Archive for the ‘visual studio’ Category

Upgrade an ASP.NET Webforms application from 3.5 to 4.0

Today i decided to upgrade our site AlternativeTo to ASP.NET Framework 4.0 and naturally there where some stuff that didn’t work. Hopefully someone else who is having the same issues will find this post and get some help from it. I started by follow this article from MSDN about upgrading from 3.5 (or lower) to [...]

Problems with debuging in VS 2010

I opened up an old bloated project today in Visual Studio 2010 and i had huge issues with debugging. I usually use the attach to process way in this project but that suddenly that didn’t work anymore. Then i tried to debug with F5 but that caused my entire Visual Studio to hang. As i [...]

A good dark theme for Visual Studio 2010

I have had problems finding a good Dark Theme for VS2010. But it seems that i found a pretty nice one now. You can download it from the Prabir.

Metalscroll makes the scrollbar in Visual Studio awesome!

Today i decided to look through tweets a favorited the last couple of month and one of the tweets I favorited was about a small add-on to Visual Studio called Metalscroll. Metalscroll basically make your scrollbar alot mor intersting. It’s kind of hard to describe but a picture says more then 1000 word so have [...]

Problems with MSBUILD tasks after playing with Visual Studio 2010

I use a custom MSBUILD xml file to build some of my projects so that i can run stuff to compress CSS/JS files and stuff like that. After installing Visual Studio 2010 and playing around a bit with suddenly my builds started to fail. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets(132,11): error MSB4064: The “Retries” parameter is not supported [...]

Quick attach to process in Visual Studio

When i debug web applications i like to go with the attach to process instead of pressing F5 when i use IIS as the development web server. It has lot of advantages: If you are “deep down” in your application you do not have to start from the beginning again. Attach to process lets you [...]