As the others said, most of the time you won’t want to do that because it doesn’t copy the assembly to your project and it won’t deploy with your project. However, if you’re like me, and trying to add a reference that all target machines have in their GAC but it’s not a .NET Framework … Read more
I’ve just faced the same problem. When you create a new web project, two nuget packages automatically added to your project. If you remove them, your problem should be solved. Package names are: “Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform” and “Microsoft.Net.Compilers“.
In the Visual Studio 2005 menu: Debug -> New Breakpoint -> New Data Breakpoint Enter: &myVariable
It does the same thing as running Regasm.exe with the /tlb and /codebase options. The /codebase option is probably the one you forgot. Regasm likes assuming you put the DLL in the GAC and generates a warning when you don’t. The GAC is indeed a very good way to avoid DLL Hell, always a COM … Read more
The process is as follows for Visual Studio 2010 and above (but should be similar for previous versions): On the menubar go to: ‘Tools’ –> ‘Options’ Go to ‘Project and Solutions’ –> ‘Build and Run’ There you can find a combobox under the label ‘On run, when build or deployment errors occur…’. Select an appropriate … Read more
It is possible to run mstest.exe without visual studio. Download one of the Agents for Visual Studio ISO’s below and install the Test Agent on the server: Visual Studio 2019 Visual Studio 2017 (127MB disk space, less than that for download) Visual Studio 2015 and older: visit https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/older-downloads/ and follow the instructions This installs everything … Read more
Tools–>Options… Text Editor–>All Languages Check “Navigation Bar.” (Picture is from VS2013)
Add the NUnit test adapter NuGet package to your test projects 2.* (https://www.nuget.org/packages/NUnitTestAdapter/) 3.* (https://www.nuget.org/packages/NUnit3TestAdapter/) Or install the Test Adapter Visual Studio extension. There is one for 2.* (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NUnitDevelopers.NUnitTestAdapter) 3.* (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NUnitDevelopers.NUnit3TestAdapter). I prefer the NuGet package, because it will be in sync with the NUnit version used by your project and will thus automatically match the … Read more
In Visual Studio 2015 (as well as previous versions of VS, but you must install Productivity Power Tools if you’re using VS2013 or below), there are two new commands in Visual Studio: Window.NextTab and Window.PreviousTab Just go remap them from Ctrl+Alt+PageUp/Ctrl+Alt+PageDown to Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab in: Menu Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard Note: In earlier … Read more
With Process Monitor I found that, right before trying to access the path, a DLL is used to retrieve this path. The following may be borderline legal, but I’d like to share my findings anyway. The DLL is located at C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll and the class being used is Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Deployment.Bootstrapper.BootstrapperBuilder. Using your favourite disassembly tool, you can … Read more