Right click on the `Output` window for the `Debug` selection; here you can select which types of messages to see. 

The `Thread Exit Messages` option will be disabled in the example you gave.

![enter image description here][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/1UVWk.png

You can can also get to these settings at any time by searching in the Quick Launch bar (Top Right of VS) and search for &quot;Output Window&quot;. This will bring up the settings for the Output Window regardless of the Output Window&#39;s current context.

![enter image description here][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/hSocA.png

I have a TabWidget for which I have enabled and set the `stripLeft` and `stripRight`...

    mTabHost.getTabWidget().setStripEnabled(true);
    mTabHost.getTabWidget().setRightStripDrawable(R.drawable.redline);
    mTabHost.getTabWidget().setLeftStripDrawable(R.drawable.redline);

As you can see in the image below, this does not change the bottom line color of the currently selected tab (TAB 2). 

![enter image description here][1]

How can I change the bottom line color of the currently selected tab which is defaulted to blue at the moment? (I am guessing the blue color is being set in the default `AppTheme` style in `styles.xml`.)

I looked at [this][2] answer but it does not say how to change the color...

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/4UJPG.png
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3543478/remove-the-bottom-line-border-in-tab-bar-and-change-selected-color

TabWidget current tab bottom line color

I&#39;m writing unit tests for a WinRT app, and I am able to invoke non-async private methods using this:

    TheObjectClass theObject = new TheObjectClass();
    Type objType = typeof(TheObjectClass);
    objType.GetTypeInfo()
           .GetDeclaredMethod(&quot;ThePrivateMethod&quot;)
           .Invoke(theObject, null);

However, if the private method in question is `async`, the code will continue execution without waiting for it to finish.  

How do I add `await` functionality to this?

How to await an async private method invoked using reflection in WinRT?

How do I disable messages in the debug output windows of visual studio 2012?
&gt; The thread &#39;&lt;No Name&gt;&#39; (0x2360) has exited with code 0 (0x0)

Since the count of such messages is so high they bother me and hide my custom debugging information written using `Debug.Write`. Should I highlight my custom debugging information using red instead?

Disable noise messages in debug output windows - visual studio 2012

<p>How do I disable messages in the debug output windows of visual studio 2012?
> The thread '<no name="">' (0x2360) has exited with code 0 (0x0)</no></p>
<p>Since the count of such messages is so high they bother me and hide my custom debugging information written using <code>Debug.Write</code>. Should I highlight my custom debugging information using red instead?</p>


I am creating a very large project (a few thousand lines) and so would rather not use Notepad++. An IDE would make it so much easier. I have experience with Microsoft Visual Studio and love it. Is there some easy way to use Cygwin&#39;s GCC from within Microsoft Visual Studio? 

Alternately, are there any other good Windows IDEs for GCC besides NetBeans and Eclipse? (I hate both of them with a passion.)

How to use GCC with Microsoft Visual Studio?

How can I download a NuGet package? I don&#39;t have the NuGet Visual Studio extension or the command line program nuget.exe. How can I download the .nupack file from the web? As I understand I will be able to extract the `.dll` files from it (with 7-zip) to use as normal.

The package I happen to be interested in is http://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Bcl.Async, but I would like to know how to do this *generally*.

In the world of Ruby this would be easy - every package page on the RubyGems website has a download link to a .gem file, e.g.: https://rubygems.org/gems/pony 

* * *

The argument over NuGet&#39;s manifest destiny belongs elsewhere. It doesn&#39;t matter to this question why I eschew it. [I&#39;m not the only one though](http://i.imgur.com/6RU18WB.png).

How to download a Nuget package without nuget.exe or Visual Studio extension?

Our projects are organized in a master solution (containing every project) and multiple smaller solutions containing groupings of related projects.

I would like to share the same Resharper settings across every solution, making sure that the developers don&#39;t ever need to import configuration files in Resharper or do anything manually for that matter. The version we are using is one of the latest ones, 7.0.1. The DotSettings file checked in in TFS works great on a single solution, but replicating the same file for 20-30 solutions is a no-no.

Is there a way to share the same configuration with every project/solution in the whole team, without the need for the developers to configure this explicitly? Ideally, it should be possible to change the path to the .DotSettings file for each solution so that when a single .DotSettings file is edited it automatically affects every solution in the team.

