I'm trying to explore a GitHub repository using VS2015. I Fork the repo into my GitHub account. Then I use the Team Explorer window to clone it to my computer. Now how do I open & run it? There are no solution files to open. I've read you can open it as a website, but then I can't get TypeScript to compile the .ts files. I've tried the File -> New -> Project From Existing Code option, but there's no option there for an ASP.NET website - it's just Console App, Class Library and Windows App.
What am I missing?
In that case you may want to use Visual Studio 2017 RC, which has native "open folder" support or use VSCode.
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I have a dotnet core project that I have created using the project.json and VS Code. So there are no .sln or .xproj files.
How do I open this project in VS Studio 2015?
You can open empty VS instance, then File -> Open -> Project/Solution and open your project.json file. This will generate .sln file, that you can use next time.
There is no way you can open this project directly in VS as ASP.NET Core projects now is able to run without using VS on other platforms. If you have created the solution using Yeoman or dotnet CLI, you have to create a blank new project of ASP.NET Core in VS, and drag all the working files to the solution explorer.
It is recommended that you do it once. If you try again and again, it may fail, as happened with me because IIS configuration can change each time.
Note: If you are cloning the project, using Version Control extensions might be helpful.
I'm following the Hololens Developer 100 course from Microsoft. All goes well until I get to building. I follow the instructions exactly here and click build. It asks me to select a folder and I create a folder called "App" (per the instructions) and select that folder. When I finally hit build Unity seems like it's working fine but then two things go wrong:
1) The .sln file that's generated is not in the App folder, but in the parent project folder. The App folder is empty
2) When I open the .sln file, it's empty. The tutorial asks me to edit Package.appxmanifes, but I can't because it doesn't seem to have built.
Is there a configuration somewhere that's not correct? Perhaps Unity and VS aren't talking to eachother correctly? More Importantly, how do I fix it?
I had the same problem, for me it was that I didnt have the Windows 10 SDK installed as part of Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3, in the instructions there is a bit that says:
"If you choose a custom install, ensure that Tools (1.4) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.10586) is enabled under Universal Windows App Development Tools node. All editions of Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 are supported, including Community."
If your hololens build completes successfully a file explorer window will pop open at the project level. If it fails you should find errors in the console tab of Unity.
The SLN file that is at the project level is a solution file that you can open in visual studio to edit unity code and attach to the unity editor to do real time debugging while running your solution in the editor. In fact if you click on a "CS" file in the project tab of Unity this is the solution that opens in visual studio.
The SLN file you are looking for is in the App folder. Once you open the SLN in visual studio set the configuration to Release and x86, and you should be able to target your build at either a "Remote Device" which is the hololens, or the hololens emulator if you have that installed.
I attended a Microsoft presentation recently where the speaker said that it would be possible to compile an iOS project for Windows Phone with the upcoming Visual Studio 2015. Great!
So I got the new Visual Studio 2015 RC and installed everything - not to miss anything.
On a Mac an XCode project is a .xcodeproj file but it is actually a folder structure - and that's how Windows sees it. Inside this folder structure there's a file called project.pbxproj but it is not recognized by Visual Studio when I try to open an existing project.
So the question is, how do I open an XCode project in Visual Studio 2015?
It is not included by default as it is not yet finished,
https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/project-islandwood
To open an Xcode project in Visual Studio is required to use the tool vsimporter.
This tool is present in open source bridge Project from Microsoft GitHub (https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC).
***Check the Readme file before to start
Using vsimporter
The vsimporter tool enables you to import your Xcode project into a new Visual Studio Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app project with Objective-C support.
To use the tool:
Download the prebuilt SDK from here and extract the files to a directory (for example c:\winobjc)
From a command prompt, navigate to the directory containing your Xcode project, for example c:\winobjc\samples\WOCCatalog
At the command prompt, run vsimporter.exe
c:\winobjc\samples\WOCCatalog> ..\..\bin\vsimporter.exe
A Visual Studio solution file is created in your current directory, double click this file to open your project in Visual Studio
Press Ctrl-F5 to build your app and run it on your PC.
