Category Archives for Visual Studio
Debugging Azure Worker Role Startup Issues
I’ve deployed a number of systems to Azure and one of the most painful experiences for me continues to be debugging role startup failures. Often, I’ve often made configuration mistakes (e.g., wrong Azure storage account credentials) which prevent my worker … Continue reading
Azure Git Publishing–Mind Your File’s Build Action
I have a small web site running in Azure for coordinating a camping trip for my daughter’s school. Publishing the site to Azure is done via the handy Git publishing feature which I covered in this previous post (look towards … Continue reading
Connecting to a SQL LocalDb instance
If you haven’t heard, one of the things that is new in Visual Studio 2012 is a new version of SQL Express for local development. So when you are editing a SQL script and you need to connect to a … Continue reading
Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 3 App to Work With Page Inspector
If you haven’t had a chance to play around with the new Page Inspector feature in Visual Studio 2012, drop everything and give it a try. It’s one of the major new features in the next version of Visual Studio … Continue reading