I cant seem to find the msdn documentation and tutorials on the 2013 Database Project.
Can someone post links to the documentation and tutorials.
You can get more information at the official team blog called SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog.
Another good resource is this introductory video on Channel 9 titled Introducing SQL Server Database Projects Tooling in Visual Studio 2013
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I'm working on a Windows Application that has been around more than 20 years. It has a help file (.chm) that is built manually outside of the solution (i.e. not by Visual Studio or MSBuild) by compiling it in Microsoft HTML Help Workshop 1.4 from 1999. I would like to migrate this to the latest format such that it can be built as part of the release mode build process.
Is there a way to import the project (based on .hhp file) into a tool that builds the modern .mhsc-format help files? According to this Wikipedia article there was something called Microsoft Help 2 which was "the help engine used in Microsoft Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008", which came after HTML Help Workshop and was succeeded by Microsoft Help Viewer, which was supported starting with Visual Studio 2010.
Preferably, there exits a way to migrate the .hhp/.chm project directly to Help Viewer, or maybe I have to download VS2010 and do it in two steps if indeed those two migrations are themselves supported. This stuff is so old it's hard to find relevant information on it. Thanks.
MS Help Viewer (.mshc) was difficult to manage at the time. It was made mainly for companies like Microsoft who code their help from a database.
You'll find some viewers and tools like MshcMigrate e.g. getting you from .CHM and .HxS -> .mshc.
There is no longer any need to purchase a mshcMigrate licence. The licence is free to use See also free key.
If you expect the users of your application to have internet access, another approach is to publish the help as HTML pages on a web server and link directly to those from your application.
Before migrating please note (for your existing workflow) the CHM Viewer is part of the Windows OS. A special viewer isn't required.
In visual studio, I can do a code review for someone and add comments to their code... In their instance of visual studio they can see those comments. All good so far.
But if you go to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Online, you can't see those comments at all. And if you make code comments in the tfs online web interface, those comments are not seen in visual studio.
I thought I would be able to see all comments across both visual studio and in TFS Online but it doesn't seem to work that way.
Is there a setting I'm missing, am I misunderstanding the functionality, or is this unimplemented?
Code Reviews and Lightweight code commenting are two complementing features, but also unrelated features. Yes they both allow you to comment on code, but as you've found out, the data between these two is not shared.
There isn't much you can do right now, except for going to the Visual Studio User Voice and explain what you'd love to see (or search for an existing suggestion and add your votes there).
I finally found some resources and a solution. I will share it here.
It is documented here that this indeed is a feature and not a bug.
In this excellent series of blogs you can find anything you always wanted to know, but never dared to ask about SQLServerCompact 4.0
The author of these blogs has made a wonderful Add-In for Visual Studio 2010 that adds Entity Data Model wizard functionality to create a model from a SQLServerCompact 4.0 database for any type of project.
I spend a lot of time offline, and while normally I'm in the middle of some book or magazine for work, I've recently been reading through the MSDN Library documentation of Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (aka TFS 2010).
Unfortunately, this documentation doesn't seem to be included on either the Vs2010 nor the VsAlm2010 installation media anymore, and I can't find any downloads for it...does it simply not exist except in online form?
I'd find it hard to believe that the only way to get at this documentation would be to hit a website for every request. What am I missing?
Wow - I'm a little surprised. Even on the MSDN Subscriber download site, the MSDN library downloads only go up to 2007.
But, you can tell the VS 2010 installation to install the content locally.
Go to "Help|Manage Help Settings" and under "Choose online or local help" select "I want to use local help".
You can also use the Help Manager to install online help updates locally. This might get the specific docs you're looking for (TFS ALM) pulled down - I'm not sure, but might be worth a try.
Related: Download Windows API reference (MSDN) for offline use
Install Zeal and add MSDN docset feed - this will give you rather a huge (it contains 41'181 method, for example) flat list of methods, constants, classes etc, not something as nicely laid out as MSDN site, but the search is lightning fast. Download size is ~3'400Mb;
or
Use VSHD to download offline help files for Visual Studio Help Viewer (applicable for VS 2012+) - this offers you the pleasure of leaving VS itself firewalled as it honestly should be. Download size varies.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34794
This download includes an ISO image file of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation—overviews, how-to articles, API reference pages, sample code, and more—to help you in your development efforts.
Version:
See file name.
File Name:
VS2012Documentation.iso
VS2013Documentation.iso
Date Published:
6/10/2014
File Size:
2.7 GB
4.0 GB
If you have installed Visual Studio completely, you will find it locally. Goto Help > View Help or Press 'Ctrl + F1'
We are going to applying VSTS 2010 in our company. This includes Visual Studio, TFS, TFS Build and ALM. It's predictable that we would encounter a wave of new questions about their usage.
But the problem is I don't know which places we could do questioning. StackOverflow is programming base question site and ServerFault is not very active. How do you think about? Which places and their advantages and disadvantages?
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You could ask your questions here, there is already a handful of question on tfs, visual-studio and msbuild.
You could also ask on Team System forum MSDN. (Or both)
We are trying to start a Visual Studio ALM community on Stack Exchange that is dedicated to these questions.
If you want to join in you can Commit to the Visual Studio ALM proposal.
Whilst you wait for the ALM site to get to beta these sites/blogs might help you:
The WoodwardWeb this is a very useful site for me.
Brian Harrys TFS blog