My project does not add reference to another in the same solution. I created a project for a website and and abstracted all the parts of the program into .Net Class Libraries (My models in a diffe...

All: I am working on a solution where one of the projects is actually plug-in to the main exe that the solution builds. Since this one project is a plug in, it's wrong to reference the plug-in from...

In Visual Studio, for a class, a field, a method, I can just right click and say "Find All References" to see who is calling my code. But there is no similar thing for a project. What is the simp...

I have a WPF application I am building. I am using Visual Studio Community 2015. In an effort to create a "true" release build, I am changing up some build settings so it only generates necessary f...

Being new to VS, how may I think of these two concepts, what is the difference?

I have defined several AfterBuild - Tasks in my Visual Studio project with different conditions: <Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='FinalBuilder'"> <Message Import...

I am using CMake to generate Visual Studio projects. Everything works fine except one thing. The startup project in the solution is always ALL_BUILD. How do I change the startup project to the rea...

I came across the Framework and References tab of my project and noticed that I can "Add New Reference..." to my project, what is this functionality?

I have an utility which fills version numbers in AssemblyInfo.cs files. Now I need to implement a functionality to adjust version numbers for Visual Studio Data-Tier applications (DACPAC). I see t...

My web apps created in VS 2008 on Windows Server 2003, refuse to open in VS 2008 on Windows Server 2008. "The Web Application project 'MyProjectName' is configured to use IIS. To access local IIS ...