Although Visual Studio Community Edition is supposed to be free, you are required after 30 days by the graphical interface to have an account on Microsoft’s online services to continue to use the product. The trial period reset of Visual Studio Community Edition can however be easily achieved by editing […]
With the release of Visual Studio 2017, the creation of offline distribution files in order to achieve the Visual C++ build tools silent installation has become easier than in previous versions. The key parameter is the –layout switch which allows to specify where you want to store the offline files. […]
As a new version of Visual Studio comes out, there are often fixes to put in your build chain tools so packages with external C/C++ compilation requirements still work. For Python 3.6 and Visual Studio 2017 to work together, a good reference start point is the Windows compilers compatibility list […]
If you use WebDeploy on your IIS Servers, and have trouble to publish web sites on them using the WebDeploy tool, you may have received errors such as: Could not connect to the remote computer (“targetserver”). On the remote computer, make sure that Web Deploy is installed and that the […]
