Questions tagged [visual-studio-2015]

Visual Studio 2015 is the version of Microsoft's Visual Studio product suite which follows 2013 version (also known as "Dev14", includes C++ compiler version 19.0). Use this tag if you have a specific question about Visual Studio 2015 features and functionality, not just a question reading your code.

The version of Visual Studio which follows . The Release to Market (RTM) version of Visual Studio 2015 has been made available from July 20th 2015.

Visual Studio 2015 includes a variety of improvements, including better use of the Roslyn compiler tools, simplified community versions and plugin support for the community edition, better cross-platform development support and an improved debugger1.

Visual Studio is followed by , which was released on March 7th 2017

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The configSource file 'mycustom.config' is also used in a parent, this is not allowed

If you were developed ASP.NET web site in VS2010. (or before VS2015) And your site is using Virtual Path, for example "http://localhost:12345/myvirpath" And you have the customize config file by using configSource in Web.config like…
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Unable to start debugging on the web server. The operation has timed out

I am receiving this error when I try to debug the application connecting through VPN.Any suggestions please
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MySQL Data Provider Not Showing in Entity Data Model Wizard

I am creating an MVC application with MySQL as backend. I am planning to use Entity Framework to work with this database. I already have a database so need to generate models from a database Environment: MySQL Server 5.7.21 MySQL for Visual Studio…
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what does visual studio devenv.exe /resetuserdata do exactly?

I have been having an issue recently with Visual Studio 2015 and the only workaround I can find is opening up the developer command line and executing "devenv.exe /resetuserdata" That solves the problem (until the next windows update typically…
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CMake: How to specify VS2015.3 toolset with VS2017 installed

I have VS2017 installed, with both VS2017 (v141) and VS2015.3 (v140) toolset installed. I need to generate a solution with CMake and I want CMake to be "fooled" as if VS2015 is installed, so I can build the project with v140 toolset. I know this…
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How to fix error "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web" in Visual Studio 2015?

I'm working on a project while the project is working fine. But after re-installed the Visual Studio my project is not loading. Giving this error: D:\UOSGC\Final\Banquet_Events_System\UI\UI.csproj : error : Could not load file or assembly…
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Tool to validate a web.config

Is there a tool that I can use to validate my web.config? The reason I ask is that the file appears to be valid XML and IIS is complaining that file is invalid. No explanation or indication as to why. Thanks in advance. Edit: HTTP Error 500.19 -…
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Partially Unshelve TFS Shelveset

A little while back, I shelved a bunch of changes from several unrelated features. Now, I want to grab just a few of those files. Is there a way to selectively unshelve files or directories (without checking out to a second place, unshelving there…
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pybind11 "Python is 64-bit, chosen compiler is 32-bit"

I'm trying to compile pybind11 on a Windows machine that has VisualStudio 2015 installed. I also have python 3.5.3 64bit installed, and cmake 2.8.12. I get the error: CMake Error at tools/FindPythonLibsNew.cmake:122 (message): Python config…
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Xamarin 'Resource.Layout' does not contain a definition for 'Tabbar' error

I've created a basic xamarin.forms project (with PCL code sharing strategy) and I'm getting error for the following two lines in MainActivity::OnCreate() TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar; ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar; CS0117…
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http://localhost:port always redirecting to https://localhost

I'm building a simple website in vs2015. I have IIS express selected as the hosting environment. I have tried multiple new projects and seem to be going around in circles, having installed and uninstalled iis-express 10 multiple times, and added…
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XUnit test is discovered but not run by 'run all tests'

My Visual Studio does discover my Xunit tests, but "run all" (ctrl+R, A) doesn't run them. I can however manually select these tests to run them. Console output: ========== Discover test finished: 2 found (0:00:01,6982309) ========== ------ Run test…
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how to stop ".jfm file cannot be accessed" from locking up tfs

I'm working on a project with a large solution in TFS, which includes a sqlProject. There's a few things we use in that project but there's also a .jfm file generated for the project. The .jfm has been excluded from the project but TFS keeps trying…
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Unable to find any matching test cases with xUnit

While the tests worked fine on friday I now get this error: When I look at xUnit's github it's clear that this fails on xUnit code: The GetTestCases code does this: So, as I read it, and as I would expect, the test assembly is read for matches,…
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How to disable VS intellisense when devenv is invoked to build on a command line?

We use devenv to build our source code on the command line, like this: devenv xyz.sln /build I noticed that even though no GUI is open, intellisense is still loaded. Messages like this make me believe this is the case: [Failure] Could not find file…
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