How to prevent updating certain telerik dlls in Visual Studio 2013?
I am trying to prevent Telerik.Web.UI.dll from upgrading to a different version with a different version timestamp because I have some legacy code that is causing issues so sticking with the existing version is preferable. The same issue existing for Telerik.Web.UI.Skins.dll with the same version numbers (see below).
Working version is 2011.3.1305.35 and the Non-Working version is 2015.3.1111.45
I don't know if I need to load the 2011 version on my computer and also have the 2015 version in the toolbox at the same time to make it an optional compile.
Is it also possible to prevent this from updating when I first load up the visual studio project? Finally is it possible to keep the current version of Telerik control panel settings and without reverting to older version of the control panel just keep current settings?
To fix for my case: Right Click the Project in solution explorer that contains the dlls. Then Update the Property Pages by removing the "Auto Update" versions for both Telerik.Web.UI.dll and Telerik.Web.UI.Skins.dll by selecting them and then hitting the "Remove" button under the Reference section which should be the top most section in "Property Pages".
This would probably work for any dll that is automatically updating when opening visual studio or hitting the compile button. By removing the "Auto Update" version of type BIN for these two reference dlls, it essentially leaves theme alone when building the project.
I'll have to test these with regard to the Telerik Control Panel to see how and when it updates the references section.
I don't see the properties that you refer to in my copy of VS2013 (perhaps we use different types of projects) but I had posed this question to the folks at Telerik before.
What I was trying to do was to have a network folder store very tightly controlled copies of the Telerik libraries as my application was being tested against those versions and I didn't want anything changing.
However I also wanted to keep up to date for other projects and to evaluate bug fixes. When I received updates to those libraries, I would install the updates using the Telerik installer (and leave them there, which is the problem), and then VS2013 would find the files in the GAC and update my project's references to those versions when I re-opened a project.
The response from the Telerik support staff indicated that a likely solution would be to use the network drive as I was doing, and just remove all versions from my PC after downloading and safely storing the updates away somewhere. This seems to be similar to other solutions I've seen on SO as well.
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I have coworkers, who work on Visual Studio 2015, I have VS2019 and we share code through TFS.
When I make some changes everything works, but when I push code to server my coworkers cannot build the project because they have errors resulting from the fact that VS allows me new C# functionalities like internal functions, inline declarations etc. Is there a way to configure my VS so that it only lets me do the things it allows them to do? I honestly don't have any point where I can start looking into this topic.
You can choose the language version, it may solve some of your issues
I believe 20127 will be locked at C# 7.3, as shown here C Sharp (programming language)
To choose the C# language version for your projects, in the Solution Explorer
right-click on the project and select Properties
Select Build Tab
Then Select Advanced button.
This will bring up the Advanced Build Settings windows, where you can check the drop-down option for “Language Version” of your choice
Usually, you would set this to latest major or minor, though you your case you would likely choose C# 7 - 7.3, which would be compatible with 2017.
Image is for illustrative purpose only
Very relevant comments by JonasH
The langversion will be saved in the csproj file, so it should be
sufficient if it is done once. Also, the language selection dropdown
is disabled in the latest version of vs2019, but you may still edit
the csproj by hand to add it.
I have a C# solution in Visual Studio 2015 with two projects, the applications run perfectly on Win 7 and up however, they will not run on XP. I've done the mandatory research and seen that I need to update my Platform Toolset setting and include a few dlls, however, when trying to follow the steps (as listed on this site and MS's) I do not see the options for configuring this.
An similar question on this site showed a screenshot with an example but when I try to navigate to the configuration options for this project (not solution) I do not see the "Platform Toolset" setting, much less anything else shown on the example.
Firstly, viewing the property pages of one of the projects shows an entirely different UI with no "Configuration Properties" and the only way for me to view a form similar to the example is to view the properties of the entire solution (against MS instructions)
Example
My Project Property Page
My Solution Properties
As you would see, the dialog does not offer a "General" tab and neither of the projects within the solution have the ability to view the configurations.
I've inherited this application and am not sure what was done during the creation of the solution and projects that may have caused this. Any ideas? Is there something that was done incorrectly?
Your example is from a C++ project, whereas your project is a C# project, hence why the two look completely different.
Windows XP does not support .NET 4.5, so you will have to downgrade to an earlier version of .NET (Source).
The drop-down to do this is clearly displayed in your "My Project Property Page" screenshot (labelled as "Target Framework"). The latest supported version for XP is .NET 4.
It is worth noting that Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft (unless you are paying for extended support - and even that runs out in a year or so). It is not recommended that it is used.
I am having the exact same issue/error as this post from yesterday. Similar SO Post
SIDE NOTE...As you can see, I am new and therefore, only have 45 reputation. As such, I could not simply add a comment to the above existing post and had to create a whole new post even though they are the same issue....seems silly. But I digress....
I wanted to provide additional comments in the hopes to get an answer. My issue started suddenly the a few days ago. I made no major changes to references, VS updates, etc... However, when I right click my csproj in visual studio, I get the error and I have to click it five times before it goes away, at which point I finally get the menu.
Again, I have made no major changes BUT I went ahead and confirmed that:
My target version and Min version is Windows 10(10.0; Build 10586). That is the SDK version that I have installed and am using.
I verified that my NuGet updates are complete and that my Microsoft.NetCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform are installed and update to date (5.2.2 as of now).
