I am using Visual web developer Express and Today I started my first tutorial.
When I create a new Website even though I select the path to save my website, the solution file will always be saved in "Visual studio2010/projects"
In C# or C, the solution file will be saved to the path that I chose?
Am I missing something?
2 Options.
1) File -> Save "[Solution Name].sln" As...
2) Create the Solution File on it's own, saving it to the file path of your choosing, and then add the projects to the Solution.
Hope this helps
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I don't understand how it works. I'm new to Team Foundation Server and currently I have a small team. The co-worker can open my project file and run just fine (by double clicking the solution file right in the source control explorer window).
I can open my project file the same way but cannot open his project file. Clicking the solution file does load the solution but the files in there cannot be opened. It says something like this:
Cannot find the file "d:\....". It may have been moved or deleted.
The path "d:...." is actually the path on his machine. While in my machine it's mapped to a different path. But I don't understand why it cannot recognize it.
At first I thought the mapped path structure should be the same across all members' machines but if so my co-worker could have not opened my project file.
The status of the solution is Yes for Latest, meaning the files are loaded and copied to my local folder normally. Not sure if it matters but I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and my co-worker uses Visual Studio 2013.
I've tried searching around but could not find anything with the error message. It's so interesting that my co-worker does not have to do something special or self-aware so that he could tell me something to solve this. I hope you have some experience on this and give me some helpful suggestion. Thank you!
Edit:
To clarify it more, if I browse the file directly inside the source control explorer window, the file can be opened (but if it such as is some designer-supported file like .xaml - the designer then is not shown up). What I'm having trouble with is opening the file loaded in the solution (inside the Solution Explorer window). As I said clicking the solution file in Source Control Explorer window does load the solution, but because there is something wrong with the files path, I cannot open them as well as build and run the solution.
Right-clicking on the file in the loaded solution, select Properties, I can see that the Full Path is actually the path on his machine, so weird.
It sounds like your workspace is all messed up. Are you trying to share a workspace?
If so you should not. Each developer should have their own workspace local to their computer that is unique to them.
Try creating a new workspace and using that...
I'm looking for a plugin (may be a TFS plugin) for Visual Studio 2010 that add a 'Copy uri' context menu entry in code editor and would make possible to copy paste a file/line number into an IM conversation (skype) or an email, and of course clicking the link would open the project/file at the correct line number (in an existing instance if VS if possible).
I'm working from home and that would be nice to be able to share easily a code location with team via skype (and sometimes email).
I googled and found nothing, but it's perhaps available in a big plugin like Resharper and not advertised.
I wrote an extension for this. It's called CodeLink:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AuriRahimzadeh.CodeLinktm
I'm looking for testers and feedback. I only have so many solutions with which to test it :)
There's no such extension that exist from what I know.
However it wouldn't that hard to create a VSX that adds an entry in the Source Code context menu that will get the Source Control path from the Local Path using the TFS Api then putting the result in the clipboard.
In the meantime there's no easy way to come up with a workaround as I'm not aware of a way to get the Source Control path from the Local path in Visual Studio.
Its not a plugin, but you can now add a line parameter (eg &line=1234) to a TFS file browser url, and then email that link to a colleague, it will open the file in a browser with the specified line highlighted.
i created a little application (win forms) thats create a solution, adds a project and some files to the project. By clicking a button, the new solution should open by the installed vs2010 express. Thats works fine, everything is ok. My question, is there a way to open a specific file in the solution when the hole solution was loaded? For a better understanding, the user (of my application) creates a sln with 3 files (a.cs, b.cs and c.cs). He selects b.cs (in my application), and opens the sln. In the editor in vs, the preselected b.cs should be open.
I've tried to create a sou - file, but i think thats not the right way...
Is there a way to do this?!
Thx and regards
Sascha
Visual Studio remembers the files you had open when you last closed the solution, along with other things like breakpoints, by using the SUO file. You can check this with a simple experiment: close your solution with just a single file opened inside it (a.cs, for example), manually delete the SUO file (don't worry, VS recreates it if it doesn't exists) and when you open the solution again you'll see you won't have any file opened, and you'd lost any breakpoints you had.
So the obvious thing to do here would be to manipulate the SUO, storing on it the file selected by the user and then opening VS from your tool. The only thing I've found on the documentation is the IVsPersistSolutionOpts but I don't have any direct experience with it.
Also check this CodeProject article: while its main focus is to add a Tool Window to Visual Studio, it also uses IVsPersistSolutionOpts.
How do I change the folder of my existing solution file (sln)?
It's right now inside one of my project's folder; if I cut the solution file and paste it in the root folder,it doesn't load any of my projects.
Open solution explorer in Visual Studio and select the solution.
Click on File > Save MyProject.sln As ...
and choose the new location.
The solution file is just a text file. You should be able to move it and then edit it to make sure that any relative paths referenced in the file are correct.
