Can any1 help me on generate *.appx package on every check-ins we do on Visual Studio. How to automate the process of generating the appx through TFS build. Please let me know what r the changes i need to do *.csproj so that appx package is created.
msbuild WinStoreProject.csproj /p:AppxBundle=Always/p:Configuration=DEBUG /p:AppxBundle=Always /p:Platform=x86
Don't worry about the platform identifier. This approach will build a package that can support x64/x86/ARM. Look in your solution root under the AppPackages folder.
Enjoy!
The .csproj file of Windows Store projects by default builds the AppPackage as well. You can try it out yourself by calling the following from the command line:
msbuild WinStoreApp.csproj
By default this will create the AnyCPU package. You can set the Platform property to create AppPackages for other platforms:
msbuild WinStoreApp.csproj /p:Platform=ARM
I suppose you will need Windows Server 2012 R2 to build Windows 8.1 applications an at least Windows Server 2012 to build Windows 8 applications. You will also need a working build environment. Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows will certainly suffice; Windows SDK for Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Build Tools 2013 should be enough as well.
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UWP App not being able to work with MySql
I have made an app in UWP and instead of using SQLLite which seems to be the norm for Visual Studio 2015 I want to use MySql. I have already connected my Azure mysql database to Visual Studio via the 'Server Explorer'.
I'm using MySQL Workbench to update my tables within my connected database from Azure but I cannot actually write any code to access my tables as whenever I try to install MySql.data/.entity/etc in the NuGet Package Manager I get an error.
nuget error
I tried downloading the Mysql installer, the Mysql drivers for Ado and ODBC. I even tried downloading the MySql for Visual Studio option as I found out that Visual Studio is not compatibile with MySql and instead requires the MySql for Visual Studio download but I still have errors whenever I try to use MySql in my code as I need an assembly reference for it but I'm having no luck in being able to get one that doesn't error.
Does anybody have any idea how I could actually use MySql within Visual Studio 2015?
This is what I've been using as my guideline but I can't seem to get past the Mysql.data errors when installing.
http://web3.codeproject.com/Articles/1074242/Designig-your-Azure-MySQL-DB-with-a-UWP-Demo
I have seen a lot of people talk about this but there is no one straightforward fix (I've tried a lot of the fixes, one in particular being to use Vs13 to install Mysql in the Nuget package manager and then it should update within VS15 but as my app is a UWP VS13 does not actually load/read it so that idea isn't good to me, might help anyone else though)
Starting with 6.7, Connector/Net fully supports building Windows Store apps. But using Connector/Net RT is not by install the Nuget package, it just reference the MySql.Data.RT.dll assembly according to MySQL Connector/Net Developer Guide:
Using Connector/Net RT is easy. Simply create a Windows Store application using Visual Studio and then reference the MySql.Data.RT.dll assembly in your project. The code you write should be exactly the same as for normal Connector/Net (including using same namespace MySql.Data.MySqlClient) except for the differences listed above.
You may find this dll at C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\Connector.NET 6.79\Assemblies\RT if you have install the connector. You can also download the mysql-connector-net-6.7.9-noinstall.zip to find this file inside the folder. I also have a MySql UWP sample before and has the dll here. Right click your project and add reference for this it will work.
More details please reference this sample
I just downloaded the latest Corona SDK, free version, and Visual Studio 2015 community edition. Corona allowed me to build an .exe file from one of the sample apps, and it runs OK on Windows 7. I want to test the .exe on my physical phone hardware.
I've seen mention of an Application Deployment feature that's supposed to come with Visual Studio and/or the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK which I also have installed. I don't see that anywhere. Pages I've seen mentioning a feature in VS under the Project menu also don't seem to apply, because I haven't built the project using VS in the first place. MS' docs seem out of date or at least incorrect in my case because C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Tools\XAP Deployment does not exist. I get the sense I am not looking in the right general direction.
I'm new on this but I'm sure that .exes don't work on Windows Phone, you have to make like a Universal App for that.
