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Visual Studio Installer – Update Channels

December 16, 2021 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Visual Studio Installer not only allows you to manage all the different versions of Visual Studio you have installed on your workstation, you can also manage the channels for each of your products. For example Visual Studio 2019 allows you to select from the following update channels in update settings: Release Preview These settings are […]

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Visual Studio
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Visual Studio Web Application Debugging using SSL with Chrome Error

March 27, 2018 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you are trying to debug your website using Visual Studio 2017 and Chrome with an HTTPS link you might encounter an error in Chrome because of the new security restrictions. I was asked by someone for help to fix an error message being displayed in Chrome ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY on their Windows 10 (1607) desktop. If […]

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Visual Studio, Windows 10
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Project contains an invalid database reference

October 30, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you have multiple developers working in a SQL Server Database Project and not all developers have applied the latest update they may see the following compilation error message for the System Database references: master and msdb. Project ‘[project_name].sqlproj’ contains an invalid database reference: ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\120\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac’.  You must update the reference so that […]

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SQL Server, Visual Studio
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