Publish Web App to Azure

14 November 2021 Dave-Stuart Azure, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2019

Log onto the Azure Portal, go to the App Services and select the App that you need to publish from Visual Studio to Azure.

Click on Get publish Profile. This downloads a Settings file.

In Visual Studio go to Publish and selete the "Import Profile" option.

Then import the Profile that you just exported from Azure. Done!

Visual Studio compiles fine, but it still shows red lines

14 November 2021 Dave-Stuart Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2019

More Info Here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21098333/visual-studio-compiles-fine-but-it-still-shows-red-lines Visual Studio 2019 is showing red underline all the time, even when it compiles fine!

Closing Visual Studio and removing the .vs folder located in the solution directory worked for me.

This folder has a hidden attribute. You may need to change settings in folder options to show hidden files.

Cannot open SSRS/SSIS projects with VS2017

29 August 2019 Dave-Stuart SSRS, Visual Studio 2017

When you’re trying to open your SSIS or SSRS solution, you will get a message that the migration has failed or ‘The application which this project type is based on was not found.‘

From https://www.jonashendrickx.com/2017/06/26/cannot-open-ssrsssis-projects-vs2017/ 

Method 1

  1. Open ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2017‘.
  2. In the menu bar, expand ‘Tools‘, then choose ‘Extensions & Updates‘. to install an extension.
  3. Search for ‘Microsoft Reporting Services Projects‘, and install this extension.
  4. To complete the installation, shut down all windows and instances of Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. Then the installer will start.
  5. Try to open your solution or projects (*.rptproj) again.

Method 2

  1. Close all windows and instances of ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2017‘.
  2. Download ‘Microsoft Reporting Services Projects‘ from the Visual Studio marketplace.
  3. Open your solution or project.

Slow Cheetah not working

26 August 2019 Dave-Stuart Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015
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The issue is, only adding nugget would not suffice. You need to install slowcheetah from visual studio marketplace. Following are the steps:

  1. Install SlowCheetah from Tools > Extensions and Updates
  2. Restart VS, allowing for the VSIX installer to run
  3. Create new C# App (.NET Framework). (In my case, it started to work on existing app also.)
  4. Show ALL Files in Project and you will see the Transformations

You will then also see the Transformation files in the Project file as explained below.

Unload the project and then Edit the project. Find the ItemGroup element that contains your newly created config file and add the <DependentUpon>Web.config</DependentUpon> element there, like so:

How to Specify Assembly References Based On Build Configuration

23 August 2019 Dave-Stuart Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2017

To "Dynamically" change the path of a Reference in Visual Studio you first need to Unload the Project, then Edit the *proj file.

Go down to the References Section change the Hard Coded Path to $(Configuration). This will dynamically change the reference when the Configuration is changed.

    <Reference Include="Dafran.Exceptions, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=08f619978b79cd15, processorArchitecture=MSIL">

      <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>

      <HintPath>\\zero\Builds\Dafran.Security\$(Configuration)\Dafran.Exceptions.dll</HintPath>

    </Reference>