I've been making changes to a Windows Service in Visual Studio (2010, .NET 4.0 project) and when I go to close the solution or commit to TFS, Visual Studio prompts me to save a .psess file (MyService.psess) that I've never seen before and does not seem to exist yet (a file save dialog pops up prompting me for a location).
I can't find any documentation on this file. What is it? What might I have done to create it? Is it required?
These files generally contain performance profiling session data. You can view the Performance Explorer window to see if you have any open sessions using the menu View->Other Windows->Performance Explorer.
You can delete the sessions there also, if need be.
It's a Microsoft Visual Studio performance session file and contains information about a performance test session.
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I come from JS world and have to run an old ASP project to see its structure.
But I can't understand what kind of framework have been used to create this.
Have tried to build it with dotnet but it's not recognized.
Here is the projects screenshot can some body recognize it and tell me how to run it locally ?
I would try opening this would Visual Studio. That does look like a typcial asp.net web forms proejct.
If you ahve a ".sln" file in the root folder, then you should be able to open this project with Visual Stuido. (just download 2019, or latest 2022).
You will almost for certain want to open this project with VS.
If there is no .sln file in the root folder, then choose from VS to open as web site.
So, there are two ways to open/use/develop these older asp.net applications. the existence of a .sln file tends to tip you off as to which method you need (and want) to open up this applcation with. But, yes, you need VS .net "IDE" and the built in designers to work on this.
So, from your screen shot, go up one folder - look for a .sln file. That's the project file you want to try and open with Visual Studio.
As noted, if no .sln, or no .prj file exists, then use the open as web site option in VS.
Looks like a WebForms project, not sure about the state of WebForms support for VSCode but Visual Studio Community should be able to run this. Try loading this project with Visual Studio ensuring you have ASP Web development work load installed.
So I set up the latest Azure SDK that integrates with Visual Studio 2015. It all seemed to work well and I was happily playing around with it for an hour or more in my small .net 4.6 MVC app with 3 projects in the solution. I went in to the Azure web portal and set up a new resource group there, and when I went back to VS I refreshed the Server Explorer my resource group was visible under App Service and data from the ApplicationInsightsExtension.log file appeared when I opened the file in a tab. All fine and dandy.
However, the next time I opened the solution VS hung and wouldn't respond. The active tab is the ApplicationInsightsExtension.log file and it seems to be trying to connect to Azure but is getting stuck. I've tried everything including rebooting etc but nothing works. I'm also opening VS in Admin mode
Is there a setting somewhere in the config / project files that specifies what tabs are opend when you open a solution? I'm thiinking if I stop the ApplicationInsightsExtension.log file from opening that might fix the issue. However I've looked in the .csproj and csproj.user files and can't see any setting that might correspond to this.
Visual Studio load error
You could reset your settings to prevent VS to restore your opened tabs.
Ensure your Visual Studio is Closed.
Navigate to your solution directory in windows explorer.
Ensure your are displaying hidden files on Solution Explorer. View Tab -> Show/hide ribbon group/ check Hidden items checkbox.
A folder named .vs must be shown now in Windows Explorer.
Navigate to .vs\<SolutionName>\v14
Delete .suo file in the directory.
Open your solution.
Now VS will not load any tabs by default, so maybe you can see what is happening.
Hope this helps!
I am kind of new to Visual Studio and have found no solutions online, so this may be a simple problem nobody has bothered to post about.
I am working with a system that requires certain browser settings on a very specific version of Internet Explorer and am trying to create a launcher that can be installed on all users of a domain computer that establishes all these settings and creates a simple IE window (to dissuade people from using it more than needed).
I have written this application, but when I run the installer it a) gives me no option to change the install directory, and b) does not give me the option to change the default install directory in the project properties.
Other sources continue to say to change the 'Install Folder URL' to something else, but whenever I change it to say '\\localhost\c$\A_File_Directory', nothing ever changes and it continues to install in an unknown location.
Any help would be appreciated (perhaps a location with in-depth examples for VS)
EDIT -- It seems there is no way to do what I am looking for through Visual Studio, so I think I will be just deploying the ClickOnce installer through Group Policy so it can run on a per-user basis. Thanks to all who helped!
