I've installed the ATI Stream SDK, which installed an add-on for Visual Studio without asking me. This addon creates an ATI Stream Profiler panel in Visual Studio.
How can I uninstall this profiler panel? (I still need the SDK, which is in use by an application).
Visual Studio doesn't list anything in the Add-in Manager or the Extension Manager. Are there any other places to check?
ATI Stream Profiler is only installed if you selected the option to install the tool as part of the SDK installation.
To uninstall it, you can select the tool from the Windows's Control Panel, select the tool and uninstall. This mode will be much safer than hacking the registry.
If it's not an option in the SDK, you can still try to hack the registry, but this will be at your own risk.
VS packages information is stored in (64-bit machine, VS 2010):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
The Editors subkey contains editors
The OutputWindows subkey contains output windows
The ToolWindows subkey contains tool windows,
etc...
You'll have to browse this, find what's related to your ATI sdk, and remove it (or safer: rename). Good luck!
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I'm trying to install WinDbg from this page, just under the Debugging Tools for Windows 10 (WinDbg) section. However, when I download the executable and run it, it tells me that
You must uninstall the Windows Software Development Kit - Windows 10.0.10586.15 before you can install the latest version of the kit.
I'm guessing this probably has to do with the fact that I already have VS 2015 (and the Windows 10 SDK) installed. However, when I go to the Developer Command Prompt and type in
> where windbg
it tells me that it can't find WinDbg. How, then, do I install it without doing anything drastic (like reinstalling Visual Studio)?
I just ran into this same problem (with a slightly newer version of the SDK) when setting up a VM with Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. Following the general rule (or at least, what used to be the general rule), I installed Visual Studio first before attempting to install the SDK.
Even though I picked all the options in the Visual Studio install, and I appear to have gotten large portions of the SDK, I didn't get the debugging tools or the application verifier, which I wanted. The "Debuggers" folder was empty. Yet when I tried to download and install the standalone Windows 10 SDK, I got the error message you quote, that I needed to uninstall the SDK before I can install the latest version.
Microsoft's site is absolutely no help. It gives no clues about the appropriate way to install the software. Harry Johnston's comment got me going in the right direction.
After installing Visual Studio 2015, you already have the Windows 10 SDK. You do not need to download it separately. To get the additional tools on Windows 10:
Open Settings → System → "Apps and features".
Scroll down to "Windows Software Development Kit".
(I had two versions of it installed. The top one was newer. I'd recommend that you proceed with the newer version for the following steps.)
Select it, and click "Modify". Then, because it's Windows 10 and everything is harder than it needs to be, click "Modify" again.
The installer will launch. Select the "Change" option, and click "Next".
Place a check next to the additional features/tools you want, click "Change" to start the process.
After waiting some time, it will have downloaded and installed the additional portions of the SDK. You should now be good to go!
(This does seem like a bug in my case. The two versions of the SDK (the one I have installed and the one whose installer I downloaded) are identical (both are for version 10.0.10586.212), so running the standalone installer should just launch the same setup tool that you are able to launch from Settings, enabling me to Change/Remove Features. Oh well, at least this works.)
I've tried both the ISO and the web installer. Neither works, they both give the same error. I get the splash screen for a few seconds, and then a popup comes up and says that it has simply "stopped working." I've got the latest .NET installed (4.5.2), both Intel HD Graphics drivers and my NVIDIA drivers up to date as well. I've tried all of the solutions I can see that people had for this issue to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.
Look at ActivityLog.xml and EventViewer (probably for errors in devenv.exe) to get more details. And specify what version of VS13 and any Update packs you're trying to install. Also if you had any previous versions installed and if you're on a 32 or 64 bit system.
the full path of that folder would be c:\users(your user login)\App Data\Microsoft . but make sure you have it set to see hidden files and folders.
And again - which VS13 are you trying?
Try to uninstall:
"Intel HD graphics driver" (generic driver)
Or try an updated graphics driver.
It works for me in Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015.
