I installed VSStudio 2015 from here: http://www.asp.net/vnext
Installation says success but I have no icon on desktop to run why?
VS2015RC installation did not put an icon on my desktop either, it is in the application menu though.
The exe should be located here.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
You can create a shortcut and put it on the desktop yourself.
If you cannot find the folder maybe you need to reinstall or repair the installation.
The official download site is here. The community edition should have all you need to get started with ASP.NET 5 and all the vNext stuff.
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I used to use MS Visual Web Development (VWD) Express 2008 as IDE for a website which was developed on .NET framework 2.5 with VB.NET and runs on IIS 7 originally. About a year ago, MS stopped downloading the VWD Express 2008 and now I am in need of an IDE for my old VB.NET website. Which IDE will allow me to maintain this old VB.NET website?
Here is the detail info of VS 2019 community installed:
Here is screen shot of the existing project I am maintaining.
You can go with Visual Studio Express.
(edit: It is now called Visual Studio Community Edition).
It should work fine. To be honest, I never used Visual Web Developer.
Just keep in mind, that you want to open the project as a web site, and NOT a project. Quite sure that's how VW developer worked and was setup.
I'm not even sure they have VW developer anymore, but Visual Studio Express 2019 should be able to open + work on that web site.
So, to open a web application project, then you use this option:
(this means you have a .sln file).
So this:
However, this might ONLY be a web site project. So, you can use this option:
So, I would certinly try to open the project (folder) where the site exists, and see if you can find a .sln file.
If there is no .sln file, then you can try to open the .vbproj file.
But if you open a "web site", then you ONLY select the folder where the web site exists. (you don't open .sln, or .vbproj file - but open the FOLDER.
VS 2017 is the last one that explicitly mention supports for .NET 3.5, and the Community version is still available with the free Dev Essentials account. If you're ineligible for Community, then the Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web is the one you want.
That said, even in the latest VS 2022, I still see the option to switch a project to target .NET 3.5, and the template still offers Web Form development.
On one machine, I don't have the Web Projects.
First of all I had a Ultimate Trial, there I had the webprojects. Then I uninstalled it and installed the Professional, since then all web projects (4.5 and 5 rc) are missing.
I did install the Web Developer Tools. I Also installed and repaired the asp 5.
I also uninstalled VS2015 and reinstalled it.
On all other machines even those where i also uninstalled the ultimate it works fine I don't want to reinstall the whole machine :-/
Try to reset to default templates back by using the following command line (run as local Admin):
devenv /installvstemplates
UPDATE: also removing folders ItemTemplatesCache and ProjectTemplatesCache from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE might help. It is pretty safe to delete them but I would backup just for any cases.
I'm trying to make new ASP.NET Web Application project in Visual Studio 2013 but it immediately fails with this error:
Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.WindowsAzure.Contracts.AzureResourceCreationType' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts, Version=2.3.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.
I used to be able to create web apps. Visual studio updated to update v4 a while back. Also I made sure all extensions are updated.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
After a lot more searching I found the answer from this post:
Visual Studio 2013 Premium solution load errors after Update 3
I had to run the following commands and everything works again afterwards.
gacutil -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Publish.dll"
gacutil -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts.dll"
I had the same issue after removing VS2015RC and installing full VS2015.
Side note: The above fix (changing path to point at "Microsoft Visual Studio 14") fixed the above error in VS2015.
Looking through the control panel and program updates, VS2013 update 4 was installed around the same time as VS2015 so I ran a repair on update 4 and it had no affect.
Repaired KB2932965 a VS2013 update, still no luck
Its been a while since I setup a Build Server so maybe I've forgotten something or maybe .NET 4.5 is different from whatever version I did this with last time, but here is my problem.
I'm trying to setup a build server to monitor a source control repository. Whenever something changes, I want the server to pull the changes and build the project. If there are no errors, I want to deploy the site to a web site running on the build server.
In the past when I did this, I thought that I was able to do this having only .NET installed, but when I try to build this project I get an error that "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" is missing, and if I go and look I can see that it is missing. In fact there are no Visual Studio 11 targets files.
After a lot of thought and head scratching, I went out and got the "Windows 8/.NET 4.5 SDK" thinking that the .NET 4.5 SDK might install the targets files that I needed, but it did not unless I installed it wrong somehow.
So, what do I need to put on the Build Server in order to get the project to build. I would prefer not to have to install the full Visual Studio 2012.
To run on on your CI server without Visual Studio, you only need to copy a few folders from a development machine to the same location on the CI server. There is no need to install the SDK.
