The bloated IDE from Microsoft, that used to be even more bloated and a lot more expensive. Nowadays it’s a bit sleeker, and a lot more affordable – and it’s the number 1 choice for all the slightly more hardcore development I do.
I do use Visual Studio code (VSCode) for lighter tasks, though!
This tag applies to pretty much all the generic Visual Studio -stuff, if there’s something version-specific, I’ll be using more specific tags, too.
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. And this might happen in multiple different situations – my most typical woe is Visual Studio’s Cloud Explorer, which stops showing me my subscriptions…Continue reading How to leave an Azure AD tenant?
This article explains how to restore any hidden windows in Visual Studio without resetting your whole window layout, by using a common keyboard shortcut. Problem We’ve all been there – you’re opening a new window in Visual Studio, but your keyboard shortcut or clicking the item in the menu simply…Continue reading How to restore lost windows in Visual Studio?
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… This particular case revolves around Visual Studio being incredibly obnoxious and starting…Continue reading How to fix “The type or namespace name ‘Services’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)”
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 introduced a few new issues, though – namely,…Continue reading Resolving the Version conflicts for a downgraded .NET Core 2.1/2.2 web app project
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 .NET Core – the same basic idea should work for both situations. The solution here shows you,…Continue reading The easiest way to debug Seed-method in Code-first migrations in Entity Framework
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. The solution described in this post shows you how to resolve the issue when you’re deploying from Visual…Continue reading Fixing the “Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies” error
This post describes how to run Entity Framework’s code-first migrations against a database located in Windows Azure. This is done by running the Update-Database commandlet with suitable switches, see below. The problem and symptoms Okay, so you’re developing your MVC+EF cool web app with a database in Azure, and you’re…Continue reading Applying Entity Framework’s Code-First Migrations against a Database in Azure by running Update-Database
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.NET MVC web application that is using EF, sometimes when handling a lot of data…Continue reading Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.
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. Enabling it helps you to better conserve your context, and see which part of your solution you’re in, while…Continue reading Tip: Scroll Solution Explorer to current file in Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017
This article explains how to work your way around the exception ‘Cannot open server – requested by login…’ The issue is caused by Azure’s firewall logic, which might sometimes appear a little bit overzealous for simple development workloads, and might stop you from accessing your databases from your development machine.…Continue reading Fixing error “Cannot open server – – requested by the login. Client with IP address – – is not allowed to access the server.” in Azure deployments from Visual Studio
