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Visual Studio is normally a very stable environment, but some times it might crash on you. This might happen if you either install some new extension, or even if you update Visual Studio. The latter can be rather annoying of course. A “common” error message is the loading error, it says it can’t load some Continue Reading →
NUGET The current version 1.2 of the NuGet adapters for NUnit works with the VS 2015 Preview (and earlier CTPs). You can find them here: http://www.nuget.org/packages/NUnitTestAdapter/ and with framework: http://www.nuget.org/packages/NUnitTestAdapter.WithFramework/ Add one of these to your solution and it works without having the VSIX installed, both for VS2015 and for TFS build, including VSO build. Continue Reading →
Go to Part 1 – List of Product Updates for information on Visual Studio and TFS 2013 updates Looking for the VS 2012 product updates and extensions ? Go to Visual Studio 2012 Product and updates (Part 1) and Visual Studio 2012 extensions (Part 2) Looking for the VS 2010 extensions ? Go to Visual Continue Reading →
I just got into some strange errors after I had done a NuGet update-packages of some package. The build of the solution after the update failed with a strange error on some numeric comparison which could not be done: This one followed by an error list like this: Restarting Visual Studio makes it go away, Continue Reading →
Looking for List of VS 2013 Extensions (Part 2) Updated Oct 17th 2014: Visual Studio and TFS 2013 Update 4 RC Looking for the VS 2012 product info and extensions? Go to Visual Studio 2012 Product and updates (Part 1) and Visual Studio 2012 extensions (Part 2) Looking for the VS 2010 extensions ? Go to Continue Reading →
The .gitignore file contains rules for what files and folders to exclude from git source control. When you use NuGet you don’t want the binaries retrieved by NuGet to be included into your git repository. The binaries (and other files) from a NuGet package is downloaded into a folder named packages by default. You need Continue Reading →
Download tool Updated 3.July 2014: Corrected pattern for NuGet, details in this blogpost. (IFix is in progress to be updated too, version 1.1 will have these fixes) Is there anything wrong with the built-in Visual Studio gitignore ???? Yes, there is ! First, some background: When you set up a git repo, it should be Continue Reading →
Download tool In version 2.7 of NuGet automatic nuget restore was introduced, meaning you no longer need to distort your msbuild project files with nuget target information. Visual Studio and TFS 2013 build have this enabled by default. However, if your project was created before this was introduced, and/or if you have used the “Enable Continue Reading →
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This issue is resolved in the latest ReSharper release, version 8.2.0.2160, download here. The issue appears when using the Test Explorer to run tests in any of the frameworks mentioned in the title. The tests are shown in the Test Explorer, but are not executed. It may look like this: Note: The tests shown dimmed Continue Reading →
Caches On Windows:
%LocalAppData%\NuGet\Cache
%UserProfile%\.nuget\packages
To clear: nuget locals all --clear
Feed url: https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
VSTest
NUnitAdapter, use runsettings
From admin prompt:
Start powershell:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/visual-studio-sdks
Add this tag to the initial propertygroup
AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath
Set value to false