I have Visual Studio 2010 and BizTalk Server 2010.
I need to uninstall BizTalk.
Is it possible to continue to use Visual Studio for BizTalk development?
If so, what do I have to do?
From BizTalk Server 2010 Microsoft made it completely free for development and testing purpose. Only BizTalk Server is free, not the dependant components like Visual Studio and SQL. SQL Express is not supported (http://blogs.digitaldeposit.net/saravana/post/2009/06/01/BizTalk-Server-with-SQLEXPRESS.aspx) .
You also need to keep in mind, you can use BizTalk Server with your MSDN subscription for development and testing purpose. Check it out.
You cannot totally uninstall BizTalk and continue to develop for BizTalk in Visual Studio, because completely uninstalling BizTalk will remove the Developer Tools and SDK. If you want to remove the BizTalk Server components, you can do that:
In your Control Panel, select Programs and Features or (if your settings are organized by category) select Uninstall a program.
Double-click on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Developer Edition (assuming that the version and edition installed).
The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Installation Wizard will open up.
Ensure that the Modify radio button is selected and press the Next button.
On the Component Installation page, uncheck all of the available components except for Developer Tools and SDK. Then press the Next button.
On the Summary page, select Install to proceed with the features removal.
I didn't know there is a free version of BizTalk.
nonnb's comment helped to resolve my license issue.
This doesn't seem to make sense to me - if you need to continue developing Biztalk projects, it will make life difficult without a local Biztalk (BizTalk dev edition is free and you can use SQL Express if you like). The Biztalk Deployment Framework (biztalkdeployment.codeplex.com/discussions) might assist with deploying to a remote server. – nonnb 2 days ago
Related
After installing Visual Studio 2017 with the SQL Server Data tools feature checked, I noticed LocalDB was not installed. How can I add SQL Server LocalDB 2016 to my Visual Studio 2017 installation? Did I miss a checkbox when installing VS2017, or is it simply not included with the installer? If so, how do I configure VS2017 so I can view and connect to my manually installed LocalDB database in Visual Studio's server browser?
It's automatically installed if .NET Desktop Development is checked.
You can check it in the Summary.
SQL Server Express 2016 LocalDB is in .NET desktop development. If you missed it to select while installing Visual Studio 2017, you can select and install it later.
To install SQL Server Express 2016 LocalDB, go to Start in your Windows OS, type Visual Studio Installer and run it. Then click Modify. It will open the Workloads selection screen where you can select .Net desktop development. .Net desktop development includes SQL Server Express 2016 LocalDB. After selecting, click Modify and you are done.
But although you select .NET desktop development, it may not install. Because SQL Server 2016 or later is not supported for many processors. To check this, visit Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server If this is your case, then you have to depend on SQL Server Express 2014 LocalDB or previous.
To install SQL Server Express 2014 LocalDB manually, download the installer from Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Express and install SQL Server Express 2014 LocalDB by running the installer.
To connect to LocalDB, open Server Explorer in Visual Studio, right-click on Data Connections-> Add Connection. Enter Server name: (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB and Test Connection. If test is success, click OK and you are now connected.
It is a component under the .NET desktop development workload.
As others have pointed out, LocalDB is automatically included if you select certain workloads, such as Desktop or ASP.Net.
However, you may not want one of those workloads. You may just want to add LocalDB.
In the Visual Studio Installer, navigate away from the Workloads tab to the second tab (Individual components). Here, the individual items are listed alphabetically, and can be selected or deselected for installation:
New to the conversation, but wanted to share what I ran into because it may not be apparent that localdb was installed already. Here's another step you can take to verify.
I ran into this same issue and found out that I'd already installed localdb via desktop.
I was getting a connection string error and thought I did something wrong, but what I ended up doing is opening the SQL Server Object Explorer from within Visual Studio and sure enough, it was there.
Shortcut, Ctrl+\ & Ctrl+S, or View -> SQL Server Object Explorer.
If you choose
ASP.NET and web development
then the option
SQL Server Express 2016 LocalDB
will also be checked and installed.
I have the same issue here, I followed the accepted answer but I think nothing has been installed. I followed the installer, and everything was checked ever since I installed my Visual Studio 2017 Professional Edition:
After all successful installation, and tried to modify it again using the installer, it will show the that I need to download the same tools which I installed multiple times. In other words, I have the same window as my image I showed above even though I already installed and modified it several times. And LocalDb still is not yet installed.
So I directly downloaded it here, you can even choose your own version: SQL Server Express LocalDB
Then upon successful installation using the link above, I was now able to confirm that LocalDb has finally installed on my machine.
To query, run command prompt and input:
I know this is a little different that what is asked, but the symptom is similar so I'm posting this. I figured out what I was missing. I was following a tutorial on Pluralsight, Bethany's Pie Shop, "Building Your First ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC Application VS 2017", and tried running the solution downloaded. I had a failed login message... I re-watched a couple of the videos. This is what I was missing. I needed (in VS) to go to View->other windows->PkgMgrConsole
- Make sure you've built the application (build solution at top of VS)
- in console at bottom.... add-migration InitialMigration
- in console.... update-database
- run program
The person asking this didn't say how he got to the point that he thought he didn't have localDb installed. I checked, and I had it installed, but it was giving me a failed login message when I tried running the program without these steps.
If you use Visual Studio Installer and select only .Net desktop development,it will uninstall all workloads you had before.
It's a lengthy process beware.
I am using VS2010 with access to TFS via the VS2012 shell. Looking around on the web version that usually offers rich functionality I am unable to view the kanban board and graphs. Will I need a higher level of access or does this installation not allow these?
