Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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Fix: Add an Existing Entity Framework .edmx File to Visual Studio 2013
One of my older code samples for RainWorx AuctionWorx uses Entity Framework and SQLCE to bulk import AdventureWorks products as sample auction, classified, and fixed price listings into the system.
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BOGUS Error: JIT Compiler encountered an internal limitation.
Out of the blue, Visual Studio 2013 (Update 2) refused to debug ASP.NET 3.5 Web site projects. The error message was:
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Deleting a Project From TFS.visualstudio.com
I really appreciate having the online Team Foundation Service (http://tfs.visualstudio.com/) as free source control for my personal projects. It has saved my bacon more than once when I’ve needed to roll back my code to a known good point, regroup, and dive in afresh.
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Free Team Foundation Service a Boon for Play Projects
My ‘jump in and sink or swim’ learning style leads me to create dozens of unbillable ‘play’ projects in Visual Studio 2012. For example, I’m currently learning to customize the powerful auction/fixed price/classifieds software called AuctionWorx Enterprise. I make stupid mistakes as I grasp a new API and configure projects. It’s frustrating to go down a rat hole and discover the VS IDE’s Undo doesn’t reach back to a working build from the previous weekend.
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Tell Visual Studio 2012 UI Designers What to Fix
If you hate the default interface themes in Visual Studio 2012 as much as I do, you have another outlet to vent.
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Web Development Goes Pre-Visual InterDev
As a longtime and hardcore ASP.NET webforms developer, I’m finding the new client-side development world a bit of a grind. I love learning new technologies, but I can’t help feeling we’ve regressed and lost our old RAD advantage as we move heavy lifting to the client.
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Hate That Gray? Wash It Away! Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor
Microsoft’s Matthew Johnson has updated his excellent free tool.
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An, Er, ‘Interesting’ Visual Studio 2012 Colour Theme
After confronting the pathetic, grayed-out appearance of Visual Studio 2012 RTM for a few hours, I craved my relaxing VS2010 themes. I recalled Matthew Johnson’s excellent Visual Studio Color Theme Editor and wondered if it might install on VS2012. No go.
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Visual Studio 2012 Downloads Start August 15th
I see from Jason Zander’s blog that MSDN subscribers can download Visual Studio 2012 starting August 15th.
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Repairing The Visual Studio 2012 UI
I have sympathy for ‘Softies who don’t like the controversial ‘Metro’ UI changes but are afraid to say so. After all, who wants to commit a CLM (Career-Limiting Move) by declaring that the Emperor has no clothes (or gradients) and that ALL CAPS IN MENUS ARE DUMB?