Visual Studio

Managing Vsix Deployments with Powershell

More than 11 years old

tl;dr - vsix-tools fixes the ‘Invalid Multiple Files in VSIX’ issue on the Visual Studio Gallery and lets you set vsix version numbers …
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Recursive read lock acquisitions not allowed in this mode

More than 12 years old

If you are using the following combination of tools: Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio Tools for Git Nuget Then you may encounter some weird problems …
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Visual Studio Deployment Projects - an Update

More than 12 years old

I received the following message in my inbox the other day: ‘[Uservoice declined - Bring back the basic setup and deployment project type Visual …
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Web Deploy - Could not connect to the remote computer

More than 12 years old

Using Web Deploy is a nice and easy way to publish websites and web applications with Visual Studio. However, I found one thing that can be a bit of a …
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Switch Updated

More than 12 years old

There have been some problems with the version of Switch uploaded to the Visual Studio Gallery. I’ve created a new version of Switch (1.4) and …

The Visual Studio Experimental Instance

More than 12 years old

Working on some addins lately has taught me a few really useful tricks about debugging in Visual Studio. I’ll update this post over time. The …

Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2012

More than 13 years old

[Note: They aren’t bringing setup projects back, see http://www.dwmkerr.com/2013/06/visual-studio-deployment-projects-an-update/] As part of …
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Go Offline Extension for Visual Studio 2010

More than 13 years old

Such a useful extension that I just had to big it up - the Go Offline extension adds the following menu item: File>Source Control>Go Offline …

Come on MS - Improve MFC

More than 13 years old

Loads of developers still use MFC. OK - if you're writing a new project, MFC would not be a great choice. But what if you're maintaining a 1.5 million …
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Create Item Templates in Visual Studio

More than 13 years old

Part 3 of my series on extending Visual Studio is now available on the CodeProject: …