Visual Studio vs version controlling - asp.net

I have ASP.NET project, which is under Git.
I want to make some small change in aspx file and of course it generates connected change in aspx.Designer.cs file.
However, I want a patch commited to be relevant to change I've made - this is so that I can (for example) do code review without need to skip all automated changes.
Therefore I want to add *.Designer.cs files to .gitignore and regenerate them when updating local workspace (automatically, not file by file).
I've been searching for some command line to compile aspx files but without success.
Could you possibly know some solution to my problem?
For now my environment is Windows+Cygwin.

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Cannot rebuild ASP.NET Web Applicaiton missing solution file

I am taking over an ASP.NET Web Application using C# and all the code (including C# source) was given to me without the solution file (something.sln) so whenever opening the Web Application in Visual Studio 2017 I have to open by "Folder..." instead of by "Project/Solution...". Once open, I am able to make the necessary changes to the code behind files such as Default.aspx.cs or somethingElse.aspx.cs, but when I try to test the code changes by going to Run > Start Without Debugging, I couldn't find the Run menu option; I see the Build Solution button but it's disabled (greyed out).
Every time I try navigating directly to my site at http://dev.mydomain.com. The code changes I made did not get compiled neither.
So how do I get the Run or Build menu option enabled?
The easiest way to correct this issue is probably to create a new, empty ASP.NET WebForms project (and a new solution file as well if necessary) and copy your code files into it. You can then tell Visual Studio to "include" those files in the project.
You may (or may not) need to make the odd other minor adjustment too but those basic steps should get you started.
Not sure if this is related, but adding the sln file to the git ignore removed its visibility from VisualStudio. I had to open the project csproj file in VisualStudio.
THen on close, the prompt was asking me to save a new SLN file with the same solution name i was looking for. I was then able to go to the directory with the original solution in it, and then I was able to open it again in Visual Studio.
For all those who come to this post in the future, I would check your gitignore files and see if they ignored the sln file.

Build directory for Qt Creator IDE

I am trying to populate a QTableview with some data. When developing under Qt Creator, data is read from build directory. Running the program each time, the QTableview keeps getting repopulated with previous data.
If I manually change the build directory each time before run, doesn't happen. But how do I solve the problem without manually changing the build directory every time I want a fresh run?
In your project directory there is a file name ProjectName.pro.user.
This file creating when you configure your project. it's XML file.
you can find this line on *.user files:
<value type="QString" key="ProjectExplorer.BuildConfiguration.BuildDirectory">C:/Users/probook/Documents/Qt/testProject/Build/Windows/Debug</value>
This line define build directory address for debug. there is a same line for Release and Profile in that file.
You can also use Qt creator to define(customize) relative directory build:
goto Qt creator, Tools, Options..., Build & Run, General, Default build directory.
More info:
Qt Creator stores user-specific project settings in a .pro.user file. You can share these settings between several projects as a .pro.shared file. It has the same XML structure as a .pro.user file, but only contains the settings to share.
Based on comment, issue seems to be data which gets saved to build directory. And solution would be to remove it before running the application.
You can add Custom Process Step, either under Projects - Build Settings -
Build Steps, or under Projects - Run Settings - Deployment, and just delete the desired data files. Exact command depends on operating system.
An alternative might be to add a command line switch, something like --development-erase-saved-data, to the application itself, and erase the files (or just not read them, or whatever). Then add that command line switch to Projects - Run Settings - Run Steps - Command Line Arguments for desired build configurations.
Adding support for this in the application itself is easier to maintain, and is almost automatically cross-platform. However, it might be a feature you don't want in the application, though in that case you might only enable it for Debug builds (with #ifdef).
As a side note, saving data to executable directory is not a good idea these days. You might want to save it for example to location returned by
QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::AppDataLocation)
(See here for more info.)

Preview Failed - Visual Studio will look for typescript files when publishing even when they are not included

