When I right-click and go to add and select Window(WPF) my options of what I can add to the project doesn't include Window(WPF).
I've seen answers to this problem claim adding '{60dc8134-eba5-43b8-bcc9-bb4bc16c2548};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}' to the csproj file should resolve it but in my case that didn't help.
Does anyone know what's going on?
Here its showing the Window(WPF) choice
And when I click on it, Window(WPF) isn't there
Fixed it! It turns out I didn't have the .NET Desktop Development workload installed. I also had the UWP workload installed.
Every time I trying to create some Xamarin project it freezees and when I try to click anyware in UI, pop ups a notification from Windows saying the the "VS 2017 it's busy" something like that. For task mananger still answers and runs normally. The same happens if go to Tools -> Options and try go to Xamrin category. I tried to explore other functions of the new IDE, same happens when I create a WPF project and try to access the toolbox with UI elements.
I created other kind of projects for test, and console projects and and the integration with Unity seems is working fine too.
I've tried repair the installation too but no success.
I tried to download the SDK and NDK through the VS Installer mentioned in other question but didn't fixed too. And what about the WPF toolbox, why is not working either?
UI is freeze
Try updating Visual studio 2017 from the installer,it worked for me. Thanks.
I am using VS 2013 (Express Version) and I want to create a WPF user Control Library project. But I am not able to find the template in my installed templates list. If I use Winforms, I am able to build a DLL out of my Winforms Application Project just by changing the Output type as "Class Library". But it is not happening in WPF and it is throwing errors if I do so. Is this the correct method of doing it or am I going wrong?
And in the Create New Project dialogue window, I am not able to find the .NET Framework selector drop down. After creating the project only I am able to change the .NET framework version by going inside the properties of the project.
Kindly help me to get out of this. Thanks in advance.
I have been working on this exact same problem for hours this morning. Here is what I think I have learned:
With Visual Studio Express 2013, it is by design that the WPF User Control Library template is not available for making a New Project. This is because it is the free Express version.
With the Express version, you don't have a "devenv.exe" for trying the "devenv /installvstemplates" to "fix" things. It is, instead, called (just a moment while I look this up again...) "WDExpress.exe" and will be located (if you have default location) in the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE" directory. BUT - this won't help you. It won't fix your problem, because, as I mentioned, your Express installation is designed to not have that template available for New Project, so your "fix" won't put it there. I know this because this is what I tried myself. (Also, note that the instructions for doing this tell you to uninstall any extensions you've installed before doing it. And then, of course, if you still want them you have to reinstall them. Like I still have to do, incidentally.) I'm letting you know all of this so you don't go through the headache I'm having.
Note that I have not done this yet, so this is somewhat hypothetical on my part, but is based on my research on the Internet so far - Your solution is to create a WPF User Control Library manually [but now see UPDATE below]. (No, I don't know how to do this yet. I got into this in the first place, because I'm a WPF novice - just started working with it a few days ago - and late last night I got this great idea to add a "spinner" progress indicator to my "WPF play/learning project" I'm working on, and found a couple of relatively easy-to-work-with samples on the Internet - both of them are a WPF User Control Library - and at first I wanted to use the copy-and-paste to put the code in. But then I discovered... well, our mutual problem, because I'm using Visual Studio Express 2013. No such template under New Project. And literally at the tail end of my about-to-throw-in-the-towel, I'm googling and your post, Dhivakar, is already showing up with the right Google search.) So I haven't finished my research yet, but my next step is to learn exactly how to create a WPF User Control Library manually (the code and various project property settings), and then I can just save a WPF User Control Library skeleton for future use and document the details.
UPDATE: This guy totally has the solution for Express versions. I have followed his steps and it works great. The only additional piece of information I would add is that in my version (VSE2013), after you've created your WPF User Control Library template, when you open Visual Studio again and use File -> New Project, my selection in the tree (for a Windows app) came up under Templates -> Visual C# -> Windows (which is what I've been using). I did not see my template showing up there, after I created it, and I thought, "Great! Another piece of advice that doesn't work." But then I clicked up one on the "Visual C#" parent - and there was the template!
Here you go:
How to add a WPF control library template to Visual C# Express 2008
https://dotupdate.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-wpf-control-library-template-to-visual-c-express-2008/
Yes, it works this way for VSE2013 too.
UPDATE 2: I'm not absolutely positive about this, but I think he missed one little piece. In his step #4 he says to delete Window1.xaml and App.xaml. Maybe this didn't apply with VSE 2008, but in VSE 2013 there is also the App.config file which I believe is extraneous for our purpose. So you can delete App.config as well. As I said, I'm not absolutely certain about this yet, but I noticed that file in the project when I added a WPF User Control Library project to my solution, and I deleted it, and the solution compiled okay.
Try running devenv with the /installvstemplates switch, from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms247116(v=vs.100).aspx
If this doesn't work, browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\CSharp\WPF\1033\WPFUserControl (this could change dependent upon your installation directory), open the .vstemplate file in a text editor, and make sure the setting is set to true, then try running devenv with the switch again.
Hope it helps.
I used to work with the built in profiler of Visual Studio once in a while and found it a very useful tool.
Now, I can't do this, because the menu items "Start profiling" and "Start profiling paused" under Analyze->Profiler are greyed out.
It's a Windows Form Solution.
Any idea what might be causing this?
Microsoft Visual Studio Premium 2013 /
Version 12.0.31101.00 Update 4 /
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.5.51650
Open performance explorer window (analyze -> windows -> performance explorer) and see if you have selected any target.
If not add your windows forms project as target (right click on "Targets" and follow menus) than you should be able to start profiling.
EDIT: Be sure to include your start up project as one of the Targets. You can right click this target and uncheck "collect samples" if you don't want sample data from this project.
It worked for me choosing
Debug->Start Diagnostic Tools without debugging(Alt+F2)
menu option. This will bring the Performance Wizard and from there you can continue doing what you want.
so I have an application that I have created in Visual Studio 2010 and I want to know how I can package it so a user can install it on their machine. I'm sure I will have to do some scripting as well as call cmd prompts. Basically I want to get it to the point where there is an installer for the application that my group has built.
Any suggestions or tutorials you recommend?? Its for a school project and it would really be helpful if someone could help me get this off the ground. Its the last thing my group needs to do.
Thanks!
Joe Ristaino
Use ClickOnce
Use the MSI installer setup project in Visual studio. It's very simple.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/vishnuprasad2005/SetupProjects12022005022406AM/SetupProjects.aspx
I wouldn't use click once...
Ok here's a newer article
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/58021-deploying-a-c%23-application-visual-studio-setup-project/
Visual Studio has it's own installer projects, you could check those out. I personally use them for any projects I make at my company. If you use the wizard, you'll have it done in no time.
In your solution,
right click your solution name in the Solution Explorer.
Add -> New Project.
For the type, goto Other Project Types -> Setup And Deployment -> Visual Studio Installer
Choose the setup wizard, it's pretty easy. Primary output means what's is installed to the program folder. Follow the wizard and most of the work will be done. There will only be optional tweaking left to do.
I recommend WiX. It's got quite a bit of a learning curve, but it's totally powerful.
It's expected to be included in the next version of Visual Studio (it didn't quite make it into VS2010).