MSTest can be used without installing Visual Studio. You will need to install Visual Studio Test Agent, which is a free download from Microsoft. I think this approach is better from a licensing perspective than manually copying MSTest.exe and its dependencies onto the build server. See this blog for reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/anutthara/archive/2009/12/16/running-tests-in-mstest-without-installing-the-vs-ide.aspx
Sorry for the late reply. The problem is simple, you have variable definitions inside your header file. Generally, a header file should only contain declarations. Check [SO]: What is the difference between a definition and a declaration? to see the difference between the two. To fix, you should move these: ConnectDirectPtr ConnectDirect; TacOnTimePtr TacOnTimeForTaction; SetFreqPtr … Read more
I’ve downloaded the NUnit 2.5 source and opened the VS2008 solution in the VS2010 beta. Once the conversion finished I opened all the projects and changed the target framework setting for all the projects to “.NET Framework 4.0”. I then built the solution without any errors. I can now use the NUnit GUI app to … Read more
Each version of Visual Studio prior to Visual Studio 2010 is tied to a specific .NET framework. (VS2008 is .NET 3.5, VS2005 is .NET 2.0, VS2003 is .NET1.1) Visual Studio 2010 and beyond allow for targeting of prior framework versions but cannot be used for future releases. You must use Visual Studio 2012 in order … Read more
It is a very common situation. You have your database file (the MDB or ACCDB file) listed between your project items. If you click on this file and look at the properties window you will see a property called Copy to the output directory. If this property is set to Copy Always then every time … Read more
I was running into this problem as well. I was able to resolve the issue by running sn -i <KeyFile> <ContainerName> (installs key pair into a named container). sn is usually installed as part of a Windows SDK. For example C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\sn.exe. Most likely this location is not on the search … Read more
The PDB file is a Visual Studio specific file that has the debugging symbols for your project. You can ignore those messages, unless you’re hoping to step into the code for those dlls with the debugger (which is doubtful, as those are system dlls). In other words, you can and should ignore them, as you … Read more
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and 2012 added support for IIS Express eliminating the need to edit angle brackets. If you haven’t already, right-click a web-flavored project and select “Use IIS Express…”. Once complete, select the web project and press F4 to focus the Properties panel. Set the “Windows Authentication” property to Enabled, and the “Anonymous … Read more
Great question. I just posted a very detailed blog entry about this at Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) : Build Package including extra files or excluding specific files. Here is the synopsis. After including files, I show how to exclude files as well. Including Extra Files Including extra files into the package is a bit harder … Read more
BOM or Byte Order Mark is sometimes quite annoying. Visual Studio does not change the file unless you save it (as Hans said). And here is the solution to your problem: If you want to save a file with other encodings, select save as and extend the save button in file dialog and select “Save … Read more