I've downloaded the Microsoft Band SDK from here.
And I've Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update 4 installed on my PC. I wanted to know how to start working on the SDK because when I open the solution (Microsoft Band SDK Samples.sln) file in Visual Studio I get a dialog stating that it doesn't support the SDK and on the Solution Explorer the Demo, Personalisation, Sensors and Tiles tabs have (incompatible) after them. I opened the readme file> under INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS I've followed all of them (even after adding a reference to the Microsoft Band SDK NuGet package to the application) it still shows incompatible!
How to solve this?
Thanks,
Kvaibhav01.
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We watched a Xamarin installation video by Jason D, downloaded XamarinInstaller.exe version3.6 and ran it. We noticed that unlike the video, we are only seeing the Andriod SDK and the Xamarin for Visual Studio components in our options and missing the GTK# and Xamarin Studio. The install finished successfully so we don't know whether we have everything we need or not.
The reason we think this is because when we launch VS, we don't see any Xamarin.Forms type projects, for example.
Can someone tell us if we may be missing some pieces?
Thanks in advance for any help.
1.- Remove all
2.- instal VisualStudio 2015
3.- run xamarin installer
Did you installed the extension correctly that binds xamarin with visual studio?
Open Control Panel > Programs, search for your edition of Visual Studio and then click the Change/Uninstall button at the top of the window. Wait for a moment while the Visual Studio Installer launches, and then repair the installation.
Updated: I have followed the below steps for Visual studio 2015. Hope that it will work for other versions of Visual studio.
To install Xamarin framework into Visual studio successfully, please follow the below steps,
Visual studio 2015 community edition installation:
To download VS2015 Community edition ISO (Size is around 7GB), check
http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2015/07/download-visualstudio-2015.html
To install VS2015 Community edition, please follow the below link, http://www.howtosolutions.net/2015/08/solving-installation-is-stuck-problem-in-visual-studio-community-edition/
Offline installation would be more faster (around 1 to 2 hours).
If any further issue comes, repair MS Visual C++ 2015 redistributable.
Finally, VS 2015 will be installed quickly.
Xamarin framework Installation:
To download Xamarin, visit https://www.xamarin.com/download
You can download Xamarin Installer.
Launch Xamarin installer, it will download and install the below components,
Java 8.
Android SDK, NDK and emulator images.
Xamarin Framework.
To store the setup of components, launch Xamarin installer and while it starts downloading, disconnect internet.
It will abort and open Manual installation instructions. Connect to internet again and you can save setup.exe for all components from manual wizard and install it for later purpose.
After Xamarin is installed, launch Visual studio 2015.
You can create Xamarin projects, under Visual C# -> Cross platform option.
Revert back for queries, if any.
I have got Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate Preview installation through my students Dreamspark account. I installed it on top of updated Windows 8.1. workstation.
I have Windows Phone 8.0 application that I need to publish to Windows Phone Store. I am following MS guide on their site, but I am stuck with step in which my options for packaging solution are disabled in VS 2015 Preview (can't start the wizard).
Here is the screenshot of Visual Studio:
On this site: http://goo.gl/pjbLPh I have found guide for installing Tools for Maintaining Store apps for Windows 8 but it is targeting VS 2012 and VS 2013. In my installer for VS 2015 I didn't even see this tool in optional features for install. Maybe the name is changed?
Does anyone have early experiences with VS 2015 Preview and packaging WP 8 apps for Windows Phone Store?
You have to select a Windows Store app project in the solution explorer before.
(You screenshot shows that you currently selected the solution and not a project.)
Make sure that the distribution option is selected.
I have been developing WP (Windows Phone) 8.0 apps using Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone. To start developing for WP 8.1, I downloaded VS 2013 including update 2 RC from Windows Phone Developer site which is supposed to use to develop WP 8.1 apps.
I've tried twice, but there is no option to create WP 8.1 app even after a successful installation. What I get is only this:
i.e. no option to create Windows Phone 8.1 apps. If it matters, I'm interested in WP 8.1 Visual C# template specifically.
As I've mentioned, since I develop Windows Phone 8.0 apps, therefore Visual Studio Express (2012) for Windows Phone is already installed.
