I've started using Apache Cordova tools for VS2015 and using the remote build tool on a Mac to run iPhone simulators. When debugging the solution I'm seeing a lot of old JS files that are clearly not being updated on the Macs cache. It's equivalent to the browser not getting the latest version of a JS file and using the one in cache as the debugger stops on lines that are no longer or have moved.
How do I reset the cache on the Mac (remote device) so that it will load all of the latest files from my project?
Thanks for reporting the issue. If you do a clean build from VS then it should create a completely fresh project with no relation to the previous one and hence should use the latest version of your files.
I would like to know more about the old JS files that you are seeing, because typically each build should be using your most recent versions.
Let me know, what you find.
SOak
I am trying to get a DotNetNuke site running locally.
At the moment the site is hosted on a server and is functional.
I downloaded the website to my local computer and tried to compile it in Visual Studio.
I am getting all sorts of build errors and I am having alot of trouble getting it to run.
The version of DotNetNuke is very old. i believe it is version 05.06.02.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
While you can access some of the DNN code via Visual Studio, first you need to get the site running without Visual Studio.
Here is a good set of instructions on copying and running a site on another computer.
http://www.ifinity.com.au/2012/09/05/Creating_a_test_copy_of_your_DotNetNuke_website
The main things to pay attention too are getting a connection to your database, and making the IIS site accessible locally.
We've recently upgraded to the final release of VS2010 and are experiencing very slow build times compared to the same code under 2008. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same so I can work out whether it's just our environment or not? A few details:
Using VS2010 Ultimate on Windows 7 with fairly beefy machines, talking to TFS 2010.
The solution has been upgraded from VS2008 but still builds against .NET 3.5 and ASP.NET MVC 1.0.
It doesn't seem to be the compilation itself taking long but something else in the build process. This is because even projects that are up to date and don't need compiling are taking a few seconds or so to process.
It's not due to an Visual Studio addin because a couple guys in the team haven't installed any.
The first build after loading VS2010 is pretty quick, then they seem to slow down over time. For example on of the projects in my solution just took 00:00:00.08 to process after a restart. (The project was up to date and didn't need compiling) I then immediately hit rebuild and it jumps to 00:00:01.33.
We're also experiencing the problem with another solution that uses .NET 4.0 that was building perfectly fine under VS2010 RC.
There are no build events or anything like that I can blame, just straightforward assembly builds.
The IDE is not very responsive during the slow builds.
Anyone else has similar problems?
Update: It looks like the resolving assembly references is taking a long time. Looking at the MSBuild diagnostic output or the example above the first build has 30ms for ResolveAssemblyReferences, the second build has 800ms. Subsequent builds seem to be taking longer copying stuff around, e.g. CopyFilesToOutputDirectory jumps from 1ms to 27ms.
Found the problem; turns out it was a rogue build task causing the problem. In my MVC website project I was using the YUI Compressor task from http://yuicompressor.codeplex.com/ to compress my script files and copy them over to my JavaScript unit test project. Everything was fine until this ran, but as soon as it ran it slowed down builds of all other projects! Even rebuilding single projects in the solution and going nowhere near the MVC website were slow. Must be a leak in the task or something like that...
I'm also experiencing extremely slow responses generally from VS2010. I can type in a phrase, sit back and watch it typed out onto the screen a couple of seconds later. Using it's internal web server is extremely slow even when not debugging. It's unusable.
Running it on Win7 Professional x32, with a web project built on .NET 4.0, converted from .NET 3.5 on VS2008 which ran fine but was when I was using W2k3 as my development machine to keep the speed up.
All these are run as virtual machines using the latest version of VirtualBox (currently V3.2.8 r64453) on Linux Ubuntu 10.4 x64 on a massive machine. 2 x Intel i7 2.8GHz (8 virtual cores), 12GB RAM, NVidia 9600 GPU with 512MB RAM.
VM is set up to give 2 cores to Win7 and 4GB RAM and 96MB Video RAM. VT-x, 2D & 3D Acceleration and Nested Pages are enabled.
