I am creating Windows Forms application using Visual Basic. And I recently wanted to debug my apps on Linux environment. Recently, Microsoft launches its Visual Studio Code, I tried it. But It depends on Mono project to debug VB.NET application. And mono-project don't seem to support this kind of application. I am now looking for alternative ways to debug/launch my applications in a Linux environment.
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Is it possible to build Windows Phone projects using the new IDE, Visual Studio Code, for Mac?
Not looking for actual developing at this point, only to build & test the project. Something like a xbuild alternative, maybe. Reason is we already have a cruise control running on a Mac and right now it's a pain to also build Windows Phone projects.
No. Visual Studio Code does not include any build tools, only an editor and debugging support for (currently) Node.js applications.
More information here: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages
I just wanted to start learing WCF and could not find the WCF Service Library in my Visual Studio 2012 Windows Desktop. After reading and searching I found out that I need the VS Web to get access to it. Since I try to avoid installing two versions of VS I wat to ask if it is possible to add VS Web to VS Desktop.
PhoneGap Build affords the opportunity to build for various platforms "in the cloud"
Is something similar available with Visual Studio Online - can one develop Windows 8 apps, even when their local/client machine is Windows 7?
Visual Studio Online is basically a source control repository, so no. https://stackoverflow.com/tags/visual-studio-online/info.
The key point would be build. You can build your app on Visual Studio Online (in the same way that TFS can do nightly builds), but you still need the Windows 8 SDK to develop the app, which means you need Windows 8.
I have already using Visual Studio 2010 for my project. Now I have to work with a Visual Basic 2006 legacy application. Can I install VB 2006 Enterprise Edition on my system?
Will this affect Visual Studio 2010?
Yes. Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 6 will happily install side-by-side.
You can run multiple versions of Visual Studio on the same machine. I currently have VS2003, VS2005, VS2008 and VS2010 installed and am using all of them.
Where you may get into problems is with something like hooking up the older ones to TFS. This can be done, as I have VS2003 and VS2008 connected to TFS2010, but my VS2005 won't work as it whinges about the provider for some reason.
Another area to watch out for is IIS. As you have already installed VS2010, IIS may be defaulting to .Net 4.0 so if you start deploying .Net 2.0 apps then the websites may not work without some adjustment of things like app pools.
But if you are just using them independently of each other then you should be fine. If you're really paranoid, consider creating a VM and installing the old VS on it.
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I see from your edited post that you were talking about VB6. This also can be installed alongside any of the later versions of Visual Studio.
My Visual Studio can't seem to build any of the Metro Sample applications. As I've never really used this IDE before, I've pretty much given up.
Can anyone direct me to a sample application that is already built and preferably some source code along with it for reference?
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I have a copy of Windows 7 AND 8. However I can't seem to build Microsoft's File Access Sample in my copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. I'm trying to test one of my Win7 applications in Metro mode of Win8 (the application may be called for use during a user's session in a given Metro app).
Metro Apps (that is, applicatons based on WinRT in Windows 8) will not run in Visual Studio 2010. You need Visual Studio 11 express (that comes on the Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64) or Visual Studio 11 developer preview (available for MSDN subscribers)).
According to Getting started with Windows Metro style app development, "To begin building Metro style apps for Windows, you must first download and install the Windows Developer Preview, which includes Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview and the Windows SDK for Metro style Apps."
So I think you'll have to do metro-style development from the Windows 8 Preview for now. That website also has some hello world type stuff and general direction on getting started.
You probably can build Metro Style Apps in Visual Studio 2010. Basically Metro is a special type of design where focus is more on texts than pictures. Metro means " Text before Chrome".
If you can build such metro controls ( or you can copy some from any windows 8 copy) you probably will be able to build very basic Metro style apps , but if u wish to build something advanced then i would suggest better switch to Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate .