Is there any complete documentation for "Visual Studio Installer Projects" extension? - visual-studio-extensions

I have been hours looking on how to do stuff with this extension, but I can only find the outdated official documentation (which is not helping very much, is incomplete, obsolete, and has many broken links), some tutorials on how to do specific things, and forums about specific problems that are not related with what I'm looking for.
I am looking for something that would, for example, tell me what are the name of the variables someone can retrieve on User Interface's dialogs, or how can I preview the dialog to see if is what I need or not.
Is there any complete resource I can check use this extension's full potential?
thank you.

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Where can I see the SwiftPM Manifest file definition?

It started as simple as that I would like to look up all possible providers. Which ones are allowed?
However, where is the full struct definition?
There isn't a place that I am aware of where the documentation is hosted outside of the GitHub repo here.
I just dig through those and the actual implementation files if needs be to figure out what is available to me if I'm looking for/at new features.
As of WWDC 2019 there is now documentation on Apple's developer website for the package manager. It is here at the time of updating this.

Using LinkedIn API's in 2019

Looking around it is currently unclear to me whether or not LinkedIn allows 100% usage of all their API's. I see many sources from as long ago as 2017 saying "not unless you're a partner" and sources from 2018 saying "they brought the feature back" but I can't seem to find it or rather: they have 2-4 websites with their application creation and/or documentation and there is not a clear answer anywhere as to which one is the place with the current up-to-date documentations and application creation/approval.
Has anyone in the past year developed with LinkedIn's API's and could they point me in the right direction?
Can I develop on a POC, e.g. something like http://localhost[insertport] or do I have to use a live website? (which would be dumb, but whatever)
Check this : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/sign-in-with-linkedin?context=linkedin/consumer/context
Every thing is written there if you need any other help then let me know
but before asking any question read this link document carefully
Yes, you can use localhost for development

How to develop a web browser using c# .net using installed.net libraries and without using the web browser control?

I have searched the internet for 2 days having found no answer to the below requirement. What i found most were GeckoFX and CefSharp which are external packages and not installed libraries. How can this be done?
I have been asked to do the following:
Use a suitable library function out of the set of libraries installed with the .NET platform. You must not use the C# WebBrowser class but perform the required HTTP-level communication directly from within your code. The code must clearly identify the HTTP-level client-server communication and must explicitly manage Home page, Favourite, History Lists and Tabs.
Optionally, you may add functionality to render a web page, but there must be an option to disable this functionality and to show only the raw HTML that has been retrieved.
Thanks
What have you attempted so far and what problem are you encountering?
Maybe read this first :)
Currently it sounds like you have been given an interview or homework task that you dont know how to solve. If so, then you should have some idea on where to start or you are in the wrong course or job interview. If you want help, then try to solve the question yourself and ask for help when you are stuck. Tell us what you have tried, show the code you currently have and let us know where you are stuck or what doesnt work as expected.
Where are you stuck? Fetching the webpage? Building the user interface?

Symfony-cmf routing step by step

The symfony-cmf documentation is a nightmare, it is really hard to understand and it seems that many of it is outdated.
I think I have understood the routing concept, but I can't figure how to implement it, clearly.
How to register a router?
How to setup dynamic routing?
How to persist a document and map a route?
FYI 1.1 was been released and the documentation has been updated accordingly.
I am sorry to hear that. If you run on 1.0, things should not be outdated, except for some cookbook entries which have a note at their head. The 1.1 documentation is not online yet as we currently can only publish one version of the doc. That is only available on github.
Your questions however are answered by both versions:
http://symfony.com/doc/master/cmf/bundles/routing/introduction.html#loading-routers-with-tagging
http://symfony.com/doc/master/cmf/bundles/routing/dynamic.html - also the sandbox is a good example to see this in action
http://symfony.com/doc/master/cmf/bundles/routing/dynamic.html#the-phpcr-odm-route-document
If you have inputs how we can make it easier to find the way through the doc or at which point in the quick tour / book you got lost, please open issues (or even better pull requests) on the symfony-cmf-docs github repository.

Framework /starting point for social networking site in .NET?

I did do some googling and searching on this site but did not find exactly what I was looking for.
I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction here. I'm an ASP.NET/SQL Server developer and would like to develop a (intially) basic social networking site (gasp). Before I start from scratch with a blank solution in ASP.NET, I'm wondering if there are any frameworks out there ASP.NET specific that would serve as a good starting point. I'm already thinking of using the Google Maps jquery control for my Google Maps integration, as well as the 'sharethis' control for my social networking website sharing integration. Captcha for human authentication... But other than that I'm not sure what I can leverage... Nothing on Google jumped out at me on my search terms.
I'm also wondering if anyone else has done something similar and could share their post mortem/war stories with me.
I'm also open to learning a new platform/language if it would mean saving time - my experience is mostly in ASP.NET, so that is what I plan on using if it makes the most sense. My initial requirements are basic and realistic - profile setup (images, information, etc.), 'group' creation, Google Map integration, calendar controls shared by groups, SMS support, discussion forums among groups, searching for groups, OpenID integration most likely, etc. I am not going to try to build the entire site and then release it, but take baby steps and release pieces of functionality at a time.
Any advice is greatly appreciated for a broad question such as this. Thanks again.
I've found DotNetOpenAuth which seems to be a nice API for handling OpenID for ASP.NET web forms. They also have an ASP.NET MVC version
I also found MS Web Platform. This looks like some good stuff. Anyone ever use it and think it would do well for this sort of app?
I found a library for DotNetNuke called ActiveSocial. It's priced right ($500) and has more than the features I need but lacks some. I wonder if anyone here has ever used AS before. Is DNN easy to extend so I can add Google Maps functionality and such? It doesn't say anywhere on snowcovered (the vendor that sells AS) if AS comes with the source. If it didn't, then I might be screwed because I wouldn't be able to integrate the functionality I want.
I went through this exercise about 15 months ago when I built a SNS for a client. Hoping to find some basic framework for Friends, Chat, Profiles etc I was pretty disappointed.
That said, in retrospect I wish rather than building one that we would have purchased a solution like Community Server. As with most projects I looked at the problem scope with beer, no strike that, ambitious goggles on and the level of work to cover all the edge cases was more than I imagined.
Tread careful my friend, tread careful.
I think this is what you're looking for. Kigg is an open source ASP.NET MVC app that would be a good starting point for what you want. Here is the url: http://www.codeplex.com/Kigg
You can also find a site that is using this here: http://dotnetshoutout.com/
At the very least you will learn the ASP.NET MVC framework which is fantastic.
While not exactly intended to be used for social networking sites, both of these frameworks can help you so you don't have to start from scratch:
DotNetNuke: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
Umbraco: http://umbraco.org/
Also, for an out of the box solution (no code involved) you could always try this: http://www.ning.com/
Good luck!

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