When I go to Source Control Explorer and try to Delete Files, Visual Studio 2017 crashes.
Does anybody know solutions for the issue?
What's the exact version of VS 2017 do you use? Seems there is an issue on earlier version of VS 2017. See the issue here : https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/21301
Just try below items and check if that works for you:
Upgrade to the latest version of VS 2017.
Try deleting the contents of the .vs folder in your solution
directory.
Remap the workspace or create a new workspace to check that again.
Start VS with another user :
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE
runas /netonly /user:<account> devenv.exe
Reset user data:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE
devenv.exe /resetuserdata
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I am creating a generic script to deploy on the build server to build our project using VS 2019. The location of nmake in VS 2019 is at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin. The inclusion of numbers like 14.29.30133 doesn't allow the script to be very generic.
In the earlier generations of VS, nmake paths were like: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Vc\bin or C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Vc\bin
Maybe I installed MSVC incorrectly? Any help is appreciated. TIA.
You installed MSVC correctly, and yes, this can cause some headaches, because the version number in the folder name changes with every new minor release of VS 2019.
To resolve this, use this command line snippet for getting the path to the latest installed nmake.exe into the variable %NMAKE%:
set VSPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional
for /f %%i in ('dir "%VSPATH%\VC\Tools\MSVC" /b') do set VCTOOLSVERSION=%%i
set NMAKE="%VSPATH%\VC\Tools\MSVC\%VCTOOLSVERSION%\bin\HostX86\x86\nmake.exe"
This works for all intermediate versions of Visual Studio 2019 I tested it with.
I don't recall the previous version I had (it could have been 16.8.1), but updating just now to 16.8.4 results in none of my solution projects being able to load. Here's the output window for one of my solutions:
F:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\FitnessManagerCore\FitnessManagerCore\FitnessManagerCore.csproj : error : The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" was not found. Confirm that the expression in the Import declaration "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" is correct, and that the file exists on disk. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.CSharp.CurrentVersion.targets
F:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\GeneralUtilities\GeneralUtilities\GeneralUtilities.csproj : error : The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" was not found. Confirm that the expression in the Import declaration "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" is correct, and that the file exists on disk. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.CSharp.CurrentVersion.targets
F:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\FitnessManagerCore\FitnessManagerConsole\FitnessManagerConsole.csproj : error : The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" was not found. Confirm that the expression in the Import declaration "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" is correct, and that the file exists on disk. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.CSharp.CurrentVersion.targets
VS advised to try to reload the projects manually. When I attempt this, I get the following error message:
It seems Microsoft has no means to roll back a previous installation. I do not have a restore point. I do not want to uninstall/reinstall.
Edit:
I just tried creating a new solution to see what would happen if I tried to load one of my existing projects. When creating a console app w/ .NET Core, I get this:
Update:
This latest VS 2019 simply does not want to work on my machine in any capacity. I uninstalled VS 2019, rebooted, and attempted to reinstall. The installation stops midway with the below error message. When I click "Report this problem", it opens a Microsoft web page to report the issue, but says "Disconnected from Visual Studio". Since I can't roll back to a previous version according to what I'm reading, I guess I just can't use VS 2019 anymore.
You could check in your csporj file if you have:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
You would need to change MSBuildToolsPath to MSBuildBinPath, like this:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
When you create a project in Visual Studio 2008, $(MSBuildToolsPath) is added by default to your csproj file as the path to Microsoft.Build.Engine v3.5.
Be sure to change it to $(MSBuildBinPath) which is the path to Microsoft.Build.Engine v2.0.
(more info here)
What is the location of vcvarsall.bat file for Visual Studio 2019 (Preview and future release as well)?
Seems it is different from VS 2017 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"
As it turned out the path is very similar, just without "Community" part:
For VS2019:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Preview\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat
For VS2022 since the toolchain now is 64-bit:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat
If after installing the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019" and doing all that was recommended in the other answers, you still can't find the the file in the location mentioned (no Build folder inside Auxiliary) make sure you
Install "Desktop Development With C++ Workload"
because vcvarsall.bat is part of C++ workload.
(In VS, go Tools menu -> Get Tools and Features -> Install the Desktop Development With C++ workload)
You need to install the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019" which can be found here.
See the explanation:
You can build C and C++ applications on the command line by using tools that are included in Visual Studio. The Microsoft C++ (MSVC) compiler toolset is also downloadable as a standalone package from the Visual Studio downloads page. It's part of the Build Tools for Visual Studio package. You can choose to download only the tools you need for C++ development.
