Is it possible to create shortcut to Visual Studio 2013 Help Viewer? It is possible to start if from Visual Studio IDE, Help menu. I want to run it, for example, from a desktop shortcut.
In previous Visual Studio versions there are shortcuts in Windows start menu, for example: "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Documentation". 2013 doesn't have such shortcut.
Help Viewer is located at %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Help Viewer\v2.1\HlpView.exe. Just create a shortcut to it. HlpView.exe requires some parameters,
Usage: HlpViewer.exe /catalogName [/options]
it gives a sample:
HlpViewer.exe /catalogName VisualStudio12 /locale en-us
Personally, I don't use Help Viewer and it doesn't have any content on my computer. Just try it on your machine.
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I want to uninstall Visual studio 2008 from my system, but I do not see Visual studio 2008 in the list on the "Uninstall or change a program" dialog box in windows 7. I also checked the Visual Studio 2008 folder in the Programs folder, but I could not find anything to start the uninstallation wizard. Please help.
Here is a Visual Studio 2008 Uninstall Tool that might help you: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joy/archive/2009/10/16/microsoft-visual-studio-2008-rc-rtm-uninstall-tool.aspx
We are currently trying to deploy Visual studio 2015 Professional across our school in a windows 8 domain environment. Visual studio installs fine but its shortcut are missing from the start menu. and the search feature does not find visual studio. The program can be ran directly.
I have found some of the shortcuts in: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio Tools" however these are only for the command prompt tools and not for visual studio itself.
Is there anywhere else the shortcuts may be?
I found the same thing happened with my installation under Windows 7
Instead of the shortcuts being inside the Visual Studio 2015 start menu programs directory, I found them one level up in the parent directory - somewhere I did not expect them to be.
As it turns out our domain has a script that deletes any shortcuts not in a sub folder - That would explain why the shortcuts are disappearing!
We have added a line to our install script to place the shortcut in the sub directory.
The installation move the shortcut for visual studio 2015 outside the 2015 folder to be consistent with other Microsoft applications.
Type: Windows key to use "Search for programs and files", type "Visual Studio" to open VS quickly.
or
Type: Windows key , click All programs, then click "visual studio 2015"
I have Visual Studio 2013 Premium and 2012 Premium installed. I get email notifications for code reviews in TFS. These notifications include a link to open the reviews, with display text "Open Changes and Comments in Visual Studio". The link location starts with
vstfs://codereview/...
When I click the links, the code reviews are opened in Visual Studio 2012.
How can I make Visual Studio 2013 handle the code review email links instead of Visual Studio 2012? I would like for them to be opened in Visual Studio 2013, instead.
Open "default apps" on Window,
Select "Choose default apps by protocol" and scroll until you see "VSTFS"
Select "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Protocol Handler Selector" and test the options.
Open your registry and modify the path to devenv.exe defined in the key HKCR\vstfs\Shell\Open\Command\(Default)
I repaired my Visual Studio 2013 installation and changed all of the filetypes associated with Visual Studio 2012 to be associated with 2013 in the Default Programs tool, and then restarted my PC. The problem is now resolved, but I don't know what fixed it; my guess is the 2013 repair.
I installed them in this order:
Install SQL Server 2012 SP1 x64
Visual Studio 2010
This is the proper order that other developers recommended and as i did.
The problem is, if SQL Server 2012 installed on the system, VS2010 shortcuts are not show up.
How can I fix this?
Note: OS is Windows 8.
This is a bug.
A workaround is to navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, right-click on the
shortcut called Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and select Pin to Start.
After this, there will be two shortcuts targeting devenv (one titled
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools and one titled Microsoft Visual Studio
2010)
Refer: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/730276/after-installing-sql-server-2012-on-my-windows-8-pc-visual-studio-2010-shortcuts-disappeared
As the OP stated. I too installed SQL before VS. I always do. So I was baffled when i could not find my VS2010 shortcut.
It turns out that the icon is mis-named. If you open (or check the properties) of the icon in the Visual Studio 2010 start menu folder called "Sql Server Data Tools". You may find it is actually the VS 2010 IDE.
Workaround provided by
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/730276/after-installing-sql-server-2012-on-my-windows-8-pc-visual-studio-2010-shortcuts-disappeared
Edit the shortcut start target. For instance. I made mine not display the splash page.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /nosplash
Then repin it to the start menu (right click).
Installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 seems to fix this as well, its available to download from here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23691 If you run devenv.exe it should prompt you to do this also.
i recently installed visual studio 2010 ultimate with visual c#. Now i want to program in visual c++, how can i install the visual c++ template?
Thanks
Start the Visual Studio installer again and change the selected set of features.
Try to search in online templates section under New->Project and then in the left side of the window.
TO restore all templates,Close all instance of Visual Studio. Open visual studio command prompt and traverse to ../Microsoftvisualstudioxxxx/common7/IDE and then type
**devenv /installvstemplates**
in command prompt. Wait for sometime until all templates are restored.