Just restart the app pool and the problem goes away.
How to fix the problems with the package manager console in Visual Studio 2017
So – you’re getting the following problem
The following error occurred while loading the extended type data file: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core, C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\types.ps1xml(3763) : Error in type “System.Management.Automation.FormatViewDefinition”: Exception: The getter method should be public, non void, static, and have one parameter of type PSObject.
For some reason this just started happening after the last Visual Studio 2017 update
Update – 5/29/2018 – make sure to leave VS Code open while you open Visual Studio 2017 – the problem does recur after every restart for some reason.
First – locate devenv.exe.config in the C:\Users\WarHorse\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_YOURIDENTIFIER directory
Open that file in VS Code
paste the following in with the other dependent assemblies
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”System.Management.Automation” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ />
<publisherPolicy apply=”no” />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ />
<publisherPolicy apply=”no” />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ />
<publisherPolicy apply=”no” />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ />
<publisherPolicy apply=”no” />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”Microsoft.PowerShell.Security” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ />
<publisherPolicy apply=”no” />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ />
<publisherPolicy apply=”no” />
</dependentAssembly>
16
May 18
Written By Steve French
How to properly clone a project from Visual Studio.com
So – I recently had to clone a site off of Visual Studio.com lately – after some discovery, here are the proper steps
- Don’t try to do it from Visual Studio 2017 directly – instead just go to the project in VisualStudio.com, and click “Clone Is Visual Studio” – a dialogue window will pop up, and the combination f Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio.com will take care of everything for you
- Visual Studio will then be open to the FOLDER of the newly created project. Note the folder location, then close Visual Studio, and open the solution (.sln) file in that folder (why Visual Studio doesn’t open it immediately I don’t know)
- From there, you have to copy over the nuget packages – in the nuget package manager, just enter “Update-Package -reinstall” and they will all be reinstalled or installed (that solution found here – the packages are not copied into source control)
and you’re done!
22
Jan 18
Written By Steve French
SideeX browser automation is awesome
The SideeX browser automation Chrome plugin is the single best tool I’ve come across this year. It handles all the stuff that Selenium IDE would only do with great difficulty, and it did it on the first try. Highly recommended.
29
Dec 17
Written By Steve French
How to fix irritating problems with TFS and Visual Studio 2017
Update – I did some more Googleing and found this page
Whereupon it says to
In your Team Explorer panel, click on Home > Projects > New Team Project…
Actually you have to click on Home to do it
but that gives you
Create from there
Due to a variety of circumstances I’m creating new projects with Visual Studio 2017, but using Team Foundation Server 2015 to house the source code – here is the proper sequence (for me) that gets the source code in place properly
- Create Team Foundation Server Project using Visual Studio 2015 – note remote origin server
- Disconnect from VPN (and therefore TFS)
- Create Solution normally using Visual Studio 2017
- Do the normal “Add to Source Control” (from the File menu) (if you do this while connected to the VPN/TFS it will try to force you to save it to TFS (where you can’t create a new project, or see the project you just created) – it will then do all the Git setup normally
- Reconnect to the VPN
- In the Team Explorer settings, add the remote origin server location to the “Remotes” section in the Repository settings – don’t forget to use the name “origin” as the name
- Commit and Push – everything should be working fine.
I’m sure there is a much better way to do this, but this is what works for me.
01
Dec 17
Written By Steve French
How to fix problems with Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2017
For quite a while I’ve been trying to use the “Edit and Continue” feature of Visual Studio 2017, but kept on getting the warnings
- attached to a process that does not support edit and continue
- the code being debugged was optimized
- intellitrace events and call information is enabled
- the .net runtime this program is running on does not support edit and continue
So, on a whim, I uninstalled Stackify Prefix and voila! Edit and Continue is now working just fine.
30
Nov 17
Written By Steve French
The peculiar problem when your entity framework query returns the same row for every record
This one had me confused for a long time, several hours in fact. There were over 8,000 rows in the table, and the for some reason the query was returning the same row 8,000 times. After much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, I discovered that the table in question (in a sql server 2000 database (not created by me)) had no primary key defined.
So – I copy the data into a new table, create a key with the commands
alter table TableInQuestion
add NewIDColumn int identity(1,1)
Delete the empty key field (that was what threw me, there was a column named “Id”, which was not actually and ID column.) rename “NewIDColumn” to “Id”, then point EF to the new table with the data attribute (on the object)
[Table(“TableInQuestion”)]
and everything works like a charm
22
Sep 17
Written By Steve French
Connecting Entity Framework to Sql Server 2000
A lesson learned – when trying to map Entity Framework to Sql Server 2000 (if you must) – make sure that there are no nullable dates – if so, work around them. I just spent hours looking into that.
25
Jul 17
Written By Steve French
Something to watch for on WordPress shortcodes
The first inclination is to create a shortcode that will look like [MyShortCode]My Only Parameter[/MyShortCode], which would look like this
function MyShortCode_func($content = null){
//————-stuff happens
return $processedContent;
}
However, if you want to have parameters = you must have the $atts parameter in the function, even if it is not used. The proper function would be
function MyShortCode_func($atts, $content = null){
//————-stuff happens
return $processedContent;
}
12
Jun 17
Written By Steve French
How to fix problems with password reset tokens
For some reason, asp.net identity 2 generates password reset tokens that are not property url encoded, but does send them as part of a querystring. Therefore – when you send out the email – the web browser will add spaces to the code, which renders it invalid. The way around that is to base 64 encode (and decode) the code as it is sent and interpreted. Below are the Base64 extension methods.
Also – make sure there is a guid (any guid) in the SecurityStamp column in the AspNetUsers table – that will also cause it to claim that the code is invalid.
public static string ConvertToBase64(this string str)
{
byte[] encbuff = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(str);
return HttpServerUtility.UrlTokenEncode(encbuff);
}public static string ConvertFromBase64(this string str)
{
byte[] decbuff = HttpServerUtility.UrlTokenDecode(str);
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decbuff);
}
10
Jun 17
Written By Steve French
