Branching and Merging are very powerful features in Git. There are may branching strategies, my favorite is well explained at http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ Pick any model you like and stick to it for a while to better understand and evaluate it. If you do not like that try another one. In this model when we start to …
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Merging in Git with four panels in Windows
Git is a great repository for small and large projects. It is easy to create and merge branches to separate code for the features you work on. To make merging easier you can use a free 4 panel merging tool, Perforce P4Merge. Download Download the Perforce P4Merge Visual Merge Tool from https://www.perforce.com/downloads/integrations Select the operating …
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How to delete a folder from Git, but not from the local disk
I have accidentally included a folder in my Git repository, that I don’t want to include in source control. I wanted to remove it from the Git index, but not from the local hard drive. The solution is the following command git rm -r –cached myFolder If the folder name contains spaces enclose it in …
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Visual Studio 2015 is very slow on Windows 10
When I have upgraded Windows 7 my computer to Windows 10 I have also installed Visual Studio 2015 professional. From the first moment Visual Studio 2015 was very slow. My computer was freezing all the time. I have read many articles about the slowness of Visual Studio 2015, but I cold not find anything that …
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NUnit in Visual Studio 2015
To use NUnit in Visual Studio 2015 Create a unit test project and download NUnit from NuGet Start Visual Studio 2015 and open or create a solution In your solution create a new class library for your unit tests Right click the unit test project and select Manage NuGet Packages Type NUnit into the search …
Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32 error message when checking files into TFS
When you try to check-in or shelve files in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) sometimes the following error message appears: Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32. Cause: There is an unsaved file in the IDE. Solution: Click Save All in the tool bar and try to check-in the files again.
No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘System.Data.SqlClient’
When one of the projects in your solution is referencing the Entity Framework to access a database the Entity Framework NuGet package is added to that project. In the Visual Studio IDE your application may work fine, but when you deploy it to the test or production server the following error message may appear: Exception …
How to add a new table to an existing Microsoft SQL Server replication publication
To add a new table to an existing MS SQL Server publication Remote desktop into the database server, or a server in the same domain of the database server Start Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Connect to the database with ComputerName\SQLServerName If there is only one instance of Microsoft SQL Server on the computer …
There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first
When your MVC 5 web application page tries to read the database using the Entity Framework in a loop you may get the following error message: InnerException: System.InvalidOperationException HResult=-2146233079 Message=There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first. Source=System.Data This usually happens when a cshtml page receives an IEnumerable<> …
Windows web service authentication in IIS Express
When you develop a SOAP web service in Visual Studio 2013 the IDE uses IIS Express for testing. To set up Windows authentication in IIS Express follow the steps below: Create a Local Security Group on your computer Right click Computer and select Manage On the left side expand Local Users and Groups Right click …
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