Visual Studio on Marko Apfel

F#, ArcGIS Runtime and error “Cannot create unknown type '{http://schemas.esri.com/arcgis/runtime/2013}MapView'”

Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:15:00 +0200

By playing with F# and ArcGIS Runtime I tried to re-create a sample C# project with F#.

For the WPF part I used the Visual Studio extension F# Empty Windows App (WPF) and F# Windows App (WPF, MVVM) the NuGet packages FSharp.ViewModule.Core and FsXaml for WPF.

Visual Studio – Getting compilation error “The type 'XAML' is not defined.”

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:34:00 +0200

During compilation of the F# Empty Windows App (WPF) I got that error (check the output pane carefully).

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To solve this issue you have to thrust of the XAML Type Provider of this project. This you can do via the Visual Studio options:

Productive work environments for F# development (under windows)

Sat, 04 May 2013 07:30:00 +0200

IDEs, Editors, ..

Here are my favorites in descend order

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries
LINQPad again and again a wonderful tool!
SharpDevelop sometimes a little bit idiosyncratic
Online Scratchpad on TryFSharp.org the fastest start …

Additional resources

Maybe the following packages are necessary or in minimum useful:

SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.”

Wed, 01 May 2013 04:18:00 +0200

Situation

My private machine has Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This Visual Studio edition doesn’t allow to develop with F#. So I installed additionally SharpDevelop.

But it took longer as expected to get F# projects running in this environment.

Productive Toolset for C# Developer

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:28:00 +0200

Programming

Visual Studio
ReSharper
Agent Johnson
Agent Smith
StyleCop for ReSharper
Keymaps
SettingsManager
Git Source Control Provider
Gist
NuGet Package Manager
NDepend
Productivity Power Tools
PowerCommands for Visual Studio
PostSharp
Indent Guides

Entity Framework: Connecting to a mdf user database file via localDB during script execution

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:35:00 +0200

Problem

If you run the Generate database from model wizard and execute the generated script the destination database could be the wrong one (for instance master of the SQL Server).

Solution

To use an own mdf attachable user database some connection information must specified during script execution.

Entity Framework, Code First: where is the database?

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:26:00 +0200

With Entity Framework 5 in Visual Studio 2012 the code first feature could let you come to the question “Where is the automatically created database located?”

I run in the question after changing the model which throws during the next run this error:

Strange error “argument type ‘lambda expression’ is not assignable to parameter type ‘string’”

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:08:00 +0200

During playing with EF and LINQ I run in this UI-error:

argument type ‘lambda expression’ is not assignable to parameter type ‘string’

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The Compiler themselves states:

Cannot convert lambda expression to type ‘string’ because it is not a delegate type.

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program ‘…’. The endpoint was not reachable.

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:55:00 +0100

During playing with Entity Framework I got the error:

“Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program ‘’…’. The endpoint was not reachable.

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By running the project in Visual Studio. Outside VS were no problems.

Installing of SDKs, Visual Studio and additional toolsets on build machines

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:07:00 +0100

Last week I get the information directly from Microsoft, that at build machines SDKs must be installed to guarantee that MSBuild works well in some circumstances.

We have the problem, that a self-containing build should include all necessary build artifacts – particularly Silverlight stuff. I tried to encapsulate the special steps in own targets and a build was finally possible (see my former posts). But at local machines without installed Silverlight stuff it gives problems for problems. Because reason of time finally I decide to go the Microsoft way – they break my volition.

@Microsoft: please provide universal and professional concepts

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:35:00 +0100

Why such constructs are included in the .csproj-Files?

<CodeAnalysisRuleSetDirectories>;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\\Rule Sets</CodeAnalysisRuleSetDirectories>

<CodeAnalysisRuleDirectories>;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop\\Rules</CodeAnalysisRuleDirectories>

So it every projects needs some manual steps to clean the project file so the solution could be build on a continuous integration server. That annoying!

Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:42:00 +0100

Problem

Normally I try to have my continuous integration as most a possible toolset free to ensure that no local stuff could have an impact to my build.

My Silverlight app references a special compile target in a folder outside my developer tree:

MSB4067: The element beneath element is unrecognized.

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:32:00 +0100

Problem

Our global Jenkins continuous integration server throws this error during compile step. My local TeamCity continuous integration server runs fine. What is the difference.

