Previous versions of the Microsoft Report Viewer technology for Windows Forms had a runtime file you could install on a client PC to setup the Microsoft Report Viewer assemblies on the users machine. Does something like this exist for Report Viewer version 14.0 used by Visual Studio 2017? I can't seem to find anything available on the Internet.
Viewer 14 on VS 2017 is quite nice in that all you need is the nuget package and you have everything you need to run reports. It doesn't require an installation package to run on the target machines.
This makes web applications a lot easier to deploy as you don't have to install anything on the server short of the website itself. And for winforms you just need to include the dll files the nuget package added.
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We have an old Silverlight project that we have to maintain while a modern replacement is developed.
For build and publication, we use Azure DevOps.
The problem arose after Windows 2019 and 2022 remained in the available images of Azure DevOps. With versions of VS with which the project with Silverlight stopped building.
Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 16.11.32901.82
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.3.32901.215
2022-09-10T14:26:05.9397408Z ##[error]abcWebSilverlight\abcWebSilverlight.csproj(1056,11): Error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\Silverlight\v5.0\Microsoft.Silverlight.CSharp.targets" was not found. Also, tried to find "Microsoft\Silverlight\v5.0\Microsoft.Silverlight.CSharp.targets" in the fallback search path(s) for $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32) - "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild" . These search paths are defined in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe.Config". Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk in one of the search paths.
Now, to solve the problem with the building, I see two possible ways:
Somehow install the necessary VS version.
I've googled all over the internet but can't find how to do it.
In the Build task, I set the desired version and the build jumps to the available version of the studio because others are not installed in the system.
Dirty hack. Try to somehow install the extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RamiAbughazaleh.SilverlightProjectSystem&ssr=false#qna in the hope that the project will work.
But then again, in Azure DevOps, I don't see a tool that allows me to do this.
I would appreciate any advice on a possible solution to my problem.
Thank you.
You cannot use Visual Studio 2017 or later to build old Silverlight (v4 or v5) projects - you have to continue using Visual Studio 2015.
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2017/vs2017-compatibility-vs
Silverlight projects are not supported in this version of Visual Studio. To maintain Silverlight applications, continue to use Visual Studio 2015.
In Azure DevOps, the only way to get this to work is to setup your own instance of Windows with VS2015 (or the VS2015 build tools) installed and then also install the Azure DevOps self-hosted pipeline agent (for building: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/agents?view=azure-devops&tabs=browser#install)
The instance can be either on-premises or cloud-hosted (either Azure or even an AWS VM instance) and will work so long as it can access the internet to communicate with Azure DevOps (configuration is a bit different if you're using DevOps Server).
I'm fairly new to Visual Studio and SSIS and was wondering if someone could just clear up for me how Visual Studio SSIS Projects and Visual Studio in general handle Add-In Extension and Package Deployment.
The Scenario: I am currently developing and creating a Visual Studio SSIS Package on my local machine.I need to use an extension from the Tools > Extensions and Updates which just links me to a webpage.I need to install this and use it to make a package which I will deploy to the Integration Services Catalog on a SQL Server 2014 that does not have Visual Studio installed. When I deploy this project as a package will the things the extension did be baked into the package or is it like references where I will need to install the extension on the server that will be running the package via SQL Agent Job. Thanks, any help is appreciated.
When you deploy a package to the catalog, all libraries/extensions (eg.azure connection etc) are deployed along-with, so no special treatment is needed. But many a times you will need to ensure your frameworks( eg. .net 4.0 etc) exist for the extension to be executed on the integration services server you are deploying to.
In some cases you have to register the dlls using GACUtil, to the integration services server. Your custom tool installation instructions will specify that.
From Prerequisites on the setup property pages, I selected the option to Download prerequisites from the component vendor's web site
There is no Windows Installer 4.5 in the prerequisites to install option..
because every im installing my setup using the sqlexpr_x64_ENU.exe in custom actions to install, run the setup after the extracting sqlserver it pops up the window says
There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. Aprogram run as part of the setup did not finnish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor
im using VS2017 on windows 10
Exclude MSI Engine: You should not include Windows Installer 4.5 with any package these days. This runtime is from back in the day of Windows Vista - we are long since on version 5. Windows Installer should be deployed only via Windows Update as of today - in my opinion. Leave the runtime out of your setup.
