I have created a custom template wizard for Visual Studio 2010. Thus I'm implementing the Microsoft.VisualStudio.TemplateWizard.IWizard interface. I want projects generated by this wizard to always be placed in a certain directory. If the user selected another directory a message box would show the error "Blah projects must be placed in C:\Blah".
Q: Before the wizard is shown, is it possible to check the project's destination directory?
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I've made a custom project template and when I create a new project in Visual Studio using this template I want to open a file(which belongs to the template) into the Visual Studio's document window(code editor window/whatever...) right after the project is loaded.
If, for example, I create a C# - .NET Framework - Console Application the file Program.cs is opened after the project is fully created and loaded into Visual Studio.
When I use my custom template, no file is opened and the document window is empty.
I would like to achieve the same behavior as it happens for the built-in templates and have a file be opened when the project is loaded
I suspect I would have to edit the .vstemplate file and add some specific tag that would instruct Visual Studio to do that, but I can't find anything useful in the microsoft documentation relating vstemplate element.
I have a straightorward console application that I build using code::blocks. A client has requested a microsoft visual studio project to build it. So I downloaded and installed visual studio and created a project. Now I am trying to add my source files to the project.
Various online help pages say "Select project; select menu item "Add Existing Item" ( e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2010/9f4t9t92(v=vs.100). I cannot find "add existing item"! Add new item simply adds an empty file.
I tried dragging files from windows explorer onto the project, but this REMOVES the file from where it belongs - NOT what I want to happen.
Surely there must be a way to do this! Even without using alternative IDEs, different projects frequently must share common source code, so source files from one project need to be added to another.
The answer is to use File | New | Project from Existing code rather than simple 'New Project' when creating the project
I am creating a Custom Visual Studio Project Template. This custom project template consists of two folders which needs to contain some binaries. These binaries has to copied from some server location. As these binaries will be updated periodically i can't simply enclose them while creating the custom project template. I would like to copy them from server location whenever the developer selects this custom project template the two folders inside their Visual Studio might get the latest binaries from the server location. I have to do this with PowerShell script only. Can someone help me on how to execute PowerShell scripts while creating custom project template in Visual Studio.
Why don't you create your own custom nuget packages? Then you only have to "refresh nuget packages" after creating the project from template.
Visual Studio seems to consist of a single solution file (*.sln) along with one or more project files (a C# project would have the *.csproj extension).
I have been playing around with a console application that parses existing directory entries to create solution files with the associated project files.
It works, but every time I run into a new project here at work I find myself spending a week or more debugging my console project so that it can churn out a solution for that particular work project.
Is there something out there already that can create a VS solution out of an existing file structure?
As you can tell from my screen capture below, these projects are nested very deep, so it would take a very long time to do this with the apps folder below with the "by mouse" technique in the Visual Studio IDE.
I created the custom console application that is posted in this post:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/22153536/153923
I invite others to contribute how they approached this solution, though.
So, I found out today that this feature already exists in Visual Studio.
Link 1: How to: Create a Project from Existing Code Files
Link 2: How to: Create a Project from Existing Code Files
Basically, though, it says this (just in case the MSDN links get changed or deleted):
You can create a Visual Studio project from an existing app—for example, an app that you obtained from an online source. Project and solution files are created on your computer and the other relevant files are added. A project can be created from Visual C++, Visual Basic, or Visual C# code files.
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We recommend that you determine the trustworthiness of existing code files before you import them into Visual Studio, because Visual Studio will execute some of the code in a fully trusted process when you open the newly created project.
To create a project from existing code files
On the menu bar, choose File, New, Project From Existing Code.
The Create New Project from Existing Code Files wizard opens.
Use the wizard to specify the details of the existing code files that will be added to the project and the application that will be created when you build the project.
Another good answer was given by cbp in Visual Studio: Create a web application from existing code:
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OK I figured it out. It's weird, but the following steps will work:
Open fresh copy of Visual Studio
File->New Project, select Web Application
Use the following settings:
Name: Website (this is the name of the existing folder with the website files in it)
Location: C:\Temp\ (anywhere will do for now)
Solution Name: TheProject (name of the existing project's root folder)
Check "Create directory for solution"
Delete the auto-created Default, Global and Web.config files
Save All and close Visual Studio
In Windows Explorer, copy the new folder on top of the existing folder so that the files are merged.
Double click on the sln file to open Visual Studio again.
Select "Show all files" (at the top of Solution Explorer)
Right click on any files or folders you want to add and select Include in Project.
Great idea!
I have a Visual Studio 2013 project within a folder called 'Source', let's say. I'd like to have some additional folders within that folder and I'm trying to find a way to do that. If I, in visual studio, create a new 'filter' (which looks like a folder) and create a file within it. It might appear to be within a new folder (as displayed by Visual Studio), but it actually is in the default Source folder.
I try a second approach and create the folder with the help of the operating system. I even create a file within it manually. Then I go to visual studio and add an existing item, selecting the file WITHIN the folder. Visual studio then adds the file, which is good, but its displayed as being in the default directory.
I suppose there is a very manual way. And thats mirroring everything. Creating a folder using the operating system. Creating a filter within visual studio, etc. And mirroring everything manually.
Is there a different way or do I create a better IDE in 2 days?
Simple Drag and Drop should work.
Keep your directory with source inside your project directory.
Drag and Drop directory structure from windows explorer to visual studio existing project.
Click "Show All Files" option in the top of Solution Explorer toolbox
After doing this you need to add this directories in your project.
Select that directory, right click and select "Include in project"
You are good to go!
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