This happens after you installed VS2015 Update 2. The projname.vc.db file is the new IntelliSense database, it replaces the old projname.sdf database. Not otherwise by deleting that .sdf file. You may also see a hidden projname.vc.vc.opendb file, a lock file to indicate that the dbase is in use. Crystal ball says that somebody is bound … Read more
I have Visual Studio 2012, 2013 and 2015 all installed on my machine. After installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, I started getting the “package did not load correctly” error in VS 2013. All I did to get it working was to follow this step: Close all instances of Visual Studio Delete everything in this folder C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache Restart Visual … Read more
After upgrading MSVC2015 to Update3, I had the same problem: instead of std::map in the Watch window display as a horrible std::_Tree<std::_Tmap_traits… etc., some plugins started to throw exceptions, some projects was not able to run in debug mode. All was solved by deleting CurrentSettings.vssettings. It is usually located at Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Settings If not, … Read more
I just stumbled onto this issue accessing some Python libraries: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with “Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools”. The latest link to that is actually here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019 When you begin the installer, it will have several “options” enabled which will balloon the install size to 5gb. If you have … Read more
I had the same problem migrating from VS2013 recently. As Josh noted in his comment here Visual Studio 2015 ships with an older version of Node. In case you don’t want to get stuck with whatever version of Node is built into Visual Studio, you can tell it to use the version you have already … Read more
Only Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise has code coverage built-in. See the feature matrix for details. You can use the OpenCover.UI extension for code coverage check inside Visual Studio. It supports MSTest, nUnit, and xUnit. The new version can be downloaded from here (release notes).
Use the Configuration Manager to check what the actual settings are for the Debug configuration – it’s at menu Build → Configuration Manager… – in case they are set to use Release: Also, make sure the project is defining DEBUG correctly, and that “Optimize Code” is not checked:
I was running in to the same issue, but have just managed a full uninstall by means of trusty old CMD: D:\vs_ultimate.exe /uninstall /force Where D: is the location of your installation media (mounted iso, etc). You could also pass /passive (no user input required – just progress displayed) or /quiet to the above command … Read more
I had the same problem earlier when I tried to edit an open source project from the internet. Solved it by just Cleaning the solution and rebuilding it.
Check registry fixes in this thread. That helped me. To make sure it won’t disappear I’m copying the solution from Martin Rosselle here: Please check if the following registry key is ok. Fixing this solved the issue for me. Copy the text below and save it as .reg file. Go to regedit.exe and import saved … Read more