I wrote an application in Visual Studio C# 2010, that I would like to import into another existing Visual Studio C# 2010 Application. How would I go about doing this?
For instance, I'd like to import the project into another, and basically copy/paste the interface from the application into a tabpage on a tab control I have.
Any assistance or advice on how to do this is greatly appreciated!
You should be able to copy the physical files using windows from the existing solution location to the new solution location.
Then once the copy is complete open Visual studio and tell it you want to add an existing project. Navigate to the folder where the files are on the filesystem and open the project file.
Once you save the solution it should from that point forward have the new projects in the new solution.
There are several ways to achieve this - Copy & Paste being one of them (but the least beautiful of course). A more promising one is the following:
Wrap the user interface you want to share in a User Control in the existing project. Also include the code behind logic in this user control. Include the user control in the project and make sure that everything works before continuing.
Add the existing project to the new solution. It is advised that you create a hierarchical structure in the file system for the solution so that all projects in the solution are located under a directory.
Reference the project from the project that wants to access the user interface. As the projects are in the same solution, you can add a project reference. This asserts that the projects are built together.
Place the user control on the tab page.
As an alternative, you can also pass on adding the project to the solution but only create a user control and add a binary reference from the other project.
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Im currently writing some very small c# exercises, for a algorithm course.
visual studio is my favourite IDE, and usually, when i create or clone a visual studio project, I get the full functionality of viusal studio including spellchecking and suggestions for fields and methods on objects and so on.
But right now I am just trying to open a single .csc file and write some code in it. The problem is that when i do that, i get no suggestions. So if I create a list I would usually be able to view all the methods and fields inside the list class simply be referencing an object. Syntaxm checking works fine.
How do I turn on intellisense suggestions in a file that is not in a project?
Thank you
The simplest way is simply to add that file to a project.
Open VisualStudio.
Create a new project (you can probably use Console project or Class library, depending on what you're doing).
Add your file in that project.
Make sure your file as the Build Action C# Compiler.
And that should work.
I am new to C# and Sharepoint Web Services. I wrote a program awhile back, and I want to use that program as my starting point for the next project. It has all the references and resources already in place. Essentially, I want to copy the solution, and rename it, then change it to meet my current needs.
What's the best way to do that?
Try this:
open Windows Explorer, copy your solution and its folders, paste into a new location.
rename your copied .sln to something else (hit key F2 from Windows Explorer)
open that copied solution, and rename the solution (and perhaps your projects within)
You can open the old project in visual studio and then go to File --> Export Template and follow the wizard.
This will allow you to create a project template that will then be available with all your other project templates in File --> New project.
You can do this per project (or per item which will not help in your case). It then automatically renames your namespaces etc. if the template is configured correctly.
The most straight-forward approach would probably be to just create a new solution, then manually copy all the projects under that solution and add to the new solution (right click on the solution name in Solution Explorer -> Add -> Existing Project.
From there, rename the projects if required, being careful to keep things like the Default namespace and Assembly name consistent with your new project name (you can find these under each project's properties page). Also keep an eye out for any paths that might need changed in the pre / post build steps. You will probably also want to rename the existing namespaces (right-click the namespace in code, Refactor -> Rename...)
Also, this might be a good opportunity to spot which projects will be common to both the old application and your new one, and possibly moving these to a third location from which both solutions can reference them.
I'm writing a windows application in c#,FW3.5 & Visual Studio 2008. I need to attach one or more datafiles to the installation.
The requirement is that when the end user installs the application, a folder will be created and the datafile will be put in this folder.
Is there a way to do this by amending the publish settings in Visual Studio or perhaps even do it programmatically?
Thanks for any advice.
Just thought I'd add that it's for a software package shipped to users on a 3,6 or 12 month licence. The company employee(non-programmer) needs to be able to specify the duration of the licence and which datafiles to ship with it before sending. I had tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to do away with the datafiles and just link directly to a database and now i'm stuck.
Thanks again.
You can create a setup project .Please refer to http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/vishnuprasad2005/SetupProjects12022005022406AM/SetupProjects.aspx
And then choose the application folder, create your directory and add your files to that folder.
Take a look at creating a Visual Studio Installer project. You can use the wizard to create one based on your current C# project. In the VSI project, you can adjust all sorts of things, including creating folders and publishing files to said folders.
just right-click in your project-view your main-project, select add folder, name that folder like you want, right-click it, select add existing element and choose the file you want to add.
Remember to deliver it with your release!
P.S.: This is for VS2008 and 2010! The labels might be namned other, cause I'm using the german language here!
I'm currently using a "New Item" template of mine to create several classes in my project based on the Name entered. What I'd like to be able to do, is to also add some lines to an existing file in the project. Is there any way to do this? Is there any way to run some sort of script from within the .vstemplate file?
For a vanilla item template in Visual Studio there is no way to achieve this. Item and Project templates just allow you to add new files to a project and allow for customizations of those files. But it's not possible to use them to change existing files.
You may be able to achieve what you're looking for though with a template wizard. This allows for the execution of arbitrary code during the processing of a template. You should be able to modify the existing files to your delight with this.
Tutorial Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20090625145715/http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxfaq/archive/2008/06/12/how-to-create-a-custom-template-wizard-using-visual-studio-2005.aspx
EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood the question.
Original answer:
Well, the default templates are in 2 places:
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\CSharp\1033
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\1033
You can change the template contents for new classes and new forms in there at your leisure... Not sure where user created templates are saved, but there's no reason you couldn't do the same thing to those (to my knowledge.)
This may be a ridiculous question for you C# pros but here I go. I'm a Flash developer getting started in Silverlight and I'm trying to figure out how to create a "codebase" (a reusable set of classes) for animation. I'd like to store it in a single location and reuse it across a bunch of different projects. Normally in Flash I would add a "project path" reference and then start using the code. My question is, how do I add a folder to visual studio so that I can "use" those classes in my project. I tried "Add > Existing Item" but that copied the files into my project directory.
The easiest way would to create a new ClassLibrary project and build it. This will output a .dll file in a folder you can specify in the project settings menus, which you reference from every project that needs it.
Also, you can copy this .dll into the /bin/ folder of your project - this will do the same thing for this specific project, but when you start the next one you can change some details in the codebase library without breaking the first project.
The solution described by Tomas (adding a reference to a dll binary) is the correct solution to this problem; better than referencing the source code and compiling it into each project.
But just for extra information, if you ever do need to add a source code file to your Visual Studio project without having it make a copy of the file you can use the following steps:
Right click on your project in Solution Explorer and select Add -> Existing Item.
Navigate to the location of the source code file and select it.
On the "Add" button in the dialog window there is a drop down arrow. Click this and select "Add as Link".
This will allow you to use this source code file in your project without having VS make a copy of the file.
In Solution Explorer, right-click on the project node and click Add Reference.
In the Add Reference dialog box, select the tab indicating the type of component you want to reference. (for instance for a class library a dll)
Select the components you want to reference, then click OK.