"Gruntfile.js" failed to load - visual-studio-2013

I am using Visual Studio 2013 and followed this article to user grunt in Visual Studio. But when i try to execute, I get following error in Task Runner Explorer:
Failed to load.See output window(Ctrl+Alt+O) for more information.
Output window does not have any relevant information.
Any help would be appreciated!

To fix this, just open a command prompt.
Change the working directory to the folder containing the file grunt.js.
Then enter:
npm install
All dependencies for grunt should now be installed. When you open the project in Visual Studio 2013 afterwards, all the tasks should now be visible.

In Visual Studio 2017, go to Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > External Web Tools
Change “$(PATH)” to load above “$(VSINSTALLDIR)\Web\External”
Click OK, go back to the Task Runner Explorer and click the Refresh icon.

Related

Visual Studio 2022: System.InvalidOperationException: "git" is not present in PATH

I'm trying to compile the following project:
https://github.com/xoofx/markdig
In Visual Studio 2022, How to resolve the error message:
System.InvalidOperationException: "git" is not present in PATH.
What's the correctly way to install 'git' for visual studio? I thought Visual Studio Already has git installed out of the box, judging by the label "Git" on the menu bar.
Here's a picture of my screen:
Menu: Tools->Command-Line:
Thanks for adding the picture. You need to have git installed. This can be done independently or through visual studio installer.
https://git-scm.com/downloads
It will ask you during installation if you want it to be added to the path - choose yes.
Once you have installed, launch the command window from start menu
and run git command. That should show something like this -
[2]
Once you have git command running from command line it should work from visual studio as well. Essentially VS is trying to launch that command from its shell and failing to find it because you dont have git installed.
VS does come with git installed but you have to choose it in its workloads. You have to go through all available installation options. See the screenshot below from VS 2017 installation workload. You can do this by re-launching your VS installer and selecting the products that you want installed. Since I use most of the things, I dont uncheck anything but that takes close to 50Gig space on the disk - something you want to be aware of.

microsoft.service.hub error after installing Visual Studio Community edition

After re-installing Visual Studio Community edition I've been getting this error.
I get the error right after the splashscreen shows
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ServiceHub.Client'
Please open File Explorer and search this file name to verify this file is existing on your computer or not.
Meanwhile, you can have a try with the following to troubleshoot this issue:
Clear all folders and files under the folder: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_xxx\ and restart the VS 2017 to check it again.
Open cmd and navigate to the VS 2017 installation folder like C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\xxx\Common7\IDE and run the command: devenv /safemode to run it as safe mode, then check if the installed extensions caused this issue.
Re-run the VS 2017 installer as administrator and choose Repair to repair it

"exited with code 9009" error while trying to build AngularJSToDo Sample app for Visual studio 2013 community

I downloaded Visual studio 2013 Community today, after that I manually installed all the needed tools for the Apache Cordova extension for visual studio. Then I downloaded the AngularJS Sample App
to try it out .. but when I try to build it it gives me that error
The command "Powershell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Unblock-File
'C:\Projects\AngularJSTodo Sample for Tools for Apache
Cordova\JavaScript\AngularJSToDo\FetchRequirements.ps1'; Powershell
-File 'C:\Projects\AngularJSTodo Sample for Tools for Apache Cordova\JavaScript\AngularJSToDo\FetchRequirements.ps1'" exited with
code 9009
any help would be greatly appreciated.
The sample projects have been authored in a way that the requisite dependency frameworks will be automatically downloaded when you run the project for the first time.
However, the libraries may fail to download in case the script does not have the right permissions to execute. To fix this:
Open the folder where you’ve downloaded the sample app
Identify the FetchRequirements.ps1 file and right click it
Choose “Properties”
Click the Unblock button if it shows up
Try to run the project again through Visual Studio

Visual studio does not install .vsix files

I've both VS 2012 and VS 2013 installed on my computer. The problem is that when I download an VSIX-File and open it with the Visual Studio version selector the file gets opened by VS but instead of installing it. VS opens the file as if it was an unknown binary format.
The attached image shows how VSIX-files are opened (happens with every file ... this is just an example):
I faced the same issue. Just use the VSIXInstaller to install the extension.
You can open "Developer Command Prompt for VS2012" tool in Start -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 -> Visual Studio Tools. On the console, run the below command:
VSIXInstaller <path to vsix file>
Open "Developer Command Prompt for VS2015" as administrator.
Type VSIXInstaller.exe vsixFilePath
Note that this way wouldn't work with me and gives me "Path to vsix file 'G:\Roslyn' is invaild or you don't have required access permissions". To solve this you need to put the path in a double quote like this:
VSIXInstaller.exe "G:\Roslyn SDK.vsix"
I got into a weird situation where in a fresh install of W10 and VS2015 Community, the Player Framework vsix installation won't start, either by dbl click or from command prompt using VSIxInstaller.exe, and would show no message at all. The solution was to open an elevated command prompt (run Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 as administrator) and then type VSIXInstaller.exe worked.
I am not clear whether you want to install or just view the contents of VSIX. If you want to install the extension, you just need to double click it and it will install (Do not try to open it with VS Version selector). If you want to see what is inside VSIX, it is basically an archive. So either try to use program like 7-zip to open it else, rename .vsix to .zip and then unzip it.
Further, there is also a chance that you have wrongly associated vsix files to be opened with Visual Studio. In such a case it will open in Visual Studio any case.
Finally, if you have wrongly associated the vsix to open with Visual Studio, try installing the extension using VSIXInstaller.exe found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\VSIXInstaller.exe
To add to the other answers, if the VSIX files either doesn't have an associated program to open with or opens with the wrong application, selecting the VSIXInstaller.exe as the associated commands re-enables the ability to double-click and directly install it (without the need to do it via commandline).
I faced a similar issue when I first installed VS 2017. This is what worked for me.
Resolution:
Restart VS 2017.(I hadn't restarted it before installation)
Install it from Tools->Extension & Updates.Search for "Perforce" and install.
I double clicked on this and it installed just fine.
Couldn't do it on VS2013 through the extensions dialog.
for me the problem was the extension InstallerProjects was on network server so I had to copy it to my machine (local) and it worked

Can't open the VSVim project

I have a clean install of Visual Studio 2010 with C# and F# installed and I am getting the following error when I try to open the solution cloned from github.
D:\projects\VsVim\VsVim\VsVim.csproj :
error : The project file
'D:\projects\VsVim\VsVim\VsVim.csproj'
cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by
this installation.
Is there a way to get more information about what exactly I am missing so that I can install the components?
You probably need to install the Visual Studio 2010 SDK.
Noah is correct that the most likely problem is you need to install the Visual Studio SDK. The full steps to getting VsVim to open and compile are the following (taken from the README.txt file in the enlistment).
Install the Visual Studio SDK
Run the script Populate-References.ps1 from the enlistment root directory
Open the Solution.

Resources