When installing the Windows Azure AppFabric Tools for Visual Studio (found here ), you might get the error message shown on the right, stating that Windows Server AppFabric is installed and that it is not compatible with this release of Windows Azure AppFabric Developer Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio...
When trying to pass some command line arguments to a Console Application, I got the following message: "The current project settings specify that the project will be debugged with specific security permissions. In this mode, command line arguments will not be passed to the executable. Do you want...
I've had my current installation for a few months now, and I've used it for development purposes. Today I suddenly encountered an error when trying to add items to the Toolbox. Visual Studio 2008 simply disappeared... No errors, no warnings, it just went away. After some searching and a lot of...
Because I stopped working at Avanade and started my own company (this web site is under construction and in Dutch), I had to buy and install a new laptop. Everything went great and I was up and running in half a day. Or should I say half an evening... ;) The next day I wanted to continue developing a...
When you want to implement a custom stsadm for SharePoint, all you realy have to do is implement the Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin.ISPStsadmCommand interface. Because I develop on a machine with no SharePoint installed, I (only) copy the assemblies I need to develop locally. For the stsadm command I...
While developing a web application for a friend of mine, I ran into a Visual Studio error message I hadn't seen before: Error connecting to undo manager of source file 'D:\Development\SomeWeb Application\Default.master.designer.cs'. The error occured whenever I tried to start the (web) application...
The error I'm getting when setting up an OleDB connection to an Access database* via the Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 is 'Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0'. The screen doesn't display the way it should be displayed, as...
Next to the message in the subject, one of the symptoms we encountered is that although the solution contains some test projects the 'Create private accessor' menu has disappeared. Also, selecting 'Create unit tests...' produces an error. And when editing a testrun config and selecting...
If you are lucky enough to not work with web project in VS 2003 don't read on. i have a massive amount of time trying to figure how to open a web project written in .NET 1.1/VS 2003 on another machine on couple of XP machines every time i got error and try to hack into it to get another one, all...