Tag: VisualStudio

The bloated IDE from Microsoft, that used to be even more bloated and a lot more expensive. Nowadays it’s a bit sleeker, and a lot more affordable – and it’s the number 1 choice for all the slightly more hardcore development I do.
I do use Visual Studio code (VSCode) for lighter tasks, though!
This tag applies to pretty much all the generic Visual Studio -stuff, if there’s something version-specific, I’ll be using more specific tags, too.

Azure SQL Error

Fixing error “Cannot open server – – requested by the login. Client with IP address – – is not allowed to access the server.” in Azure deployments from Visual Studio

This article explains how to work your way around the exception ‘Cannot open server – requested by login…’ The issue is caused by Azure’s firewall logic, which might sometimes appear a little bit overzealous for simple development workloads, and might stop you from accessing your databases from your development machine.…Continue reading Fixing error “Cannot open server – – requested by the login. Client with IP address – – is not allowed to access the server.” in Azure deployments from Visual Studio

Too long deployment path

Fixing the error: “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.”

This post describes a few different ways of fixing the “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.” error. One can encounter this issue when trying to…Continue reading Fixing the error: “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.”