I've just opened VS 2010 Professional up on my machine, started a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application project and noticed that it doesn't seem to be creating a Solution file. This means I can't - or don't seem to be able to add a new project to the solution as its not there!
Here is a screenshot to demonstrate the problem:
I've just tried creating a number of other new projects i.e a WinForm, console app and a class library and all have the same issue, no sln.
Can anyone give me an indication of whats going on?
Visual Studio will hide the solution item in Solution Explorer if there's only one project.
To change this, go to Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> General and make sure "Always Show Solution" is checked.
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Whenever I update WCF service reference in front end project, the service reference update happens and the bottom left corner of Visual Studio indicates that the service reference update is complete, but Visual Studio becomes non responsive after the update. If I close the Visual studio using the Task manager and restart it, reopen the solution, I can proceed as normal and can use the updated service reference. For now I always restart my Visual studio and reopen my solution to continue working on my tasks. Has anyone faced this issue? If anyone found the solution for this issue, could you please help me fixing this as it is very annoying to restart the Visual studio every time I update the service references. Thank you.
(I am using Visual Studio 2013 - project uses .Net Framework, asp.net webforms, and C# as the language for development. - if it helps.)
After trying different options, I guess the size of sln file and the size of references caused the issue for me. We use Resharper in our company which adds extra load when updating the service references.
My Visual Studio doesn't hang/becomes not responsive (most of the times), when i do the following..
1) Go to Tools -> Options -> Source Control - change the default option from Microsoft Git Provider to None.
2) Tools -> Options -> Resharper Ultimate and disabl it.
3) Try to figure out which projects in the solution is not required or affected and unload them.
Then update the reference. Still sometimes it doesn't work for me, but most of the times i dont have to restart the solution using task manager. I always disable resharper before I have to update the service reference and enable it back again once the service reference is updated. Hope it help others if they face similar situations..
Every time I try to build my solution in VS2013, nothing builds, no errors - But in the status bar it says: "This item does not support previewing"
I googled around a bit but have come up empty.
But if I right click on each project and select build it works fine.
Any ideas?
Perhaps this message is totally unrelated... Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Steps to reproduce on my machine:
Right Click any project in solution: select build
Status bar displays Build successful
Right click solution select build
Status bar displays : "This item does not support previewing"
Perhaps it isnt related, but it sure does appear to be.
I was able to fix this... Somehow nothing was selected to build in the solution configuration. I right clicked on the solution, went to properties and then selected COnfiguration Properties and clicked the Build box for all the projects...
I have no idea how they became unchecked, only thing I can think of is a co-worker was trolling me.....
I've had this problem (i.e. debug not starting, and no error message) with Visual Studio 2015 in the following two cases:
after loading a solution that had previously been built with Visual Studio 2010
and also after using the "save as" function in Visual Studio 2015 to update a solution that had been started with Visual Studio 2010 (using Save as updates the solution file and sets the active Visual Studio version to 14 - i.e. VS 2015).
In both cases, deleting the bin and obj directories under the startup project fixed the problem. It's also worth closing visual studio and making sure that there are no {yourprojectname}.vshost.exe processes still running - if there are then kill them before running visual studio again. On that note, if you have multiple versions of visual studio on your machine, you should also check that you don't have the same solution open in the other version of visual studio at the same time (I've done that one myself).
One of the comments here suggests disabling the "enable visual studio hosted process" option. Don't do that if you can at all avoid it: you'll lose lots of debugging functionality (particularly in the area of being able to edit code while your solution is running).
Hope that helps someone out there.
Solution for VS2015
"this item does not support previewing" vs2015 (Visual Studio 2015/2016)
Step 1. Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features
Step 2. Uninstall all: Windows Software Development Kit - Windows 10.0.10586.15 (maybe you have diff ver)
Step 3. Download new latest Windows Software Development Kit
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=619296
Install & Create new project, Done!
Dclick on MainPage.xaml and you will see Loading designer...
1: Add below lines in App.conf
<specFlow>
<unitTestProvider name="MSTest"></unitTestProvider>
</specFlow>
2: add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTestTools.UnitTestFramework.dll
right click on your project and select: Add Reference
3: add using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting; in Step Defination
4: goto feature file and run it. This is what solve my problem on vs2013
I faced same issue with .aspx file. I just right click on the .aspx file and select open with (HTML Editor). You can choose any form the list.
I have come across the same issue for me, I have opened a project in VS 2010 and then when I open the same in VS 2015 then his error has occurred.
Solution:
By Closing the VS2010 project solution fixed the issue.
My Visual Studio 2012 Professional doesn't debug as it should.
It looks like VS is debugging old versions of my projects.
I tried debugging several projects but the same problem occurs with all of them, even when I start a new project (both console applications and windows forms applications).
It doesn't even hit the breakpoints I place right at the start of the program.
Things i've tried:
• cleaning and rebuilding my solution
• DEBUG -> options and settings -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run. Here I unchecked "Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run" and selected "Always build " from the "On Run, when projects are out of date" list
• deleting the .suo file (since the problem not project related I didn't expect it to be the solution but it was worth a shot).
As far as I know I didn't make any other changes to any property and I didn't perform any updates just before this issue started.
The following link descibes a similar issue but it doesn't contain a solution that works for me.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/23e70e79-970d-423f-b434-12681b88ef2c/visual-studio-2012-debug-runs-old-code?forum=vsdebug
Superman also had a similar problem but again no suitable solution but in my case cleaning and rebuilding doesn't temporarily solve the problem.
Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Old Code
any ideas on how to solve this?
Have you tried a repair/reinstall of Visual Studio from the control panel ?
Also it could be related to a windows User profile issues. Assuming you are using Windows 7 you can try re-creating the profile using this post. http://www.techstaty.com/how-to-rebuild-a-windows-7-user-profile-the-correct-way/
I am building a membership provider for use with YAF. I want to be able to debug YAF to understand and follow the process through.
I downloaded and installed YAF sucessfully. I then installed the YAF sources and built them sucessfully.
So, I have a website under VS2010 express that works, and the new YAF binary DLLs from the build.
I cannot see how to "attach" the source files to enable debugging the website.
A simple answer (found somewhere on stackoverflow,lost where but thanks anyway):-
Just needed to add the project to the website solution
By default, the solution is not shown in the solution explorer window
To get the solution added to the soluton explorer:
tools->Options -> Projects and Solutions
then check the "Always show solution" box
Then right click the solution in the solution explorer window to add the project.
I just started working in Visual Studio 2012 in a project group. We are using team foundation server to share our code. I have a couple of problems here I was hoping someone could help me solve them.
I have succesfully connected to our TFS-server and checked out the project, but for some reason when I check my solution explorer it says "0 solutions". I dont know if this is a problem but I feel like it has something to do with my other problems.
I can't, for some reason, press the play button to start debug, also in the menu the debug option is greyed out, 5 obv doesent work either. And in the "project" tab I dont have the option to set my project as startup project wich would make it so that I can debug it.
Check your Source Control Explorer. There you can navigate the code in TFS. Make sure there are files checked in to this location. If not, you will first have to add your project to TFS.
If there are files in TFS, map the files to a location on your harddrive. Then open the solution file by double clicking it in your Solution Explorer.
The MSDN has a nice walktrough: Set Up Team Foundation Server for Version Control
It turns out the local path has to be in the visual studidio\projects folder... re-mapped it and works as intended. No need to answer this anymore, thanks for your suggestions though :)