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Error Upgrading Database Project Using Visual Studio 2010
I recently upgraded a database project (.dbp file) to Visual Studio 2010. All I got was an error saying “database project not converted” and “Illegal characters in path”. I turned out that the project...
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In the Life of a TFS Configuration Manager Part 1: Building Projects that are...
You have probably had the following error: The project file … is not supported by MSBuild and cannot be built. Well, it is a common problem that Visual Studio Installation projects (.vdproj) cannot be...
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In the Life of a TFS Configuration Manager Part 2: Configuration Transforms...
It was great that Microsoft added support for configuration transforms in web projects in Visual Studio 2010, but what about non-web projects like console applications? Well, it can be accomplished but...
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In the Life of a TFS Configuration Manager Part 3: Configuration Transforms...
In part 2, I described how to add configuration transforms for non-web projects. Now comes the really difficult part – making it work with Visual Studio Installer projects. The problem is that...
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Error “The connection string is not valid” after upgrading to .slqproj
Today I upgraded a couple of projects from .dbproj to .sqlproj using Visual Studio 2010. First problem: One of the new projects did not build, saying it lacked master.dacpac. So I had to copy that file...
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