we are new to Visual Basic Programing, We are working on a project, which has modules. My team worked on these modules and prepared 3 separate Visual Studio Projects. Now, I want to combine then into one Visual Studio Project for Integration purposes.
We are using Visual Studio 2010.
In the solution explorer window (Default is top right) you will need to:
Right click on your Solution
go down to Add
select Existing Project
This will pop up a windows browser window, you will need to navigate to the place that you have the files saved, then click Open
Repeat steps 1-4 for all subsequent items.
Based on what you are saying, it sounds like youll need to add references to the modules in the main project:
Ensure that you are viewing all files in your solution by selecting Show All Files in the Solution Explorer
go down to References
click Add Reference - a window will pop up
in the top left, select Projects
in the popup window Right click on the Name of the project and select Add Reference
You should be good from here.
Your question is not clear wether or not you want to add the code from the individual projects to one project or add your projects to one solution.
In the first instance use the project that you want to be the main project and right-click on the project and select add existing item to select the .vb module file that you want to add.
In the second instance create a blank solution File -> New Project -> Other Project Types -> Visual Studio Solutions -> Blank Solution, then right-click on the new solution and select Add -> Existing project to add your projects
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I am currently creating a multi-project template, I want to distribute using a .VSIX-extension for Visual Studio. When the extension is installed the user can select my template among the others provided by Microsoft in the "Create a new project" window.
My template consists of three project:
ProjectName.Server
ProjectName.Contract
ProjectName.Client
ProjectName is the user-given name while the suffixes "Server", "Contract" and "Client" are fixed. The issue I experience is that when the users create a new project the Client-project is always selected as a startup-project by default. I want the server-project to be selected as a startup-project by visual studio. It looks like following:
The client project is not the correct startup project, but users don't know that the server project it the correct startup project, so I want to take off the selection and integrate it right into the template, so the correct startup template is selected by VS when creating the project.
I already removed the suffix "Server" from this project, so it is shown as the first project in the solution explorer and I hoped VS would then select it as the startup-project. This did not work unfortunately.
Can anyone give me a hint on how to configure the startup-project in the template?
If you have any questions don't hesitate to comment.
These configurations are stored in the Solution User Options (.suo) file.
You can refer to my steps below to try:
First, Close Visual Studio and find the folder where your solution is.
Second, Open the .sln file with a text editor, you see all your projects encapsulated in Project – EndProject lines:
Third, Cut and paste the desired default startup items into the first.
Fourth, Delete your .suo file(hidden files: Solution Folder/.vs/Solution Name Folder/v17/.suo, I use VS2022).
Finally, Open your solution in Visual Studio.
You can have a try.
You will likely need to associate a custom IWizard assembly with your project template, and then explicitly set the startup project by setting the SolutionBuild.StartupProjects to the desired project in your solution.
Once upon a time, I did this using code similar to the following:
VSProject startupProj = FindVSProject(startupProjName);
sln.SolutionBuild.StartupProjects = startupProj.Project.UniqueName;
where FindVSProject was implemented as:
private VSProject FindVSProject(string projName)
{
foreach (Project p in _dte.Solution.Projects)
if (p.Name.Equals(projName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
return p.Object as VSProject;
return null;
}
I have vb.net windows application project and I want to make another project base on the first project and modify some forms or reports.
The scenario is, copy entire project as link then delete forms/reports that I want to modify then create the same form/report name that I want to modify, by doing this I only maintain one source code on most of them.
I don't want to do this one by one by adding existing item and Add as link, I have tried to create a solution with many projects and drag folder from base project to new project with 'Alt' key pressed with no success
I have read somewhere to edit project file something like this:
_Inlined\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)
but it makes vs 2012 not responding
If you want to create a new project based on the first project, my suggestion is to copy the entire project folder and then rename.
Once you do this, you will have two identical projects with the same linked files, meaning that if you want to edit the new one, it would be exactly like editing the new one.
I just downloaded ObjectListView. After adding the dll file when the objectListView is placed on my vb.net form it shows an error
Type 'BrightIdeasSoftware.ObjectListView' is not defined.
How to solve this problem ?
I am using VS2010
It sounds like you are missing a reference.
If you added the project source code, then you need to right-click on the project and select Add Reference..., select the Projects tab, and choose the ObjectListView project.
If you are just using the DLL, then you need to right-click on the project and select Add Reference..., select the Browse tab, and select the DLL file.
Update
Based on the screenshot, the issue is that ObjectListView requires the full .Net Framework, not the client profile.
To resolve this, right-click on the project, select Properties, then select .Net Framework 4 in the Target framework dropdown list (it will currently be set to .Net Framework 4 Client Profile).
I just downloaded the full demo package and verified that it would run. I then went to the Toolbox Right-Clicked and Selected Choose Items... under .Net Framework Components I then browsed to the folder that has the ObjectListView.dll in it and selected it. This added the component to the Containers group on the Toolbox. I then added ObjectListView to my form and it worked correctly. Check and make sure your project references have ObjectListView in them.
i.e.
What is a standard way to open the Designer (automatically generated) code for a VB file?
As a workaround, I can get to it by searching the entire solution for some keyword that is usually only found in those files: Global, Partial, etc.
Open the Solution Explorer. Along the toolbar at the top there is a tool Show All Files (it is the 2nd from the left on my version of visual studio). Click on that tool. All of your Form files will now have an arrow beside them. click on that arrow to expand. Look for the code file named FormName.designer.vb. Double-click on it to open.
You have to click the "show all files"-Button. Then you can also see the Designer.vb-files.
Note: For C# and VS 2008, but the same applies to VB in VS 2010.
http://peterkellner.net/2007/12/31/visualstudioshowallfiles/
http://blog.brianhartsock.com/2009/09/14/visual-studio-tip-show-all-file/
Keyboard shortcut for Show All Files
Show All Files is a useful little button in the Visual Studio solution explorer to give us a full view of the directory structure our project files are sitting in. When it is off, we only see the files that are explicitly included in the project, but when it is on, we see everything. This makes it very easy to explicitly opt a file into the project without doing an add -> existing item -> find existing item in directory structure and add to project.
The default when creating a new Visual Basic application in Visual Studio is to not show all files, and unfortunatly there is no setting you can adjust to change that.
Open the code file, and in the top-right corner of the code window is a drop-down containing all methods. Open this and select "InitializeComponent".
A screenshot from a newer version. Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 will look like this.
Could someone point me in the direction of importing a project into a project. Any information on how to use it would be great as well.
For example I have Project A that I could use to work within Project B. I have no idea what the correct form is for calling this in.
Any links would be more than helpful as well.
I am working in VB 2010
First Edit:
I do have an add reference option, but no add project option. Im assuming i shall go with reference and see what I can do.
Right click on the solution in the Solution explorer and Add --> Existing Project should work
Or file from the main menu Add --> Existing project