Overall: I like Tom Blodget’s advice here to find dependencies and runtimes. Below are some detailed, technical options to determine what is going on with problem applications. Assembled in a hurry. Clean Virtual: And obviously take Lex Li’s advice (above comment to your question) to set up your application manually on a clean virtual for … Read more
To diag Visual Studio crashes, you need to generate a crash dump, which includes the current state of Visual Studio. To generate such a crash dump, you can configure Windows Error Reporting to generate dumps by running regedit.exe, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe create a string DumpFolder and give it a name like C:\localdumps and … Read more
Instead of using a PowerShell script another approach is to use an MSBuild targets or props file with the same name as the package id: <Project xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003″> <ItemGroup> <None Include=”$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)importantfile.xml”> <Link>importantfile.xml</Link> <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory> </None> </ItemGroup> </Project> In the nuspec file then, instead of adding the required files to the Content directory, add them to the Build … Read more
1 After editing applicationhost.config file (located in the IISExpress folder in your documents), your site bindings should look like below: <bindings> <binding protocol=”http” bindingInformation=”*:8080:*” /> </bindings> Bindings consist of three parts. Firstly an IP address or list, or as in this case, a wildcard. Secondly the port number, and thirdly a hostname, or list, or … Read more
The obj folder holds object, or intermediate, files, which are compiled binary files that haven’t been linked yet. They’re essentially fragments that will be combined to produce the final executable. The compiler generates one object file for each source file, and those files are placed into the obj folder. The bin folder holds binary files, … Read more
TFS users: If you are using source control that requires you to warn it before your rename files/folders then look at this answer instead which covers the extra steps required. To rename a project’s folder, file (.*proj) and display name in Visual Studio: Close the solution. Rename the folder(s) outside Visual Studio. (Rename in TFS … Read more
For numerous reasons, No. Why is explained in this MSDN post. First, from a performance perspective the pointers get larger, so data structures get larger, and the processor cache stays the same size. That basically results in a raw speed hit (your mileage may vary). So you start in a hole and you have to … Read more
Go to project properties (Alt+F7) Under Debugging, look to the right There’s an Environment field. Add your relative path there (relative to vcproj folder) i.e. ..\some-framework\lib by appending PATH=%PATH%;$(ProjectDir)\some-framework\lib or prepending to the path PATH=C:\some-framework\lib;%PATH% Hit F5 (debug) again and it should work.
There are 4 versions of the CRT link libraries present in vc\lib: libcmt.lib: static CRT link library for a release build (/MT) libcmtd.lib: static CRT link library for a debug build (/MTd) msvcrt.lib: import library for the release DLL version of the CRT (/MD) msvcrtd.lib: import library for the debug DLL version of the CRT … Read more
Build solution will perform an incremental build: if it doesn’t think it needs to rebuild a project, it won’t. It may also use partially-built bits of the project if they haven’t changed (I don’t know how far it takes this) Rebuild solution will clean and then build the solution from scratch, ignoring anything it’s done … Read more