Our organization has decided that my project will be developed for internal use with the Google Chrome browser. So yesterday I started looking around the internet for just how I would go about doing that.
I found the WebKit.org development tool and have been trying to install it using the instructions found here:
http://webkit.org/building/tools.html
I am installing on a Windows machine that does not have Visual Studio 2005, so following the directions I downloaded Visual C++ Express 2005. Now I am at:
Install the Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK, then follow steps 2 and 3 of “How to: Use Visual C++ Express Edition with the Microsoft Platform SDK.”
Except I can't follow steps 2 and 3 because when I go to try and run the program all I have in the menu is:
Start -> Programs -> Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt
which opens a command prompt.
Can anyone tell me what I've done incorrectly?
Additionally, do you HAVE to develop in WebKit? Or is that just the best way to work with the Chrome engine?
Thanks!
Leslie
You shouldn't need to 'build chrome'
If you need anything special, the Chrome Extension framework is pretty awesome: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/overview.html
But I imagine if you are moving from IE to Chrome, as a client for a webapp, things should just work.
Leslie,
I found this Google I/O talk to be useful as an intro.
step 2 and 3 are on Microsoft's web site referred in the building instructions. The steps describes steps you need to do after opening Visual C++. If you have only the command prompt in the Visual Studio start menu folder, reinstall your Visual C++ Express edition.
I don't think writing your own webkit-based browser satisfies your decision to use the Google Chrome browser. By the way. From your limited description of your requirement I don't see why it cannot be a B/S application. If you have too many C++ code to port to web, you can try host Google Chorme Frame as an ActiveX. I am not sure if this is the best approach for you, since it does not have any API documentation for developers.
Writing a browser based app could mean:
You run code (perhaps in .Net, Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, etc...) on a server with potentially Javascript, flash, etc... running in the browser. The browser communicates with the server through HTTP requests. If that is the case you certainly don't need to worry about installing webkit.
It could mean writing a Chrome extension which would again likely mean running .Net, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, or some other language of your choice on the server and Javascript in the Chrome extension. Again in this case there is no need to install webkit.
It's possible it could mean writing an app based on webkit, but that would be replacing your old desktop app with another desktop app which doesn't seem likely. With this solution, you are no longer running Chrome, but your own custom made browser. Not to mention this seems like overkill for a jury management system.
I would guess you want to do option 1. That is typically what people mean by a browser based app. It would be a much better use of your time to read a book on web development than to fool around with webkit.
You should find the executable file to launch Visual Studio Express in this folder: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8.0\Common7\IDE\"
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I want start to implement an Outlook 365 Web Add-In.
After all, I decided to create it with React.
I already tried to set up some project's but all of them have a lot disadvantages:
Visual Studio 2017 Office 365 Outlook Project:
Pro:
Client debugging support (quite important)
Con:
As it's a Web-Project, hosted by IIS, I cannot work with NPM (YARN) and Webpack (without lot of frustration) and compile ES6, JSX code to ES5 and debug that stuff
Visual Studio Code:
Pro:
Node and NPM Support
Can easily work with React and ES6/7/JSX
Contra:
No debugging support for client side
Question
However MS has written in it's own documentation that till this day we're unable to debug JS-Code with Visual Studio Code in Outlook, is there maybe an comfortable alternative to do it?
I don't want to give up work with React and ES6 so is there a way to do it with VS-Web Projects and IIS?
What is in your opinion the best work flow for my needs?
Thank's!
There is a middle ground where you can use VS Code but still have decent (albeit not quite as tightly integrated as in VS debugging). The trick is just to make sure that you have Visual Studio, but it needn't be a VS project that you are debugging:
If you are on Outlook for PC / Desktop: See https://dev.office.com/blogs/attach-debugger-from-the-task-pane. The article shows you how to attach in the context of Word, but the same applies to Outlook (and instead of using the "Personality Menu", you can just right-click and see the same "attach debugger" option).
If you are debugging a web version of Outlook, that's even easier: just open up your browser's F12 tools.
Hope this helps!
Is it possible to create an application (like a Windows executable) with visual interface using node.js?
