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Fix – Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 – v15.7.4 can’t checkout / switch to some git branches

4 July, 2018 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I could checkout Dev, but I could not checkout master, but after some time, I could checkout the branches master, Acc and Test but not Dev. When clicking on another branch name, Visual Studio wouldn’t

Fixing errors CS1525 and CS1003 in MSBuild

1 June, 2017 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

When building a Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 solution that uses C#6 and C#7 features from the command line (PowerShell), I was getting the errors: MyClass.cs(845,112): error CS1525: Invalid expression term ‘decimal’ [Web.csproj] MyClass.cs(845,120): error CS1003:

Visual Studio 2017 – How to fix: Unable to start debugging on the web server.

8 March, 2017 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

When I first started Visual Studio 2017 after a clean installation I got the error: Unable to start debugging on the web server. IIS does not list a web site that matches the launched URL.

Fixing: NPM / Node error on Windows: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.

7 September, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 3 Comments 1 category

I was using Visual Studio 2015 update 3 on Windows 10 x64 and was getting the error: “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less

How to create multiple themed release builds by using web deploy, gulp and PostCSS in Visual Studio 2015 update 3

5 July, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Note In this blogpost a “release build” is a folder containing all the files (html, css, JavaScript, images, dll’s etc.) needed in production to run a specific themed web application.

Fix: Visual Studio doesn’t use or can’t find TypeScript typings (*.d.ts) in a .net core project

3 June, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I added some TypeScripts typings to a .net core project in Visual Studio 2015 (version 14.0.25123.00 Update 2), by using the NPM package “typings”, but the added *.d.ts files, were not picked up by

Fix: Error CS5001 Program does not contain a static ‘Main’ method suitable for an entry point

10 May, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Starting with version of ASP.NET 5 RC1, the statup.cs must have a static main, see: http://www.talkingdotnet.com/static-void-main-in-asp-net-5-startup-cs/ After I added the main method, the error was fixed.

Create a Visual Studio 2015 Project Template and upload it to the gallery

1 March, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

The most simple way to create a Visual Studio 2015 Project Template, is to start from an existing project template. In short: To create a project template follow the steps at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/xkh1wxd8.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 To create a

Fix: The Dnx Runtime package needs to be installed. See output window for more details

19 January, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I do not know what caused the problem, but at a given moment, I got the error: The Dnx Runtime package needs to be installed. See output window for more details To fix

Starting with ASP.NET 5, TypeScript 1.7 and the ES6 module syntax compiled to ES5.

15 January, 2016 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

In the previous post I described how you can get started with ASP.NET 5. The code used in this blog post can be found at: https://github.com/roelvanlisdonk/Research/tree/master/Blog/ASP.NET5/TypeScriptES6Modules In this post I will describe how

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