I have a problem opening *.txt file from Sharepoint on Windows 8.1 64bit.
When I click on file, either through link or right click and then choosing Edit document, pop-up comes with question if I want read-only or edit mode, choosing either of two, file is opened in browser (it is same in IE, Chrome and FF) and of course I can't edit it.
As far as I know, *.txt file association is set to Notepad program in Windows, for .doc documents MS Word is being opened.
Also when I put link to the file in Windows Explorer file is opened in browser again, only double click on local files opens it in Notepad.
What am I missing here?
I have similar situation. The work around i found is that -> i copy the sharepoint url that comes up and then paste in file explorer. Then it opens in notepad.
But this is annoying - i used to be able to do this just fine in Windows 7/8.1
Srinivas
Make sure the default program associated with the file extension ".txt" is Notepad.
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations
I opened BIDS and then tried to click the highlighted file that I was working on this morning.
But the Properties and the Field Explorer is blank. Please see the image below.
When I try to open a new project >> analysis services4 >> it is still blank.
I have already restarted my laptop and I have an internet connection. So what's wrong with my BIDS?
When I check the package itself, when I double click it. It is still blank. Please see the two screenshots below.
When I close and re-open it, it prompts me that there is not internet connection. If theres none how can I post this problem in Stack overflow in the first place.
Select View -> Solution Explorer. Your project should be loaded there. Once you will open a file, other explorers and windows will change accordingly.
Visual Studio by default shows a "Latest News" RSS channel on its start page and the articles are shown within the program window. How can I convince Visual Studio to show the articles in an external window of my system's default browser? I could not find anything on this topic here or at MSDN.
I've never seen a way to customise that particular behavior. What you can do though is go Tools -> Options, Environment -> Startup, and the URL that is used is sitting right there - you can simply whack it into your browser or your RSS reader.
Background: I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution containing three different web application projects. If I right click on the solution, choose "Set Startup Projects.." and then choose "Multiple Startup Projects", I am able to fire them all up at once when I hit F5 (Start Debugging).
Desired Behavior: What used to happen (until it unexpectedly stopped working) was that it would automatically open up three browser instances (IE by default) and run each of the web apps in each of the three browser windows.
Current (Undesired) Behavior: All of a sudden, instead of opening three browser windows, it now opens a single browser instance and sequentially starts them all up with the exact same window/tab, which means that I am left with only one app actually running. (Whatever the last app it was that got started.)
Any idea what could cause this? I've checked my project and browser settings (including the "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" option) and can't seem to figure it out. Any ideas?
Update: I changed Visual Studio's default browser to Firefox, and it works as expected by opening up multiple browser windows. I guess I'll just use Firefox when debugging for now, which is probably a good thing anyway.
I don't know why it had stopped working but rather have a suggestion: Check 'Don't open a page. Wait for a request from an external application.' option under 'Start Options' page of your Web project property pages. It specifies that Visual Studio won't open the browser window automatically. It should start your project in a Web server and wait for another application to make a request.
This seems to be a bug/feature in newer instances of MSVS and/or IE.
It happens in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 as well, and might not be a bug as such, but can certainly be an undesired behaviour.
To reproduce:
Select 2 web projects in multiple startup projects.
Set one to Startup and the other to Start without debugging.
Only one browser tab is used, but you will see the tab used briefly by each project before the next one is loaded.
The problem is that the last loaded project is not necessarily the project you want to have in the browser.
An other workaround is to simply set both projects to Start.
It turns out using Firefox did the trick for me. Since there are no other answers, I will just accept this one.
On our intranet site, we have various MS Office documents linked. When I click on a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, Firefox gives me the option to Open, Save or Cancel. When I click on Open, the appropriate app is launched and the file is loaded. This is perfect. But for some reason, when I click on a linked Visio file, I only get the option to Save, which is inconvenient.
I know that Firefox knows the linked file is a Visio file because it tells me so in the dialog box: "You have chosen to open example.vsd which is a: Microsoft Visio Drawing".
How can I make Firefox launch Visio when I click on a linked Visio file?
Update:
Firefox is not launching Visio when I click on a linked Visio file because the web server does not identify the content-type correctly. It identifies the Visio file as application/octet-stream instead of application/x-visio. (Thanks Grant Wagner.) This explains why it doesn't work. And in my case, I may be able to get the Apache config file changed, but this is not certain.
However, I would love to know if there is a way to configure Firefox itself to launch Visio based on some other criteria, like file name extension. This way I can open Visio files even if I don't have access to the Apache configuration.
#Dean
There are only two buttons in the dialog box: "Save File" and "Cancel". The "Open with" option is not there at all.
But I think I know what you mean. Sometimes, the "Open with" option is grayed out and only becomes available a moment later. Unfortunately that's not the case here.
If Open With is not available, the most likely cause is that Firefox does not know the MIME type of the document and is assuming it is application/octet-stream, or your web server is serving up files that end in .vnd as application/octet-stream (or some other binary-only MIME type).
To confirm this, download LiveHTTPHeaders and use it to confirm that the MIME type of the file is application/x-visio.
Edit the file %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\your profile\mimeTypes.rdf
Add in the following
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:application/vnd.visio"/>
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/vnd.visio"
NC:prettyName="VISIO.EXE"
NC:path="FULL PATH TO YOUR VISIO\VISIO.EXE" />
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/vnd.visio"
NC:value="application/vnd.visio"
NC:editable="true"
NC:fileExtensions="vsd"
NC:description="Microsoft Visio Drawing">
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/vnd.visio"/>
</RDF:Description>
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/vnd.visio"
NC:alwaysAsk="false">
<NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/vnd.visio"/>
<NC:possibleApplication RDF:resource="urn:handler:local:FULL PATH TO YOUR VISIO\VISIO.EXE"/>
</RDF:Description>
This is working for me under Firefox 3.6.3 under Windows XP SP2
Added extension 'OpenDownload' which resolved the issue.
Go under Tools, Options.. in firefox, then when the options box comes up go to applications, there you can set all extensions and launch conditions. Actually it's termed "Content Type" and "Action" there...
If the behavior is similar to opening an Application, all you need to do is click the Open/Save dialog and the Open button will become available about a second later. Does this help?
Going under Tools | Options... doesn't seem to work, as after doing so you get an error that an unknown error occurred opening the file.
However, if you install the OpenDownload extension, then you get a run button which successfully runs Visio.
THe problem is with the VSD File type.
Open Windows Explorer
Menu / Tools / Folder options
Click on the File Type TAB
Locate the VSD file type (just type v s d > it will get You there)
There are two Buttons: [Modify] and [Special] -- Click on the [Special] button
--- The Actions associated with the file are listed
You have to add the Open option:
Add the path to Visio as follows:
"C:\Program Files[## correct PATH##]\VISIO.EXE" /e
(Just check how an other filetype is setup, e.g.: DOC or XLS)
Also there is the option: Browse in same window.
Uncheck the Browse in same window. checkbox,
Click [OK]
and there You go! The browser should ask if You want to open or download the file.
and one You mark Your option and remove the checkbox from "Always Ask for this Filetype..." Your VSD Document should open directly in Visio.
Hope this Helps, BR, Zoltan Gajdatsy
Step-by-step:
On Firefox, go to a site with the file, right-click on a vsd or vsdx file and select download.
On the download window, mark remember my choice option.
Go under tools > options > application, search for visio type and change dropbox to "open with" and then, localize the application you wish use.
I tested this on Firefox 33.0.2 accessing files in Sharepoint.