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
how can i open solution which is being developed using trial version of Visual Studio 2012 Professional in Visual Studio 2012 Express for web?
When i try to do so, i get an error stating the solution you are trying to open is incompatible with this version of the application. Open this solution with another version which supports this type of solution.
Visual Studio 2012 Express For Web wouldn't do alone, in order to open an Azure project with it you have to install the Azure SDK after you have installed the VS.
I installed Visual Studio 2012 Express. Then I installed WP8 SDK.
But after installation, I cannot find WP8 option in VS 2012 express.
Welcome any comment
WP8 SDK will install "Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone" as a separate install to your other Visual Studio 2012 Express product. See MSDN for how to launch it.
You cannot create a WP project from your other Visual Studio Express install. For that you will need Visual Studio Professional.
See this thread in Programmers.StackExchange for more information.
Create a new Project and then Select Windows Phone. There should be a list of possible Project types then...
Your question is not very precise
Previously I used VS 2010 Professional that I got from Dreamspark and I could use cmd line MDbg out of the box. But in VS 2012 there is no 'MDbg.exe' in the installation directory. Is it excluded from the Express edition, if so then is there any standalone installer available?
MDbg.exe is part of the .NET SDK which can be downloaded separately from Visual Studio:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8279
I have just installed Visual Studio 2012 RC that come with Blend standalone version. When I start a new project the list is empty, there are no templates to choose from.
Do you have any idea how to solve the problem?
With the upcoming update of visuals studio (update 2) support for Silverlight and WPF will return. I think this will work on Windows 7 too. You won't be able to build Windows Store apps though.
You can install the CTP of the update if you like.
If you don't want to update visual studio yet, you can install the Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
What version of Windows 8 are you running? The most recently released version of Blend with VS2012 must be installed on Windows 8 Release Preview, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview.
This release of Blend targets Metro style app development on Windows 8.
~Lori
Visual studio 2012 update 2 introduce a new version of Blend, witch is working correctly (including new project creation) for silverlight 4, silverlight 5, windows 8 app and so on.
Microsoft Answer Looks like it isn't available for win7 but have to update to win8 "Unfortunately Blend is empty on Win7, no matter which version you installed. It will work when you upgrade OS to win8. Or you can use visual studio directly."
Same issue, with the visual studio 2012 pro installed with the web-installer available on the MS website.
As i understand, blend for visual studio 2012 can be used only under windows 8 ?!
So why is it possible to install it under a windws 7 o_0
Feel really strange that we can't anymore edit silverlight 5 xaml under blend anymore except under windows 8...
I have Win7 + VS 2012 Ultimate SP3 + Blend installed and the following is a very good way to work around this issue:
Do not try to open Blend seperately or open new projects in Blend
Instead insert your new XAML based user control in a VS 2012 project or solution (...where they will end up anyway...)
Select the XAML file in the project explorer in VS 2012
Go to the VS 2012 menu => View => "Open in Blend..."
TADA: The XAML based control is opened in Blend and you can just normally work on it
By the way: I have another machine, without any VS 2012 service packs installed. On that machine opening and working with blend is no problem. It seems to be a VS 2012 service pack related problem.
Happy Coding!