we are moving from visual studio 2013 to visual studio 2015, and it is necessery for us to work with both studio in the same folders. Is there a way to use that and how can I set the tfs to work with both visual studios
Kind regards and thank you in advance
Assuming you install both VS2013 and VS2015 on your machine. When you map a project from TFS to local path in VS2013, if you open VS2015, and select the workspace you create in VS2013, then you'll see the same local path in VS2015, you don't need to map it again (make sure your project can work in both VS2013 and VS2015):
I would highly recommend to not do that as you might end up seriously corrupting the workspaces. Can you explain a bit more on why is this so necessary? I have helped organizations migrate between various instances of TFS over the few years now and we have not faced a situation like this. If you explain your particular use case a bit more I can perhaps suggest an alternative way to do this.
Also if you are working with TFS you might find this tool useful
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a6b04ebd-e025-4c90-b238-72b48f0dfbd2
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I am using Visual Studio 2015, but I have to show my project from Visual Studio 2013 pc, Is it harmful for solution file? or any file? Visual Studio 2015 have some extra feature, that cant's contain Visual Studio 2013. Now how can I solve it?
I want to recommend not to mix different versions of Visual Studio. Please strictly create different folders for different versions e.g . one for VS2013 and another for VS2015.
You know - different versions installed on one PC is possible.
If you really want to go one version back to show your VS2015 project in a VS2013 IDE make sure you have a backup in a safe place. You maybe warned - don't make the mistake of mixing code versions when you switch from one PC to another.
Try to open and show for your needs in your special development environment by yourself it is possible but be careful like mentioned above. Having used the highest dotnet version possible in VS2015 you'll get errors.
Someone asked the question "I have a Visual Studio solution with many projects; how can I organise them so I can easily find the projects I work most on?" ( Favorite projects in big solution in Visual Studio
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My question is similar: I have a (C++) project with many files across many filters and it's cumbersome to locate certain files that I use a lot. Is there a favourites or equivalent that I can reference these oft opened files so that finding them is a breeze?
Your help is much appreciated!
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BTW I'm using VS2008 at work and VS2010 at home.
You didn't mention what version of VS you're using, but this add-in looks promising for 2005 and 2008.
Or there's this one for 2010!
I would like to install VSS 2005 so I can work on a project that is stored under it. Does anyone have any idea where the VSS 2005 client can be obtained? It does not appear to be on my VS2005 install disc (although that is for Team Suite). I cannot get any help from Google. I have an MSDN license (AA edition) but it doesn't seem to be there. This is a real product right?
Just to clarify preemptively based on some of the discussions I see on Google when I search for things like "VSS 2005," I am aware of the flaws in VSS and I still need to get it working; I am not interested in converting the project to Subversion; I am not able to transfer it to TFS; I am not able to upgrade the project to VS2008.
Thanks.
Two places, both from Microsoft:
Microsoft Store ($549.00)
MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Developer Tools > SourceSafe)
So, this is an old thread but occasionally still relevant. I'm adding an answer in case anyone comes across it in a google search.
If you have a copy of VSS 2005 installed on another machine but can't find the installation media, you can just copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Source Safe to your local machine. It will run just fine. Launch ssexp.exe and have at it.
You can get it from MSDN, I just looked it is there...see screenshot below
How do I run Visual Studio 2008 projects in Visual Studio 2005?
Take a look at this article by Jon Skeet about moving solutions and projects between VS2005 and VS2008.
Jon's conclusions:
It's possible to share project files but not solution files between VS2005 and VS2008.
If you upgrade a solution file by mistake, it's very easy to fix it by hand.
If you decide to maintain different solution files, if there are big changes in one it may be easiest to just make them in one solution, then upgrade again.
Creating a project in VS2005 and then importing it into VS2008 is seamless; the other way round has slight issues which are fixable by hand.
I don't know of a way of forcing VS2008 to only use C# 2 while at the same time maintaining VS2005 compatibility.
First off, you picked 2009. A terrible year. 2007 we might have guessed 2008, but 2009 is smack dab in the middle.
I'm not sure what the answer will be, but I'd guess that your best approach is to just add each code file and each reference until the project works.
I don't know what the file formats look like, but there usually isn't going to be support in an older version for a newer version's format.
I'm not sure that VS2005 has forward compatibility... haven't heard of that many apps that do.
Visual C++ doens't work on my Vista. both 2010 and 2008 fails to create new projects. what alternative do i have ? I am sick of googling and trying out all the other hacks to fix it.
What other alternatives? If you're tired of trying the "hacks", I'd be looking at one or more of the following, in no particular order.
Use a different IDE.
Re-install Visual Studio.
Re-install Windows along with all your other apps (including VS).
Try installing Visual Studio in a newly created virtual machine.
Upgrade to XP :-)
Raise a support call with Microsoft.
Hire someone to fix the problem for you.
Provide more detail in this question.
Really, the possibilities are (figuratively) endless. There are any number of problems that could be causing this and the detail is a bit light on at the moment. What I tend to do is always have a fresh-install VM of XP lying around so I can test problems in environments that haven't been heavily changed from the originals.
No doubt we will be able to provide more help once the problem has been narrowed down some more. Sorry I can't help more than that at the moment.
I might guess that you are having trouble creating the projects because you don't have permission to the folder where you're trying to write them. Try right clicking on Visual Studio and saying 'Run as Administrator' then create the project.
You could use DevC++ or Eclipse as the compiler perhaps.