I've also been able to right-click on the solution file in the solution explorer and then use save-as to save it in a different location. That doesn't seem to work everytime for me though.
Open a blank solution, save it to a location where you would like to move. Then add "Existing Project" and select the Old.sln file to add all the projects under the old solution file.
I just had to do this with some legacy projects I inherited so thought it might be worth documenting...
After upgrading from VS 2005 solution, I noticed that the solution file was at the same level as the project files. Our standard is to have the solution file one level above.
Opening the solution file in 'Notepad' I see the following:
Add required relative path to each of the project path and save in correct location:
In my case to bring up one level 'BloombergPriceRequestService\'
SO project line(s) will look like this:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual Studio 2010
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "BloombergPaydownService", "BloombergPaydownService\BloombergPaydownService.csproj", "{17DDDD3E-CD39-48B4-BE3F-71E550FCBBFC}"
EndProject
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Don't forget to delete your old solution file!
if I cut the sln file and paste it in
the root folder,it doesn't load any of
my projects
Do this anyway, and try to open the solution. It will tell you that some projects couldn't be loaded: ignore the warning.
Then, go ahead and delete all the projects from the solution. After this right click the solution and select Add => Existing project and browse to your project file. Repeat for all projects in your solution.
Sometimes, the solution file may contain more than 5 projects attached to it.
In that case, Creating the new solution and adding projects to that is cumbersome and takes more time.
You can just edit the solution file to load the projects correctly.
Steps to do
sdas
1. Open the solution file in notepad or any text editor.
2. update the path which is underlined and made bold.
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "BloombergPaydownService", "BloombergPaydownService\BloombergPaydownService.csproj", "{17DDDD3E-CD39-48B4-BE3F-71E550FCBBFC}"
Save the file and open in Visual studio.
Editing the solution file is a hazardous way to do things and I found a better way. Just create a new solution and add copies of the folders containing the various projects (in their respective folders) to the project.
You need
to select solution in solution explorer
then to find button File -> SaveAs solution.sln as
Press it
There are two ways you can do it:
Simply delete the entire project and create the entire project again in the other folder ( which is not recommended).
Here are the steps to follow without missing any files.
a. Goto Source control explorer Create a new folder or Just move the solution to which you want to move the folder to.
b. Load the solution in your local and it will prompt a message saying that do you want to reload it from source control click yes.
c. Once we load the solution you will see that the project you have moved won’t be loaded (Since we moved to the other folder)
d. So now, Remove the project which was not loaded and then add it as an existing project
e. I am sure that if you have added nugetPackages they won’t get loaded.
f. Goto file explorer of the particular project open the .csproj file and try to check the packages location, Error condition, Project reference and Import and apart from them if there are any
Which are pointing to a directory.
g. The simplest way is just adding some nuget package and see what is the path generated by visual studio.
h. Once we change the locations they will be loaded in references
i. After adding references try to build the solution and it will throw some build errors because we moved the project from one folder to other.
j. Add the project reference wherever needed after moving the files
k. Now the build will be succeeded.
I would like to make a copy of my project. I would rather not start doing it from scratch by adding files and references, etc. Please note that I don't mean copy for deployment. Just plain copy.
Is there a tool in VS to do this? I am using VS 2008
Just create a template;
From your project choose: Project - Export Template
The wizard will let you define
Template name
Template Description
Icon
Preview image
Then it zips up your project into 'My Exported Templates' directory.
You also have the option to make your template available when you create a new project.
When you use your template to create a new project, the namespace will be correct for 'your_new_project_name' throughout every file, all references correct, everything perfecto :)
You can send the .zip file to anybody, and they must copy (not unzip) the .zip file into Templates\ProjectTemplates directory for them to use too.
I made an ASP.NET MVC template with folders, layout page, viewmodels etc arranged just how I like them.
NOTE:
If you have an empty folder in your project, it WON'T be added to the template, so I just added an empty class appropriate to each folder, and a sample picture for images folder.
If you want a copy, the fastest way of doing this would be to save the project. Then make a copy of the entire thing on the File System. Go back into Visual Studio and open the copy (by right clicking on solution => add existing project => open the copied project). From there, I would most likely recommend re-naming the project/solution (Steps of Safely Renaming Project are in the following link) so that you don't have two of the same name, but that is the fastest way to make a copy.
It is highly NOT ADVISABLE to copy projects at all because the some config files formed internally like .csproj, .vspscc etc. may (and most probably will) point to references which belong to previous solutions' location and other paths/locations in system or TFS. Unless you are an expert at reading these files and fixing references, do not try to copy projects.
You can create a skeletal project of the same type you intend to copy, this creates a proper .csproj, .vspscc files. Now you are free to copy the class files,scripts and other content from the previous project as they will not impact. This will ensure a smooth build and version control (should you choose to be interested in that)
Having said all this, let me give you the method to copy project anyhow in a step-wise manner:
Go to the project you want to copy in solution explorer and right-click.