No Concurrency: You can not run an MSI setup from within another MSI setup via a custom action. This is due to technical restrictions. There is a mutex set when an MSI runs its actual installation sequence, and triggering another installation sequence from within it will fail. A similar answer on the topic.
Setup.exe Launcher: What you need is to install your pre-requisites via a setup.exe launcher instead. This runs installations in serial, not in parallel. Which version of SQL Server are you installing? I see only a couple of versions available in the Visual Studio Installer Project launcher.
Other tools have features to allow you to install a setup.exe with embedded packages of various kinds in sequence. I have explained a myriad of times how to do this in previous answers. Here are just a few that I found quickly:
SQL Server named instance with Visual Studio 2017 Installer project (basically exactly the same issue - I suggest WiX the open source, free alternative)
Custom installer for application in Visual Studio 2017 (I suggest WiX and several commercial tools that are easier to use - maybe try to read this one)
Cannot call command.exe(SQL Server Setup.exe) while calling C# CA with parameters
How to create a MSI file which simply copies a directory to Program Files? (tools list)
Combine exe and msi file in one installer
Visual Studio 2017 Installer Project - include VC++ 2015 Redistributable
The general situation:
The problem is not Windows Installer 4.5, it's the fact that you are trying to do a recursive MSI install (the SQL one from inside yours) which is not allowed and will fail.
The MSI 4.5 engine is pretty much obsolete, about 10 years old, and anyway it's not the issue, and it's not clear why you believe it is. But it IS in the Prerequisite list on my VS 2017 setup project prerequisites - see 3 - even though you almost certainly don't need it.
There are some SQL Express options available in the Prerequisites of the VS setup project - right click the project in solution explorer and choose Properties, then Prerequisites.
This might be a trivial error in my setup but I cannot seem to find where I went wrong in stalling SSDT 2013 with SQl Server and having the open to create a new database template
please see image
what I expect to be in the list in a sql template with the option to create a new database project
could someone tell me what i'm missing ?
Thanks in advance
For database projects you'll need to install a version of Visual Studio that supports it - in your case it looks like you ran the standalone SSDT-BI installer which installs SSIS, SSAS and SSRS templates. This doesn't include database project templates. What you need is to install one of the VS versions with support - there are 2 Express versions (Express for Web and Express for Windows Desktop) and 3 paid versions (Premium, Pro, Ultimate). Here is a quote from the SSDT blog post explaining this:
Visual Studio 2013 - VS 2013 now has SQL Server tooling built in and shipped as part of the core product. Database Projects, SQL tools (such as schema compare & data compare), and the online experiences through SSOX are all included with the RTM version. We have full project and SSOX support in VS Express for Web and Express for Windows Desktop, so we have discontinued our stand-alone integrated shell offering. We have a component update feed that will use VS Update to push notification to users. To manually check for updates, go to the Tools > Extensions and Updates... menu to open the dialog. We will continue to post announcements on our blog and forum that a release is available and what is included in that update.
What version of Visual Studio 2013 are you using? You need to have either the Ultimate, Premium or Pro version for SSDT (Link).
If you do have the right version of Visual Studio then you may need to re-run the installer and opt in to SQL Server Data Tools during setup.
I had this issue and resolved it several years ago. I needed to reinstall SSMS with Data Tools. Unfortunately I am encountering the same issue now, but luckily I had documented the issue at the time. I am finding that because there are newer versions of both VS and SSMS, it is hard to find the proper downloads.
From my documentation (3 years ago) None of the attempts to correct the Visual Studio install directly (SSDTBI_x86_ENU download from Microsoft) were successful, but once we did a complete reinstall of SQL Server 2014 which included the Data Tools, the needed template was available in the Add New Project dialog, and the previously incompatible projects found in GitHub******Report.sln were now compatible.
I have completed a WPF application in Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 Express. I have also used Crystal Reports in my project. Now I need to deploy the application on client's systems. I assume that I will have to install the following pre-requisites first.
.Net Framework 4.0
MS SQL Server 2008 express (which may require .Net 2.0)
CR Runtime for .Net 4.0
Report Viewer
IS there a way so that everything installs on its own? I have tried selecting all the above as ** prerequisites**, but that gives me an error that CR Runtime msi not found. Can I also include all the files within my software in the bin folder?
Please give me suggestions.
you can download CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_1.msi from SAP website (google it) and place it in this location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\Crystal Reports
for .NET Framework 4.0\