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I understand I can use 2015 side by side with VS 2010, but we've had problems just polluting our environment. If there is a chance someone has done this, it could save me a lot of time and energy instead of going with an install only to find out it doesn't work. It's also unfortunate this isn't documented anywhere.
So just like the title says.
To give some more background we're hoping to use VS2015 with our testers to kick start using selenium, but our task/bug management is all on TFS2010.
I don't want to distort the testers' environment, neither can I play with any of our dev machines to try this out physically. A VM will just not really run on our, not so fast machines.
My google-fu didn't get me to far. The VS2015 Express features does mention TFS, but I want to know specifically if it supports TFS 2010. Additionally I found a MSDN page. This talks about the various VS and TFS versions but nothing here about VS Express
Related SO posts I found:
Visual Studio 2015 & TFS 2010 Not specific about VS express or not, no definitive answer
Visual Studio 2015 with TFS 2010 More unrelated, this is about builds going wrong
You should be able to run VS2010 and VS2015 side-by-side, but not on the same solution/project files.
Once you open an older project in 2015, a project conversion will happen. If I recall correctly, project compatibiliy started to stabilizer around VS2012, but don't quote me on that, I'd say it is not likely.
You will NOT be able to open the same project in both at the same time afaik, so it's a one-time shift that'd meet your needs.
As far as task tracking systems go, you could also opt in on VSTS and do a one-time export of your existing bugs/tasks. Shouldn't take you more than a day or so to plan and migrate those over.
You can open the project with VS2015 but it will be upgraded to a newer state. We recently done this and could not go back using VS2010. Otherwise you can version control and keep both projects, i.e. the old implementation and the upgraded one. You could try with VS2015 Community Edition.
You sure can run both versions side by side, but not on the same project. Also, the Microsoft Test Manager that comes with Visal Studio 2015 will not connect to TFS 2010. It tells you that it needs an older version of MTM. I am still working out the kinks on our systems.
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My team uses a Team Foundation Server (TFS) to house code for multiple websites and custom libraries shared by all of those websites. For our newest website, we work in VS2013, but one older website has compatibility issues unless you open it in VS2010. Generally, this is fine.
Recently, however, I ran into source control issues that I realized was the result of accidentally adding a .csproj from my VS2013 workspace into the old website's .sln in VS2010.
While I was eventually able to sort out this discrepancy, I'm curious if there is a way to, or a reason to, combine or associate my VS2010 workspace and my VS2013 workspace seeing as they are both representing the same branch on our TFS?
Disclaimer: I am new to TFS, .NET and Visual Studio so please quietly disregard this question if it's dumb.
The accepted solution to your issue is separation rather than consolidation. If you pull out your shared code to a separate solution and have it built into a Nuget package then you reference that package from both 2010 & 2013.
However as Visual Studio 2010 drops out of mainstream support next month you should also resolve the compatibility issue.
I'm working with Visual Studio 2012 Express (Update 4) with Windows Azure Tools 2.5. I have the Remote Tools installed for Visual Studio 2012 Express Update 4.
I'm running some WorkerRoles on Windows Azure, and I need to do some debugging on the staging version.
My understanding is that I can connect to Azure using the Database Explorer in VS and find the process and attach the debugger to it. I've been following various tutorials around the net that all say the same as this one (which is actually very well written): http://geekswithblogs.net/shaunxu/archive/2013/11/02/remote-debug-windows-azure-cloud-service.aspx
The problem I have is that when I hit publish, and go to advanced settings, there's no option to enable debugging. According to everywhere it should look like this:
But I don't have those options:
Later, when I go to the cloud services in the database explorer, and I right click on the role I want to attach to, there's no option to "Attach Debugger":
Is this a limitation of VS2012 Express?
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
Cheers,
Chris
EDIT:
As in the tutorial I have the Build Configuration set to Debug:
I realise that this may/may not help others experiencing this problem.
