Force Visual Studio 2015 to Run with Administrator Privileges

11. February 2015 patrick (0)
On Windows 8 I have a short cut that runs Visual Studio with admin rights.  This is fine but if I click a Visual Studio Project or Solution VS will run without admin rights when opening a project. Then I will see something like "failed to load project user does not have rights to IIS metabase".

To get around this issue you can update the registry to always run Visual Studio as an admin.

Follow These Steps:
1. Run RegEdt32.exe
2. Create an entry for the current or all users by going to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
3. Right click under \Layers and add a new string value
4. Enter the path to Visual Studio on your machine: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
5. Double click the new string value and add ~ RUNASADMIN under Value Data

Your enter should look like the following:
 
Now anytime your run Visual Studio or open a Project or Solution File you will be prompted "Do you want this application to make changes on your computer" click Yes and Visual Studio is running with Admin rights.

ASP.NET SQLite / NHibernate C# Demo

5. February 2015 patrick (0)
This is a simple / scaled down project that can be useful as an overview of NHiberate with SQLite access and to provide a project to play around with data access.
The project is setup with:
  • Boostrap
  • NHibernate
  • SQLite Database under App_Data. It also contains the backup of the original database.
  • One Customer Entity Class
  • One Customer Mapping Class
  • One Data Access Class: NHibernate Connection, Session, Selects, Saves, and Deletes
  • It also contains a script to freeze the GridView header as found on ASPSnippets.
The customer data in this app was generated by using GenerateData.com.


Syncfusion - Visual Studio Development Suite - FREE

26. January 2015 patrick (0)
I was looking at the amazing tool-set offered by Syncfusion.  I have been using DevExpress for years and always on the lookout for other tools.

Syncfusion offers an entire suite of tools that cover ASP.NET Forms, MVC, Mobile (IOS, Android, Xamarin, HTML5), Windows Forms, WPF, File tools (PDF, Excel, Word), Big Data. 

The AMAZING PART is if your company's revenue is under 1 Million this product is free to use and build applications!






AMAZING!