visual-studio

This article explains a couple of easy fixes for an issue, where Visual Studio refuses to properly recognize the FluentUI components you might have used in your Blazor projects. Because apparently that can (kind of randomly) happen!

This article explains a couple of workarounds to a frustrating issue I had with vite and yet-another-weird-frontend-build-toolkit. Because every toolchain for frontend stuff is different, apparently. And they all fail in different ways.

This article will explain how to fix an annoying situation, where Visual Studio fails to find any System types or other "basic" stuff you're pretty sure your project should have, automagically, out-of-the-box, without you doing anything.

This article explains a fix to an odd issue, where suddenly, mid-build, an error dialog pops up, complaining about your PC being unable to run "this app". The fix is luckily straightforward, even if it's a bit odd.

This article explains how to fix an annoying issue when trying to debug a Blazor WASM (WebAssembly) project. In my case, I had a Blazor WASM SWA (Static Web App), that built just fine and ran well in Azure, but refused to be debugged.

This article offers a stupid workaround for a cryptic and seemingly unrecoverable problem that manifests itself after a Visual Studio / .NET update and causes the following error to be thrown: "There was no runtime pack for Microsoft.AspNetCore.

This time, we're taking a look at an annoying situation where your previous debugging session, or perhaps your dotnet serve, somehow locks up your dlls or other important files that you kind of need to overwrite when rebuilding.

This quick blog post explains a couple of very simple fixes - essentially, user errors - to a simple problem that you might run into with Visual Studio when developing the latest of your cool Azure bits.

Azure Key Vault is great. But when developing locally, it can be a bit of a pain.

This article describes how to fix and tweak your pre-build directives in Visual Studio - just in case they refuse to work properly. Because yeah, apparently that sometimes just randomly happens.

Azure DevOps pipelines have a pretty handy feature called Pipeline Caching . It'll help you avoid annoyingly long NuGet package restores in your builds.

This article explains one easy workaround to a lot of Visual Studio authentication issues. Personally, it's helped me multiple times when Cloud Explorer has gotten into a weird authentication loop or Visual Studio stops seeing my MSDN subscription.

This article explains how to fix your account, whenever it gets completely FUBAR due to your account being added as a guest in another AAD organization.

This article explains how to restore any hidden windows in Visual Studio without resetting your whole window layout, by using a common keyboard shortcut.

I have just resolved a random issue that's difficult enough to google so I thought it would be worth documenting! These seem to be popping up whenever you work with anything that's fairly fresh out of the oven...

I ran into compatibility issues with .NET Core 2.2 on my Azure Functions projects, so I downgraded my whole solution (an Azure Functions project, a helpers library, and a web application project) to 2.1, and got rid of that particular nuisance.

This post describes the easiest way to debug the issues that may stop your Seed-method in Configuration.cs from going through. This problem concerns typically your ASP.NET MVC projects, either on .NET Framework or .

This post describes how to fix the " Could not load file or assembly '[assemblyname]' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. " error.

This post describes one of the more no-brainerish ways of fixing a 'System.OutOfMemoryException' exception being thrown in your ASP.Net MVC application using C# and Entity Framework. Problem While developing a web project, for example, an ASP.

This quick post describes how to get the Solution Explorer to actually track your currently open file. For some reason, this extremely useful feature is disabled by default in Visual Studio.

This article explains how to work your way around the exception 'Cannot open server - requested by login...

This post is about solving the issue with Visual Studio 2010 failing to show the design view of an .aspx-page. Luckily, it's an easy and pretty classical fix.

This post describes a few different ways of fixing the "The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters." error.

Every now and then comes the time when you'd actually need to debug something, and then you'll likely be using your Visual Studio to attach the debugger to one or more processes. Using CKSDev to attach to all IIS worker processes (w3wp.