Background

I integrate some static code analysis steps via MSBuild-targets in the csproj files.

Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:32:00 +0100

Problem

A continuous integration server should only have a minimal toolset installed. This ensures that no unwanted libraries could affect the build and other steps.

Clearly that with this slogan also StyleCop should not be installed to the CI server. But we wanna have this analysis as an part of the whole build.

NuGet: Update to an older version of a package

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:52:00 +0100

Problem

I must go back to an older package version (from 1.1.0.0 to 1.0.0.0) but the Package Manager Console does not allow this.

With the command

Update-Package EsriDE.Commons.System.Utils -Version 1.0.0.0

I got the error:

"Failure has occurred while loading a type."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +0200

Motivation

During programming suddenly this error (Failure has occurred while loading a type) was thrown by accessing a artifact of a referenced library.

In such cases I take the assembly fusion logger fuslogvw to search for problems of loading assemblies. Sometimes an old version from a not expected folder is binded. But all bindings were correct.

InternalsVisibleTo, PublicKey and PublicKeyToken

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:35:00 +0200

Intro

If you want to test the internals of a productive assembly you must mark the assembly with the InternalsVisibleTo-attribute. This attribute has only one constructor which needs the name of the testing assembly.

Be carefully by using PostSharp regarding license choice

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:25:00 +0200

Initial situation

If you download and install PostSharp you run the professional edition in trial mode if you don’t configure additional things – also if you want to run the community edition.

Correcting wrong AssemblyInfo Copyright and Vendor-information

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:53:00 +0200

Initial situation

Normally all of our installations are registered to the company name.

But now we have the effect that some (developer) tool seems to overwrite this registry entries. That results in the following:

NuGet-Package-Management mit ArcObjects

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:48:00 +0200

Motivation

Wie gehen Sie in dieser Situation vor:

Eine von Ihnen verwendete .NET-Drittbibliothek liegt in einer neuen Version vor und Sie müssen die Abhängigkeiten in all Ihren Projekte aktualisieren.

Je nach Projekt und Notwendigkeit hatten wir bei ESRI Deutschland dafür bisher u.a. folgende Lösungs-Szenarien:

Using NuGet in a MSBuild-target to have the packages at the last stand

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:15:00 +0200

Motivation

Encouraged from the article “Using NuGet without committing packages to source control” I decided to wrap the NuGet-call in a MSBuild target instead of using a pre-build event.

Because we also trigger FxCop and StyleCop via targets this fits better in our project management.

Note to self: Visual Studio makros for build events

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:01:00 +0200

Let ReSharper and Code Contracts work together

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:55:00 +0200

ReSharper by default does not recognize Contract.Requires as an annotation hint, that the proofed condition furthermore is true.

So it comes to the effect, that using the following contract definition causes ReSharper to squiggle the next access and output a wrong hint:

Let ReSharper and xUnit work together

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:41:00 +0200

Getting the ressources

First at all download

xUnit
xUnit Contrib ReSharper
This gives you a bridge between ReSharper functionality and your XUnit coding.

Installation und Configuration

Unzip both archives.

xUnit part

Configure the code to use xUnit

Normally I prefer a single checkout point for my developing solution – this whole bundle I name DevTree. One of the top folders in the hierarchy of this DevTree is a lib-Folder. Beneath this folder all of the 3rd party libs which I use in my solution are located – all of them in an own folder. So I copy xunit.dll to a folder <DevTree-Root>\lib\xUnit.

Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process

Mon, 16 May 2011 07:17:00 +0200

If you develop ArcGIS Add-ins with Visual Studio under limited permissions you get during the build process an error, that the stuff could not be registered.

Normally its enough to run one times this build as an admin. Then all needed information are set and also taken for users with limited access.

Get Keymaps for ReSharper running

Thu, 12 May 2011 06:27:00 +0200

Keymaps for ReSharper is a nice tool and allows the user easily to learn short cuts of ReSharper.

Unfortunately, the last update is from january 2010. So the installation folder of the installing script (Install.Keymaps.for.ReSharper.cmd) is not up to date. If you run it no expected new menu item “Show Keymap” under the ReSharper-menu is listed.

