Missing Line Numbers in Production
I'm having difficulty getting line numbers to appear in the stacktrace on our production server. Occasionally when I deploy both the DLL and PDB, the line number will show up when an error is caught....
View ArticleMSBuild packaging and deploy Zip out of sync
I have a set of Copy commands in the Afterbuild property for MSBuild. <Target Name="AfterBuild">  <TransformXml Condition="Exists('$(OutDir)\_PublishedWebsites\$(TargetName)')"...
View ArticleWriting my own service in windows that would include two basic functions
I want to write my own service for windows that will contain a main program. and from the main program i want to call few functions(which i have made and their definitions are in another files) . How...
View ArticleBuild and publish web site project with VS 2012 and TFS 2012
Hello, I have recently started using visual studio 2012 and I have upgraded my site code to .NET 4.5 my solution contain several class libraries and one web site (not web application). If you ask the...
View ArticleUsing vb.net with Access Database
I am using Windows 7 x64bit and office 2010 32bit is installed on most computers at our location. I have an application that accesses a 32bit database that was working. The sub form with a datagrid...
View ArticleHow can I verify the 4.0 Framework MSBuild correctly built Projects targeted...
I'm using MSBuild from the 4.0 Framework as a general build engine. Some of the Solutions being built are based on Projects that target the 3.5 Framework. If I don't specify a target framework on the...
View ArticleI need your help with my app. Any developers out there?
If youre a developer I need your help right now. Look at the Microsoft community app for windows8.I am a young developer and have only built two apps for Windows 8 and i need your help. I know two...
View ArticleMSBuild and Web.config transformation error
I use tfs build to build my web application. A few days ago i update my tfs build server with vs2012. To this day my builds works fine executing this msbuild commandmsbuild...
View ArticleUsing MSBuild to programatically changing references and register DLLs for...
Hi ,I am just getting to grips with MSBuild and am in the process of writing a build script to build a VB project. My current starting point is below:-I can get this to work if I go in and change...
View ArticleIBuildDetail and $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)
Apologies in advance for butchering the verbiage, but I'm going to give it my best...I have a VS project that was built for a pre-tfs/msbuild 2010 setup and am trying to convert it to tfs/msbuild 2010....
View ArticleDifferent ConnectionString settings for Debug and Release
 I have a Windows Forms application which needs to connect to a database on one SQL Server when debugging and a different SQL Server for release. In the release config a Setup project builds the...
View ArticleHelp retrieving data in VB10 application
I'm attempting to build an application that retrieves data by a click of a button from webpages and displays the data neatly in a listbox or listview. The data I'm trying to get is in the table here :...
View ArticleHow to create a msi in Visual studio 2010 if there are more than one web...
i am new to this msbuild, if anyone can help me on this.
View Articlelive chart - realtimechart from csv/richtextbox
Hello everybody!Pleas, i need yours help.I try to make a realtime chart from a richtextbox.In one case i get the data in realtime from RS232 Interface in a richtextbox, in the second case i load a csv...
View ArticleNot work build
When I want to make build or local windows debugger visual studio output 1>C:\Users\Furkan\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\Database\Database\Database.vcxproj : error MSB4014: The build stopped...
View ArticleCopyPipelineFiles - Illegal characters in path
Hello,I have migrated a project from VS 2008 to VS 2010 (target framework 2.0) and I tried to publish it (to a File System).I ran into the following error :C:\Program Files...
View ArticleDouble loop in the Target
<PropertyGroup><NewBuild>..\Deployment\bin\$(Configuration)</NewBuild><CurrentDateTime>$([System.DateTime]::Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd_hh_mm_ss"))</CurrentDateTime><CommonF...
View Articlehow to install a service with vs 2012
How can I install a service with Visual Studio 2012?Does InstallShield limited edition support install of services?Does the installutil.exe still exist with the install of VS 2012 and where can I find...
View ArticleUnable to open an existing solution because of 'Microsoft.Build, Version=4.0.0.0
When I tried to open an existing solution or create a new project, I got this error message:Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Build, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,...
View ArticleHow to expand MSBuild property containing the name of other property
Let's say I have property $(Foo), that is defined as a result of some function, that returns the string value $(Bar). Is it possible to expand it somehow, so that $(Foo) will be expanded to the value...
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