I've already gone through:
WP8 Development on Visual Studio Express 2013
Why is there no Windows Phone version of Visual Studio Express 2013?
Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone
How to get started with windows phone SDK 8.1?
WP8 Development on Visual Studio Express 2013
but none address the solution.
Being a windows app developer even I was baffled with the shift in Windows Phone location. You can find it in
Visual C# --> Store Apps --> Windows Phone apps.
Do sign in, in Visual Studio through Microsoft Account then go to ur notification and update ur VS and you will get this screen. Its usually caused due to some updates working only when VS can access developer's account and also I am using VS 2013 pro.
Have you installed Windows phone emulator SDK with the updated emulators?
I finally got the solution.
I downloaded both Visual Studio 2013, and update 2 RC using the /layout switch at command prompt. From MSDN:
After you download the update executable from the MSDN website to a
location on your file system, run the following command at a command
prompt: /layout.
This command downloads all the
packages for the installation. By using the /layout switch, you can
download all the installation packages, not just the ones that apply
to the download machine. This approach gives you all the files that
you need to run this update anywhere and may be useful if you want to
install components that weren't installed originally.
To do this, download the Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC files (about 2-3 MBs each). Then, create a shortcut of these files on desktop, and then open properties of shortcut. In target field after ", add a space followed with /layout as shown below:
This will download all installation files to your disk and when you install the VS (the exe at specified download folder), it won't ask it to fetch from internet, rather will do it from offline files and phone SDK 8.1 will be installed too.
Please be warned that, this will take a lot of time. To save time, I suggest following what is in Update section.
Update
While searching on internet, I found these two links on Microsoft website:
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows
Desktop
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update
2
In download section, these two sites show that, the offline download option is now available (as evident from the ISOs shown). Though, I don't know if that would help as I haven't tested this option. Just that this option will be much more quicker than using /layout switch.
How to create PCL wp7/win8 in visual studio 2013?
I have already installed windows phone 7 sdk and windows phone 8 sdk, but it does not help.
There is no option for wp 7.1.
Visual Studio does not support Windows Phone 7 development.
This may change in the future but, based on what has happened with previous versions of Visual Studio and separate SDKs, I suspect that is unlikely.
It's only possible to target PCL projects for SDKs that are installed.
You could build your PCL in VS2012 and consume it in a VS2103 project though.
On the other (/plus?) side, there are free versions of VS2012 and VS2013 and the can be installed side by side so you'll be able to build for WP7 for plenty of time to come.
Visual Studio 2013 has removed support for Windows Phone 7.x, Silverlight 4 and Xbox development.
For the entire list of compatibility between Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh266747(v=vs.120).aspx.
Keep in mind that VS 2013 is still a preview. So maybe it will be available later but for the moment it looks like you can only create a PCL project with support for both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Store apps by using Visual Studio 2012
There is a solution according to
http://www.johanlaanstra.nl/2013/09/22/portable-class-libraries-with-wp7-support-in-visual-studio-2013-rc
...was wondering why Visual Studio would upgrade the project while the
profile was there on disk. While digging through the xml files for
Profile104 (C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference
Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETPortable\v4.0\Profile\Profile104),
which is the profile I was using, I found some xml files in the
SupportedFrameworks subfolder. These xml files defined a
MinimumVisualStudioVersion and a MaximumVisualStudioVersion. For
Profile104, one of the files contained MaximumVisualStudioVersion="11"
which means Visual Studio 2012. Changing all xml files for the profile
to have MaximumVisualStudioVersion="12", which means Visual Studio
2013, made my scenario work after a restart of Visual Studio. I can
now open the PCL in Visual Studio 2013 without it being upgraded. Make
sure you restart VS after this change to make it work.
Really simple question:
Where do you find Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone?
I'm trying to install the NuGet extension but.. Just can't seem to find extension manager, looking under the tools menu where I expect it but.. nothing.
Thanks!
The Extension Manager is not supported in Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone, so you can't find it.
NuGet is the extension manager that is built into Visual Studio 2012 and is also available for Visual Studio 2010 as a seperate download. It's easy to intall and can be downloaded from nuget.org. Once it's installed adding the Windows Phone Toolkit is as easy as right-clicking on your project and selecting "Managed NuGet packages...".
Extension manager is found in Menubar->Tools