Suppressing FxCop/Code Analysis warnings in Config.Designer.cs of Esri Addins

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:35:00 +0200

Addins in ArcGIS Desktop 10 uses tool generated code of the Config.esriaddinx file.

Have a look at the properties you will see this tool – named ArcGISAddInHostGenerator.

Calling esriRegasm manually (outside an ArcGIS-installation)

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:53:00 +0200

Since ArcGIS 10 during the Visual Studio build an additional target with the execution of a program named esriRegasm is called. Amongst other things this program adds the COM-categories in the registry.

Running CopySourceAsHtml Add-in under Visual Studio 2010

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:41:00 +0100

Until now CopySourceAsHtml only supports Visual Studio 2008 out of the box.

But it is no problem to pimp up the config-file for supporting Visual Studio 2010.

Copy all three files to %userprofile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Addins
Open CopySourceAsHtml.AddIn in a text editor and change both lines with
<Version>9.0</Version> to <Version>10.0</Version>
Run Visual Studio 2010 and CopySourceAsHtml works fine

Differences by pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:54:00 +0100

By pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote both applications act a little bit different. Meanwhile Word supports RTF-formatting OneNote does not.

OneNote could only handle HTML-formatting.

In combination with presenting source code for Visual Studio the Add-in CopySourceAsHtml is available.

Installation experiences with NDepend under Win7/64 with restricted user permissions

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:10:00 +0100

Today Patrick from NDepend gave me a new license for his static code analysis tool NDepend for my fresh machine with Win7/64. This platform is new for me, so some things are different to Win XP. Maybe that till yet some of these things are not well enough understood from me. So I stepped in some traps.

Explorer context menu to create a blank Visual Studio solution

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:25:00 +0200

Starting a new Visual Studio solution through the IDE is often too complex and time wasting.

Other programs allows per default to create a blank document with the explorer context menu. Why not offer this functionality for Visual Studio?

Diverse Shortcuts

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:45:00 +0200

Visual Studio / ReSharper

New to learn or learn

SHIFT + ALT + PgDown/PgUp — R#
Find next/previous error
ALT + PgDown/PgUp — R#
Find next/previous suggestion/hint

Editing

ALT + ENTER — R#, ReSharper.QickFix__
Show quick fixes and content actions
CTRL + D — R#, ReSharper.DuplicateText
Duplicate line or selection
CTRL + K, S — VS, Edit.SurroundWith
Code Snippet Picker (wrap around)
CTRL + ALT + RightArrow/LeftArrow — R#, ReSharper.ExtendSelection
Extends/shrinks selection
CTRL + K, X — VS, Edit.InsertSnippet
Code Snippet Picker (insert)
CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + UpArrow/DownArrow — R#, Move Method (up/down)
Moves method above or down to the previous or next method
CTRL + M, O — VS, Edit.CollapseToDefinitions
Collapses existing regions and types
CTRL + M, L — VS, Edit.ToggleAllOutlining
Fully collapses and expands regions
CTRL + M, M — VS, Edit.Toggle-OutliningExpansion
Collapses and expands actual region
CTRL + M, P — VS, Edit.StopOutlining
Expands regions
CTRL + SHIFT + V — VS, Edit.CycleClipboardRing
Pastes from the Clipboard ring
CTRL + SHIFT + H — VS, Edit.ReplaceInFiles
Replace in files

Window Handling

SHIFT + ALT + ENTER — VS, View.FullScreen
Full screen mode
CTRL + ALT + DownArrow — VS, Window.ShowEzMDIFileList
Lists all open documents
ALT + ENTER — VS
Opens “Properties” dialog
CTRL + TAB — ?
Navigates through recent files

IntelliSense

CTRL + SPACE — VS, Edit.CompleteWord
Completes current word
CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE — ?, Edit.ParameterInfo
Displays method parameter infos
CTRL + J — VS, Edit.ListMembers
Invokes completion list
CTRL + K, I — VS, Edit.QuickInfo
Displays complete declaration

Refactor

CTRL + R, R or F2 — VS, Refactor.Rename
Opens “Rename” dialog
CTRL + R, M — VS, Refactor.ExtractMethod
Opens “Extract Method” dialog
CTRL + R, E — VS, Refactor.EncapsulateField
Opens “Encapsulate Field” dialog
CTRL + R, F — R#, ReSharper.IntroduceField
Introduce Field
CTRL + R, I — VS, Refactor.ExtractInterface
Opens “Extract Interface” dialog
ALT + DEL — R#, ReSharper.SafeDelete
Safe Delete
CTRL + R, P — VS, Refactor.PromoteLocalVariabletoParameter
CTRL + R, V — VS, Refactor.RemoveParameters