**Update:**

I have searched a bit about this and tried 2 different methods, but none of them work 100%:

 - [Hardlinks][1] using the [mklink tool][2] work perfectly locally, but TFS does not support them
 - Normal shortcuts would also be a reasonable solution to this, but Resharper doesn&#39;t read them

I&#39;m out of options here.

**Update 2:**

The solution proposed by Daniel Hilgarth works perfectly, but only if Resharper is updated. A bug that caused the .DotSettings files to be auto checked out and edited on every machine was corrected on the 7.1 release. I have tested this before and after updating the software and it now works as I expected.

More information about the bug can be found here:

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RSRP-288235

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
  [2]: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

How to share the same Resharper settings between multiple solutions, with no manual intervention?

So, as the title reads, I have a VS2010 solution with ~50 projects in it right now. If I make a change to a &quot;top level&quot; project that nothing references then VS still rebuilds all 50 projects. I&#39;m running Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate without any add-ons. I am using ILMerge to consolidate all of the projects into a single file.

I have verified this by checking the time stamps of the lower level dlls and see that they are indeed rebuilt even though their code wasn&#39;t touched.

I&#39;ve read all responses and comments for:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5345784/visual-studio-2008-keeps-rebuilding

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2991972/visual-studio-keeps-building-everything

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6901683/strange-vs2010-build-glitch-occurs-in-my-solution?lq=1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5429781/reasons-for-c-sharp-projects-to-rebuild-in-visual-studio

But most of them just offer suggestions on unloading projects to speed up build times but nothing concrete as to a fix. I&#39;m trying to figure out why VS thinks these dependent projects need to be rebuilt when they don&#39;t and fix it.

I&#39;ve turned on &#39;Tools &gt; Options &gt; Projects and Solutions &gt; Build and Run &gt; Only build startup projects and dependencies on run&#39; but with no effect.

Also, if I just rebuild a &quot;mid-level&quot; project that only has 8 (in)direct dependencies then it still builds all 8 projects even though ILMerge isn&#39;t invoked and none of the dependent projects have been modified.

Thank you everyone for any insight you may be able to provide.

**Added**

To test some of the suggestions I created a new WinForms project from scratch. I then created two new projects inside that solution. I copied all of the code and resources (not project file) from my two &#39;lowest level&#39; projects into the two brand new projects (I did this by dropping the files and folders from Explorer onto the project in Visual Studio).

The lowest project, let&#39;s call it **B**, did not reference any other project. The next project, **A**, referenced **B** only. So once I added the required .NET and external assembly references to the projects then the solution would build.

I then had my new WinForm project reference **A** and did a full build. So the ref chain is:

**WinForm** -&gt; **A** -&gt; **B**

I then modified **WinForm** _only_ and did a standard build (F6). As before, Visual Studio rebuilt all three projects.

After some systematic eleminiation of source files in project **B** I found that if I removed my `Resources.Designer.cs` and `Resources.resx` (and commented out the code that made use of the `.Properties.Resources` object of those resources) then a modification of **WinForm** would no longer rebuild the entire solution and would only rebuild **WinForm**.

Adding the `Resources.resx` and `Resources.Designer.cs` back to project **B** (but leaving the referenced code commented out so that nothing was making use of the resources) would re-introduce the full build behavior.

To see if perhaps my resource files were corrupted, I deleted them again and then created a new one (via Project Properties -&gt; Resources) and re-added the same resource as before, which was a single Excel file. With this setup the full rebuild would still occur.

I then removed the single resource, but left the resource file in project **B**. Even with no resources added, but the resource file still in the project, the full (unneeded) rebuild would occur.

It appears that just having a resource file added to a (.NET 3.5) project will cause Visual Studio 2010 to always rebuild that project. Is this a bug or intended/expected behavior?

Thanks all again!

Visual Studio Rebuilds unmodified projects

I&#39;m **not asking** for the option to **automatically** follow the current file in the solution explorer. This has been answered in [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/12682656/540352) and I have this option turned off because I hate the behavior.

I would like to have a shortcut (or macro, or ....) to jump to the file I&#39;m currently editing in the solution explorer.

