Category: Visual Studio

I want to bring some order to how I compile my applications. And so that everything fits exactly right whenever I create a new app, I looked at how VS compiles projects by default. For each project type there will be these items: Any CPU ARM x64 x86 and each of these items shows what …

I don’t know about you, but given how often I reinstall Windows and other OSes (see my last week) and the internet connections we have around here, it is doubly unfortunate to keep downloading VS, which in version 2015, Community edition, takes up 3.69 GB as an ISO. And it really does contain loads of …

It is a bit puzzling that deleting or renaming a single (in my case empty) folder helps, but it really does. I wrote the simplest possible CMD script for it so that it is as convenient as possible for you. So open the Command Line as administrator and run this command: rename “C:\Users\Radeksunamo\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0” “10.0_OLD” from …

For example, when you write this: C#if (!IsPostBack) { if (IsPostBack) { int i = 0; } } it will not warn you about unreachable code. Sure, the IsPostBack variable could flip its value to the opposite, and a warning from VS would then be wrong, but even so, it could at least show a …

This article is a follow-up to this article: 👻 This link is now just a memory, just as the name of the blog suggests.. In this article I will show how to get fully working IntelliSense even in references to your own projects and DLLs. Here is how I solved it: The individual steps of …

Don’t try it through the GAC. It doesn’t work. The only solution I found, and a half-baked one at that, is this: 1. Create a shared assembly in C# (or VB.NET; I’ll write only about C#, it should be the same) or C++ (meaning C++/CLI). Put any classes you want into it. Don’t forget, though, …

It’s simple. When I first installed Visual C# 2010, I quickly uninstalled it and went back to the previous version for one reason – it seemed terribly stripped down to me, only about a third of the buttons that used to be there were left..no way to choose which exceptions should be thrown even when …

The full error reads as follows: The “Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Windows.GetWinFXPath” task could not be loaded from the assembly PresentationBuildTasks, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35. Could not load file or assembly ‘PresentationBuildTasks, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35‘ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all its …

What is this about? It is about the individual languages that make up VS. You can choose from these: J#, C#, C++, VB.NET, Web. The last one is not a separate language, but rather a tool for building websites in ASP.NET. The full VS also includes J#, while the Express edition offers only C# and …