Debugging

CTRL + F10 — VS, Debug.RunToCursor
Run to Cursor
SHIFT + F11 — VS, Debug.StepOut
SHIFT + F5 — VS, Debug.StopDebugging
F9 — VS, Debug.ToggleBreakpoint
Set/remove breakpoint
CTRL + F9 — VS, Debug.EnableBreakpoint
Disable/enable breakpoint
CTRL — VS
Make Datatip Transparent

Build

F6 — VS, Build.BuildSolution
Builds all the projects
SHIFT + F6 — VS, Build.BuildSelection
Builds the selected project

SHIFT + ALT + L — R#, ReSharper.LocateInSolutionExplorer
Locate in Solution Explorer
SHIFT + F12 — VS, Edit.FindAllReferences
List of all references for symbol
F12 — VS, Edit.GoToDefinition
CTRL + LMB — R#
Navigates to declaration
CTRL + SHIFT + , — R#, ReSharper.GotoRecentEdits
View recent edits
F8 — ?, Edit.GoToNextLocation
Next item (Task List, Find Results)
CTRL + I — ?, Edit.IncrementalSearch
Activates incremental search
CTRL + - — VS, View.NavigateBackward
Previously edited code
F7 — R#, View.ViewCode/ViewDesigner
Switch to code or design view
CTRL + G — ?, Edit.GoTo
Opens “Go To Line” dialog
SHIFT + ALT + L — R#
Locate in Solution Explorer

Important

CTRL + C — VS/R#, Edit.Copy
Copy line or selection
CTRL + X — VS/R#, Edit.Cut
Cut line or selection
CTRL + ALT + / — R#
CTRL + K, C — VS, Edit.CommentSelection
Inserts // at the beginning
CTRL + ALT + / — R#
CTRL + K, U — VS, Edit.UncommentSelection
Removes the // at the beginning
CTRL + SHIFT + / — ?, Block comment
Inserts /* at the beginning and */ at the end
CTRL + K, D — VS, Edit.FormatDocument
Formats indentation
CTRL + . — VS, View.ShowSmartTag
Open smart tag menu
CTRL + SHIFT + F — VS, Edit.FindInFiles
Find in files
CTRL + 8 — R#, Code analysis on/off
Enable/disable code analysis

Word

ALT + V, U
Full screen

Outlook

CTRL + R
Reply message
CTRL + F
Forward message
CTRL + SHIFT + M
New message
CTRL + K
Check names
CTRL + Backspace
Delete the previous word
CTRL + ENTER
Send message
ALT + J
Move to the Subject field
CTRL + 1
Go to mail
CTRL + 2
Go to calendar
ALT + F4
Close current window

Windows

WIN + Anfangsbuchstabe or CTRL + ESC + Anfangsbuchstabe
Rotiert im expandierten Startmenü zwischen den entsprechenden Treffern
WIN + 1 .. 9
Startet das jeweilige Programm aus der Taskleiste unten – beziehungsweise minimiert es oder stellt es wieder her
WIN + UpArrow / WIN + DownArrow
Maximize current window / Restore down or minimize current window
WIN + LeftArrow / WIN + RightArrow
Dock the current window to the left or right half of the screen
WIN + SHIFT + LeftArrow/RightArrow
Verschiebt das Bild auf den linken bzw. rechten Bildschirm
WIN + HOME
Minimize all but the current window
WIN + SPACE
Makes all windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop
WIN + SHIFT + UpArrow/DownArrow
Maximize vertical size / Restore vertical size
WIN + P
Presentation mode
WIN + X
Mobility centre with enhanced options
WIN + BREAK
Displays system properties
WIN + #
Quicklaunch
WINDOWS + R
Open Run dialog
CTRL + N
Opens a new Explorer window
CTRL + SHIFT + N
Creates a new folder
SHIFT + CTRL + Click at application
Start program in admin mode