Now select 'Open Folder in File Explorer' (Assuming you have the solution mapped to a local path on your disk).
Select the Projects you want to replicate as whole folders(along with all dependencies,bin .vspscc file, .csproj file)
Paste them in your desired location (it could be your same solution folder or even another solution folder. If it is within the same solution folder, then you would be required to rename it, also the .csproj and other internal files to the new name).
No go back to Visual Studio, Right-Click on Solution > Add > Existing Project...
Browse and select the Project file (.csproj file) now from the location you placed it in and select 'open'
This file now appears in the solution explorer for you to work.
You may now have to resolve a few build errors probably with duplicated/missing references and stuff but otherwise it's as pristine in logic and structure as you expected it to be.
I guess if this is something you do often, there's a little (non-free) utility that promises to do it for you: I haven't used it, so not sure how good it is:
http://www.kinook.com/CopyWiz/
There is also this project on CodePlex:
http://clone.codeplex.com/
I will probably give the codeplex project a try, and if it doesn't work I'll manually rename everything and edit the sln file.
I follow these steps and I use the development tool called Resharper ,which is awesome by the way:
So,
Copy the existing project folder to the destination you want
Go to source control and with right click just to the root folder you want and pick "Add items to folder...".Then, a wizard will come up to choose the files to copy (there is no need for some files and the wizard guides you for that reason by default).
Change the name of the solution file (*.sln)
Change the names of the sub-projects if exist.
Use Resharper to change the binding namespaces name (I will automatic do the dirty job with safety).The alternative way is to manually change all namespaces with the new name.
The same action with method names.
Check solution's properties if you want to change.
That's it. You are ready!!!
Following Shane's answer above (which works great BTW)…
You might encounter a slew of yellow triangles in the reference list.
Most of these can be eliminated by a Build->Clean Solution and Build->Rebuild Solution.
I did happen to have some Google API references that were a little more stubborn...as well as NewtonSoft JSon.
Trying to reinstall the NuGet package of the same version didn't work.
Visual Studio thinks you already have it installed.
To get around this:
1: Write down the original version.
2: Install the next higher/lower version...then uninstall it.
3: Install the original version from step #1.
The best way is actually to create a new Project from scratch, then go into the folder with the project files you want to copy over (project, form1, everything except folders).
Rename the files (Except for form1 files) for example: I copied Ch4Ex1 files into my Ch4Ex2 project but first renamed the files to Ch4Ex2.
Copy and paste those files into the Solution Explorer for the new project in Visual Studio.
Then just overwrite the files and you should be good to go!
Old thread but I hope it helps anyone looking for this answer!
The easiest way to do this would be to export the project as a template and save it to the default template location. Then, copy the template into the exact same directory on the location you want to move it to. After that, open up visual studio on the new location, create a new project, and you will get a prompt to search for a template. Search for whatever you named the template, select it and you're done!
I have a project where the source files are in in a folder below the project folder. When I copied the project folder without the source folder and opened the copied project, the source files are not missing but found at the old location. I closed the project, copied also the source folder, and re-opened the project. Now, the project magically references the copied source files (both the new path showed up on "save as" and a change in a file has been saved in the copied version).
There is a caveat: If not both old and new project folders are below a used library folder, the above-mentioned magic discards also the absolute reference to the library and expects it under the same relative path.
I tried this with VS Express 2012.
My solution is a little bit different - the computer that the package resided on died and so I was forced to recreate it on another computer.
What I did (in VS 2008) was to open the following files in my directory:
- <package name>.djproj
- <package name>.dtproj.user
- <package name>.dtxs
- <package name>.sln
- Package.dtsx
When I did this a popup window asked me if the sln file was going to be a new solution and when I clicked 'yes' everything worked perfectly.
After trying above solutions & creating copy for MVC projects
For MVC projects please update the port numbers in .csproj file, you can take help of iis applicationhost.config to check the port numbers. Same port numbers will cause assembly loading issue in IIS.
I use Visual Studio 2013 where Project > Export Template is not an option. Here is what I use to clone a project.
From your solution:
File > Export Template > select project to make template from, note save path
Download and install VS 2013 SDK Here
Create new VSIX project under Extensibility
From the VSIXManifest Dialog select the Assets tab
Fill in the Author textbox
Choose "Project Template" for Type and Browse to add the exported template (saved at path you noted in step 1)
Save and build the VSIX project. Go to the VSIX project's .../bin/Debug folder and double click to run the .vsix file
Start new instance of Visual Studio and you should see your template under whatever project type your template is. Create a new project from your template
You will have to re-add any dll references
Trick the Clone from repository tool
Open the project location in file explorer.
Copy the path to any browser (aka open the project location in the browser).
Use the address from the browser as the source repository for cloning.
Relax and enjoy the no error clone.