VS2010 has been tried with and without Hardware Acceleration (as it uses WPF to display it's text editor! [why???]). With, you lose the text editor and menu bars; without, you get a barely usable system. I also have Reflection and Visual SVN installed. The machine is used for nothing else. Anti-Virus is run manually to keep the load down!
[Rant Warning:]
VS2010 runs like a dog and if it wasn't for the fact I've spent 11 months on this project for a client I've been working for for 7 years, I'd be redeveloping in PHP on responsive tools. I left M$ OS's for my business OS 2 years ago precisely because of freezes, slow downs and inexplicable changes taking weeks out of my productivity. Cost wasn't the issue, it was service.
[Rant Over]
I'm aware there are 3 items to this, VirtualBox, Win7 & VS2010. It may be best for me to set up a Win2008 server VM and install VS2010 on that, I don't know at this point.
If anyone has any clues how to get VS2010 to respond in a timely fashion I'd love to hear them.
Craig
I had some extremely slow build times on a solution that included an MSUnit project (with only about 5 tests in it). The tests were not set to run on each build or anything like that. When I unloaded the project, the build became much quicker.
Just for anyone's sake. I had slow compilation times because of an extension, disabled extensions and 10 x more speedier (probably a bug in one :s)
I had the same problem one week ago. Reinstalling .NET 4 framework helped me.
Had the same issue, solved it by changing my default browser from IE to Chrome.
The site that I am working on is at a remote server. I want to work on it locally. Are there any tools better then that in Visual Studio for working with a remote website?
Rather than deal with the quirkiness of VS remoting, what about using Remote Desktop to drive VS on a machine local to your target (behind VPN for example)?
If you can set up a subversion server on the remote site you could use that to sync changes between locations. This would be really helpful in other areas as well such as allowing multiple people to mess with your code and to keep track of every change you make. It would also be the best in the area of performance.
If its a windows share, just set up the repository where it is right now then use:
svn checkout file:///project/trunk
Or if its over a web server you can set up SVN to be served though that as well.
There are plenty of free/not free plugins for VS that make working with SVN very easy.
Curious to know how people set up their personal and/or work development environment, in terms of:
Do you just have all of your developer tools (for example Visual Studio, SSMS, etc.) installed on your main operating system;
Do you use Virtual Machines to have a separate "clean" dev environment that consists only of the OS and one compiler you're working with;
Do you have multiple OS's in a multi-boot system;
Do you remote connect to a separate machine with your developer tools installed on there
It all depends on the type of the job i guess. Here is how my setup is:
The main PC. The one on my desk. Has everything on it.
The secondary machine. Runs Vista.
A bunch of "Clean" VMs for testing. Typically 2 machines of each OS we support.
A build machine. VM with no installed product. Just source code and some compilers.
A dedicated "Server" to host the server app and the DB. [Our product is a client-server thingy]
[On top of that, my primary and sec machines have the server and DB running too.]
EDIT: By "clean" i mean that they only have a freshly installed OS on them, nothing else. These are non-persistent and go back to clean state on shutdown.
I am running what I think is a fairly standard Agile C# development environment. Vista SP1, Visual Studio 2008 with Resharper 4.1, SQL Express 2008, Subversion server, command line svn client and Cruise Enterprise (unbelievable product) with 1 server and 1 agent for continuous integration.
I am running on a Dell XPS core 2 duo 2.4Ghz laptop with 4GB of RAM and 1 external 22" widescreen monitor.
I have tried and tried and persisted with VMWare Workstation (mostly but also Virtual PC) but I again and again resort back after tiring with the performance and annoying delays in Visual Studio. And I have tried every performance trick and tweak in the book available to me. It apparently just needs either more hardware than I have or far more patience.
I have also tried running 64bit Ubuntu with VMWare Worstation server running Vista (vlite'ed) and also windows XP (lite), but I found it just as annoying.
If you have similar specs to what I described then I can simply recommend not going down the VM path, unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary.
I have a VMWare network replication of the main servers in my environment including SQLservers, Web-Servers, a copy of my dev box, and AD Servers. I also use VS on my dev box for simple things that don't need as much testing.
We use Virtual PC's for our development. As well as a VP for our build environment. The reason for this is so that we can switch between different projects without losing time. (for Support)
At our current client, we have an ESX server with virtual machines running on it. We access the virtual machines through Remote Desktop.
