Visual Studio Code treats the folder containing your program file as a workspace folder. Your tasks created will be contained in a file tasks.json within a hidden folder .vscode inside your project or workspace folder. So instead of opening the file directly to create a task, you need to open the folder as a project.
edit please see the answer further down, which is about 18 months newer, and actually solves the problem. This historically once-accurate answer is no longer as accurate. Leaving intact after the break for this reason. – thanks – jcolebrand What edition of VS do you use? VS2008 Express, Standard, Pro or Team System? VS2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate? … Read more
I removed the csproj.user files and it worked for me. In some other cases, to fix this error, I go to Web tab in the project properties and check “Use Visual Studio Development Server” and “Auto-assign Port”. After that I need to rebuild the project and restart VS
Right-click the assembly reference in the solution explorer, properties, disable the “Specific Version” option.
In most places where you can use those, there’s a “Macros” button or similar, which shows all available macros and the current value of them. For example, go to the PostBuild event editor to find the list. Edit: I just checked. There’s a list in MSDN.
Probably the problem is with ReSharper, I’m running VS2013 and VS2015 on the same machine without any issues. I would try: In Visual Studio 2015, go to ‘Tools | Options | Text Editor | C# | General both “Auto list members” and “Parameter information” should be checked. If that doesn’t work I would try to … Read more
What that usually means is that you have lines ending with something other than a carriage return/line feed pair. It often happens when you copy and paste from a web page into the code editor. Normalizing the line endings is just making sure that all of the line ending characters are consistent. It prevents one … Read more
This MSDN thread explains how to fix it. To summarize: Either disable incremental linking, by going to Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker (General) -> Enable Incremental Linking -> “No (/INCREMENTAL:NO)” or install VS2010 SP1. Edits (@CraigRinger): Note that installing VS 2010 SP1 will remove the 64-bit compilers. You need to install the VS … Read more
Starting from Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.4) there is an option: The corresponding fragment from the Visual Studio documentation: Automatically close the console when debugging stops: Tells Visual Studio to close the console at the end of a debugging session.
A solution is a container for projects, and tracks dependencies between projects.