I am trying to set a coding environment for Windows Phone.
At first I was using the free version of Visual C# 2010, but compiling failed for the Artemis DLLs - Unsupported unit-testing modules...
So I downloaded Visual Studio 2012 - Compiling worked, but not for everything! The Xbox and Phone DLLs were not compiled.
The error message sent me to Visual Studio 2013 compatibility page.
...
I downloaded VS2013 - Same issue.
I want an environment for XNA + Artemis (Entity-based programming) for C# (PC and Windows Phone)
Can anyone please give me directions?
Is there a way to get a Windows Phone 8 emulator working on a non-Win 8 Pro environment? I have Win8 and I don't want to pirate a windows just so I could start an emulator for development. (I have a real DEV ID and SDK approval)
Also, I do not plan on coding with the VS2013/2012 (I already removed 2012, will do the same with 2013 if it is not needed for the set up) as I said, I wanted to compile the libraries (and couldn't with VisualC#!)
As far as I know, XNA is not anymore supported in the newest versions of Visual Studio (then 2012 and 2013).
Indeed, to create a little game some time ago, I used Visual Studio 2010, that was the last supported version for those libraries.
I don't know exactly how to create games in Windows Phone 8, without using XNA, but there's a library named SharpDX that could be useful for you. Take a look at this question.
As was stated by Moo-Juice - "What I do know that works with both VS2010/VS2012 Express is Monogame. Check it out."
This is not the answer I was looking for, but it's something I did not know of.
Thanks Moo-Juice
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In the new Visual Studio 2015 RC the XAML designer does not bring up a UI for a C# Windows Universal project but it does for a C++ Windows Universal project. This occurs with both the Professional and Community editions. Has any one experience the same problem and have a workaround/solution?
I have the same issue, when I upgraded the Win10 SDK from 10240 to 10586, set the project properties->Application->Target version to Windows 10(10.0;Build 10240),
the design view shows up again.
If the XAML designer is failing to open, check the "Flag" notifications in the top right corner. You might notice a message that your Windows 10 build needs to be updated.
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The target platform can't be newer than the Windows 10 build you're actually running.
To help clarify this a bit -
If you are building a Universal Windows 10 application with Visual Studio 2015 running on Windows 8.1 - something that we have enabled for the first time without requiring your to upgrade your OS, you will not be offered the XAML designer option - we will only allow you to edit XAML using the editor and IntelliSense. Similarly, you will not be allowed to test the application locally or using the Simulator (since it is a Windows 10 application and cannot run on your machine). Everything else should work fine, but for the best experience possible, consider upgrading to Windows 10.
If you are building a Windows 8.1 universal application, it should work just like before.
Windows 10 (fresh install + Developer mode)
VS 2015 Update 1 Ultimate
SDK Build 10586
By default no designer being available even via Shift-F7.
This expands the scope of the original problem, its not a VS edition based issue at all. Its a problem with the SDK support.
AS per Wener Henze
Swtich back to Build 10240.
Fixed. Designer now available.
Werners workaround is confirmed and saved me lots of time. I don't have the rep to thank him, or comment on his post directly.
I installed fresh Windows 10 and Visual Studio Community 2015, and the designer failed to load (for MainPage.xaml etc). I had to:
enable developer mode in system settings (update section) as suggested in info dialog
(re)install Visual C++ redistributable for VS 2015
But I don't know which one exactly resolved the problem... Now the designer loads as expected. (I tried only C# universal app yet)
In case if you have installed fresh Windows 10 Build 10240 and downloaded and installed latest Visual Studio 2015, target version 10240 is not available in Project Properties -> Application -> Target version and designer is not working too.
I have got Target version 10240 selection available after I've installed additionally Windows 10 RTM SDK from following page. As discussed above, designer works fine if Target version 10240 is selected.
As an update to the answer of #Ivan because I just had to do with this issue recently.
In my case I only had the option to change the Min Version from 10586 to 10240 but for the Target version I had no other choice than 10586. So solving this issue was not possible.
The solution was to install SDK Version 1506 (Version 10.0.26624.0) which can be found here https://developer.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/downloads/sdk-archive
After a restart of Visual Studio I was able to switch the Target version as well #Ivan mentioned and the XAML designer finally showed up. Heureka!