For my style in VS 2008, I use VibrantInk by Rob Conery.
We have Reflector and all Sysinternal tools available on all virtual machines.
I'm planning to have ReSharper on every machine also.
Firefox/Firebug combo is installed on every machine.
Web Developer for IE7 is also installed on every machine.
Cheers!
I really enjoyed using a single VM for each IDE I worked with, but that requires a beefy machine. However, my company has taken recently to the idea that the developers can do "just fine" with sub $500 machines. Thus, my current setup is everything on my only machine.
All of my tools are on my local machine. I generally work within the MVC mindset.
VMWare is set up on my machine, but it's only used on rare occasion for things beyond the control of my machine.
My work is primarily done on a windows machine, with Visual Studio.
I have Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 running on my main machine (Vista :p), and everything I can develop here without cluttering the machine, I do. Feels so much more responsive than in a VM. I have a VM for Linux-based development and several VMs for testing purposes. I never tested VMWare's debugging feature (run the debugger on the host and the debuggee on the guest), though I can imagine that that would be a good reason to have Visual Studio on the host, even if you don't care about responsiveness.
I have a number of IDEs and server products running on my main workstation. I also have a remote access laptop that has all the same critical software on it so I can develop locally (and not depend on Citrix and Remote Desktop to work on code fixes outside the office).
My main work system
Linux x64 dual core
Dual monitor
Redhat based OS
Vim, Kdevelop, Eclipse(with Epic, and Subclipse).
My system is similar(arch, and OS) to our servers, which is what I implement code for. Since I work for a small company with many hats, I tend to have a ssh'd mysql connection open in one window, with a vim screen open on the other side. Throughout the day I use SSH, VIM, SVN, firefox, and e-mail daily.
I put all toolchains and other apps needed to build my code into revision control, and write makefiles for all projects such that the version of the tools from the repository is used, not whatever may be in the $PATH. So when I do a label for a release, it includes everything needed to do the build, and depends on build machine setup as little as possible. All I need to do is sync to revision control, and type 'make'. Unfortunately this does require having cygwin installed on Windows, but personally, I consider a Windows machine just about unusable for development without cygwin, regardless of the prerequisites of the build system.
I have simple makefiles to build projects that include platform-specific .mk files. I don't manually create IDE project files. In a couple cases (Rowley Crossworks for embedded ARM development, Visual Studio for self-hosted windows PC development), I auto-generate project files based on my makefiles, as part of the "make debug" target, and then launch the IDE with the generated project. This makes debugging convenient, without requiring parallel maintenance of a IDE-specific project file in addition to my makefile.
I am about to set up a new development environment for a new department.
Build environment (support both Java development and .Net) will be on to separate VMware machines running on the same physical computer. Both images will use 2008 server.
Developer machines will be desktop computers, most likely qith 6 gig ram, big harddrives, 1 or 2 cpu's with dual or quad core, 24" screens * 2, etc., and with 2008 server installed. This to ensure that the developer code is compiled on the OS. Desktops because I want the developers to be able to use VMware to test, etc., without spending to much time complaining about lack of performance with 2 VMwares running at the same time :)
I am trying to figure out the build environment now. Considering Team City, ++. Difficult to find the right one when you want to support multi-platform environment without to much fuss :)
Every developper setup includes a MacBookPro 17" with a 22" lcd screen.
Eclipse is our IDE, and we use VMWare to host our developpement database (oracle) under winXP.
Obviously a lot of your answers are going to depend heavily on what kind of development each person does. Maybe we should be categorizing these? :)
Web Development
I use a VM to run a Linux guest with a development webserver. I use Notepad++ on my host for editing (recent convert from jEdit), and with drive mapping in the VM software (Sun's VirtualBox), my dev webserver guest machine has no problem serving up the ever-changing source files. I also use the Windows XP IE6 VPC image in another VM to test the page in IE6. I use this setup even if I'm not developing a complicated web-app and am simply working on a static HTML page; there are still some quirky differences in behavior between a locally opened file and a served webpage in a number of browsers that make this worthwhile.