Unable to open a setup project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 64 bit
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…
How to modify a WordPress theme
There are two ways to modify a WordPress theme: the fast way and the smart way. The fastest way is to edit the files of the theme by selecting the files with the “Appearance”, “Editor” menu option. The drawback is that when the…
How to set the application pool automatically during Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 web application and web service deployment
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…
How to set up Internet Explorer to debug with Microsoft Visual Studio
When you debug your Visual Studio web application you want to start and stop Internet Explorer automatically when you start and stop the debugging session. With the default settings Internet Explorer starts automatically when you start debugging, but it…
How to delete a folder from the Subversion database in the TortoiseSVN client
If you don’t need a folder in the Subversion database anymore follow the the steps below. If you are using the TortoiseSVN Subversion client Start Windows Explorer, Right click any folder, Select “TortoiseSVN”,…
How to exclude a project folder from the Subversion database
If you added the AnkhSVN – Subversion Support for Visual Studio from http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/ you can easily version your files as you develop them. In your application there could be projects or folders that you don’t want to include…
New files are not displayed when I click the “Add Items to Folder” button in the Source Control Explorer of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
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…
Convert Microsoft Visual Studio applications to version 2012
When Microsoft releases a new version of Visual Studio developers would like to use the new features of the new IDE. Usually the new version of Visual Studio converts the solution and project files to a new format to be able to save the new settings of…
Microsoft Visual Studio solution folder structure for easy conversion to the new version of the IDE
Microsoft releases a new version of Visual Studio every 2-3 years, but most of the enterprise applications have to be operational for years. Many companies developed applications in earlier versions of Microsoft Visual Studio ( VS 2003, VS 2005, VS…
Multiple setup projects in a Microsoft Visual Studio solution
Sometimes it makes sense the create multiple setup projects in a Microsoft Visual Studio solution if you use the same projects, but you want to create separate MSI files for slightly different functionality. An example would be the processing of audio…