Hey everyone,
I ran into the following error today while attempting to build a solution:
combiner exited with code 9009
It apparently means that a file couldn’t be found. The solution was to simply restart visual studio.
I’d been manually adding them to the directory and this is apparently a common cause. See the following Stackoverflow post for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28198020/522859
Hey everyone,
I ran into the following error while trying to install Sql Server Management Studio on Windows 8:
To fix it, all you need to do is run the exe with administrative privileges.
Hey everyone,
Just posting this in case anyone else runs into it. After unshelving, the following error kept popping up when I tried to open files using the solution explorer:
I’m still not sure what caused it, but restarting visual studio seems to have fixed it.
Hey everyone,
Just a quick post on how to remove the escape characters from a string in the watch window. All you’ve got to do is append “,nq” (short for no quotes) to the watch variable name.
MyLongString becomes MyLongString,nq
This removes all of the quotes and line breaks. Pretty handy for when you’ve got to copy the values.
Check out these links for more info:
MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e514eeby%28v=vs.100%29.aspx
StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9786653/522859
Hey everyone,
Today I was working on a fairly large class and needed to compare two different areas of code. I’m used to using text editors such as notepad++ and sublime where I would normally just open the file multiple times. It turns out that Visual Studio has a similar feature, although it’s admittedly a lot less intuitive:
– Open the file you want to duplicate and make it the active tab (just click on it somewhere)
– Select window from the menu up the top
– Click New Window
This will duplicate your active tab. To place them side by side simply right click on one of them and then select ‘New Vertical Tab Group’.
Thanks to this Stackoverflow post for the solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/772159/522859
Hey everyone,
I was working on a fairly large class in visual studio and having a bit of trouble comparing two different areas within it. Thankfully, StackOverflow knew of a way to make things a lot easier – open the same file twice:
– With the tab you want to duplicate currently active, select Window from the menu
– Click new window
– On the new window, right click and select ‘New Vertical Tab Group’ from the drop down
Hey everyone,
Just another quick post for fixing the following error in a multi-project solution:
Simply right click on the project that you want to start and select “Set as StartUp Project”.
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