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Will visual studio 2010 express support addins?
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I successfully installed GhostDoc to Visual Studio 2012 (Express Edition). Unfortunately, when I'm starting Visual Studio after installation, I don't see icon "Document this". I can't use Ctrl+Shift+D to document code and, if I click right button on name of class, I don't see "Document this". Can anyone tell me why?
Express Editions of Visual Studio only support extensions which have been especially approved by Microsoft for use in those editions. The only real cases where you can extend these editions is the following:
You can add new Project or Project Item templates, provided they are prepared without additional functionality.
You can install the NuGet Package Manager extension, which has special installation privileges for Express Editions starting in Visual Studio 2012.
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How to download and install Microsoft's Visual Studio C/C++ compiler without Visual Studio
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Is there a way to download somewhere Microsoft c++ compiler (msvc++) without having to install the full visual studio IDE ?
I have found some downloads from 2015 but there is no recent version.
Thanks
The Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022 are available for download.
You can find them on the visual studio downloads site. Just expand the "Tools for Visual Studio" chevron, and you'll find the build tools download.
I recently developed a program in VB.net with Access Database. And I want to create setup file of it.
I'd searched on "How to create setup file". And I got that using "Deployment and Installing" we can. After that I'd install "InstallShield". But that option does not appear inside Visual Studio.
I'm using "VS Express 2012 for Windows Desktop".
Visual Studio Express 2012 does not support extensions, as such 3rd party products will not be able to provide additional functionality. The InstallShield LE page on MSDN spells this out clearly:
InstallShield Limited Edition is free for users of all Visual Studio editions except the Express editions.
Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531020.aspx
Your options are:
Install Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition (if you are allowed by the license) or buy Visual Studio Professional. These can be extended with either Wix or the Visual Studio Setup Package extension or Installshield.
Create a click-once installer
Use an installation system that is independent of Visual Studio and have it pick up your project output from a specific directory. You would have to author your installer outside of Visual Studio, e.g.:
NSIS
Wix and Wix Editor
I excitedly installed Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop on my fresh Windows 8 installation a couple days ago. I opened it and quickly found, to my dismay, that there is no native support for a C++ Windows Forms Application.
This is the correct guide that worked for me.
http://www.gamedev.net/blog/909/entry-2254695-native-only-apps-with-vs-express-
for-win8/
It is a hack and it's not the "proper" experience you'd expect or be used to.
I'd recommend getting 2010 express
Looking into more it seems like MS has a Visual studio 2012 for desktop for windows 8
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/08/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop.aspx
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Visual Studio 2012 failing to detect Visual Studio 2008 build tools
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have Visual Studio 2008 installed on my machine and now installed VS2012. In the C++-project-settings of VS2012 I should now be able to change the platform toolset back to VC++2008 (V90), but there's only the new version VC++2012 (V110) available. Does anybody know the reason why my old installation of VS2008 is not recognized or how I can manually add the old platform toolset?
Thanks in advance.
The v90 platform toolset is part of VS 2010, so you must install both VS 2008 and VS 2010.
Well i have no experience with 2012, but when i used 2010 and 2008 combined i just had two different program files folders and so two different executable to start visual studio in the version i liked. Maybe this is of help to you just make 2 shortcuts ?
If you're sure you've got your VC2008 environment variables set properly, you can always hand-edit the .vcxproj.
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'" Label="Configuration">
<UseDebugLibraries>true</UseDebugLibraries>
<ConfigurationType>StaticLibrary</ConfigurationType>
<PlatformToolset>v110</PlatformToolset>
</PropertyGroup>
Just change the v110 to v90.
Obviously, that is kind of a hack. The v90 option should be there in the project properties. If this doesn't work, you could try reinstalling or repairing the 2008 install.
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.