VS 2015:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\Web
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications
VS 2013:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\WebApplications
VS 2012:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications
VS 2010:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications
.NET 4.6:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6
.NET 4.5.2:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.2
.NET 4.5.1:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5.1
.NET 4.5:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5
.NET 4.0.1:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0.1
.NET 4.0:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0
Or, as Matt suggested, you could copy them into a subdirectory of your project and alter the <MSBuildExtensionsPath32> location in your MSBuild (typically .csproj or .vbproj) file.
Once you have done this, your project will compile.
You should also set the VisualStudioVersion environment variable explicitly to the Visual Studio version (10.0 for VS2010, 11.0 for VS2012, 12.0 for VS2013, 14.0 for VS2015) you are using just to be sure it is set right in your configuration.
My problem was related to installing the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 8 on a Windows 2008 Box. If you read further on the page, you will get to a heading labeled ".NET Framework 4.5 SDK Tools on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008." This tells you to:
Run the Windows SDK for Windows 8 installer on a supported operating system (for example, Windows 7, or Windows 8).
Choose the following option on the Specify Location screen: Download the Windows SDK for installation on a separate computer.
Press the Next button.
Answer the questions on the Join the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) screen.
On the next screen, choose the .NET Framework 4.5 Software Development Kit feature. Unselect all other features that can be unselected.
Choose the Download button.
Go to the download location (specified in step 2) and find the following .NET Framework 4.5 SDK tool installer files:
sdk_tools4.msi,
sdk_tools4.cab
You can copy these files to a Windows Vista or Windows 2008 Server computer within your organization. These files need to be copied to same directory on the Windows Vista or Windows 2008 Server computer.
Note: Do not redistribute these files outside your organization or as part of any other installer.
On the Windows Vista or Windows 2008 Server computer, review the license terms here .
Check whether .NET Framework 4.5 is already installed on the computer. Otherwise, download and install .NET Framework 4.5 from www.microsoft.com .
Open a command prompt with administrator privileges.
Go to the directory where .NET Framework 4.5 SDK Tools installer files were copied.
Install .NET Framework 4.5 SDK tools by using the command line:
Msiexec /i sdk_tools4.msi VSEXTUI=1
From msdn:
The Windows SDK no longer ships with a complete command-line build environment. You must install a compiler and build environment separately. If you require a complete development environment that includes compilers and a build environment, you can download Visual Studio 2012 Express, which includes the appropriate components of the Windows SDK.
In order to fix this, I had to copy the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5 from my development machine (which has Visual Studio 2012 by the way) onto the build agents. After this operation, Team City did not report any more errors and mscorlib.dll was not output to the bin folder.
Microsoft Build Tools 2013 will help in this case, as its download page describes:
If you don't have Visual Studio installed on your computer, you can
use Build Tools 2013 to build managed applications. The Visual Basic
and C# compilers are also included in this download. (In earlier
versions, these tools were included in the stand-alone .NET
Framework.)
My dept. likes taking a minimalistic approach to what's installed on our Win 7 build machines. However, we don't like just copying and pasting files/folders because of potential registry key issues. Instead of installing VS 2013, I installed the following much smaller and free components. Now the dev team can build VS 2013 web apps successfully.
.Net Framework v4.5.1, required to install the tools - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40779
MS Build Tools 2013, we needed the C# compiler - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2013/07/24/msbuild-is-now-part-of-visual-studio.aspx
MS VS 2013 Isolated Shell, we needed the web app targets - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40764.
I solve this problem with Visual Studio Agents.
You can try install Visual Studio Agents 2012.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38186
Ok so i downloaded the asp.net mvc through the web platform installer. Rebooted the machine and fired up VS 2008 express. Lo and behold there were no website/project templates that could setup an mvc project. I did a little research and found out they would not show up in the express version. No matter - i got team suite edition too so i installed that and hoped for the templates to show up. They did not, so i reinstalled the mvc and they still won't show up.
I hate this part of developing - i just want to dognammed tools to work - what am i doing wrong - why won't the templates show up? I can't seem to uninstall mvc now and reinstalling just tells me that it's already installed...
If you have asp.net mvc installed and don't see templates in visual studio, you should try to run administrative command prompt and run devenv - setup so that templates can be registered.
c:\Windows\system32>cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE"
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE>devenv - setup
this should help
If you installed Team Suite after mvc, it won't see the templates. Try reinstalling MVC, it's light and shouldn't take long.
Are you sure? I thought that but it HAS to be .NET 3.5 AND it's a Web Application from the New Project dialog and not through the New Website dialog. Annoying but alas!