Create new project in VS 2013 to be compatible with 2010 - asp.net

At home I have VS 2013, but at my college they use VS 2010 and we have to make WebForms project.
Can I create new project in 2013 so that it can be opened in 2010?

AFAIK no, even projects created in 2010 have to be converted to a higher version, if you want to open them in 2013.. You can however open individual source files without any issues. It's just the project file that's problematic. I'm afraid you'd have to have installed 2010 as well (you can have multiple versions of VS installed on one system).

Related

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Isolated Shell project template missing?

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Isolated Shell project template missing ?Any clue if i missed any extension pack pack or individual workload while installing ?
At the time of this writing (April 10, 2017) the Visual Studio 2017 Isolated / Integrated Shells haven't been announced yet. It seems that Microsoft will provide them but they need time to accommodate to the new Visual Studio 2017 internal component structure and setup. As you may know, Visual Studio 2017 doesn't use GAC or normal Windows Registry (it uses a private Registry hive) and its setup is based on workloads and very granular individual components. For example, the standalone Visual Studio 2017 Team Explorer was announced last week, weeks after the initial launch of Visual Studio 2017 RTM. With the Shells the same will happen eventually.
And now 3 years later (March 2020), it looks like Microsoft gave up on the Isolated Shell for Visual Studio. I could not find an official retirement of the software, however 2015 is the latest version I have found any reference to.
http://www.visualstudioextensibility.com/2017/04/11/microsoft-the-visual-studio-shells-and-the-old-versions/
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/isolated-shell/
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

upgrading VSIX from VS 2013 to VS 2015

I have created a Visual Studio extension(vsix) in VS 2013 to add a new Project Template. I need to make it working in VS 2015. I have modified source.extension.vsixmanifest file to include Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro[14.0]. The problem is it is getting installed in VS 2015, but there are some VS 2013 specific dlls. So it is giving errors while creating project. Is there any way to make it working in VS 2015, without rewriting the entire code.?
you can try this :
Open your project with VS2015
Right click and select add, new item
In Visual C# Items, choose Extensibility
Add a VSPackage.cs item
Remove each references to this package if you don't need it
Visual studio will add new references for VS2015. This is not a perfect solution and it may not compile because you have a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.12.0 so just remove it.
Let me know if you need more help but it should be a good start.

Visual Studio 2010 & 2012 ASP.Net debug & layout issues

I've got Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate edition on my machine, and I've been working with ASP.NET a lot (my job). I recently installed Visual Studio 2012, to test it out. Noticed that I had a few issues with VS 2010 after installing VS 2012, with Unit Testing etc.
Anyway, I have been debugging & testing the ASP.NET pages in 2012 to test it out. Went back to debug and test on VS 2010 and that's when it all went wrong! Sometimes it debugs, most of the time it doesn't, and when it does the layout and formatting is horribly wrong.
Tried the ASP.NET project on my employee's machines, and it runs fine and the layout is all correct. (They use VS 2010)
I've uninstalled VS 2012 completely and tried debugging and testing in VS 2010 and I still have the same issue! I also have re-installed VS 2010 twice, and yet it still does not work.
Anybody know whats wrong with it? Or what else I can do to ensure VS 2010 and 2012 stuff has been properly uninstalled before I try another re-install?
Thanks for your time..
Create a Virtual Machine and install VS2010. In a clean install, it should work fine. Otherwise, VS2012 could have made some changes to your code. I wouldn't discard it -¿config files? ¿a new version of the bundled web server? ¿a new functionality?-.
Once you have discarded code changes due to the new version, give a try to your preferred uninstall software and delete VS2012...

SQLite 1.0.82.0 (latest) in Visual Studio 2012 not showing in Designer Data Source

I am using the latest version, 1.0.82.0 (sqlite-netFx40-setup-bundle-x86-2010-1.0.82.0.exe), and am using the released version of Visual Studio 2012 with all the latest everything.
I do not see the SQLite in the Designer Data Source in Source Explorer (new Connections).
The download on SQLite states, "This setup package is capable of installing the design-time components for Visual Studio 2010". I presume the "Visual Studio 2010" part is why I do not see the designer in VS2012, which is what I have.
How can I get the designer to work with VS2012?
When will the System.Data.SQLite.org team come out with a version that works with VS 2012?
(I did see a couple of posts back in July which talked about 1.0.66 and 1.0.73, but that was then and 1.0.82 includes the designers just for VS 2010 apparently. I see other file names with "-2008" presumably for Visual Studio 2008. That means that a Visual Studio 2012 will probably come, but in the mean time, I am curious about a manual registry hack or something like that.)
In order to get designer support for SQLite in Visual Studio, you have to download a very specific version of System.Data.SQLite. The downloads page has an astonishing 56 different possibilities, so it's easy to get the wrong one.
Look for the big bold text that says this:
This setup package is capable of installing the design-time components for Visual Studio 2012.
But it's still easy to miss among the zillions of downloads. If you need to, use Control-F to find the "Visual Studio 2012" text.
Don't download the 64-bit version, even if you're on a 64-bit machine. You need the 32-bit version with the text above to get designer support.
NEW EDIT NOW I GOT IT WORKING!
Goto Visual Studio, Manage Nuget, search for online packages, search "SQLite", install System.Data.SQLite, and boom, you can use designer and evrything is working again.
After some search I found my answer, 1.0.83, which will come out in November XX, 2012.
Visual Studio 2012 aside from the v10 to v11 registry hive difference also has what the team calls a "redesigned designer support".
Here is the link to the information.
http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/news.wiki
1.0.83.0 - November XX, 2012 (release scheduled)
•Updated to SQLite 3.7.15.
•Add Visual Studio 2012 support to all the applicable solution/project files, their associated supporting files, and the test suite.
•Add Visual Studio 2012 support to the redesigned designer support installer.
and other changes.
I could not find any interim solution on the web, sadly. The lack of a fix affects report based projects with DevExpress and projects that use the explorer.

How can I open a Visual Web Developer 2010 Express in Visual Studio 2005

Can anybody tell me how to open a VWD 2010 Express project in Visual Studio 2005?
Don't open the *.sln file because that simply won't work.
Easiest way I can think of is to create a new project in Visual Studio 2005, then using "Add Existing File" (R-Click the Project) add all the files that should be there. Bear in mind you may need to create multiple projects to accomadate the previous structure.
You can see which projects you need to add by checking the solution's directory for .csproj/.vbproj files.
Note that the solution is incompatible for a reason, there are likely to be multiple issues whereby .Net 2 does not support the content of the likely .Net 4 code/config created in VWD2010.
It may be much easier for the person using VS05 to simply download VWD2010 Express, which is free.
Maybe this might help: Solution Converter
I used this tool for some conversions, but I haven't tried yet what you want to do so I can't tell you for sure if it'll work...
After exploring a lot about this i got same words from all and these suits as extract for them.
Easiest way is probably to create a new project in VS 2005, and use
the add existing item dialog to add the code to the project. I'd
suggest using 'Empty Project' as the project type, so you don't have a
lot of rubbish auto generated for you that you'll just delete anyway.
Follow these links and choose the way that you like to follow either using tools or some modification etc..
How to downgrade solution from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2005?
Downgrade C# Project from visual studio 2010 to visual studio 2008
How to downgrade solution code upgraded to Visual Studio 2010
Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005
How to downgrade from Visual Studio 2010 project to VS 2008 or VS 2005?
Web Developer 2010 Express is free tool from Microsoft that you can
download to work with same version.

Resources