How to install Visual Studio Build Tools 2010 on Visual Studio 2015 Community?

I have a project created on Visual Studio 2010. When I try to run the project on Visual Studio 2015 Community edition I get the error below, Severity Code Description Project File Line Error MSB8020 The build tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Platform Toolset = ‘v100’) cannot be found. To build using the v100 build … Read more

NPM self_signed_cert_in_chain

If you’re behind the corporate proxy (which uses e.g. Blue Coat), you should use http instead of https for repository addresses, e.g. See: Error: SSL Error: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN while using npm. You can also import failing self-certificate into your system and mark as trusted, or temporary disable SSL validation while installing packages (quick, but not recommended method): See: Error: … Read more

Converting from Radians to Degrees

You want to calculate radians=tan(y/x) first. Then you can convert it to degrees: See the reference here for atan: On a side note, you also have to take into account what quadrant you are in to get the correct answer (since -y/x is the same number as y/-x)

What is vshub.exe in the system tray?

According to Visual Studio Blog site (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/08/18/visual-studio-14-ctp-3-released.aspx?PageIndex=2&wa=wsignin1.0): “The Visual Studio Hub is an executable that supports multi-tool communication across the VS family of apps, service composition/isolation, and data/compute outside of the Visual Studio process.”

Function definition not found for a function declared inside unnamed namespace – how to resolve? (Visual Studio 2015)

The green squiggles don’t tell you that there’s an error, they tell you that there’s an opportunity for the new refactoring tools to do something. (Red squiggles indicate an error.) In this case, they’re informing you that there is no definition matching the declaration of test2, so the IDE is offering to generate one. This happens … Read more