Recently I was working on very very old ASP.Net Project which was built on using .Net 2 framework. That thing was so ancient that VS2019 (or VS2015) won’t even load it due to it’s dependent 3rd party libraries were also incompatible. I was able to get Visual Studio 2008 Pro using my MSDN license. All
Tag: Visual Studio
Odd installation of SSDT BI on x64 bit system
Visual Studio 2008 full installation had always included Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) with it. But for whatever reasons MSFT decided to skip that part in VS 2010(may be because there was no major release SQL Server during that time) and it was missing for very long time till release of next major SQL Server
Odd Database Project issue with VS 2010
Recently I stumbled upon really weird issue with VS 2010. We have bunch of database projects created in VS 2010 which are part of our regular development build. As part of my task, I was trying to automate deployment of these database projects using PowerShell and came across really really strange issue that I have
Creating custom “Prerequisites” for installation
If you have ever installed any software in your machine, you know what I am talking about. A textbook meaning of Prerequisite is “A thing required as a prior condition for something else to happen” It case of software it usually means that to run some piece of software it need to have something else
Installation Project in Visual Studio … Installer 101
During past couple of weeks I was greatly involved in process of creating MSIs for our new products. The ultimate goal was (still is) to improve overall installation experience of customers. During this time I mainly tinkered with one the project type in VS which I had never ever used before, that was “Visual Studio
Creating MSI installer for Application
Recently I was tasked to create MSI installer for our current application which is in development phase. While browsing project types in VS, I had known that VS has ability to create installer using Install Shield, but that was pretty much of it. I have never worked with them before. But after working with windows
Developing reports in BIDS using Report Wizard
In my last two posts about reports, I explained how can we develop & deploy reports using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). But I think that even though I titled it as 101, it was not as easy as it sounds. Because there is even easier way exists to create a report that is by