Just the other day, I had an argument about the way to add references to a project. As you already know, there are two main ways to achieve that: Project Reference. File Reference. The “Project Reference”, add a reference to a project within the given solution where a "File Reference” references an assembly that is located everywhere, either on the local machine or on the network (we just browse to it and add it to the references). So, the question is: “when to use Project and when to use File...
Recently I had installed some add-ins for my Visual Studio, however I could not see them nor use them. I wanted to check if the add-ins where installed, so I have tried to open the Add-In Manager. Unfortunately the Add-In manager was grayed out – disabled: In order to fix that I had to allow Visual Studio to load Add-Ins. From tools—>Options—>Environment—>Add-In/Macro Security I have checked the option Allow Add-In component to load: Once, I completed that I had to restart VS and...