Chrome / SRWare Iron

CTRL + PgDown / CTRL + PgUp
Rotiert durch die Reiter
CTRL + 1 to CTRL + 8
Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip
CTRL + SHIFT + LMB-Click
Open link in new tab and switches to new tab
ALT + HOME
Open homepage in current window
F6
Activate and highlight address bar for typing new stuff
SPACE
Scrolls down
F11
Fullscreen
CTRL + SHIFT + T
Reopens last closed tab
CTRL + W or CTRL + F4
Closes the current tab
CTRL + J
Open download page

Default installation for developer machines

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0200

IDE

Must have

Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2010

Nice to have

Sharp Develop
Eclipse

Editor

Must have

Editor with high functionality and high usability (like WScite, UltraEdit, PSPad, ..)

Nice to have

Microsoft XML Notepad 2007
Notepad++
Windows Live Writer
WScite

Visual Studio Add-Ins

Must have

AnkhSvn
GhostDoc
PowerCommands
PowerToys for Visual Studio
ReSharper
VsCommands

Nice to have

CopySourceAsHtml
Clone Detective for Visual Studio
CR_Documentor, Documentor
Agent Johnson (R# Plugin)
Agent Smith (R# Plugin)
Source Code Outliner
StyleCop for ReSharper (R# Plugin)

Developing Tools

Must have

DbgView
Enterprise Architect
Reflector
WinMerge

Nice to have

DXCore (u.a benötigt für Documentor)
FusLogVw
Microsoft FxCop 1.36
Microsoft FxCop 10
Microsoft Pex
Micosoft StyleCop
NDepend

Other Tools

Must have

CLCL
clip2txt
Launchy
ProcessExplorer
ProcessMonitor
TortoiseSVN
SVNMonitor

Nice to have

CmdHere Powertoy
FeedReader
Network Stumbler
SRWare Iron
TortoiseCVS
TrueCrypt
VLC Media Player
ZoomIt

Quicklaunch

Must have

Shortcut to clip2txt
Shortcut to Explorer as administrative user %windir%\system32\runas.exe /user:<admin-user> “explorer /e,/separate,C:"
Shortcut to (special) home and working directories %windir%\explorer.exe /e,/root,c:\projects \Projects”>\uranus\home$<user>\Projects

Nice to have

No GIS-links
No Office links (only Outlook)

Specify a project-specific custom dictionary for FxCop build tasks and Visual Studio Team System static code analysis

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:00 +0200

Using a project-specific custom dictionary for FxCop and FxCop build tasks is very simple. The FxCopCmd call in the FxCop-target offers the parameter /dictionary:<DictionaryName> for that.

But for Visual Studio a little bit more steps are needed. And these steps must me gone for all projects.

Global SVN Ignore Patterns und Zeitstempel-Optionen

Mon, 31 May 2010 09:13:00 +0200

Globale Konfiguration

Die setzt man unter den globalen SVN-Einstellungen.

Diese öffnet man per kontextsensitiven Menü im Explorer:

Global Ignores

Standard

*.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store

sinnvoll sind für .NET-Entwicklungen und Visual Studio und ReSharper folgende Ergänzungen

*.suo *.csproj.user */_ReSharper.* *.ReSharper.user */bin */obj *.cache *.gpState

Der oft genannte Vorschlag *bin und *obj ist keine gute Idee da auch Dateien die mit bin enden unterdrückt werden (Something.bin oder Taschendiebin).

Specify a custom dictionary for FxCop and Visual Studio source analysis

Tue, 11 May 2010 17:46:00 +0200

Renaming the default custom dictionary from CustomDictionary.xml to an other name – for instance FxCop.CustomDictionary.xml needs some additional changes to work in involved applications.

Visual Studio Team System code analysis

For Visual Studio Team System code analysis this file should be added as a link to all projects and set to be the Build Action CodeAnalysisDirectory.

Remote Debugging mit Visual Studio

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:38:00 +0200

Das Debuggen einer Applikation auf einem Rechner ohne installiertes Visual Studio gestaltet sich mit dem Remote Debugging Monitor relativ einfach.

Derartige Konstellationen ergeben sich insbesondere dann, wenn ein Debugging von Anwendungen in Produktiv-Umgebungen notwendig wird.

