I recently noticed some strange behaviour in Visual Studio. If I edit my appsettings.json file then run in debug F5, the changed config is not picked up by the compiler.

Although I can find (on the web) a lot of information about the PreDeploy and PostDeploy Build Action for SQL scripts in a Visual Studio 2012 Database project and I understand that None does not co...

What does the Content Build Action in Visual Studio do? It does not look like it's doing anything. The File Properties article on MSDN (does not exist anymore) says: Content - The file is not c...

I have a .dll with a lot of ResourceDictionaries. The build action of all these ResourceDictionaries is set to "Page". Inside the Dll, I want to find all these ResourceDictionaries and iterate ov...

In my project in Visual Studio, I have files that I want included in the output, but not compiled or embedded. I am aware that there are 2 ways to accomplish this. Setting the Build Action for t...

I'm trying to build my C# project and I'm getting the error message "A namespace does not directly contain members such as fields or methods". It is flagging the first character (the less than symb...

I have a project which requires an image in the window. This is a static image and i added through 'Add>Existing Item'. It exists in the root of the project. I reference the image in a test page l...