somehow, Xamarin from Visual Studio 2012 asked to activate my account,
but it give me following errors, anyone knows the workarounds? thanks in advance for your help.
System.FormatException: One of the identified items was in an invalid format.
at Xamarin.Components.Ide.Activation.ActivationService.GetErrorWorkflow(LicenseSyncResult[] results, Boolean ignoreSyncErrors)
at Xamarin.Components.Ide.Activation.ActivationService.<GenerateFullWorkflowSequence>d__100.MoveNext()
at Xamarin.Components.Ide.Activation.ActivationDialog.DisplayWorkflowStep(ActivationWorkflowStep step)
at Xamarin.Components.Ide.Activation.ActivationDialog.<>c__DisplayClass11.<StartSpinnerTaskAndScheduleContinuation>b__12(Task t)
According to System Requirements in Xamarin's documentation. The minimal requirements is to run Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.
I highly suggest you get at least Visual Studio 2015 or even better 2017, so you can leverage all the great language goodies C#6 and C#7 provides.
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I was working on a project in VS 2017(trial) but now i have to work on VS 2012 instead due to company policy. The problem is that now the components in the design are errored out(Error creating control) and i can't proceed any further. Any suggestions on how to make it work in 2012?
Maybe this solution will be able to help you. Seems like a similar issue although it is for a previous version of Visual Studio.
How to downgrade from Visual Studio 2012 project to Visual Studio 2008
So, I was arguing with a great friend of mine about Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft being able to detect which one you used. According to him if you get your hands on a direct MSDN download of Visual Studio 2012 Professional, and you end up creating an app, like a game or something, and then you submit it to the Windows App Store, they will never know which visual studio version you truly used to develop the App, or if you were the owner of it or not.
Is he right? Because I thought Visual Studio some how left a footprint behind on the .exe file letting Microsoft know about licensing information. Or should I go apologize to him for calling him a f...ing liar.
If you guys say it does leave a print, can you show some proof, or a link to read more about it? Thanks guys.
Your friend is likely correct. Why would MS bother when they make freely available all the tools you need to compile your program. You can build .Net applications without the Visual Studio IDE. See this related question
Is it possible to install a C# compiler without Visual Studio?
I've been trying to get the .NET Dev Kit and Azure SDK to work with Visual Studio 2012 and am not having much luck. What am I missing?
The Azure SDK installation instructions don't work on VS 2012. When I search for anything Intuit-related from the VS Extension Manager, nothing comes up.
I tried installing from the VS Gallery but then there's no Intuit Anywhere menu in VS as shown in the VS 2010 screen shot. (These instructions are highly suspect, since Intuit has moved away from the "Intuit Anywhere" name. But given that the developer site was overhauled recently I would expect the instructions to be up to date.)
Is there an easy way to get this to work with VS 2012, or am I wasting my time? Am I better off just building everything from scratch? (We have done that in another project, just not with Azure.)
The Plugin for Visual Studio has not been updated for Visual Studio 2012, the last supported version is 2010.
The code that the plugin generates is available as templates and sample code as well.
It includes the Oauth grant and handler pages, as well as the OpenId handlers.
regards,
Jarred
Is there any way to customise which languages are installed with Visual Studio 2012? I only want C#, no VB or F# etc.
I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2012 Premium RTM.
The first install page I see this:
and the next I see this:
but there's no option to choose which languages I want to install :-(
I think thats as much customization as your going to get.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/04/setup-improvements-for-visual-studio.aspx
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2639283-bring-back-the-visual-studio-installation-customiz
According to those links they [Microsoft] removed then brought back the option for customization. And what you see there is all you get. I know my installation of VS 2012 (upgraded express to ultimate) is only taking up 2 gb so IDK why it is saying it needs 6.
I've raised the point on the Visual Studio installation forum, see what comes of it.
VS 2010 powertools installation helped to use PEX & Moles in VS 2010.
Now with VS 2012, I understand that Moles becomes enriched as Fakes but hopefully PEX is retained, please confirm.
Also, how to use PEX in 2012. What needs to be installed (like VS 2010 powertool) to get that working for 2012.
Thanks !!
As far as I know, they are waiting for a final version of Visual Studio 2012 to release a version of Pex compatible with it.
I can't understand why Microsoft doesn't make this things clear... :/
Below are the comments from http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fb5badda-4ea3-4314-a723-a1975cbdabb4
Pex for Visual Studio 2012 2 Posts | Last Post April 23, 2013
Written April 23, 2013
Flynn Hi, I am wondering: There is PEX for Visual Studio 2010, there is Code Digger for Visual Studio 2012 and portable libraries but
there
is nothing for Visual Studio 2012 and all the the other library
formats. Why is that?
Written April 23, 2013 Nikolai Tillmann Code Digger (for Portable
Class Libraries) is the first Visual Studio extension from the Pex
Team for Visual Studio 2012. Stay tuned for future extensions that
bring more aspects of the rich experience of the Pex Visual Studio
2010 Power Tools to the latest version of Visual Studio. If you are
looking for a particular Pex feature for Visual Studio 2012, drop as
an email at pexdata#microsoft.com.*
Looks like they introduced Code Digger.
From the PEX webpage:
Code Digger for Visual Studio 2012 is a lightweight version of Pex that allows you to explore public .NET methods in Portable Class Libraries directly from the code editor.
As far as I have read from Microsofts documentation PEX for Visual Studio 2012 is now an integral part called "Fakes and Moles", please look here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/
And here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh549175.aspx
You can continue to use PEX for test generation by opening your solution(s) in VS 2010 , even if you are normally working inside VS 2012. VS project schema is very compatible between VS 2010 and VS 2012.
You also could consider to run command line PEX from 2010 add-in. See the answer in Create NUnit test cases automatically from Pex. read more about this in Exercise 5 of Parameterized Unit Testing with Microsoft Pex
According to This Webcast
Code Digger was released so that people can see the power of PEX when used properly before they release the Visual Studio 2012 version where people pick it apart for not working with platform specific cases.
They don't speak of a release date but since Visual Studio 2013 is now RTM you'd think that it would be soon. I definitely miss PEX as it helped with Parameterized Unit Testing.