Web Deployment Projects will NOT be available in VS2012. Instead we will focus on bringing first class publishing support for Website projects. You can read more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/08/06/plans-regarding-website-projects-and-web-deployment-projects.aspx. In a nutshell, you will have all the same features that WDP has, but a lot more as well. Also another good thing about this is … Read more
The issue (as pointed out by Edward Thomson) was that step 3 had not been performed on all of the users’ workspaces.
Metro-style apps aren’t meant to be run as ordinary applications. If you want to run an application you wrote, you can do one of the following: Run it from VS (with or without debugging). This will actually install unpackaged version of your app, so you will see it in the start screen. Create a package … Read more
Some extensions may cause this. Try disabling extensions and restarting Visual Studio. Quite often error will be gone even if you re-enable extensions after this. There’s a bug report on Microsoft Connect (link). It is marked there as “Closed as External”, but it seems that it may occur randomly with any extension, so would be … Read more
EDIT: This answer does not apply to C++ projects. EDIT: As of CMake 3.15, CMake supports referencing Nuget packages with VS_PACKAGE_REFERENCES. Now, this is a much cleaner solution than the work-around proposed earlier below. To add a Nuget package reference to a CMake target, use the package name and package version separated by an _ … Read more
Playing around with different project properties, I found that the project build order was the problem. The project that generated the files I wanted to copy was built second, but the project that was running the batch file as a post-build event was built first, so I simply attached the build event to the second … Read more
You can double click directly on the .cs file representing your form in the Solution Explorer : This will open Form1.cs [Design], which contains the drag&drop controls. If you are directly in the code behind (The file named Form1.cs, without “[Design]”), you can press Shift + F7 (or only F7 depending on the project type) … Read more
Ok – found a work around myself, posting in case someone else gets caned by this MS bug. The problem is that you can’t add a NuGet reference as it’s already included in the packages by default. So… Open up packages.config Delete the Newtonsoft.Json entry. Save and Build Re-add Newtonsoft.Json from NuGet. Build and run
You can use Manage NuGet packages for Solution… by: right-clicking on solution Tools > Library Package Manager > Manage NuGet packages for Solution Then you can choose in which projects install package as on screenshot below: Additionally you can add installed package to another projects in solution using the same Manage NuGet packages for Solution….
I managed to ‘convert’ the solution file to change the line containing ‘# Visual Studio 2010’ to ‘# Visual Studio 2012’ in the .SLN file.