I'd like to do the inverse of this question/answer:
How to include TypeScript files when publishing?
The thing is that I'm trying to publish an ASP.NET MVC 5 Project. Unfortunately the dreaded Visual Studio and the hungry Jack Typescript interpreter ignores any tsconfig.json file and decides to go deep down and look for any .ts file that is not accompanied by a .js. I have lots of npm packages nested down and some of them have uncompiled typescript files.
Funny thing is, that they are not included in the project (not even an exclamation mark). (I even checked for the .csproj and no files were found).
Is this a bug? How can I prevent this from happening? Using VS 2015.2 (Update 2).
I had a very similar issue. Publish kept failing because it couldn't find foo.js as it wasn't in the same directory as my ts/tsconfig files, even though outDir was set to another location. I don't know if it is a bug or not but I couldn't figure it out using the tsconfig. Instead, I was able to get things working by using the inbuilt TypeScript Build settings instead.
First, I deleted all tsconfig files from my project (I made sure I kept a backup just in case). The TypeScript Build was originally greyed out because I had the tsconfig files in my project.
Next, I created a new folder directly under Scripts to save the js files into.
I then went to Project Properties and selected the TypeScript Build tab. Under Output, I checked the Redirect JavaScript output to directory and browsed to the newly created folder. I repeated this for all build configurations.
Finally, I included the new folder in my project and then built. Folders and files which aren't included in the project can be seen as a ghost icon in the Solution Explorer if you have Show All Files icon selected. I think that if you have multiple TypeScript projects with their own tsconfigs, the file structures are replicated under the chosen output directory but I haven't tested it in many cases so I'm not certain.
Obviously I had to redirect my script bundles to the newly created js structure.
When I first followed this process, I got a few build errors mainly due to my own daft mistakes in my TypeScript code which I'd set the tsconfig to conveniently ignore. Another error was multiple references for objects, which I managed to fix by deleting the definitions files and making sure that the Generate declaration files option was unchecked in Typescript Build. Once I fixed those issues though, I was able to publish without that annoying error - happy days!

Is it possible to get app_offline to be ignored when running in visual studio?

I have a web app that has an app_offline.htm file, this file is stored in source control along with everything else.
The problem I have is that each time I (or any other developer) do a get latest on the source I get the app_offline.htm file and then when I try to run the app all I see is the app_offline rather than the actual web site.
Is there way that I can stop this from happening?
You can right click on the file and choose exclude from project. It renames the file so you IIS won't pick it up, but I'm pretty sure that Visual Studio will not remember that after you do a new checkout. (Can't verify this though)
Other than renaming it or removing it locally, it most certainly depends on your source control system. The whole point of source control is to "restore" a code source to a specific point. Checking out something other than the current state is kind of against the source controls principle..
Can you perhaps rename the file in source control and when you publish it you rename it to app_offline.htm then instead?

"Add as Link" for JavaScript files returning 404 in debug

Using a Visual Studio 2010 ASP.net web application, I have several projects that share some JavaScript/css files. The most logical way for them to share these files is to place the files in a single folder and each project has them included with the "Add as Link" option. However, if I add the files this way when I'm debugging using either the Visual Studio Development server or debugging using a local IIS web server all requests for these files return 404 Not Found errors. If I publish the site then the files are copied but that obviously doesn't help with debugging.
Is there something I'm missing or is this a failing on VS's part?
To overcome this problem some time ago I created a 'MSBuild.WebApplication.CopyContentLinkedFiles' nuget package. This package adds MsBuild target which copies all content files added as link to project folder during build.
Note: if you use source control then it is better to add copied files (from Web Application folder) to ignore list.
I wouldn't really call that a failing, since you asked for that behavior in the first place: linked items in Visual Studio projects are actual links to external files. Those files can reside anywhere on the disk and are not copied into the project folder.
You might want to copy those files locally yourself during a pre-build event. That way, the files will remain synchronized and you won't duplicate them until your first compile.
The problem seems to be that the website runs right from your source folders, rather than from the bin folder. This means that the file will be missing, whether or not it is copied to the output folder.
It's probable that running from a local or remote web server would not have this problem, though I didn't get that working, and I'd rather not add IIS to my local machine if I don't have to.
Adding a pre-build copy command did work. Note that the current directory will be the bin folder. (You can use cd to echo the current directory to the build window if you want to see it):
If the file is in another solution, your command will look something like (three ..s: one to get out of each of bin, project, and solution folders):
copy ..\..\..\OtherSolution\OtherProject\Scripts\MyJSFile.js ..\Scripts\
If it's in the same solution, but a different project:
copy ..\..\OtherProject\Scripts\MyJSFile.js ..\Scripts
One minor issue is that the link to the file will collide with the new copy of the file, even if you don't add it to your project. As long as you make the link first, it seems to work. If you copied the file first, you'll have to manually delete the copy, and then refresh the solution explorer before before being able to add the link.
Select the link in Solution Explorer and then look at properties window and set Copy To Output Directory to Copy Always. Linked items are set to Do Not Copy by default.
BTW, you can copy many files as links very easily directly from Solution Explorer when using VSCommands 2010 extension.
See this blog post about a simple addition to your project file.
http://mattperdeck.com/post/Copying-linked-content-files-at-each-build-using-MSBuild.aspx

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