Visual Studio: Shortcut to scroll solution explorer to current file

I have a test ASP.NET MVC3 application developed in VS2012. When I start debugging the app is accessed from the host machine via the request to `http://localhost:&lt;portnumber&gt;`. But if I try to access the same application from the remote machine in the intranet via the `http://&lt;ip&gt;:&lt;portnumber&gt;` I get `HTTP error 400: Bad request. Invalid Host Name.` As far as it runs on IIS Express any server configuration is inaccessible.

Are there any ways of solving this?

Connecting to Visual Studio debugging IIS Express server over the lan

I&#39;m trying to separate my connection string from my `App.config`, and as you can&#39;t do transformations like with `Web.config`, I thought may I could use the `configSource` attribute to point to another config file with the connection string in, but it doesn&#39;t seem to be working.

This works, `App.config`:

&lt;!-- language-all: lang-xml --&gt;

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;configuration&gt;
      &lt;configSections&gt;
        &lt;section name=&quot;entityFramework&quot; type=&quot;System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=*snip*&quot; requirePermission=&quot;false&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/configSections&gt;
      &lt;entityFramework&gt;
        &lt;defaultConnectionFactory type=&quot;System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework&quot;&gt;
          &lt;parameters&gt;
            &lt;parameter value=&quot;v11.0&quot; /&gt;
          &lt;/parameters&gt;
        &lt;/defaultConnectionFactory&gt;
      &lt;/entityFramework&gt;
      &lt;connectionStrings&gt;
        &lt;add name=&quot;DefaultConnection&quot;
          providerName=&quot;System.Data.SqlClient&quot;
          connectionString=&quot;Server=*snip*&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;
    &lt;/configuration&gt;

But this doesn&#39;t, `App.config`:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;configuration&gt;
      &lt;configSections&gt;
        &lt;section name=&quot;entityFramework&quot; type=&quot;System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=*snip*&quot; requirePermission=&quot;false&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/configSections&gt;
      &lt;entityFramework&gt;
        &lt;defaultConnectionFactory type=&quot;System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework&quot;&gt;
          &lt;parameters&gt;
            &lt;parameter value=&quot;v11.0&quot; /&gt;
          &lt;/parameters&gt;
        &lt;/defaultConnectionFactory&gt;
      &lt;/entityFramework&gt;
      &lt;connectionStrings configSource=&quot;connections.config&quot; /&gt;      
    &lt;/configuration&gt;

`connections.config`:

    &lt;connectionStrings&gt;
        &lt;add name=&quot;DefaultConnection&quot;
          providerName=&quot;System.Data.SqlClient&quot;
          connectionString=&quot;*snip*&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;


I&#39;m looking for the simplest of solutions.

Any ideas?

connectionStrings configSource in App.config not working

Just a post to help those guys trying to do that, since I don&#39;t have a blog.

This works for linux too. Feel free to edit it and improve it.

How to compile Qt 5 under Windows or Linux, 32 or 64 bit, static or dynamic on Visual Studio or g++

I played with Visual Studio builtin profiling tools and now every time I check out any file this section automatically adds to my solution file:

    GlobalSection(Performance) = preSolution
        HasPerformanceSessions = true
    EndGlobalSection

I totally removed all profiling reports, then removed local copy of all source control files from this solution and update to latest. This section still in *.sln file after any checkout.

Other teammates who haven&#39;t used prfiler doesn&#39;t have this problem.
Has anyone any ideas?

How to force Visual Studio not to add GlobalSection(Performance) section?

Ok. Really quick question, I&#39;m probably just being thick. 

If you right-click on a projects &#39;references&#39; folder then &#39;Manage NuGet Packages&#39; you can then install packages and they are automatically referenced by the project you clicked on. But then I want to add the same reference to other projects in the same solution. If you repeat previous but click on another project the only option is to uninstall the package (since it&#39;s already installed), what is the proper way to add an existing (already installed) NuGet package as a project reference? Am I to add the reference using the normal dialog and &#39;browse&#39; to the dll in the packages folder? Use one method to add the first reference then another for subsequent references? That doesn&#39;t seem right. 

Best way to add NuGet packages as project references in VS2012?

I am trying to debug a project that has a reference to a DLL that I added, the DLL is stored in an external directory and I just added a reference. Now of course I can debug my project but the line that calls a method on my other dll I can&#39;t step into it, i.e. F12.

One way I was able to do this was to add my project (dll) as an existing project to my solution and replace the referenced dll to use the attached project rather than a file on disk.

