Visual studio: start mutiple projects

There is a nice tool that allows you to define combination of multiple projects that should be started together when running things from Visual studio, the extension is called SwitchStartupProject and can be found here:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-141975.SwitchStartupProject

Visual Studio sql hide design

To have visual studio show SQL and now show the design panel, follow the following:

1. Right-click on the file, and select Open With...
2. Then select Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, T-SQL Editor,
3. Click on Set as Default
4. Click OK.

From question in Stackoverflow

Visual studio: Enable debug of external code

1.  Go to the Debug-->Exceptions dialog, check Common Language Runtime Exceptions, and check the check box in the Thrown column;
2.  Go to the Tools-->Options-->Debugging and uncheck the Enable Just My Code (Managed Only) check box.

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