Dec19

GUID Creator

Categories: Visual Studio
If you ever need to create a custom GUID, VisualStudio actually comes with one (guidgen.exe): C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools You can create the GUID in several formats, and it has a copy feature so you can paste into your s...
 
Oct22

Unrecoverable build error

Categories: Visual Studio, Errors, ASP.NET
Ouch.  This error has bothered me for a couple of days now, and I finally found a solution.  I kept getting this error when I was building a depolyment project. First, you should try Microsoft's Knowledge Base article on the problem: http://suppo...
 
May11

Including a file in a Web Deployment Project

Categories: Visual Studio
Argh Argh.  I’m precompiling a website (msbuild) and then building an installer for deploying it.  For the build, I’m use WDP.  However; for whatever silly reason Visual Studio ignores file types of .lic   So I have a license file that won’t get bui...
 
Nov27

0xc0000005 at address 536250C6

Categories: Visual Studio
Got a very strange error today trying to build a solution in Visual Studio 2003 (which had just been reinstalled).  There was much more than this, but this was the main error. Internal Compiler Error (0xc0000005 at address 536250C6): likely culprit ...
 
Mar31

How to debug JavaScript in Visual Studio

Categories: Visual Studio
Follow these 2 simple steps and you will be debugging JavaScript with ease. 1.    Clear the “disable script debugging” checkbox in Internet Explorer’s advanced properties. 2.    Add the keyword “debugger” somewhere within your JavaScript. When ...