As of VS 2010 the ClickOnce Installer does not let you choose where to install the application. It controls that. I have found it rather irritating and if you really need to control where something is installed you need to use a different installer.
Here's another answer for VS 2012
Settting the ClickOnce installation folder URL in Visual Studio 2012
This is one of those, "was working 15 minutes ago" problems. I've been running my app without a problem and then all of the sudden I'm receiving this error when trying to load the design view:
Access to the path '[my-local-path]\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ProjectAssemblies\waswbeet01\Interop.EModelView.dll' is denied.
As far as I can tell I didn't make any significant changes to the app to trigger this. I can go to the specific file location and see the dll there and it's permissions for SYSTEM are full control.
My head hurts from banging it against my desk.
Sounds like something has that file open / locked - there are a few things you can try:
Get Visual Studio to Clean and then rebuild the solution (it might be Visual Studio that has the lock)
Close and re-open Visual Studio
Use a tool like Process Explorer to check to see what processes have a handle to that file (and also optionally forcibly close the handles)
Restart your PC
I've seen problems in the past where Visual Studio keeps handles / locks on files that it shouldn't which can cause problems building - this is why I suggested restarting Visual Studio / doing a clean build as the first options.
Are you running under Widows 7?
If so, you must start Visual Studio under Administrator to get full access for the dlls.
Also, are you trying to modify and build your application during the execution?
If so, you should stop your application before you can change the dlls.
Visual studio team system 2008 keeps crashing on me. Sometimes it just freezes, or certain parts of the UI get messed up or a weird popup box saying something about unable to load parameters or saying something else about memory or any other number of things.
it usually happens when I do a "complex" task like go into debug mode or do a search across of whole solution or run a unit tests or something like that.
I rebooted my machine countless time, reinstalled it VS, changed my virtual memory settings, flush my page file on every reboot and anything else i could think of.
It seems like VS runs out memory or something.
I have a powerfully machine with lots of RAM so that's not the issue
any suggestions?
You can always try some standard Visual Studio troubleshooting steps:
Clean the solution
Delete / rename all files in your solution created by VS, i.e. all .ncb, .suo, .user files
Launch Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled: devenv.exe /SafeMode
Reset All Settings: Tools -> Import / Export Settings -> Reset All Settings
Delete HKCU:\Software\Micosoft\VisualStudio\9.0 and then restart Visual Studio
Repair the Visual Studio installation through Add/Remove Programs
You might also check whether there is a hotfix available addressing your issue (e.g. KB960075 sounds like a good candidate for you), or whether you find your problem already reported on the Connect website.
The first step is to uninstall all 3rd party add-ins on Visual Studio. In particular if you have multiple add-ins as they can interfere with each other in unexpected ways and cause crashes. After uninstalling repeat your scenarios and see if this fixes the issue.
If not then it's best to consult the application log and find out why Visual Studio is crashing. The log will contain at least the error code of the crash which can searched on google or reposted here for us to take a look at.
Assuming this occurs with VS up to date with all service packs installed, you might try some of these suggestions. If you haven't tried with service packs, do that first.
What version of Windows are you using? If it is Windows 7, try launching Visual Studio with a compatibility mode and see if that resolves the issue. To do this, make a copy of the normal launch shortcut and go into the Properties dialog and set it to run as Windows Vista.
If this doesn't fix it, then you might also consider:
Checking your PATH environment for any weird settings which might be confusing it, e.g. paths pointing to other SDKs
Any 3rd party VS extensions such as source control, refactoring plugins, wizards etc.
Old versions of .NET or SQL server
Also test if the issue occurs for every kind of project or just certain kinds, e.g. does it happen for all projects? Does it happen in C++, C#, VB.NET projects etc.
You can also attach a debugger to Visual Studio, to see what it's doing. Sometimes a particular .sln will trigger bad behavior or more likely, some third-party add-on.
If you believe that you've gotten VS into a wired state, you can try the following command line switches
devenv.exe /ResetSettings (This will reset the visual studio settings to the defaults)
If that doesn't help, as a last resort, you can try
devenv.exe /ResetUserData