I’ve had this problem before and at that point gave up after reading all I could google about it (including this thread). The solution turned out to be simple in my case. All I had to do was not use ASP.NET test attributes and simply test the MVC project as a DLL. Step 1 Remove … Read more
Just checked in reflector with a release build. The compiler doesn’t remove the unused private methods. There are ways to use a method without the compiler knowledge, like with reflection. So the compiler doesn’t try to guess. It just leaves the methods there. The only private methods the compiler removes are partial methods without implementation. … Read more
Go into the project properties by right clicking the project in the solution explorer and click properties. On the first tab you will see a drop down list for the entry point. Select the appropriate main method.
This should do the trick: #pragma warning (error: 4715). Or the /we4715 command line option (see /w, /W0, /W1, /W2, /W3, /W4, /w1, /w2, /w3, /w4, /Wall, /wd, /we, /wo, /Wv, /WX (Warning Level) (courtesy of Tom Sigerdas)).
This limitation is hardcoded. Here is the post from the MSFT employee in the microsoft.public.vsnet.general group dated 2006 (look for ‘Fatal Error C1003’): Hi, Unfortunately this 100 limitation is hard coded and cannot be changed. It’s just inpractical to keep all errors information around since one error may cause other several errors. I hope you … Read more
Visual Basic 9.0 doesn’t support this yet. However, Visual Basic 10.0 will.
Simply delete the .suo file. It contains the list of open files.
Update: Since Publish Web does not apply to folder-based web site projects, this answer assumes you are asking about a Web Application project. You can’t do this from inside the VS IDE. However, you can edit your project file in Notepad or your favorite XML editor and add a new target at the end of … Read more
The following command duplicates the Publish Web Site dialog with default settings. Command for Publish Web Site with Default Settings aspnet_compiler -nologo -v / -p “C:\WebSite1” -u “C:\TargetPath” Reference 1) See Community Content titled You want Publish a site but you have not Visual Studio then… at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20yh9f1b(classic).aspx. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 > Visual Studio … Read more
ILMerge is what you’re after. I’m not sure I’d really call this “static linking” – it’s just merging several assemblies into one. (In particular, please don’t get the impression that this is building a native, unmanaged executable.) However, I think it’s what you’re after 🙂 Update: ILMerge is now open source and is also available … Read more