I solved the problem by completely uninstalling all the different versions of Visual Studio, .NET, SQL Server tools. I had tried so many different versions of things that Azure tools and things may not have been applying to the correct version.
Here's the important bit:
The version I'm working with now is Visual Studio 2012 Professional.
If re-installing doesn't solve the problem, Visual Studio 2012 Pro has these features.
I've installed Visual Studio 2013 Premium (MSDN license) on my machine. Yet, the ASP.NET Web Application template is not there (except for Version2012, which offers me MVC 4, see screenshot below):
I have uninstalled and reinstalled VS2013 three times now. I've deleted the ItemTemplatesCache and ProjectTemplatesCache folders along with running the devenv /InstallVSTemplates and devenv /Setup to no avail. I've also checked to make sure web developer tools are installed. Under the \Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache\CSharp\Web folder, I only see MVC 4 template files. Am I missing something? An extension or additional program?
Below I added a screenshot of the frameworks I have installed. Any direction or advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
Jodie.
I think that "Re-install Visual Studio from scratch" is not a solution.
I have faced with the described problem and found much faster way to fix it:
First of all, try to repair Visual Studio installation (in "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" find your Visual Studio, right-click and select "Repair"). Reboot after (!).
Check if template appeared in the Visual Studio. If not, then: in the "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" make sure that you have "Microsoft Web Platform Installer 4.x" installed (I have 4.6 version). If not - install it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Run "Web Platform Installer" (it should be here: "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\WebPlatformInstaller.exe")
On the "Products" tab find the line "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2013" (make sure that it is not for 2012!). If line has "Add" button on the right side enabled, then click it and install the tools. Reboot PC (!) and you should have your ASP.NET project template back.
If line says "Installed", then you should repair it via "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features", just find "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 -Visual Studio 2013", right-click and select "Repair"). Reboot PC (!) and you should have your ASP.NET project template back!
Cheers!
After many hours of troubleshooting, these are the steps I took to fix the issue (on Windows 7 Ultimate). I assumed it was an issue with a corrupt installation and possible problems with registry keys, so I removed any and all Microsoft development tools using the following steps:
FULL VIRUS SCAN (just to make sure this was not related to a virus or malware). I used Microsoft Security Essentials
Downloaded Microsoft FixIt to help clean up registry keys as I deleted programs. After I deleted any program or program updates, I ran this tool to verify a clean uninstall had been done
Visual Studio 2010 - Ran the Visual Studio 2010 Uninstall Utility and removed the program. Went into Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a program > View Installed Updates and searched for 'Visual Studio 2010', then removed any updates associated with VS2010 (and ran the FixIt program after every uninstall to verify the registry keys had been wiped)
Followed this MSDN post to remove Visual Studio 2012 (paying particular attention to the 'Optional Shared Packages' and removed any and all programs under this list, again running Microsoft FixIt to verify the registry keys were wiped)
Followed this blog post from Shawn Harrison to remove all SQL server; also referenced these two MSDN posts Uninstall an Existing Instance of SQL Server (Setup) and SQL Server Files Left After Uninstall
Uninstalled Visual Studio 2013, along with all references to 'Visual Studio 2013' in programs and installed updates; used FixIt to clean up registry keys after every install
Last but not least, I removed all MVC Visual Studio-related tools, references extensions including Web Tools and Web Platform Installer
This solved my problem with missing templates :)
(I'm soooooooo grateful this was all done on an SSD, however, I think it would have taken 5x longer with an old-spinning HD)
Cheers, everyone!
Not the solution in your case, but I had a similar issue where I could not find the MVC templates. Eventually I realized that I still had .NET Framework 3.5 selected, which of course does not provide MVC... switching to .NET Framework 4.5 let me find the MVC templates again.
You already had 4.5 selected in the screenshot, but I'm just posting this here for others who might make the same mistake as I did.
