Had just converted to target .NET framework 4.7.2 a Visual Studio solution full of 4.5 libraries, console apps and an MVC 5.0 (recently converted from 4.0) web app and all seemed to build fine, but then noticed that with web.config of the MVC web app open in the editor, it was showing lots of warnings […]

I just had some big trouble troubleshooting the Visual Studio / XAML compiler error message: The tag XXX does not exist in XML namespace ‘clr-namespace:YYY’ It turned out this occurred because I had a Silverlight library with Assembly name X and default namespace X (at properties pane), but was using it from a demo project [...]