If you are developing applications using VS 2010 Express editions, you will miss the Package Manager console, which helps us to install libraries or packages via NuGet. The Nuget package manager console is not integrated to VS 2010 Express editions.(Visual Web Developer Express is an exception, it has a package manager console integration). To overcome [...]
Posts Tagged: Visual Studio 2010
The project file has been moved, renamed or is not on your computer
Recently I got an exception from Visual Studio while opening a solution. Later I found the solution. It was because of the suo file.(The solution user options file is a structured storage, or compound, file stored in a binary format.) Close the solution you have opened. Open the physical location of the project, find the [...]
How to find deleted items in source control explorer
If you want to undelete deleted files using UI, you need to enable Source control explorer to display deleted files. This option can be enabled using Tools > Options > Source Control > Visual Studio Team Foundation server, and tick the Show deleted items in the Source control explorer checkbox. This will display all the [...]
How to execute ms tests in parallel on multi-cpu / core machines
VS 2010 supports running MS Tests in parallel. Most of the machines available in the market are multi-cpu / core machines. This will help us to increase the number of tests executing in same time, which will reduce total test time. But while writing tests, developers should make sure the tests are thread safe, if [...]
Cloak option missing from source control explorer context menu
Ever noticed some time cloak menu item missing from source control explorer context menu? Cloak option is missing from source control explorer context menu Cloaking used to prevent users from viewing specified workspace folders or for folders you do not currently need. Cloaking is useful when you are working with files from two or more [...]
Debugging NUnit Tests in Visual Studio 2010
If you are using NUnit with .Net 4.0 assemblies in Visual Studio 2010, while debugging, you will get this warning from breakpoints locations, “The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document” This issues is because of NUnit loads up in .Net 2.0 and then has to load up [...]
