Category: Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2019 (remote dev) tips & tricks

Mads Kristensen, MicrosoftWednesday, 20 May 2020, 9:00 to 9:30 am EST How to work from home more effectively. Showing how to change VS 2019 pane layouts with keyboard shortcuts. Shift tabs to left-hand side so you get more vertical resolution for your code windows. You can also sort your tabs in different ways, e.g. alphabetically. …

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Viewing All of the Git Repositories in your TFS Team Project within Visual Studio 2013.3

I recently reconnected to a TFS 2013.3 Team Project after quite a while away.  I knew that additional Git repos had been added to the team project, but Visual Studio 2013.3 was not displaying them in Team Explorer.  It turns out that you need to click the Refresh button (see the red rectangle, below) to …

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Fixing “The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly”

I started Visual Studio 2013 this morning and opened the About dialog to make sure that I was running Update 1 on this particular machine.  Before the About dialog was displayed, I got the following error dialog: ————————— Microsoft Visual Studio ————————— The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly. The problem may have been caused …

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Debugging VS2013 Websites Using 64-bit IIS Express

6 April 2016 Update: Added the correct values for VS 2015. If you are working on ASP.NET MVC web sites in Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013) or 2015 (VS 2015), you need to make one registry change if you want to run IIS (Internet Information Services) Express as a 64-bit process by default.  Use one …

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Deploying Files for VS2012 Unit Tests

Are you wondering how to best deploy files for your Visual Studio 2012 Unit Tests because the technique changed from the way you did so in Visual Studio 2010?  Check out this MSDN article for all the details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182475(v=vs.110).aspx Rob This post was migrated from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rob/2013/02/13/deploying-files-for-vs2012-unit-tests/.

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