If you are using it in the pre-build event, you can execute the vcvars32.bat to set the environment variable VCINSTALLDIR and get rid of the Visual Studio version:
call "$(DevEnvDir)....\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
Then
"%VCINSTALLDIR%\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"
Note:
-In my tests, the variable VCINSTALLDIR has value only after executing the vcvars32.bat
-As Wei Yang said you need to install "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019", it can be installed using Visual Studio Installer.
I felt free to add a possible solution.
1.) Open the Developer Command Prompt for your wanted VS if you have more than one installed. BTW this lets you work with TFS tool tf if you need it.
2.) Add in your make script the following code at the concerning location:
for /f "delims=" %%d in ('dir /s /b %VSINSTALLDIR%\vcvarsall.bat"') do #set myVCVARSALL=%%d
if not defined myVCVARSALL exit 1
call %myVCVARSALL%
Hope that helps to find this file for the wanted VS version. It results in different files for different installations.
I needed to install and build some older build tools for windows. So, I had to set the location.
The location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build
If you haven't installed the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019", you can do so from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.
Once this is done, the correct path for running vcvarsall.bat is;
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"
For VS 2019 Professional, it is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat this is the location.
I've installed TFS (version 15.112.26307.0) on windows server 2012 R2. all team members use VS2017 to coding. I've created an agent (I've tried versions vsts-agent-win7-x64-2.112.0, 2.117.0 ,2.140.0)and set it's MSBuild version to MSBuild15.0 :
MSBuild15.0 has already installed on the server :
But when we use c# 7 features in our code(like "int out x") building code via TFS raise error as below (it use MSBuild14.0 to build our code, why?)
My agent capabalities is not correct :
Use the Visual Studio Build task. It allows you to specify the Visual Studio version used to run builds.
Seems the capabilities cannot be detected by the agent. If you have installed the VS 2017 on the build agent server, then you can try to restart the agent service to check if that works.
If that still not work, you could try below things:
Add the capabilities manually.
The path of them are（Enterprise version for example):
VisualStudio_15.0 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\
VisualStudio_IDE_15.0 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\
MSBuild_15.0 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\
MSBuild_15.0_x64 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\amd64\
VSTest C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow
Specify the path to Msbuild 15.0:
Is it possible to create XNA games using Visual Studio 2012?
Yes, it's possible with a bit of tweak. Unfortunately, you still have to have VS 2010 installed.
First, install XNA Game Studio 4.0. The easiest way is to install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 which contains everything required.
Copy the XNA Game Extension from VS 10 to VS 11 by opening a command prompt 'as administrator' and executing the following (may vary if not x64 computer with defaults paths) :
xcopy /e "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0"
Run notepad as administrator then open extension.vsixmanifest in the destination directory just created.
Upgrade the Supported product version to match the new version (or duplicate the whole VisualStudio element and change the Version attribute, as #brainslugs83 said in comments):
<SupportedProducts>
<VisualStudio Version="11.0">
<Edition>VSTS</Edition>
<Edition>VSTD</Edition>
<Edition>Pro</Edition>
<Edition>VCSExpress</Edition>
<Edition>VPDExpress</Edition>
</VisualStudio>
</SupportedProducts>
Don't forget to clear/delete your cache in %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions.
You may have to run the command to tells Visual Studio that new extensions are available. If you see an 'access denied' message, try launching the console as an administrator.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup
This has been tested for Windows Games, but not WP7 or Xbox games.
[Edit] According Jowsty, this works also for XBox 360 Games.
[Edit for Visual Studio 2013 & Windows 8.1] See here for documentation on installing Windows Phone SDK 7.1 on Windows 8.1. Use VS version number 12.0 in place of 11.0 for all of these steps, and they will still work correctly.
On codeplex was released new XNA Extension for Visual Studio 2012/2013. You can download it from: https://msxna.codeplex.com/releases
I found another issue, for some reason if the extensions are cached in the local AppData folder, the XNA extensions never get loaded.
You need to remove the files extensionSdks.en-US.cache and extensions.en-US.cache from the %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions folder. These files are rebuilt the next time you launch
If you need access to the Visual Studio startup log to debug what's happening, run devenv.exe /log command from the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE directory (assuming you are on a 64 bit machine). The log file generated is located here:
%AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml
There seems to be some confusion over how to get this set up for the Express version specifically. Using the Windows Desktop (WD) version of VS Express 2012, I followed the instructions in Steve B's and Rick Martin's answers with the modifications below.
In step 2 rather than copying to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0", copy to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\WDExpressExtensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0"
In step 4, after making the changes also add the line <Edition>WDExpress</Edition> (you should be able to see where it makes sense)
In step 5, replace devenv.exe with WDExpress.exe
In Rick Martin's step, replace "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions" with "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WDExpress\11.0\Extensions"
I haven't done a lot of work since then, but I did manage to create a new game project and it seems fine so far.