Oh what a P.I.T.A. this error has been. I received this error today... Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ItemExistsException: The item $/path/to/myFile.cs already exists. ---> …
Visual Studio Hangs on a Team Foundation Server UNDO Command
Ran into a real pain in the @ss today. While working with Team Foundation Server I was refactoring a couple of projects and at one point I needed to "Undo" my changes. This is normally accomplished by …
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Full path to the solution file… too long?
I was creating a solution file for an application at a client and I got this error message. Sara Ford explains why this happens here. The OS limit is 260 chars for the MAX_PATH variable according to …
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Syntax Highlighting for .build and .msbuild
Sara Ford posted a blog entry (which I got from the VS2008 Tip of the Day Gadget on Vista) which made me slap my forehead and say "... #$@#! why didn't I find that before." Pretty …
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Google.com/ig/ and Big Feeds (over 512K in size)
I'm getting ready to move over to BlogEngine.NET and I was working with the DasBlog Converter that comes with BlogEngine. To get this tool to work you have to set your feed to something like …
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Weird Error after VS2005 Crash & The K.I.S.S. Principle
Argh! Nearly an hour wasted, I was building a source tree today for a new TFS installation and in the middle of my workday VS2005 decided to puke on the screen. It straight up died, froze, hung, …
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