I just installed Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate which includes Blend.
Visual Studio installed correctly and shows up as being properly licensed. However, the help-about page in Blend is telling me that my license expires in 30 days! The license number listed appears to be gibberish (it includes two question marks, a total of 35 zeros, and is not hyphenated).
Shouldn't the license number for Blend be the same as for VS?
Does this have something to do with a "windows store apps" developer license?
There is no option to activate from the New project screen or from the help menu.
How do I activate this version of Blend?
The help is not helpful and searching for info on "Blend for Visual Studio 2013" is not getting me anywhere.
After installation, Visual Studio 2013 is in trial mode for 30 days. You have to start it, click on "HELP" in the main menu, then on "Register Product". There (hidden behind a blue link) you have the opportunity to enter your product key. Applying the Visual Studio product key seems to also activate Blend as it now says "License expires in 0 days" in the about box.
In order to solve the problem you must install Visual Studio 2013 Update 1.
After that the patch were installed you will see that the licence will be ok.
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I've been out of the winforms space for quite a few years. Trying to find out where the smart tag is in a winforms form in Visual Studio 2019 and how to invoke it.
Following instructions from https://docs.devexpress.com/WindowsForms/402959/controls-and-libraries/ribbon-bars-and-menu/get-started
I cannot, even without devexpress find the windows smart tag. Ideas?
Smart tag is enable by default in design-time. If you don't see it, try:
Uninstall Visual Studio.
Delete all temporary, settings, data files/folders of Visual Studio.
Restart computer.
Re-install Visual Studio.
I'm unable to run a .vdproj in Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. I tried the below link which hasn't worked either
Visual Studio - vdproj is incompatible
The project shows incompatible and after installing the Installer Project as Extension given in the above link , the project load is failing. Unable to proceed. Please help
This is redundant question.
Please follow this link for the answer:
Visual Studio - vdproj is incompatible
Or follow these Steps which is also taken from that link:
Go to Extensions > Manage Extension
Select Online > Visual Studio Marketplace
Search for Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects
Download the package
Close the Visual Studio to start the installation.
Follow the instructions to install the extension.
Once installation is completed. Launch again the Visual Studio.
In the Solution Explorer, look for the .vdproj project
Right click .vdproj project, click Reload
If all of the mentioned remedies not help, there is another possibility, which was the case here in VS2019 Community.
Installed extensions can not only be uninstalled, but also be disabled. In that case it looks like so:
The "Disable" and "Uninstall" buttons show up after a right-click on the corresponding object.
In my case and to my big astonishment, the Installer Project was disabled (showing "Enable" in the button), whoever did it.
It cost me about 2 hours to find out, some restarts of VS2019 and wondering about useless instructions about having to install the extension. After enabling, everything worked like before. Sigh of relief.
After doing lot of research on this topic, Visual Studio 2019 Community edition , is not supporting these kind of projects. Older versions like 2015 , 2010 supports.
Or convert these projects into a console application and run it for local setup and debugging.
I am trying to build Mozilla on Windows 7 64bit
I tried to run this start-shell-msvc2015.bat but got this error.
MozillaBuild Install Directory: C:\mozilla-build\
Visual C++ 2015 Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\V
C\
Windows SDK Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\
Unable to call a suitable vcvars script. Exiting.
Press any key to continue . . .
I did everything according to their instructions
When in doubt, search Google for the error message. From the first result:
Hallvord R. M. Steen:
To anybody else who might have this problem: it's caused by choices made during installation, and the installer options were somewhat confusing. I don't remember the exact details, but I think the "Default" installation no longer gives you the required scripts - the "Default vs custom" section on https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e2h7fzkw%28v=vs.140%29.aspx seems to confirm that you need to choose "Custom" during install and enable Visual C++ tools specifically.
Andrew Overholt: You're right, Hallvord. I went back to my VS2015 installation .exe download, clicked "Modify [the existing installation]" and picked "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" under "Programming Languages" > "Visual C++".
Also you'll need at least update 3 if you're using the VS2015 Community Edition. From that Mozilla dev docs page:
Once you’re up to date, download and install Visual Studio Community 2015 Update 3 from Microsoft. If you have an earlier version of Visual Studio, you'll need to upgrade; Firefox relies on C++ features that aren't supported in older versions of Visual Studio. Do not accept the default configuration. Instead, select **Programming Languages > Visual C++ > Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015.*
See also this question on Super User.
Furthermore, the MDN docs actually were updated with this info after that report, and indeed the current build instructions contain, in bold:
Be sure to install the "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015", which requires a customized installation in Visual Studio 2015.
In the prerequisites section.
Also you'll need at least update 3 if you're using the VS2015 Community Edition. From that Mozilla dev docs page:
Once you’re up to date, download and install Visual Studio Community 2015 Update 3 from Microsoft. If you have an earlier version of Visual Studio, you'll need to upgrade; Firefox relies on C++ features that aren't supported in older versions of Visual Studio. Do not accept the default configuration. Instead, select Programming Languages > Visual C++ > Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015.
I have installed visual studio 2015 enterprise on windows 10. And I created a windows form application in c#. So normally, on visual studio 2013 I saw the a small triangle button like this:
But on visual studio 2015, this button disappear. Is it removed? How can I re-enable it? Please help me! Sorry about my bad english.
Smart Tags are supported in Visual Studio 2015.
I have VS2015 Enterprise Update 1 runned in Windows 10. That triangle button is visible by default at the same location as in VS2013. Try Shift+Alt+F10, it is default key combination to show Smart Tags.
Also, check Tools -> Options -> Windows Forms Designer -> Automatically Open Smart Tags property value.
I am trying to migrate my silverlight applications from version 3 to version 4. I've been running into this problem. when i try to install silverlight4 tools for visual studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 or Visual Phone Developer Express 2010 that matches the language version of Silverlight Tools 4 must be installed before installation of Silverlight Tools can continue. Silverlight Tools is available in other languages at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177432.
I have installed
microsoft visual studio 2010 professional
version 10.0.30319.1.RTMRel
Microsoft .net framework
version 4.0.30319 RTMRel
please help!!!!!
Silverlight tools 4 is available in English, French, German and Japanese. You need to have downloaded the correct language version of the Silverlight Tools (note the language combobox).
If your version of Studio is installed for another language then you could try installing the English Visual Web Developer Express 2010 (it should install fine side-by-side with your standard product) then installing the Tools. I'm not sure that will get you completely to where you'd want to be as far as templates are concerned but it should get you going.
How to determine what failed
If you use the Web Platform Installer to install, it tells you in the log file what happened.
IronSpigot::Main::LogPackageNameAndVersion(): Package Name = Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
IronSpigot::Main::LogPackageNameAndVersion(): Package Version = 10.0.30319 1033
It will compare these against the values in the following two registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Setup\VS\BuildNumber\1033
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\General\UILanguage
If you have VS.NET 2010 SP1 for en-us, the first will contain '10.0.40219' and the second 1033.
The setup confusingly reports this as a language issue, but if you read carefully it is a language and version issue.
Here's how to work around the version check:
Using regedit, change the first key to 10.0.30319. Run the setup.
Using regedit, change the first key back to 10.0.40219
I recommend reapplying SP1 to be safe, but I'm not sure if it is required.
This other answer has a longer solution which is to uninstall SP1, install the tools, then reinstall SP1.
coudn't find the soulution.
however my issue resolved when i installed the same build version of Visual Studio Premium version.