Microsoft released Update 3 to Visual Studio last week. Below is a list of what’s new:
Click here for a link to the release notes.
I’ve run into a few quirks installing Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8. The first is that the ISO image doesn’t appear to use the NTFS file system and Windows 8 will not mount the image because of that. Fortunately, my Win8 install is a VM which allows me to mount the image on my host PC and run from there.
Once I ran it that way, the installer started and ran partway through; however, it ended prematurely with an error that it couldn’t find a required object. Looking through the error logs didn’t give me enough detail to resolve it. When I clicked the provided link to look for common solutions, I found others had the same issue (with screenshots to match).
Right now, the only solid way that many people have come to install is to use the Web installer. It works but it’s slow. If I find an update that solves the .ISO install problem, I’ll post an update here.
I happened upon this gem of an error today. It is totally a red herring. I was expecting to find some kind of corruption in the XML like a missing <Project> tag or something similar; however, when I compared the .csproj file between revisions in Subversion, I found no substantial differences, only some additional files added to the project. So what gives?
Turns out that this error is caused by a problem with the .user file associated with the project. Delete the .user file and voila! it works. I can’t take credit for figuring it out. Thanks goes to the BizTalk Tips and Tricks blog here.
I just imported the scripts from an existing SQL Server 2008 database. All went well, except that some of the stored procedures made reference to objects from system databases, which the newly imported scripts couldn’t resolve.
Database projects support making references to other databases in a few different ways. One way is via .dbschema files that you can generate from your projects. This approach is a loosely-coupled approach and improves reuse across your projects.
In the case of the master or msdb databases, Microsoft ships .dbschema files for these for this exact purpose. Simply add a database reference to your project and browse to the directory where Microsoft ships these files: [Program Files]\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VSTSDB\Extensions\SqlServer\Version\DBSchemas, where Version is the version of SQL Server that you are using (such as 2005 or 2008).
For more info on using database references, here’s the link to MSDN:
