VS2010: Project not selected to build for this solution configuration

Along with everyone we are moving towards 64-bit platforms. After adding solution platform x64 under Visual Studio 2010 Configuration Manager, everything seemed ok. When building, all builds was successful except x64 Release. Here is an output: 1>—— Skipped Build: Project: abc, Configuration: Release x64 —— 1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration 2>—— …

Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugging Monitor in service mode

Rarely I need to use Visual Studio Remote Debugger to debug Native application. It always big pain to configure everything correctly. But today I needed to run Remote Debugger as service, so I can debug another service, when no any user is logged onto computer. First strange thing I noticed, that I am able to …

Visual C++ 2010 fails to embed manifest on FAT32

Today I tried to figure out why one of my Visual Studio Projects failed to embed a Manifest. I had Generate Manifest and Embed Manifest enabled under Linker / Manifest tool, but manifest was not embedded. Long story short, after 2 hours of configuring, rebuilding, creating, deleting, I had the following state: – Move project …