MSBuild Exec task: using quotes in WorkingDirectory does not work

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:01:00 +0100

For a general applicability I tried to specify the WorkingDirectory attribute in a quoted manner:

<WorkingDir>&quot;$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\EsriDE\&quot;</WorkingDir>

<DoubleQuotes>%22</DoubleQuotes>
<WorkingDir>$(DoubleQuotes)$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\EsriDE\$(DoubleQuotes)</WorkingDir>

The Exec task self is

<Exec
 WorkingDirectory="$(WorkingDir)"
 Command="$(ExtractComCategories) $(InputDirectoryArg) $(FilterArg) $(SeparationArg) $(OutputDirectoryArg) $(OutputFileArg) $(OutputFormatArg)" />

Every variant throws during building the exception MSB6003 (The directory name is invalid):

Stopping a build at the TFS

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:54:00 +0100

Open a “visual studio command prompt” and try:

tfsbuild stop https://*****:8143 RXXXXX_Sourcecode Gen_2.6_branch_test_20080827.1

Visual Studio: Find in files with *.xml wildcard does not find all occurrences

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:51:00 +0100

During a refactoring we searched for full type names in our IoC-config files. The filter was setted to *.xml and Visual Studio does not found all occurrences of the search string in these xml-files.

StyleCop throws documentation warning SA1600 for private elements

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:24:00 +0100

if you see the following warnings in your code:

You have two choices:

deactivate the rule but this disables this rule for all documentations – also the wanted
tune the detail settings In the settings editor you see additional options if you select the “Documentation Rules” root node

Using a custom dictionary in code analysis

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:22:00 +0100

Working with Microsoft FxCop

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:06:00 +0100

Run FxCop as a post build event

Since FxCop 1.36 it is possible to include FxCop in a post-build event.

So FxCop runs after compiling in Visual Studio and allows you directly jumping to the warned line.

ReSharper is not available

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:23:00 +0100

Today a colleague ask me to help.

On his system all ReSharper menus are grayed out. Also the Visual Studio Add-In Manager does not show this add-in.

He tried:

a new installation: without success,
running with administrative privileges: without success,
looking in event- and application-logs: no entries.

After searching a little bit with old buddy google we found this message: Wild World of Visual Studio – Mysterious Component

SAP.Net.Setup_2.0.msi throws “You must first install the Visual Studio.NET 7.1”

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:29:00 +0100

During installation of the SAP .NET Connector the setup throws this error because no Visual Studio 2003 could be found.

If you only need the assembly sap.connector.dll (for instance in cases of old projects which references this dll) you could ask google for downloading it ;-)

Visual Studio: Building parts of a solution

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:10:00 +0100

Often in large solutions I had the problem that a couple of little chances needs building some projects. Unfortunately Visual Studio tends to build more projects than needed.

Formerly I used the configuration manager to deactivate unused projects. This is a overhead which sucks.

Visual Studio Error: The item "*.resources" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:58:00 +0100

Full error message in Visual Studio output window:

The item `*.resources` was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter.

I saw this error on context of custom cultures usage. The compiling machine does not have a project used custom culture registered.

Visual Studio lists Error: “CA0503 : Additional code analysis warnings or errors cannot be displayed”

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:54:00 +0100

This error during compilation annoyed me in a legacy project.

Apparently because of performance issues the Visual Studio development team decided to limit the warnings of code analysis to 200 items.

This behavior could be parameterized under:

Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 compatibility with ReSharper

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:57:00 +0200

In our team we have developers with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. Often we have projects which must be coded by a mixed team.

Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 compatibility for project-files

Normally this is no problem because adding projects in Visual Studio 2005 and manually introducing the ToolsVersion=“2.0” attribute in the new csproj-file allows an coexisting working when using two sln-files for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

Nice tools for I18N

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:43:00 +0200

Resource Refactoring Tool

a nice tool under Visual Studio 2005 - but with Visual Studio 2008 a lot of peoples (including me) have troubles :-(

Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio

must be evaluated - looks fine

Post-build event with folders which contains spaces

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:47:00 +0200

If you want to use a Post-build event with folders which contains a space often you get an error like:

The system cannot find the file specified.

c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets(3397,13):
error MSB3073: The command
"COPY C:\Projekte\_Learning By Doing\EsriDE.QA.StyleCop\bin\Debug\EsriDE.QA.StyleCop.dll
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft StyleCop 4.3""
exited with code 1.

