In Codegear RAD Studio 2007, I'm trying to do some file deletion and copying during the pre-build and post-build events that involve folders named after the current configuration. In Visual Studio, this is easily done with the $(ConfigurationName) macro.
Is there any equivalent to this in RAD Studio? If not, is there a workaround I can use?
I think what you're looking for $(Config). For example, in a prebuild event, you can add echo $(Config) and it will print a string like "Debug" or "Debug Build". I've tested it in Rad Studio 2010, but not in 2007. I believe they use the same configuration variable, though.
If that doesn't work, open a cbproj file in an editor and look for something like this:
<Config Condition="'$(Config)'==''">Debug</Config>
Whatever word appears instead of 'Config' there may give you a clue.
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I am attempting to publish an application from visual studio that has files in the solution. After instilling the program and executing it I get this error.
Could not find file
'C\Users[User Name]\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\7D4MADG.G94\9BLZYH2N.QOP\wdts..tion_0000000000000_0003.0000_8e564612a360b47a\wdAttrColSettings.xml
I need to know what I need to do to have the files in the Solution Items folder put in the wdts..tion_0000000000000_0003.0000_8e564612a360b47a folder when the application is installed.
In my brief experimentation in Visual Studio 2019, it doesn't look like you can copy Solution Items to the output directory.
This is, presumably, because there's no actual project (i.e. MSBuild or whatever) that would define those actions.
If you put those files inside one of the projects, you can use the "Copy to Output Directory" property.
I have converted my project to Project deployment model. When I was converting there was a checkbox which said “Remove configurations from all packages after conversion" and I did not check it when I shouldn't have. Now all the configurations are part of my local project. Is there a way I could remove all the configurations after the conversion is complete?
Thanks
You can try this and let me know if it works:
Double click on package to open and see its properties in right
side.
Click three dots in configuration as shown in image.
Now
enable the package configuration. It should show your config which
you can simply delete.
I know this is old, but I came across the same issue and hoping this will help someone. I am using Visual Studio 2017 v15.9.11 and SSDT v15.9.0 on Windows 10 Enterprise. This was done for a package destined for SQL 2016, but I believe it would work on any package for SQL 2012+.
You can remove/disable package configurations after conversion by doing the following:
Find your dtsx file in Solution Explorer
Press F7 (or right-click the package > View Code)
Search for the <DTS:Configurations> element and remove the entire section
Save the file and re-open in designer view. Right-click the package and "Package Configurations..." should no longer be in the context menu.
Example from one of my packages - this is what was deleted:
<DTS:Configurations>
<DTS:Configuration
DTS:ConfigurationString=""CONFIG";"[dbo].[SSIS_CONFIG]";"YourConfigName1";"
DTS:ConfigurationType="7"
DTS:CreationName=""
DTS:DTSID="{C2C3EDFC-392A-401F-AC75-4D4C82A9CD68}"
DTS:ObjectName="Configuration 1" />
<DTS:Configuration
DTS:ConfigurationString=""CONFIG";"[dbo].[SSIS_CONFIG]";"YourConfigName2";"
DTS:ConfigurationType="7"
DTS:CreationName=""
DTS:DTSID="{A7F0C4DD-4891-44E1-817A-AB8431DA6509}"
DTS:ObjectName="Configuration 2" />
</DTS:Configurations>
I would like to execute my load tests on the regular basis and make it part of my CI process.
I'd like to run a Visual Studio loadtest from the console and provide the results of the test in human readable format (preferably HTML page).
For executing the test I use MSTest.exe util which produces .trx file to specified location.
e.g.
mstest /TestContainer:LoadTest.loadtest /resultsfile:c:\Temp\MyResults.trx
My problem is to convert this .trx file into something which can be displayed in browser.
I tried several tools mentioned in another topics like trx2html converters and so on. All of them were built for conversion of unit tests and fail to convert load test results correctly.
Any suggestion please?
An alternative would be to use the "archive artifacts" option in Jenkins for the **/*.trx file(s). That way you can click on the link and the trx file will open in Visual Studio.
Of course that means this is only of use to people with Visual Studio installed.
I made a goof and renamed my SSIS package without fully understanding what I was doing. Now I get "one or more solutions couldn't be added..." I then go to my solution explorer and no solutions are there. Please note that I've been working on this project for 6 months. I checked the project obj folder and all my solutions are there. I'm pretty sure I have to rename something else. Will somebody please help me. I am an intern and am FREAKING OUT.
Let's examine what's happening. I am using SSIS 2012 in this example but the steps will be the same for 2005 to 2014. This assumes you have turned off "hide file extensions".
Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment, IDE, for developing software. The outermost concept is a Solution. See 1 below. Solutions solve a problem as a whole. A solution might need multiple tools to solve a problem. A tool in this case, is a Project (#2). Depending on the type of project, different folders and such will appear in section 3. This is an example of an SSIS project.
If you don't see your solution, there's a question for that Solution Folder Not Showing in Visual Studio 2010 - How Can I Make It Visible?
If I Rename the project JeffOrris to JeffOrris2 and close Visual Studio, it will prompt me to save changes to JeffOrris.sln (and optionally, the project). If I click No, when I reopen the solution, I am greeted with the following error message along with Visual Studio indicating that my project JeffOrris is unavailable. :'(
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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One or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly.
Please see the Output Window for details.
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OK
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To start fixing things, you have to get Visual Studio to play ball. You can do this one of two routes. The first is to Add the renamed project back into the solution. Add... Existing Project... and then find your .dtproj file (or .whatever it was with 2005/2008) Assuming that loads fine, you can right click on the one that isn't loading and select Remove. Then click "Save All" or Ctrl-Shift-S
Option 2, which is what I do is to go mucking about with files. Find where your .SLN is. If your project is still open, it will indicate it under properties but once it's bolloxed then you'd need to right click and choose Open Folder in File Explorer.
However you get here, look at what you have.
A solution is represented on disk by a .sln file. That's a text file, might be UTF-8 but it's human readable text. The .suo file is binary that keeps track of what you have open and such. It doesn't matter, the .sln does.
Take a peek inside your solution file. Knowledge is only good for you
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 2012
Project("{159641D6-6404-4A2A-AE62-294DE0FE8301}") = "JeffOrris", "JeffOrris\JeffOrris.dtproj", "{631559E9-5ED5-4F63-B74E-BFB6CBAE89C5}"
EndProject
Global
GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
Development|Default = Development|Default
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
{631559E9-5ED5-4F63-B74E-BFB6CBAE89C5}.Development|Default.ActiveCfg = Development
{631559E9-5ED5-4F63-B74E-BFB6CBAE89C5}.Development|Default.Build.0 = Development
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
HideSolutionNode = FALSE
EndGlobalSection
EndGlobal
Of importance is the line starting with Project. That says I, the Solution, have a Project called JeffOrris and the project file can be found, relative to my location, at Folder called JeffOrris and inside there a file named JeffOrris.dtproj
The "trick" then is to make your subject and verbs agree. Or in this case, make your Solution and your .dtproj file agree. That'd be #6 below. After saving the solution file, Visual Studio should prompt you to reload it and whoosh, your project is back.
If you have inadvertently renamed the .dtproj file, then you can rename it back. Again, save all
Using SQL2008R2:
I am trying to create a dataset that is simply the result of an external assembly's return method(s), but everything I can find regarding using custom/external assemblies just has a textbox's value set to the external assembly's method's result via an expression.
I simply want Report Server to do the data processing in the external assembly and bind that result to a very simple report.
I found some references to something about MDX but they seem to be a few years outdated and needed to know if this is possible.
Assuming you already have a .dll - Place your dll in the report designer folder (where your RDL is) and the report server folder, somewhere around here:
Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin
Now add a reference to your dll from your report.
With your report open go to Report, Report Properties, References, Add reference, browse to your dll and add it.
Now in a text box properties Value call a method of your dll. It should look something like this:
=MyDllName.ClassName.MyMethodOrSubOrWhatever
This is a great article that can walk you through this:
Assuming you already have a .dll - Place your dll in the report designer folder (where your RDL is) and the report server folder, somewhere around here:
Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin
Now add a reference to your dll from your report.
With your report open go to Report, Report Properties, References, Add reference, browse to your dll and add it.
Now in a text box properties Value call a method of your dll. It should look something like this:
=MyDllName.ClassName.MyMethodOrSubOrWhatever
This is a great article that can walk you through this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920769
P.S. Another option, if you don't want the web server doing the heavy lifting, is to use stored procedures. However, in our experience with very large database systems, it is much easier to scale up the web servers than it is to scale up the database servers so we do much of the heavy lifting on the web servers.
If you need a data set that is generated by custom .NET code, you can either set up a web service (here's a good tutorial), or you can set up a custom "data processing extension".
A data processing extension will allow you to choose a new data source in the SSRS report designer, and this data source will run custom .NET code. The full description is on MSDN, but here are the basic steps:
Create a new class library project
Implement all of the required extensions (and any desired optional ones)
Copy the DLL to the SSRS bin folder
Edit the SSRS config file to register your extension (by specifying the fully qualified name of your IDbConnection class)
You can find working examples from both CodePlex and Microsoft.