This is very common question but this is not about the VS2012 & VS2013 features comparison. Instead this question is written to see the clear view of the technical parts of programming & effectiveness of Xamarin in VS2012 / VS2013.
Hope anyone could contribute to share their answers.
Xamarin is not supported in Visual Studio 2012. You either need VS2013 Pro or better, or any edition of VS2015 or VS2017.
Xamarin Visual Studio Requirements
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According to the document Designing user interfaces with Xcode, I am noted that
Starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9, there will be no supported way to edit iOS storyboards on Windows. Use Visual Studio for Mac and the Xcode Interface Builder to continue building your Xamarin.iOS user interfaces.
We need to edit the storyboard on Xcode.
It told me that we can use VS2019 for Mac and Xcode. What I want to know is that can me develop the Xamarin using VS2019 on Win10 any more, rather than installing VS2019 on Mac.
The background behind that notice is that Microsoft decided to not work on its iOS user interface visual designer any more (due to various reasons), so you lost the way to edit storyboard files on Windows.
So yes, you can continue to develop the Xamarin using VS2019 on Win10, but now that approach has many more restrictions.
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Is there any way to get VS2012 set up for Enterprise Portal developing?
I already installed the EP Dev Kit for VS2010 and am able to build and deploy EP UserControls, but how to achieve this in VS2012?
MSDN says you have to use VS2010
Have I overseen something? Anybody knows about a workaround or something?
The complete solution and all referenced projects are built in VS2012 so it would be nice if there wasn't any need to have VS2010 involved for a single UserControl for AX.
As you said yourself, MSDN says:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is required to create or modify User
Controls for Enterprise Portal
The visual studio components for AX don't work with VS2012 so you are stuck with VS2010. I don't know of any way to make it work but even if it was a workaround I would not recommend it since Microsoft says otherwise. You will not get support and you wouldn't be sure if any problems you face are due to using VS2012.
From that same page, these are the ones that are supported:
Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Visual Studio 2010 Premium, and
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
It's not convenient but not a problem since you can run VS2010 and VS2012 side by side.
I would like to make a template for F# lib + XNA 4.0 + Xbox360 for visual studio 2012.
All I have is Visual Studio 2012 Express Edition for Web.
When I try to install the Visual Studio 2012 SDK, it stops after reporting that it requires Visual Studio 2012. The log seems to indicate it's looking for the Professional edition.
I'm not interested in buying a professional license for hobby work, and I am a bit surprised Microsoft would want to prevent hobbyists from extending their product.
I do have a professional license for Visual Studio 2010, though. If there's a way to make extensions for 2012 using 2010, that would work for me.
You can use VS2010 to develop extension compatible with VS2012.
All you have to do is to manually change vsixmanifest to make it work with newer version:
<SupportedProducts>
<VisualStudio Version="11.0">
Note however that Visual Studio Express does not support extensions, so you won't be able to install it in VS2012 Express anyway.
Does VS 2012 come with SL 5?, if it doesn't, what can I do?, I guess the tools installed for VS 2010 don't work with VS 2012.
If I don't uninstall VS 2010, will Silverlight 5 work in VS 2012 without doing anything?
According to MS SilverLight Forums.
does anyone know if Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio is
compatible with visual studio 2012 rc? i haven't found a vs2012
specific version.
With this answer
Hi,
You don't need that. You can create Silverlight projects directly in
Visual Studio 2012 RC. For more Visual Studio 2012 RC compatibility
issues please refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747(v=vs.110).aspx
Sincerely, Allen Chen Microsoft Online Community Support
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So I assume that it's also true for the RTM release.
I learned via Wikipedia that Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express Edition does not ship with support for MFC projects. Does anyone know if the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 distribution ships with MFC support ? I imagine MFC versions for Win 7 are incomplete, but I only require basic/legacy MFC support for Win XP/Vista.
Thanks
Yes, VS2010 Beta 1 includes MFC.
(I checked via File / New / Project / Visual C++ and there's MFC in the list of available project types.)
But that doesn't necessarily mean that VS2010 Express will include it, of course.
I believe that final Express Edition of Visual Studio 2010 will be distributed without MFC since Express Edition is free. If you are planning to develop MFC projects you should buy at least Standard Edition of Visual Studio.