Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 – Navigation Bar Dropdowns not working

Seems as though the VS team introduced a bug in Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, where the Navigation Bar Dropdowns don’t work if you are using VS on a screen which is to the left of your “Main Screen”; When you have VS running on your second (or third) monitor, clicking on the Navigation [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00May 29th, 2014|Bugs, Tips, Visual Studio|0 Comments

Knockout (or any javascript) Intellisense not working if move script file locations

I found while playing around with Knockout.js, that my Visual Studio Intellisense wasn’t working. This turned out to be because I had formatted my Scripts folder, and moved standard Javascript libraries into another folder. This meant that Visual Studio couldn’t find my _references.js file. At first I added the following to the @Scripts Section in [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00June 26th, 2013|HTML, Javascript, Knockout, Tips, Visual Studio|0 Comments

SGEN: Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727’…

I found while building an VB application in Visual Studio 2012, in release mode for the first time, that I was confronted with cryptic build error; SGEN: Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information. After trawling through some Google [...]

By |2016-03-01T15:18:00+00:00June 7th, 2013|.Net Framework, Bugs, Tips, Visual Studio, XML|0 Comments

Adding EF POCO Classes to TFS Source Control

I have various projects which included Entity Framework POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) Classes. By default, these are not automatically included in TFS Source Control. To add these classes in VS2012; Open the Team Explorer Window using View>Team Explorer You will see a list of shortcuts... My Work, Pending Changes and so on; Under "Pending [...]