How to find reason of failed Build without any error or warning

I have a WebApplication which contains reference to WCF services. While building using Visual Studio 2010, Build fails without any error or warning. However building the .csproj using MsBuild is successful. Can’t figure out what should I try in Visual Studio, to resolve / diagnose the issue. Can you please help out? EDIT: I find … Read more

“Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store” – even when add new key

I cannot build projects with a strong name key signing – the message in the title always comes up. Yes the project was initially copied over from another machine. However even if I add a new key via the Signing tab in Project Properties, this error is still shown. I have tried running Visual Studio … Read more

How to compare Lists in Unit Testing

How can this test fail? [TestMethod] public void Get_Code() { var expected = new List<int>(); expected.AddRange(new [] { 100, 400, 200, 900, 2300, 1900 }); var actual = new List<int>(); actual.AddRange(new [] { 100, 400, 200, 900, 2300, 1900 }); Assert.AreEqual(expected, actual); // Assert.AreSame(expected, actual) fails // Assert.IsTrue(expected.Equals(actual)) fails } 7 Answers 7

Visual Studio 2010 – C++ project – remove *.sdf file

I would like to know if I can safely delete the sdf file that stores information for Visual Studios Intellisense – is it going to be rebuilt the next time that I open the solution? Do I lose anything by doing so? Is it possible to break the solution this way? The motivation to do … Read more

Dependent DLL is not getting copied to the build output folder in Visual Studio

I have a visual studio solution. I have many projects in the solution. There is one main project which acts as the start up and uses other projects. There is one project say “ProjectX”. Its reference is added to main project. The ProjectX references another .NET dll (say abc.dll) that isn’t part of the solution. … Read more

Visual Studio Disabling Missing XML Comment Warning

I have a project with over 500 Missing XML Comment warnings. I know I can remove the XML Comment feature, or paste empty comment snippets everywhere, but I’d prefer a generic solution where I can make one change that disables all warnings of this type. What I do just now is putting ///<Summary> /// ///</Summary> … Read more

Visual Studio Clicking Find Results Opens Code in Wrong Window

I’m using Visual Studio 2010 and when I do a “Find in Files” the results are returned to the “Find Results 1” window which is docked below my code editor window. Before, I would double click on one of the results in the Find Results window and the file I clicked on would open in … Read more

Unable to load DLL ‘SQLite.Interop.dll’

Periodically I am getting the following exception: Unable to load DLL ‘SQLite.Interop.dll’: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) I am using 1.0.82.0. version, installing it with nuget in VS2010, OS Win7 64. Once exception starts to appear, it appears constantly – in debug and release and running application within or … Read more