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997788.aspx:
"When you connect to a more recent version of TFS than that of the client that you run, you’ll only be able to access those features supported by your client. For example, if you connect Visual Studio 2010 to TFS 2013, you can perform the same functions as if you connected to TFS 2010. You can’t access any new features that Visual Studio 2010 doesn’t support."
Microsoft provides a free Developer Edition of BizTalk Server. I'd like to do some BizTalk development to get insights into what I think is an interesting bit of enterprise technology. Now, BizTalk Server systems requirements list a full version of Visual Studio as a prerequisite for the BizTalk Developer Tools:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides a development environment for
rapidly building applications that target any device and integrate
with any platform. This is required for the Developer Tools and SDK
component of both BizTalk Server and BizTalk RFID. The Developer Tools
and SDK component cannot be installed on Visual Studio 2010 Express
Editions.
There's a video Example of an Orchestration (BizTalk) that gives you an idea of what the Dev Tools for VS look like.
Is it possible to do BizTalk development without the Dev Tools? Does it make sense? Is there any point in installing BizTalk Server on a developer machine without a non-Express version of Visual Studio?
You should be able to install the BizTalk server runtime, which would allow you to dig around in the BizTalk Server Administration console. You can use that to create ports that send and receive messages, without the need for Visual Studio.
However, that is about as far as you can go without Visual Studio. You'll need it to compile schemas, build maps to transform data, and create orchestrations.
Is it possible to get a standalone TFS client on a server that does NOT have Visual Studio installed? We'd like a way to "reach into" a TFS project from a server, without having to install Visual Studio?
Possible? I've seen Team Explorer, but will that work without Visual Studio?
Team Explorer 2008 will allow you to connect to TFS, but it will install a Visual Studio shell.
Team Explorer Everywhere has Web access. Martin Woodward wrote a great article about it.
Download the TFS power tools. The "Windows Shell Extension" component allows one to perform most operations with TFS via Windows Explorer. Note that the Power Tools installer states that Visual Studio 2010 (or Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010) is a prerequisite for the following features:
Command-line interface
Visual Studio Integration
Check-in Policy Pack
Process Editor
Windows Shell Extension
PowerShell Cmdlets
It's 2017 and Microsoft (re)introduced the standalone Team Explorer.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/04/05/reintroducing-the-team-explorer-standalone-installer/
If you remember back to 2013 (and before), we released standalone installers for Team Explorer. In VS 2015, we did not release a standalone Team Explorer since customers had free options with Express SKUs and Community, which included Team Explorer functionality.
Customers have continued to request a standalone installer for Team Explorer for non-developers, however. And so today, with the Visual Studio 2017 Update release, the standalone Team Explorer installer is back.
Download - https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=TeamExplorer&rel=15
Included with Team Foundation Server there is a free web front end called "TFS Web Access". In TFS 2008, the Web Access was a different installation and it came as a Power Tool to the TFS. In TFS 2010, the Web Access is installed automatically and is part of the TFS.
In order to get to the Web Access in TFS 2010 do the following:
In your preferred browser type:
http://[YourServerName]:8080/tfs/web/
YourServerName is the tfs name for example: http://tfs-srv:8080/tfs/web/
Also, if you need Agile planning and a Task Board with TFS Web Access, take a look at Urban Turtle - http://urbanturtle.com. According to Microsoft, this is the premier Scrum tooling for TFS.
Discloser: I work with the Urban Turtle team. So do not take my words. Instead, read what Microsoft blogs said about Urban Turtle.
http://blogs.msdn.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=urban%20turtle§ions=3652.
There now seems to be a more generic Team Explorer Everywhere for TFS - perhaps that will give us non-VS users desktop access to TFS :)
It includes an Eclipse plug-in and usefully, a command line client.
While it appears to be a dead project. If you like having version control outside an IDE (or independant of the IDE). There is SVN Bridge, which allows you to use TortoiseSVN to talk to your TFS server.
https://svnbridge.codeplex.com/
You can install Team Explorer (on the TFS install DVD, or you can download it from MSDN) without needing to have VS2010 installed - Team Explorer will install a 'shell' VS2010 with only the TFS features available - none of the IDE components.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fe4f9904-0480-4c9d-a264-02fedd78ab38
I've been using the trial edition of Visual Studio 2008 Team System to develop projects and work with my client's Team Foundation Server. I am using the Team Explorer integration / source control plugin.
My trial is expiring and I'm having trouble finding information on what exactly I need to purchase. I don't need to actually run a TFS server myself, but I do need the ability to connect to my clients and get/put files, and the integration with Team Explorer in VS is really nice, hence I'd rather not have to use an external 3rd party tool.
Do I need Team System to accomplish this or does Visual Studio 2008 Professional have the same TFS Plugin, and if so does it work the same?
I can't believe I'm having such a hard time finding the differences between the versions... if anyone has a good resource that'd be nice before I shell out $3,000 on something I don't need. I develop mainly ASP.NET Solutions if that matters. Thanks!
Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Guide
I don't need to actually run a TFS server myself, but I do need the ability to connect to my clients
Whoever is running TFS should procure CALs (Client Access License) so that any client that works with this server is covered. I believe you buy them separately per client machine (somewhat around 400$ each). Also VS Team System editions have one or two CALs included. That may be or may not be worth it for you.
And yes, you can access TFS from VS 2008 Pro, just need to install the integration plugin.
I don't know if that is possible at all for you, but if you can, I would wait for Visual Studio 2010 (to be released in march 2010). Not only is it a better product than VS2008 but also they have simplified the versioning/licensing part, also Team Foundation Server 2010 Basic may be suitable for your source control needs.
If you want to take a look, you can download the beta versions of VS2010 and TFS2010.