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The VS 2008 assembly reference problem

luisabreu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:42:54 GMT

I’m not sure if anyone has noticed this, but VS 2008 won’t be able to get to an assembly stored in a UNC shared folder after it’s been opened for some time. Let me give more info on this…

We’ve set up a UNC shared folder which has several assemblies which are shared by all our projects (it includes internal and external – ex.: NHibernate.dll – assemblies and we’ve set it up because it ensures that all the projects will always build against the latest dependent assembly).

When you load a solution in VS, it compiles ok…the problems happen when you leave VS open for a long time without building. For instance, I’ve left it open with solution X two days ago and today it simply wouldn’t compile the damn thing and it kept saying it couldn’t access the UNC shared folder (when I tried to add the assembly again through the add reference dialog). I had to close all VS 2008 instances in order to solve this problem (yep, just opening a new VS instance still gave me the same message).

has anyone faced this problem? can we do anything to solve it (without closing and reopening all VS instances)?

Stop copying blank lines in VS

luisabreu — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:29:42 GMT

One of the things I end up doing sometimes in Visual Studio is copying blank lines. It’s not that I want to copy a blank line…it’s simply that I get interrupted while using ctrl+c/ctrl+v and end up messing things when I return to the desk. Since I’ve just ended up copying another blank line, I’ve lost a few seconds and opened the options window to see if I could control it from there. And yes, I can:

And there you go: no more blank line copying for me! (I’m blogging about this now because I’m currently using VS 2010 without resharper! If I had resharper, things would be much better :))

VS 2010 color scheme patch

luisabreu — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:05:48 GMT

If you enjoy dark themes and love VS 2010, then you know you’re into trouble. The problem is that VS looses the dark background after being closed and you need to go to the options, fonts and colors and then apply the current settings (which still have the correct color) again.

The good news is that is no longer necessary. You just need to install the background patch extension from the VS gallery.

thanks for the fix guys!