How to install Visual Studio 2015 on a different drive

Run the installer from command line with argument /CustomInstallPath InstallationDirectory See more command-line parameters and other installation information. Note: this won’t change location of all files, but only of those which can be (by design) installed onto different location. Be warned that there is many shared components which will be installed into shared repositories on … Read more

Visual Studio 2015 diagnostics tool does not support current debugging configuration

So I resolved my issue. The Diagnostic Tools window currently does not support: Windows Store projects that are using JavaScript Windows Store projects that are running on a Windows Phone Debugging with Use Managed or Native Compatibility Mode In my case I had ‘Use Managed Compatibility Mode’ enabled. To change this go to the following … Read more

Using Grunt, Bower, Gulp, NPM with Visual Studio 2015 for a ASP.NET 4.5 Project

While Liviu Costea’s answer is correct, it still took me quite some time to figure out how it is actually done. So here is my step-by-step guide starting from a new ASP.NET 4.5.2 MVC project. This guide includes client-side package management using bower but does not (yet) cover bundling/grunt/gulp. Step 1 (Create Project) Create a … Read more

Microsoft.DotNet.Props was not found

Although this question has already been answered. I recently came across the same issue. The more specific answer is that you need to install the Visual Studio 2015 Tools (Preview 2): https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core Direct Download: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827546 Because this wasn’t straight forward and I was working on a 1.1 dotnet core project, I accidentally skipped this step … Read more

How to install VS2015 Community Edition offline

edit: Starting from visual studio 2017 Microsoft is no longer offering .ISO images. For the new visual studio 2017 you have to download vs_community.exe from here and create an offline instalation folder: vs_community.exe –layout c:\vs2017offline Then, in order to install from that folder you have to first install certificates from \certificates in the download folder … Read more