You can also pass the -i option at the command line to run the vsimporter tool in interactive mode. Interactive mode lets you see and select the specific configurations of the Xcode project that you wish to import. By default vsimporter creates a Visual Studio solution that targets Windows 10. If you'd like to target Windows 8.1 (Phone or Store), use the -format option and specify one of winstore8.1, winphone8.1, or winstore10 (winstore10 is the default).
For help running vsimporter, use the -help option at the command line to see the full set of supported options.
To see the complete tutorial, please visit this link
im using VS2010... my project is saved under SVN in Google code.
how do i install the project on my VS2010 for continues work with SVN access?
my pc was formatted so everything was removed.
Using AnkhSVN:
Start Visual Studio,
Go to File | Open | Subversion project,
Enter your project's URL and manually locate its sln or *prj file, click Open,
Click OK.
Using VisualSVN:
Start Visual Studio,
Go to VisualSVN | Get Solution from Subversion,
As Repository URL enter your projects URL and click OK.
I came from Eclipse background and I am apparently missing something.
There is an existing GitHub project with JS code in it and I would like to start adding TypeScript nature to it, one type at a time.
I have followed this tutorial to clone project from GitHub to my "local git repository". Now the Team Explorer window displays it as local repository and I can commit changes etc but it's not a project and I don't know how to open it as a project (I want to open it as TypeScript project).
The workflow I was used to from Eclipse would simply be New -> Other -> SVN -> Checkout Projects from SVN that is automatically followed by New Project Wizard.
How do I clone existing JS project from GitHub and make it a TypeScrip project while keeping the existing folder structure?
EDIT: I am using Visual Studio Express and I am limited to the native Git extension.
What I typically do in this situation;
Clone repository using Git in Visual Studio; or use GitHub for Windows and Clone in Desktop from the Git project's web page. This will create a directory (repository) with the project files where you specify.
In visual studio, File->New->create a new project from existing code. From the wizard, select C# or C++ (whatever your choice it does not really matter)
The wizard requires a project file location: give the location of the Git folder that contains the project files (where you cloned the project's repository).
The Wizard requires a unique project name, for example you can use the name of the Git project with VisualStudio (or VS) appended to the end.
Git will now be in sync and you will be able to see all the git files. Making changes will check them out and allow you to push them to the project etc...
***** By default Git will want to check in the newly created .csproj file that Visual Studio creates to allow you to open the project in Visual Studio. You will just want to drag this into the excluded changes section because most likely the project in question will not be using Visual Studio.**
I solved this by opening the site as a website. File->Open->Website.
No Project Files/Solution files required. It just opens up the folder in the solution explorer.
To make it a typescript project, just add a tsconfig.json file to the directory.
Do you have any code in that repository yet that you want to open? I'm guessing not in which case you need to create a new VS project (just like you'd create a new Eclipse project and have it in your workspace)
Go to File, New..., Project... and pick the project type that you want. Give the project a name and set the location to be a folder INSIDE the folder that you cloned your Git repo to earlier (i.e. c:\mycode\mygitproject). Also give your solution a name. A "Solution" in Visual Studio is a wrapper for the projects inside it, kinda like the closest thing to a workspace or a working set in Eclipse but not quite the same thing.
Then Visual Studio should then be smart enough to pick up that this is in Git repo and allow you to commit locally as well as push/pull to GitHub etc.
Finally, while I work with the team that created the Visual Studio Tools for Git, I'd still highly recommend that you get hold of a command line should you want to do some more powerful stuff with Git other than simply committing code, push/pulling changes and branching or merging branches. If you are working against GitHub then you might also want to install GitHub for Windows which will bring some Git tools with it or you can install Git for Windows and also install Posh-Git separately. All of these things work together and give you the maximum power of Git but you can pick and choose the tool that works best for you. You'll probably find a workflow of Clone using GitHub for Windows, commit/push/pull/branch/merge in VS and then Posh-Git if you do more advanced stuff or want to hand-tweak settings.