Question arises because I was looking at an application (exe file in windows) which apparently runs javascript code and use a "web-style" presentation (probably encapsulating a Browser object) so controls look pretty much as a web application but running in a windows application.
Is there any known tool for this?
Thanks
Gus
When I run command line application (executable generated using visual studio 2008) on non development windows 7 machine it gives following run time error "application has requested run time to terminate in unusual way. Please contact application support team for more information". It runs fine on a development machine.
With VS 2005 and VS 2008, Visual C++ used a side-by-side versioning scheme that requires manifest entries embeddded in the EXE to really work correctly in all cases. It's possible you are dealing with one of these. See these articles for details on debugging these side-by-side issues.
Diagnosing SideBySide failures
Part 1: Troubleshooting VC++ Side by Side Problems
Part 2: Troubleshooting VC++ Side by Side Problems
Note that with VS 2010 and later, Visual C++ no longer uses this side-by-side scheme. That said, there are still lots of reasons to use embedded manifests anyhow. See this article.
I think I misunderstood the whole Azure development concept. I thought I could run the Visual Studio IDE within Internet Explorer or something along those lines.
You can, but you'll use an RDP client (like mstsc.exe) instead of internet explorer. You can create a Virtual Machine in Azure that has visual studio installed on it and develop on that VM. There are a number of images already in the platform that support this scenario if you're an MSDN subscriber, I believe.
Even if you're not an MSDN subscriber, you can create a VM and set it up for development yourself. Then you can use your remote desktop client to log into that machine from anywhere and develop on it instead of your local box. This isn't limited to a Window dev env't either, of course.
I use this in scenarios where I have a constrained laptop but good connectivity and a desire to get some work done. You could use this to develop with a full IDE from a Surface RT, e.g. :)
I think I misunderstanded the whole Azure development concept, I
thought I could run Visual Studio IDE within Internet Explorer or
something
Azure is a web hosting environment in a nutshell. I think you are talking about Visual Studio Online in which you can run VS IDE inside browser.
Once you finish writing code in Visual Studio Online, you can deploy it to Azure.
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channel9 - Visual Studio Online Monaco
I have been sent a working project from a coworker to start learning Visual Studio. The project is under version control, however I don't want to have access to final customer product. So when I try to open the solution file I first get a message that the project is under source control:
"Team Foundation Server Version Control
The solution you are opening is bound to source control on the following Team foundation Serer:
http:// . Would you like to contact this server to try to enable source control integration?"
[yes] [no] [help]
I press no, then I get an error:
"The solution appears to be under source control, but its binding information cannot be found. Because it is not possible to recover the missing information automatically, the projects whose bindings are missing will be treated as not under source control."
[ok] [help]
I proceed and press ok, and another message pops up:
"projectname\projectname.tsproj: The application which this project type is based on was not found. Please try this link for further information: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?prd=12395&pver=11&sbp=ProjectTypeDeprecated&plcid=0x409&clcid=0x409&ar=MSDN&sar=ProjectCompatibility&o1=B1E792BE-AA5F-4E3C-8C82-674BF9C0715B"
My coworker tells me he sent the whole project, so I can't figure out why I cant get visual studio to open it. I am new to visual studio, but I have some programming experience.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you
It is doubtful that version control has something to do with your problem. There are two possibilities I could think of:
Your coworker uses full version of VS2012 and you are now having problems due to the fact that Visual Studio Express comes in two main flavours - Web and Desktop. It is unable to load Web(or Desktop) project because it just does not have any tools to work with it. Ask your coworker whether they mix web and desktop in their solutions. If it is so you should either use full VS or be given a reduced set of projects.
Nearly the same - your coworker uses some very old or very new version of particular project type (something like ASP.NET MVC that(as I remember) has different project type for each version). Again ask your coworker if it is so. In this case you will just have to install the needed templates and SDKs.
P.S. I was unable to open your link - it opens microsoft.com/default(maybe due to some regional problems). Search by key words brought to me similar problem for VS2010 http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/728847/could-not-open-vs2010-solution-with-mvc-project - may be it could help you more specifically.