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There are some settings that can make your work easier in Visual Studio.

Start Microsoft Visual Studio, and in the “Tools” menu select “Options”

– To insert new tabs to the right of existing tabs and keep the already opened tabs in place and
– Show pinned tabs in a separate row

• On the left side select “Environment”, “Tabs and Windows”
• Check “Insert new tabs to the right of existing tabs” and “Show pinned tabs in a separate row”

– To use tabs instead of spaces in edited files

• On the left side select “Text Editor”, “All Languages”, “Tabs”
• Select “Smart” and “Keep tabs”

I work on multiple computers using different operating systems.
When I tried to open a web service solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 7 64 bit workstation I got the following error message:

“The project file … has been moved, renamed or is not on your computer.”

I could verify that the file was on my computer at the stated location, and I could open the same solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on a Windows Server 2003 32 bit machine. I have recreated the setup file on my Windows 7 64 bit machine, and everything looked all right, but when I closed the solution and tried to open it again I got the same error message. I have counted the length of the full path of the setup project and I got 153. As it turned out, the path was not too long.

The following steps solved the problem, but I still don’t know why:

• Removed the setup project from the solution
• Renamed the setup project file by changing one character of the file name (not the extension)
• Re-added the setup project as an existing project

During the Visual Studio 2010 Web Application and Web Service deployment the prior setting of the application pool name is lost. The installer does not assign the correct application pool to the virtual directory, it will be assigned to the Default Application Pool.

If different .NET versions are assigned to the same application pool, the older .NET applications stop working.

To handle this problem in the VS 2010 msi file follow the steps below.

1. Remote desktop into the web server and in the IIS manager create an application pool for your web application.
2. Save the following program as SetAppPool.vbs to a common location in your file structure

   ' Sets the Application Pool of the Virtual Directory

   ' Usage:

   ' Right click on the Web Setup project

   ' Select Add, File

   ' Select C:\TFS\HALTeam\Other\Deployment_Tools\SetAppPool.vbs

   ' Right click on the Web Setup project

   ' Select View, Custom Actions

   ' Right click on Commit and select "Add Custom Action"

   ' Select the SetAppPool.vbs file in the Web Application Folder

   ' In the Properties window of SetAppPool.vbs enter the CustomActionData:

   '   Example: /vdir:HALGraphicUpload /appPool:HALGraphicUpload

   Option Explicit

   Dim customActionData, customActionArray, vdirName, appPool, vdirObj

   ' Read the CustomActionData of the Installer

   customActionData = Session.Property("CustomActionData")

   ' Parse the data from the CustomActionData

   customActionArray = Split(customActionData) ' Splits by the space

   vdirName = Replace(customActionArray(0), "/vdir:", "")

   appPool = Replace(customActionArray(1), "/appPool:", "")

   ' Set the Application Pool property of the Virtual Directory

   set vdirObj=GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3svc/1/Root/" & vdirName)

   vdirObj.Put "AppPoolId", appPool

   vdirObj.SetInfo

    

    

3. Add the SetAppPool.vbs file to the Setup Project
   1. Right click the setup project
   2. Select “View”, “File System”
   3. On the left side right click the “Web Application Folder” and select “Add”, “File…”
   4. Browse to the “SetAppPool.vbs” file
4. Add a custom action to the setup project
   1. Right click the setup project
   2. Select “View”, “Custom Actions”
   3.  Right click on “Commit” and select “Add Custom Action”
      1. Double click the “Web Application Folder”
      2. Select “SetAppPool.vbs” and click the “OK” button
   4. On the left side of the screen right click”SetAppPool.vbs” and select “Properties Window”
   5. Enter the following into the CustomActionData field
      /vdir:YOUR_VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY_NAME /appPool:YOUR_APPLICATION_POOL_NAME
      (make sure there is only one space before /appPool and there are no other spaces and quotes in the text)

To add items to source control in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 open the Source Control Explorer and  click the “Add Items to Folder” button on the tool bar.

If a folder is selected Visual Studio does not display the new files in the current folder:

To be able to add the new files from the current folder, click somewhere on the background of the file list, so no item is selected, and click the  “Add Items to Folder” button again: