I am using Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10 with the official UWP sample code.
There is a UWP sample called basicinput that runs as a release build within the Visual Studio IDE without a problem.
My problem is:
when I attempt to run the release basicinput.exe executable by a mouse click (outside of the Visual Studio environment) I get an error saying that some DLLs names of the form vs*.dll can't be found.
I did a search for those .dlls and tried moving them to same folder as basicinput.exe, but then the application just hung.
What don't I understand?
What am I doing wrong?
As #Chuck-walbourn says, your application will appear in the Start Menu. If you want to deploy it to another computer (that doesn't have VS installed) you will need to create AppX packages using the menu item Project -> Store -> Create App Packages.... If you need more help with that. see the MSDN docs.
If you want to run your app from the command-line or from the Win+R dialog (with a simple name like foo.exe) you can create an appExecutionAlias for your application.
We are attempting to upgrade our rather old TFS environment from TFS2008 to TFS2015. The upgrade of the server and database is not a problem and is fine.
The issue is our build machine. This is still a Windows 2003 Server that is running Visual Studio 2010 and VB6. We still have a need to use this build machine to build legacy VB6 projects. We have installed the TFS2010 XAML build controller on this server and successfully connected it to our test TFS2015 server. However when we try to run a Xaml build, (any Xaml build regardless of whether it builds VB6 or .NET) we get the following error message almost straight away.
TF900560: Could not start build: Cannot set unknown member 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities.TfsBuild.TargetsNotLogged'.
The XAML build are using the 'UpgradeTemplate.xaml' template and using the TFSBuild.proj we used under Visual Studio 2010.
We have a also set up a TFS2015 build controller on another (Server 2012) machine and that successfully starts the build process. However, our VB6 projects use a lot of third party components that will not install on Server 2012 so we can't use that.
Has anyone ever set up this kind of arrangement before? Is there anything we are missing or are doomed in this scenario? Obviously, we'd like to move away from VB6 apps, but that is not possible in the medium term.
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
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The current version of Unity uses the old MonoDevelop 2.8 which is very primitive. Not only that it cannot register compile errors, I am also unable to know which method I can use. Each time I want to use some built-in method (like OnGUI or OnTriggerEnter) I have to search them manually.
Since I am coming from the world of IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse or VisualStudio, this is a very primitive way of working.
I tried using the latest Unity with the newest MonoDevelop 4.0, but I did not succeed.
Can you suggest a modern IDE which I can use with Unity, the one where I will enjoy coding?
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JetBrains Rider
There's a new cross-platform .NET IDE by JetBrains - Rider with build-in resharper-like commands and quite a list of features including rich web development support and specifically Unity
Unity support
Deeper integration with the Unity Editor: if a method/script is used in a scene, prefab, or asset file, navigating from the Find Usages tool window to this usage will highlight the usage right in the Unity Editor.
Gutter mark icons for classes, methods, and fields that are implicitly used by Unity have been moved to Code Vision.
Check that a compilation in Unity was successful before running unit tests through Unity Editor in Rider.
Comments: I've been using it for some time already and my impression is very positive. It's faster compared to Visual Studio and has some really awesome hotkey combos, not to mention support for AceJump and a ton of other useful extensions.
Visual Studio C# Integration
What does this feature get me?
A more sophisticated C# development environment.
Think smart autocompletion, computer-assisted changes to source files, smart syntax highlighting and more.
What's the difference between Express and Pro?
VisualStudio C# 2010 is a product from Microsoft. It comes in an Express and a Profesional edition.
The Express edition is free, and you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
The Professional edition is not free, you can find out more information about it here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/professional/default.mspx
Unity's VisualStudio integration has two components:
Unity creating and maintaining VisualStudio project files. Works with Express and with Profesional.
Unity automatically opening VisualStudio when you doubleclick on a script, or error in Unity. Works with Professional only.
I've got Visual Studio Express, how do I use it?
In Unity, select from the menu Assets->Sync VisualStudio Project
Find the newly created .sln file in your Unity project (one folder up from your Assets folder)
Open that file with Visual Studio Express.
You can now edit all your script files, and switch back to Unity to use them.
I've got Visual Studio Professional, how do I use it?
Note: With Microsoft's Acquisition of SyntaxTree, Visual Studio Tools for Unity (formerly known as UnityVS) has been released free of charge in the Visual Studio gallery.
This replaces the below steps for users of Visual Studio Professional and removes a number of caveats mentioned further below, allowing for debugging within VS, advanced project file integration, a mirrored console window withing VS, and more.
In Unity, go to Edit->Preferences, and make sure that Visual Studio is selected as your preferred external editor.
Doubleclick a C# file in your project. Visual Studio should automatically open that file for you.
You can edit the file, save, and switch back to Unity.
A few things to watch out for:
Even though Visual Studio comes with its own C# compiler, and you can use it to check if you have errors in your c# scripts, Unity still uses its own C# compiler to compile your scripts. Using the Visual Studio compiler is still quite useful, because it means you don't have to switch to Unity all the time to check if you have any errors or not.
Visual Studio's C# compiler has some more features than Unity's C# compiler currently has. This means that some code (especially newer c# features) will not give an error in Visual Studio but will give an error in Unity.
Unity automatically creates and maintains a Visual Studio .sln and .csproj file. Whenever somebody adds/renames/moves/deletes a file from within Unity, Unity regenerates the .sln and .csproj files. You can add files to your solution from Visual Studio as well. Unity will then import those new files, and the next time Unity creates the project files again, it will create them with this new file included.
Unity does not regenerate the Visual Studio project files after an AssetServer update, or a SVN update. You can manually ask Unity to regenerate the Visual Studio project files trough the menu: Assets->Sync VisualStudio Project
Visual Studio Code (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Unity supports opening scripts in Visual Studio Code (VS Code). To open scripts in VS Code, go to Unity > Preferences > External Tools > External Script Editor and select Visual Studio Code. For information on using VS Code with Unity, see Visual Studio’s documentation on Unity Development with VS Code.
Prerequisites
To use Visual Studio Code for C# code editing and Unity C# debugging support, you need to install:
Mono (only required on macOS and Linux)
Visual Studio Code C# Extension
Visual Studio Code Debugger for Unity Extension (Not officially supported by Unity)
Sources:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/VisualStudioIntegration.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ScriptingToolsIDEs.html
In Mac
1) Visual Studio Code
Lightweight
Support debug
https://code.visualstudio.com/
2) Consulo
Intellij IDEA based IDE
Support debug
https://github.com/consulo/consulo
3) Sublime Text also can be your choice on Mac.
Using Sublime Text as a script editor
There are some useful packages for unity too. (Code Completion, Syntax coloring...)
ST package for unity3d
And Video Tutorial
You can use MonoDevelop or SharpDevelop. I need to highlight that all the capability in the .NET framework and not in the IDE in other words you can use text editors and CLR compiler without the need to use any IDE.
Our final build server does not have Visual Studio 2010 installed. It uses the MSBuild.exe from the .NET 4 SDK. As part of our code delivery process to our customer we need to allow him to build the projects from the command line on a Visual Studio 'agnostic' server and also to run Code Analysis rules on that machine.
On the visual studio side we started out with AllRules.rules and created exceptions going foreward so naturally we'd like the exceptions to carry over to the code analysis on the build server.
Is this possible ?
Thanks in advance.
Using standalone FxCop you can customize your CI process as you wish. Open this link and go to "Setting up continuous FxCop code analysis" chapter.
Link above seems to be dead now. You can try to look here on this SO question