I have developed few apps in windows store 8.1 and i want to port them to windows 10.
Previously when windows 8.1 has released, In Visual Studio when you open the windows store 8 app code, in the solution we had an option called target to windows store 8.1, then it takes care of everything.
Now how to Port Windows store 8.1 apps to Windows 10 using C# and xaml
Any help or any article on this please?
Thanks in advance
The best way to do this is to create a new Windows 10 project based on the universal template and then copy all the source files and assets to it. There's a detailed description on MSDN here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn705768.aspx
and here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn751495.aspx
0) Install Win10 RTM
OK? =)
(But, If you just want to bulid the UWP project, Win8.1 is also ok. But you can't use the xaml designer, inspector, etc.... I can't recomend this way)
1) Install VS2015 RTM and Win10SDK RTM.
By default, Win10SDK is NOT installed. You should select the Win10 SDK from installation option dialog.
1.5) Update NuGET 3.1.
You can see the Flag Icon on the top-right corner of VS2015 Window. Click it to install Nuget Update.
2) Migrate your solution and project.
You should modify your .csproj manually with this guide.
Migrate apps to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
After that, you can build your app with VS2015.
Note - if you got the thousands of compile error, try Installing following nuget package from nuget console.
Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform
3) Modifying your app to suit for UWP manner
Following pages helps you.
Move from Windows Runtime 8 to UWP
Porting Windows Runtime 8 XAML and UI to UWP
This have been told here but I really can't figure why Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate (x86 installation) generates only bin\Debug and does not generate bin\Release folder.
Does anyone know why it does not generate the release folder?
Here is my Visual Studio version (am I missing a Service Pack?)
My project is a Windows Forms Application.
My project is targeting .NET 2.0, it runs fine and bin\Debug is always generated. Here are my project properties with default configuration:
Hope you have set the Release configuration from here:
Also go to the Configuration Manager and check the Active Solution Configuration as Release.
When I click on EDIT SCRIPT button for Script Task in SSIS 2012 package,
It does not open the Script editor rather it shows:
"cannot show Visual Studio Tools for Application editor"
Couls not load file or assembly
"Microsoft.visualstudio.tools.applications.core version=10.0.0.0 ...."
system can not find the file assembly specified.
I tried the solutions provided in the following links:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlintegrationservices/thread/e5337b0c-7f70-4603-859e-fbc7d0cf1c37
SSIS Script Editor throws an exception
First of all go to Program and Features and check whether you have
"Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications x86 Runtime 3.0"
installed. Most probably you will see this below
"Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications x64 Runtime 3.0"
If it is not installed then you have the same issue that i have.
To resolved this error, I put in my SQL Server installation disk. Then go to redist->VSTA->runtime->x86 and then run VSTA_RT30.msi
The workaround mention in this link solved my issue:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/776248/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-visualstudio-tools-applications-core
Both the x86 and x64 runtimes must be installed, currently one or both the runtimes may be missing depending on the order of the SQL Server 2012 installation. As a workaround, check in Control Panel - Programs and determine which of the component is missing (it should be listed as Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications x86 or x64 Runtime 3.0). You can install the component manually from your installation disk or download from the \redist\VSTA\runtime\ folder.
It is year 2021, when searching for the error, this is the top hit. The solution that worked for me with Visual Studio 2019 is to download and install "Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2019"
Link:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58317&WT.mc_id=DX_MVP4025064
Interestingly, this is not provided as an option in Visual Studio installer. The above needs to be manually downloaded and installed.
By now, SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is out. Try updating your release and after that, you might even consider putting the Cumulative Update 1 on top of it.
More about CU1: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2012/11/21/cumulative-update-1-for-sql-server-2012-service-pack-1.aspx
goto SQL server installer folder and install these msi files
redist/VSTA/designtime/VSTA_DT30msi
redist/VSTA/runtime/x64/VSTA_RT30.msi
redist/VSTA/runtime/x86/VSTA_RT30.msi