In my case I used the macro $(TargetPath) in following line which contains indirectly the spaces in _Learning By Doing:

Compiler-Error: error MSB3217

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:54:00 +0100

Since several days during compilation i had the error:

Cannot register assembly "Foo.dll".
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

In the output-window with diagnostic compile information the following statement was listed:

Referenzieren von Assemblys im GAC

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0200

Das Referenzieren von Assemblys im GAC, die nicht auf dem .NET-Reiter des Add-Reference-Dialogs erscheinen macht man wie folgt:

Auf den Browse-Reiter wechseln und im File-Name-Feld dann vollen Namen zur DLL im GAC angeben.

GACing und Kopieren nach dem Kompilieren

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0100

Beim Entwickeln eigener Functoide (Custom Functoids) und deren Verwendung im BizTalk Mapper muss das Kompilat sowohl in den GAC als auch ins Verzeichnis c:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Developer Tools\Mapper Extensions kopiert werden.

Eigene Assemblys im "Add Referenz"-Dialog von Visual Studio

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:45:00 +0200

Um eigene Assemblies auf dem Reiter .NET im “Add Referenz”-Dialog anzeigen zu lassen, gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten. Einige der im Netz zu findenden, haben bei mir nicht funktioniert.

Aber die nachstehende:

Registry-Einträge

Man fügt im Registry-Editor unter HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders einen neuen Schlüssel mit dem Namen der eigenen Entwicklung ein und setzt den Standardwert auf das Verzeichnis mit der DLL.

Developing own Custom Functoid for BizTalk

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:15:00 +0200

Eigene Functoide für den BizTalk zu entwickeln ist ziemlich easy. Die Dokumentation mit den Beispielen ist OK und ausreichend.

Trotzdem gibt es ein paar Dinge die man im Eifer des Gefechtes schnell mal übersieht.

Visual Studio on Marko Apfel

F#, ArcGIS Runtime and error “Cannot create unknown type '{http://schemas.esri.com/arcgis/runtime/2013}MapView'”

Visual Studio – Getting compilation error “The type 'XAML' is not defined.”

Productive work environments for F# development (under windows)

IDEs, Editors, ..

Additional resources

SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.”

Situation

Productive Toolset for C# Developer

Programming

Entity Framework: Connecting to a mdf user database file via localDB during script execution

Problem

Solution

Entity Framework, Code First: where is the database?

Strange error “argument type ‘lambda expression’ is not assignable to parameter type ‘string’”

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program ‘…’. The endpoint was not reachable.

Installing of SDKs, Visual Studio and additional toolsets on build machines

@Microsoft: please provide universal and professional concepts

Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects

Problem

MSB4067: The element beneath element is unrecognized.

Problem

Background

Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration

Problem

NuGet: Update to an older version of a package

Problem

"Failure has occurred while loading a type."

Motivation

InternalsVisibleTo, PublicKey and PublicKeyToken

Intro

Be carefully by using PostSharp regarding license choice

Initial situation

Correcting wrong AssemblyInfo Copyright and Vendor-information

Initial situation

NuGet-Package-Management mit ArcObjects

Motivation

Using NuGet in a MSBuild-target to have the packages at the last stand

Motivation

Note to self: Visual Studio makros for build events

Let ReSharper and Code Contracts work together

Let ReSharper and xUnit work together

Getting the ressources

Installation und Configuration

xUnit part

Configure the code to use xUnit

Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process

Get Keymaps for ReSharper running

Suppressing FxCop/Code Analysis warnings in Config.Designer.cs of Esri Addins

Calling esriRegasm manually (outside an ArcGIS-installation)

Running CopySourceAsHtml Add-in under Visual Studio 2010

Differences by pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote

Installation experiences with NDepend under Win7/64 with restricted user permissions

Explorer context menu to create a blank Visual Studio solution

Diverse Shortcuts

Visual Studio / ReSharper

New to learn or learn

Editing

Window Handling

IntelliSense

Refactor

Debugging

Build

Navigation

Important

Word

Outlook

Windows

Chrome / SRWare Iron

Default installation for developer machines

IDE

Must have

Nice to have

Editor

Must have

Nice to have

Visual Studio Add-Ins

Must have

Nice to have

Developing Tools