used by … Read more
Can I refresh an XML comment in Visual Studio to reflect parameters that have changed?
Check out GhostDoc. It is a Visual Studio extension that will generate your XML comments for you.
How to add an assembly manifest to a .NET executable?
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
Change the icon of the exe file generated from Visual Studio 2010
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
How to look at Bitmap objects in Visual Studio debugger?
There is no debugger visualizer by default for Bitmap, so you might want to give this one a try: http://imagedebugvisualizer.codeplex.com/
Why are some Web.config transforms tokenised into SetParameters.xml and others are not?
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