Figures! As soon as I finally break down and ask the question that I find the answer… The app.config file properties section (somehow) listed the Build Action of “Compile” when it should be set to “None”. How in the world did it get changed? I know I didn’t change it. Grrr… Oh well, at least … Read more
I’m editing my answer to make it clear that you don’t need to upgrade your .csproj file. As Drew commented below there are benefits to doing so. However, VS2017 will continue to work with the classic csproj file just fine. In addition there is nothing in VS2017 that will perform the upgrade for you. If … Read more
Some extensions may cause this. Try disabling extensions and restarting Visual Studio. Quite often error will be gone even if you re-enable extensions after this. There’s a bug report on Microsoft Connect (link). It is marked there as “Closed as External”, but it seems that it may occur randomly with any extension, so would be … Read more
Understand that the underlying problem is a missing debug symbols file (.pdb) for the library mentioned in the warning. Library files contain a static reference to the .pdb on an object file basis. When a library is used by another library and static compilation is used, Visual Studio collects all the symbols into a single … Read more
Choose Project -> Properties Select Configuration -> General In the box for how you should link MFC, choose to statically link it. Choose Linker -> Input. Under Additional Dependencies, add any libraries you need your app to statically link in.
No – Visual Studio uses an internal set of rules to determine what to set Copy Local to. From MSDN: If the reference is another project, called a project-to-project reference, then the value is true. If the assembly is found in the global assembly cache, the value is false. As a special case, the value … Read more
There is now a power tool that lets you attach to child process: Introducing The Child Process Debugging Power Tool
After three days of searching, the solution fell into my lap. Now, what happened was VS tried to do an automatic update but was stopped by the proxy. I was prompted for credentials and the check took place. I was inspired to check the TFS server connection just for kicks in case that prompt would … Read more
The adventurous can add the following lines starting at 2949: delegate: function( selector, types, data, fn ) { /// <summary> /// Attach a handler to one or more events for all elements that match the selector, now or in the future, based on a specific set of root elements. See also “live”. /// </summary> /// … Read more
You cannot add a reference to an unmanaged DLL. Instead, you should make a post-build task to copy the file. Alternatively, you can add a link to the unmanaged DLL as a file in the C# project, and set Build Action to None and Copy to Output Directory to Copy If Newer.