In Visual Studio 2012 all I had to do was enter: (localdb)\v11.0 Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 changed to: (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB as the server name when adding a Microsoft SQL Server Data source in: View/Server Explorer/(Right click) Data Connections/Add Connection and then the database names were populated. I didn’t need to do all the … Read more
Manually edit .sln file This method is entirely aimed at renaming the directory for the project, as viewed in Windows Explorer. This method does not suffer from the problems in the Remove/add project file method below (references disappearing), but it can result in problems if your project is under source control (see notes below). This … Read more
The archives of static libraries generated with MinGW are generally compatible with Visual C++ compiler/linker. So, you should be able to use them directly by adding .a files to linker input in your project properties in Visual Studio: Go to project Properties (Alt-F7). On the left box, open Configuration Properties->Linker->Input Add list of all .a … Read more
You can achieve this with the project properties window. Visual Studio allows you to define events to occur, before, or after building. To get to the project properties window simply right-click on your project in the solution explorer window and click on ‘properties’. From the left hand side go to the ‘build events’ tab. In … Read more
I had thousands of intellisense errors and 0 build errors. After deleting .suo file and restarting VS intellisense errors are gone. Suo file is located relatively to source in: .vs\SolutionName\v14\.suo According to comment: Beware that *.suo is a hidden file. Edit: According to comments, VS2017 has the same issue, so you can use similar solution: … Read more
These files contain user preference configurations that are in general specific to your machine, so it’s better not to put it in SCM. Also, VS will change it almost every time you execute it, so it will always be marked by the SCM as ‘changed’. I don’t include either, I’m in a project using VS … Read more
I had this problem while writing VB in an aspx page. The solution was to go to ‘Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > VB Specific’ and turn ‘Pretty Listing’ OFF. Note – in Visual Studio 2015 this can be found at: Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced
You need to put your directory structure in your project directory. And then click “Show All Files” icon in the top of Solution Explorer toolbox. After that, the added directory will be shown up. You will then need to select this directory, right click, and choose “Include in Project.”
CTRL + M + O will collapse all. CTRL + M + L will expand all. (in VS 2013 – Toggle All outlining) CTRL + M + P will expand all and disable outlining. CTRL + M + M will collapse/expand the current section. CTRL + M + A will collapse all even in Html … Read more
As you’ve already noticed, you can control most of these settings in .csproj. If you’d rather keep these in AssemblyInfo.cs, you can turn off auto-generated assembly attributes. <PropertyGroup> <GenerateAssemblyInfo>false</GenerateAssemblyInfo> </PropertyGroup> If you want to see what’s going on under the hood, checkout Microsoft.NET.GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets inside of Microsoft.NET.Sdk.