Don't forget to check that "Microsoft Web Developer Tool" was actually enabled during installation see this related stackoverflow question: How do I open a csproj with ProjectTypeGuids 349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21?
"Microsoft Web Developer Tool" that was the problem for me
Have you tried updating the gallery
Tools>Extension and updates> Templates
To get up and running you could click Version 2012 under Web and get to the stock web applications templates which will provide you upto MVC 4
For MVC 5 you can either download Visual Studio 2013 Express Web, it roughly has the same ASP.NET features at Premium on MSDN License.
Update for Studio 2013:
Make sure you install express for Windows and not express for Windows Desktop. The Desktop version does not have the Web templates.
I had a similar issue with VS 2013 Web Express Update 3. After reinstalling stuff all week its fixed. I had to uninstall VS, delete the "Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0" directory, and reinstall VS. There are other workarounds that are more precise.
Since a few weeks we have our first TFS (2013) setup. The setup is rather small and there are only a handful (read: 10) developers that will have to work with it for the time being. It was setup as a "test" to see if it fits within our organisation.
Now, we'd also like to test the build server functionality. We've configured the build server and enabled a single agent. The MSDN then states that "You must install on the build agent the version of Visual Studio that your team uses on its dev machines." (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399135.aspx).
This sounds pretty straight forward, just install the Visual Studio version we use to dev with (VS Premium 2013). We are however pretty tight on the amount of licenses we can give out. So would VS Express suffice? Or is VS Premium really needed for automated unit testing (MS Test, not NUnit)?
And if VS Premium is needed, which license should be used to activate it? By "which license" I mean, would a developer MSDN license work?
We have a silver MS partnership and every developer has their own MSDN subscriber account.
Disclaimer: This is my very first question, so please excuse me if I've broken any of the rules.
You are allowed to install Visual Studio on the build server without an additional license.
Using Visual Studio on the Build Server
If you have one or more licensed users of Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, Visual Studio Premium with MSDN, or Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, then you may also install the Visual Studio software as part of Team Foundation Server 2013 Build Services. This way, you do not need to purchase a Visual Studio license to cover the running of Visual Studio on the build server for each person whose actions initiate a build.
Visual Studio and MSDN Licensing White Paper
On our team, we don't actually have VS installed on our build server and are able to compile code and run unit tests, but you'll probably find it pretty straightforward to just install the 'highest' version of VS that your team has a license to just to keep it simple and not waste any time tracking down any issues.
For some more details, a similar question was asked recently
Consider to Visual Studio Compare I would recommend you Premium or Test Professional (or Ultimate). If you want the use automated GUI-tests like CodedUI you need Premium or higher anyway. Professional will be enough when you need only Unit-Tests.
I need to setup a c# ide (free) on his laptop, do I need to download the sdk or does windows 7 come with a c# compiler? (it's been a while setting something up from scratch)
You can try Visual C# 2010 Express, it's a free version of Visual Studio for C# development, and IMHO more than enough for someone learning that you don't really need the full VS2010 package.
Download Visual C# 2010 Express edition. It's free, you can find further information here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/
Just use Microsoft Visual Studio Express.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer can be used to install Visual Studio Express, and also easily install many of the other MS tools like WebMatrix.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer
3.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the
Microsoft Web Platform, including
Internet Information Services (IIS),
SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and
Visual Web Developer easy.
Similarly Linqpad is a great tool for playing around and dynamic prototyping. I can't advocate it enough.
... LINQPad is more than just a LINQ
tool: it's an ergonomic C#/VB
scratchpad that instantly executes any
C#/VB expression, statement block or
program with rich output formatting –
the ultimate in dynamic development.
Put an end to those hundreds of Visual
Studio Console projects cluttering
your source folder!
Look for the free version of Visual Studio 2008. Not sure if there is one for 2010. It's at the Microsoft site. http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/#2008-Visual-CS
Framework is sufficient, IIRC.