Category Archives: Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio Hangs on a Team Foundation Server UNDO Command

Ran into a real pain in the @ss today. While working with Team Foundation Server I was refactoring a couple of projects and at one point I needed to “Undo” my changes. This is normally accomplished by what you see on the left. Well, to my dismay, as soon as I clicked on that button,…

Full path to the solution file… too long?

I was creating a solution file for an application at a client and I got this error message. Sara Ford explains why this happens here. The OS limit is 260 chars for the MAX_PATH variable according to Sara Ford’s blog. So how do you get around it? In this case, Visual studio was creating a…

Auto-Insert Attribute Quotes in HTML

A quick tip for those of you who don’t use tools like ReSharper that automatically put the attribute quotes in for you when typing HTML. Don’t you hate it when you’re typing in the HTML window of an ASPX page and you have to type in the quotes for an attribute value on element? I do too….

ASP.NET Projects Take Forever To Load in Internet Explorer

I recently had a problem that plagued me the last couple of weeks. Problem: When I pressed F5 or CTRL + F5 or even “View in Browser” from Visual Studio (in an ASP.NET project) Internet Explorer would load. If I had any breakpoints set, the debugger would break, and then I could continue after debugging…

.NET Scaffolding

Jeremy D. Miller has a great post on keeping source code where it belongs. The thought process behind this is that code should be where YOU would assume it would be. If its data access code, it should be in a project/namespace that is something like Data Access or DAL or Data or something that…