I am working on wince for a device having Standard Development Kit.
Now my aim is to develop applications for that.So please give me the prerequisites for installation and details about that.
Please help me i am sticking in installation for more than two months.
Thanks,
Pooja.
First, Windows CE is an operating system. It's not something you really "install" and based on your comments I believe you actually are talking about "Platform Builder", which is the development tool for creating Windows CE OS images.
That said, if all you want to do is create an application then you don't need or want to install Platform Builder. You simply install Visual Studio. I'd recommend Visual Studio 2008 (Pro or better for device development), but you can also use Visual Studio 2005 (Standard or better for device development).
If you have Studio installed and selected "Smart Device Programmability" in the setup, you will have Smart Device Application as one of the project types offered when you create a new project. Select that and walk through the Wizard.
If you are using C/C++, then you also need to install an SDK. It's very unusual to use the old "Standard SDK" as it didn't actually meet any real devices, which is why Microsoft also dropped support for it. Typically the device OEM will provide an SDK for the OS image that was actually built. Install the SDK and when you walk through the "new smart device project" wizard, you will see it as an available target platform.
Running the WindowsSdkVer.exe shipped with Platform SDK 7.1 does not work.
None of the .BAT files in VS 2005 get updated.
can anyone please tell me how to correct this?
Also, how do I verify that VS2005 is using Platform SDK 7.1?
There are several articles for this in MSDN but none of them for above configuration.
Also, none of them describe the concrete way / definate way of verifying this
You could try to manually set the include and lib paths of the VS environment under
Tools->Options->VC++ Directories
or something like that (it's been a while).
For verification, you can add the /showIncludes parameter to the additional compiler options of the project, and /verbose:lib to the additional linker options to double check that the correct headers/libraries are being used when compiling/linking the project.
IIRC there was some kind of incompatibility between one of the newer versions of the SDK (could have been version 7) and using VS2005, but I can't recall off hand what that was.
You can use below method for using Windows SDK 7.1 with Visual Studio 2005.
Configuring Visual Studio for Visual C++ Development with the Windows SDK
In the link , you can find the contents with
"To use the Windows SDK Configuration Tool in Visual Studio 2008".
Even though it has such title, you can use the same procedure also for VS2005.
Start the Windows SDK Configuration Tool by clicking Start, then All Programs, then Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1, and then Visual Studio Registration.
Right-click Windows SDK Configuration Tool and then click Run as
administrator.
In the Windows SDK Configuration Tool, in the list, select v7.1.
Click Make Current.
I've downloaded a Vista icon from the web for a new application I'm developing. When I try to compile it in Visual Studio 2005 C++, I get an error message:
error RC2176 : old DIB in res\XXXXX.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT
The error message seems a little misleading, I think the "old DIB" is actually a newer format that it wasn't expecting. I've never heard of SDKPAINT, and Search doesn't find it installed on my system anywhere. Microsoft claims SDKPAINT comes with the Windows 3.0 SDK, but I can't download any SDK due to incompatibilities with our firewall.
I don't really need anything Vista specific in this icon, so anything that would dump the incompatible bits would be fine.
I did a little more digging, and I found this previous question:
Which Icon Editing Software would you recommend for creating icons for apps
The accepted answer for that question suggested IcoFX. I downloaded that and used it to delete the 256x256 and 128x128 versions of the icon, and now everything's fine.
There are two more ways to achieve this in Visual Studio 2005:
replace rc.exe and rcdll.exe of your Visual Studio 2005 installation with the ones from a newer SDK (e.g. Windows Vista, 7 ...) or DDK/WDK (ditto)
or integrate the newer SDK into your Visual Studio 2005 using the respective tool that comes with the SDK
The resource compiler is the part that creates the .res files and then the usual Visual Studio 2005 linker (with the first option) or the SDK tool chain's liner links that into the binary. Meaning that even in conservative scenarios where it is frowned upon to upgrade the tool chain as a whole, this should be harmless.