I do have a reference also to "Universal Windows". This was created automatically when I created my project and I cannot remove this reference but it is there. When I select it, I do see that it is "UAP,Version=10.0.10586.0" so this should be good. I do notice a possible issue here. Again, this reference was created for me and I cannot remove or change it. However, it is pointed to a folder named
C:\Program Files(x86)\Windows Kits\10\References\Windows.ApplicationModel.Calls.CallsVoipContract\1.0.0.0\
Why did the Windows Universal reference default to that folder and only that folder? I am not using VoIP so I wonder why it chose this one? Also, what if I need some of the other references in the References folder?
I created a brand new Windows Universal project and the same error happens on a fresh project.
Please help, it is annoying. Project still seems to build and work fine though.
Thanks!
I found the issue in my case, it was an extension that I added on to Visual Studio provided by SyncFusion (which their installer actually creates 7 or se extensions in Visual Studio). After troubleshooting my issue and doing some of the same things to resolve (repairing .Net, SDK, Visual Studio) I then thought about the error a bit more. While it is cryptic (and has poor english "An Exception has been occured") these are all clues that it could be any of the frameworks that I have installed via extensions as well.
I also had another clue, the issue started happening a few weeks ago, around the time I updated my SyncFusion controls to the latest version.
So, I went to Tools > Extensions and Updates. I went to Installed > All and found all of the SyncFusion items (there are several) and disabled them all. After I disabled them, and restarted Visual Studio, the problem went away!!!
This is a workaround for now. In the meantime, I put in a support ticket with SyncFusion on the issue. I will certainly update this thread when I get a response from them. Also in the meantime, I then went back and re-enabled each of them again, one at a time, to see who the real culprit was. In my case it was the SyncFusion Web Conversion and Migration extension.
If any of you are not using SyncFusion but having odd Visual Studio issues such as this, I suggest doing something similar by going through your extensions and disable any that you added on, starting with the most recent add ons, especially if they were added around the same time you started having the problem until you find the culprit.
Hope this helps!
we are using the infragistics libraries for a long time now. But now we ran into a problem, that has been solved here Cannot select Infragistics controls in winform designer.
My more specific question now is, why does this problem not occur on all of our colleaques computers, but only on mine? We have the same visual studio solution and all of the source code is from a subversion repository.
We decided to put a copy of the infragistics dlls to our controls directory in the project, so we can deploy it later on very easily by copy and paste the files into the target directory (but still we need a setup tool to install for the first time).
How can we make sure, that the following requirements (useful or not) are met?
Updating the application still possible by copy&paste.
developper tracks the needed infragistic dlls by copying them into the controls directory (that is then copied into the application executable directory).
the problem from the link above doesnt occur
Perhaps we miss something important?
Is it bad practice to update the application by simply copying newer files to the application directory? Or is it even "illegal" in some way?
Do the infragistics tools need to be installed via setup or msi installer? Or is it sufficient to copy them?
[edit #1]:
to clarify things, as i know whats going wrong (see the link above) and what the possible solution is, i need some good arguments for or against not using the controls directory with respect to our practice of deploying the application without setup when it gets updated. We need to give our customer the posibility to update our application without a setup, because in his factory he needs to update a couple of computers at once, and if he is able to do this without the need of a setup, it will be more cost efficient compared to a setup way.
Here is my two cents:
Try setting all Infragistics libraries Copy Local property to True.
This will copy the dll to the bin folder each time you build your
application. This could solve the problem you are having with
updating the application by copy&paste;
It is better each developer to install the libraries into the GAC. I suppose all of you are using the same version of these libraries.
Otherwise, it will be real chaos. If, for some reason, you are not using same versions try to set for each Infragistics dll Specific Version to False
If all the controls are appear in the Component try (down in the designer) this clearly shows, that Designer.dll is broken or is not found. So it is always good idea to install the dlls into GAC - this should add the Infragistics Designer dll there too, and you should not have this problem.
So, install everything into GAC, set Copy Local to true and set Specific Version to false.
Also whenever you need to upgrade project containing Infragistics libraries use their nice tool Version Utility - this could save you many efforts
I made the mistake of changing a subroutine in a project and publishing it. Now I want to revert back to the older subroutine. Is it possible to find the older project and retrieve the older subroutine?
Team Foundation Server can do this for you. You can now be set up without any hassle on your developement machine. The integration in the VS Team Explorer is seamless. Very easy to handle. See this guide for working with source control projects
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181384.aspx
Even easier and not so much overhead on your machine: sign up for Visual Studio Online (free for a 5 user team). The cloud source control is set up in minutes. If you are not against saving your data in the cloud give it a try.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs.aspx
The alternatives (SVN, GIT) are also very good (consider reading about the difference of central and decentral source control) but need a little more knowledge and a good workflow.
If you happen to have lost changes before installing version control there's nothing you can do in visual studio. You can try a restore on file level (the option would be previous versions in the windows explorer)
as source code is plain text. There`s a "previous version" mechanism of windows explorer! Just go to the properties of your project folder
Note: previous version / shadow copying must have been enabled before or else the tab will be blank.
No, it is not possible unless you have stored your code in source control. It sounds like you have not yet done this, so I suggest using this is a (harsh) lesson and make the next move the one to install some kind of SCM.
You can signup for a free version of TFS online from microsoft the will integrate directly into Visual Studio. That will allow you to instantly check in changes and view the history of files and in this case, get a previous version of a file.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs.aspx