Category Archives: Visual Studio

Shortcut: Including a Namespace

**UPDATE**: I’ve been fat-fingering everything lately. I messed up and typed the comma, when I meant a period. I have updated the post to reflect the proper fix.  Right now I have ReSharper turned off on my client’s machine because it bogs down the machine. There’s a lot of encryption going on to the hard…

Updated Visual Studio Settings

Previously I had uploaded my dark themed visual studio settings. These settings were created prior to using the Spark View Engine for my web development. I have updated the settings to include support for the Spark View Engine views. Here’s a screenshot of what the HTML view looks like. Download the settings file at the…

Presentation Settings for Visual Studio

Unfortunately most presenters do not think about font size until about 10 _after_ they show code to an audience. Its usually followed by the confirmation question from the presenter that goes something like this: “Hey, can you guys see the code?” Most of the time the answer is… “No, bigger font please … ”. 2…

Debugging Silverlight Tip

If you’re doing any kind of Silverlight work you’re bound to get “Error on page” in Internet Explorer. Here’s what I’m talking about. You fire up your app in the browser window and BLAM. Screen is empty and you get the “Error in page” error. Double click the error and you get an Internet Explorer…

Visual Studio Project MSBuild Import Error Fix

If you get this error: Unable to read the project File <path.to.project>.csproj. C:\<path>\<to>\<projecct>\Project.csproj 77, 11): The imported project “C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets’ was not Found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. As shown in this screen shot …   Take a look at your project file. Open…