Let’s say I’ve created two Visual Studio Projects with the same name “WebApp” but reside in different directories as shown below (c:\temp\Proj1 and c:\temp\Proj2). I often call the project WebApp, however I want to keep the projects totally separate. Below are the File/New Project dialog examples.
Now, when I click start (this is with the vs2011 preview I’m demonstrating), I see the following:
I actually have to hover over each “WebApp.sln” to tell which project is which. I think that information should be in the pinned app itself, not require a hover over to tell which project it is.
Agree? Add your comment below and go to the following link to vote up my connect suggestion.
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/679081/should-have-vs-launch-shortcuts-inside-vs-recent-projects-because-run-as-admin
From the comments, Microsoft said they would consider it for the next release, but it looks like it has not made it. Let’s try and change that!
OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered this totally by accident. I would never ever have pressed F11 (step into) from a client side proxy and expect to get into anything but a bunch of ugly machine generated proxy code (especially with Azure). To my total surprise, I landed right inside my WCF service as if I had started the Windows Azure Developer fabric in debug mode and set a break point.
So, I’ll step through the process an show screen shots on the outside chance I was dreaming and can’t reproduce it. If I can, now I will have proof so I can do it again. Sorry for the work in progress code you will see. The point here is really the debugger and not the code I’m showing so try and ignore that.
OK, here we go.
Let’s assume you have a completely configured azure web role that is hosting a simple WCF service. When you start that web role and point at the service, you’ll get something like this: (just a note that I started the app fabric by deploying directly from Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with the start/run. I am using a debug profile but am NOT running in debug mode. If I do run the app fabric in debug mode, this does not work.
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