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When you create a new project in Visual Studio the default directory is C:\Users\<userName>\Source\Repos. This article shows you how to change that. Steps Open Visual Studio. Click Tools > Options… Change the Projects location. Results Now when you create a project it’ll default to this location.
You need to auto-increment your build numbers in order to easily tell which code you’re working with. In this article I’ll explain how to auto-increment your build numbers in Visual Studio. I’ll be using text templating to generate the Assembly Version. Update (2021-3-27): I added information about how to handle this .NET Core projects. 1 … Read more
Problem You’re trying to debug a program with Visual Studio but Attach to Process does not work. Most likely you’re loading your code through some third-party process (like Excel), and when you try to use Attach to Process it simply doesn’t work. Solution Instead of trying to use Attach to Process, you can launch a … Read more
Problem You’re trying to use the ReportViewer control in Visual Studio but it’s not in the toolbox. Other symptoms: After manually adding the ReportViewer control to the toolbox clicking Design a new report does nothing. The RDLC report designer does not open and opening the RDLC file just opens the report markup. Solution Note: I … Read more