I have downloaded and installed Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone. Is there a way to be able to code WPF apps for Windows too? Can I upgrade Visual Studio, because at the moment I can only create windows phone apps. Haven't found anything on the web.
Thanks in advance!
You need to get Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktop (or a paid SKU) to develop WPF applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-for-windows-desktop
This version is for Desktop apps.
Did you install "Express for Windows Phone"? Perhaps try "Express for Windows Desktop"?
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-for-windows-desktop
(must admit I've not tried express in a while, but it looks like they are different installers. I've always found Visual Studio works well side-by-side with different versions these days, so I imagine you can install both.)
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Currently my system has Windows 8.1, and Visual Studio 2015. Can I install xamarin test recorder in Windows desktop or not? If yes then what else I need to install Xamarin test recorder? And, process for the same. I have referred some other solutions too but not getting correct solution yet. Please guide me to install xamarin test recorder. Thank you.
Currently Xamarin Test Recorder is available for Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise. There will be an update released soon that will make it available for Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate as well.
I am trying to build Microsoft Maps Spatial Toolbox from Visual Studio 2013 on win 7.
The code was downloaded from
https://mapstoolbox.codeplex.com/
But, it requires win 8.1. My machine is win 7.
Is there a workaround to build it on win 7 ?
If only WPF example can be built on win 7, that would also be fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks !
What you have to do is create a new empty solution in VS 2013, and then add references to the individual projects that you want to use. In this case the WPF project. Alternatively, go into the WPF samples folder, and open the project of the sample you want in VS 2013. You likely will have a few other projects that won't load, just ignore those. It should still build. I ran into the same issue when I moved from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
I have installed VS2012 on a windows 8 machine and surprisingly doesn't show any WPF or Silverlight option when I create a project.
Am I missing something here?! In fact, it is not the way it used to be in VS2010. I only can see it as template under Visual C# which again it is under Online.
Why is that?
You need to install "Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktop"....it's a different edition which has restored the WPF capability.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-for-windows-desktop
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/09/12/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop-is-here.aspx
To help decide if it's got all the capabilities you need:
Limitations of Visual Studio 2012 Express Desktop
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.
I want to play around with silverlight without having to buy a Visual Studio 2008 license.
I already used my trial time with Visual Studio, so I'm trying to find another solution.
Any thing out there?
Thanks
Visual Web Developer Express SP1 is supported with RC0 and later. Install it first, then install the tools.
What I heard, you can use VS Express SP1 with Silverlight.
Use Eclipse
Eclipse tools for Microsoft Silverlight check out http://www.eclipse4sl.org/