Just wondering if Visual Studio is developed in the IDE that is Visual Studio? Maybe VS2010 was made using VS2008?
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Why did Microsoft develop Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio and yet Visual Studio itself is a complete tool?
Visual studio you code everything in the .xaml window in the solution, in blend it does the code for you and you just change the properties via the code or via the interface.
I am trying to build a VS 2017 solution which includes a Visual Studio Installer Project with the just released Visual Studio Pro 2019. Of course, when I tried to open the solution I got an error because there was not Visual Studio Installer project type in VS 2019. And, I cant find a place to load it from.
How do I add a Visual Studio Installer Project type in the released version of VS 2019?
Install the addin in Visual Studio 2019:
This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists
in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. To use
this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog,
select the online node, and search for "Visual Studio Installer
Projects Extension," or you can download directly from this page.
This extension is designed to work with Visual Studio 2017 and
Visual Studio 2019.
I want to migrate a Visual Studio 2010 Solution so that I can work with Visual Studio 2013.
If I understand it right, due to the round-tripping feature of Visual Studio 2013,
there is no reason to convert the solution!? I can just open my old solution with
Visual Studio 2013 and can just work with it.
Is that right? Or is there a good reason or need to do a conversion to a
Visual Studio 2013 solution.
Or better: Is there any good reason to not stick with the old Visual Studio 2010 solution?
Visual Studio 2013 can open a sln file created by Visual Studio 2010. However, Visual Studio 2010 can not open a sln file created by Visual Studio 2013.
The easiest way to see this is to open the sln file in a text editor and look at the first 2 lines:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio has a version setting in the header (this example is from VS 2012). An older version of the tool wont open the file.
Beyond that there aren't really any big differences in the file. There are certain project types (ie Project("{guid}") that aren't supported in older version of Visual Studio. For example a Visual Studio 2013 SDK project can only be opened with Visual Studio 2013.
To wrap up, if you have an existing Visual Studio 2010 sln file, there isn't really any need to change it. If you plan on opening it again in VS2010 then make sure you don't change it. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it and just let VS do whatever makes VS happy.
Where is the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.WebTestFramework.dll in Visual Studio 2013? I'm using NUnit on an API and I cannot add that library in a new machine.
Its only available in the ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2013...
Will Programs in Visual Studio Premium Open in Visual Studio Express?
There are some project types that are not supported by Visual Studio Express. For example if you created a solution containing a unit test project in Visual Studio Ultimate you will not be able to open it in Visual Studio Express. Also make sure you check the Visual Studio Editions features comparison matrix.