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.
Azure DevOps pipelines have a pretty handy feature called Pipeline Caching. It’ll help you avoid annoyingly long NuGet package restores in your builds. And that makes sense – why would you restore packages again and again and again, if you’re not updating your dependencies meanwhile? And especially in the case…Continue reading Azure DevOps Pipelines Caching
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. And it also helps you clean up any old and unused credentials…Continue reading How to nuke the Identity Cache in Visual Studio?
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?
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 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.