But what a mess, I am sure there is a cleaner way?

I seem to remember if I copy some PDB files or something but i can&#39;t remember. And Do i need to open 2 copies of visual studio, 1 for my main project and 1 for my referenced DLL??



Visual Studio: Debugging a referenced DLL, I have source in another SLN

I&#39;m not sure what I did, but all of a sudden, my **Visual Studio 2012** will not debug any tests.

If I select a test from the **Test Explorer** and tell it to run, it simply outputs this in the Test Output window:

    &gt; ------ Discover test started ------
    &gt; ========== Discover test finished: 29 found (0:00:01.3371755) ==========
    &gt; ------ Run test started ------ Process with an Id of -1 is not running.
    &gt; ========== Run test finished: 0 run (0:00:01.4711861) ==========

what the heck does that mean?! After doing this a few times, the error changed to:

    The Operation was Cancelled
which I sure didn&#39;t do.

It&#39;s doing this on every test in the list.

however, I can RUN the tests no problem, and they pass... but I cannot debug the tests.

What might I have done? I did not actively go into any settings and change anything, perhaps a stray click somewhere, but where?

Visual Studio - suddenly cannot debug tests

When a debugger is attached to a .NET process, it (usually) stops when an unhandled exception is thrown.

However, this doesn&#39;t seem to work when you&#39;re in an `async` method.

The scenarios I&#39;ve tried before are listed in the following code:

    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Debugger stopps correctly
            Task.Run(() =&gt; SyncOp());
    
            // Debugger doesn&#39;t stop
            Task.Run(async () =&gt; SyncOp());
    
            // Debugger doesn&#39;t stop
            Task.Run((Func&lt;Task&gt;)AsyncTaskOp);
    
            // Debugger stops on &quot;Wait()&quot; with &quot;AggregateException&quot;
            Task.Run(() =&gt; AsyncTaskOp().Wait());
    
            // Throws &quot;Exceptions was unhandled by user code&quot; on &quot;await&quot;
            Task.Run(() =&gt; AsyncVoidOp());
    
            Thread.Sleep(2000);
        }
    
        static void SyncOp()
        {
            throw new Exception(&quot;Exception in sync method&quot;);
        }
    
        async static void AsyncVoidOp()
        {
            await AsyncTaskOp();
        }
    
        async static Task AsyncTaskOp()
        {
            await Task.Delay(300);
            throw new Exception(&quot;Exception in async method&quot;);
        }
    }

Am I missing something? How can I make the debugger to break/stop on the exception in `AsyncTaskOp()`?

Debugger not breaking/stopping for exceptions in async method

In my Visual Studio 2013 RC project, I&#39;m getting this err msg:

&gt; &quot;*The type &#39;System.Net.Http.Formatting.MediaTypeFormatter&#39; is defined
&gt; in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to
&gt; assembly &#39;System.Net.Http.Formatting, Version=4.0.0.0,
&gt; Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35&#39;*&quot;

...on the `&quot;var response = &quot;` line of code in a Controller:

    public HttpResponseMessage PostDelivery(Delivery delivery)
    {
        delivery = repository.Add(delivery);
        var response = Request.CreateResponse&lt;Delivery&gt;(HttpStatusCode.Created, delivery);

        string uri = Url.Link(&quot;DefaultApi&quot;, new { id = delivery.Id });
        response.Headers.Location = new Uri(uri);
        return response;
    }

Searching my hard drive for the required assembly (&quot;System.Net.Http.Formatting&quot;), it shows me several locations where it exists, but they are all within existing projects, as is seen here:

![enter image description here][1]

Surely there is another location from which System.Net.Http.Formatting.dll can be referenced! But where?

UPDATE
------

Trying to follow the clue here: http://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Net.Http.Formatting

IOW, by selecting Tools &gt; Library Package Manager &gt; Package Manager Console, and entering: 

    Install-Package System.Net.Http.Formatting -Version 4.0.20710

...I see the red bulls of Pamplona (not the beverage) descending wild-eyed upon me:

![enter image description here][2]

UPDATE 2
--------

I added the System.Net.Http.Formatting.dll from here:

    C:\Users\clay\My Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\MvcApplication1\MvcApplication1\bin

...and it now compiles and runs and works as expected, but that is obviously &quot;not the preferred method&quot;

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UJlOi.png
  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/P45oN.png


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