Thanks for the hint #Ivan.
you have to have the appropriate sdk installed on your machine, you can get it from the official site of Microsoft https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/sdk-archive
before that please remove the old sdk you installed on your pc, so that VS will use the new one.
then it'll work... i fixed mine in this way.
So recently I've begun learning C# from this man's video series. Right now I have Visual Studio 2013 (Community edition), and in his video he's using a subcategory called "Store Apps." My problem is that in the current version of Visual Studio I'm using, it doesn't acquire this subcategory. Anyway on how I may obtain it?
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Saroekin.
You'll need to have the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK installed as he suggested, and make sure that you also have Visual Studio Update 2 installed.
Comment from the video description:
Note: Before we get started, make sure that you already have the
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 installed, which will include the Windows
Phone 8.1 Tooling, like we talked about in the previous lesson. If you
already have that installed, then we're ready to move forward.
I have scoured the Internet for this but I cannot simply find the instructions.
I am trying to install DirectX and Direct3D in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. How do I install it? What do I need to download?
According to this link, I think DirectX hasn't released for VS 2013. Am I wrong?
I am learning DirectX for the first time, so please forgive me if my questions seems very basic.
If you're using at least Windows 7, you'll want to download the Windows SDK for Windows 8.1. It includes DirectX, and supports Visual Studio 2013.
Visual Studio 2013 may (depending on your install) include parts of the Windows SDK already, so you may want to make sure you don't already have DirectX headers/libraries installed.
I want to know whether I can uninstall visual studio 2012 and install visual studio 2013 safely (I have limited HD space) or I need to keep them side by side for unique features that are not available anymore in the newer visual studio.
When visual studio 2012 original releases over a year ago, I needed to keep vs2010 installed because of the ability to create setup projects, which I do still use for some old solutions, I now want to know if that is still the case and MS decided to remove features from the newest vs2013.
All I read here are new improvements only:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17358458/difference-between-visual-studio-2012-and-visual-studio-2013
And nothing about any removed features, even the 'boost' issue should be fixed shortly with newer versions of boost, and that is not even a removed feature, just a versioning support issue.
"We removed WebForm Scaffolding from this release because it's not ready yet. We’ll put the new bits in future release, possibly targeting update 1."
This plus some tools that will not be compatible with 2013.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/09/09/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-for-visual-studio-2013-rc.aspx
You can't use ReSharper 7 or earlier with 2013, if you are a ReSharper user currently on 7 or below, you will need to purchase 8 to keep using it (or learn to live without it :s).
Follow-up to JMK's answer:
You can't use VisualSVN 3.5 or older with Visual Studio 2013. You will be required to install VisualSVN 4.0.
Developing apps for Windows phone 7.x is not supported in Visual Studio 2013.
If you have the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 (which supports both Windows Phone 7.5 and 8.0) installed, you can upgrade your 7.x project to Windows Phone 8.0 one and then you can continue development in VS 2013.
I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional as well as Expression Blend 4 loaded on my development machine already. Everything I read says to develop apps for the Windows 7 Phone, I need to download the vm_web.exe file which includes Visual Studio 2010 for the phone and the emulator as well as a stripped down version of Expression Blend. What I would like to do is not have to install this package and risk some sort of corruption by having both of these on my computer at one time if it will even let me but instead use my own VS2010 and Blend to develop the apps. What that means is I need a plugin of some kind and the emulator. I already checked my VS2010 and the Windows 7 Silverlight templates are not included.
Can I do this or do I have to set up a completely different VM and load this package on it to develop Windows 7 Phone apps?
You can install the WP7 dev tools just fine on a machine with VS2010. The installer will install the WP7 VS Express, and will also register the WP7 tools with VS2010, so you can develop WP7 apps with either of them. The two VS editions will work just fine side-by-side.
Same goes for Blend the two Blend editions will work just fine side-by-side. The only difference with VS is that the WP7 tools are not registered with the standard Blend4, so for WP7 apps you have to use the WP7 Blend. (Note: This is not going to be the final story, as far as I know)
I've done a similar thing (Ultimate + Phone 7). It works without problems. As far as I know, you can install any Express editions side by side, even with the full one.
I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Win7, I downloaded full pack (vm_web.exe) and there's no problem to work them simultaneously. ( I was trying to find it without VS, but without result as well)