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The best option is to delete McAfee and use windows defender instead. Windows defender got full points in the most recent test by av-test here. I use windows defender and never had a problem with malware, or the output folder being deleted.

Nuget is a system of sharing dependencies.

There is a remote feed that Visual studio can query and download them from.

check out https://www.nuget.org/

We would need an actual error message to be more specific.

VS: think a full sized truck that only runs on certain roads (windows). Lots and lots of features, heavy weight, classic IDE scenarios, A mini operating system of its own. Best support is for C-sharp and C++. Paid and free versions. Partially open source.

VSC: think a lightweight Jeep that runs anywhere (Windows, Linux, Mac OS). It’s an editor++ with a bunch of plug-in options. Best support is for typescript, JavaScript, Python, ... free and open source.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/compare/

https://code.visualstudio.com/

So, this has nothing to do with visual studio and everything to do with git. even if you are using azure devops, you are using git version control.

Let's get the worst case scenario over with. You push your changes and it breaks someone else's work. shouldn't happen but worse case scenario. all they have to do is rollback your changes. Every version of the source code exists. That's the beauty of version control. Even if you want to look at the version of the code from a year ago, you can.

But there is a better workflow. No one should be working out of master.

1. First you should create a branch just for you. you call it whatever you want. "jayrdi-order-work" or what ever. the name isnt important.
2. you then clone that branch and do all you work locally.
3. do what you need to do and then push your changes up to the server "jayrdi-order-work" branch.
4. create a pull request to have your code be merged into branch
5. ideally a dev lead or someone like that should be in charge of merging with master

But why aren't your co-workers helping you?

TL:DR: You can't royally screw it up by pushing changes.

but here is the free book you need Git - Book (git-scm.com)

r/VisualStudio MOD NOTE: I know this post isn't about visual studio but i just spent time writing this out :) so please maybe lock it bu tnot remove. (i cant remember if posters still see comments on removed posts)

I'm biased a little, but also knowledgeable. My advice is, learn Git. It's built into VS, or you can get the command line client. In the future when you want to look at previous states, understand when a bug was introduced, or collaborate with someone else, you're good to go.

Git will work entirely offline and locally. Optionally, you can get a cloud-based account to make collaboration easier. GitHub and GitLab are good options for public code. VSTS and Bitbucket provide free private repositories.

If there's something I can do to help you get going with Git, feel free to PM me.

Source (and source of bias): I'm a program manager for VSTS's and TFS's Git server.

To add to this, Visual Studio Code does node.js programming and debugging right out of the box. It was originally designed for node.js but other functionality has been added later to make it a solid all around code editor. You'll note that even C# support has to be added later via plugins.

What you need to do next, after downloading Visual Studio Code Portable, is to download the zip package for Windows, unzip it, and add it to your path permanently. You should be able to do this just for you but not everybody on the computer without admin privileges.

See this for additional information on adding the folder to your path. https://superuser.com/questions/133263/windows-7-user-specific-path

Node.js zip download.

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

They are for individuals. They can be paid for by a company for an employee. There is a free tier as well. It's called the Visual Studio Dev Essentials subscription.

Edit: Here is the link for VS Dev Essentials: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/dev-essentials/

VS Dev Essentials still have the older versions. You'll want the VS 2015 with Update 3 in Download. But, unless your course rely on old tech like Lightswitch, it's more likely you're better off with VS 2017.

Right, you can work with git directly from the command line.

I started out with using git through visual studio, and ended up abandoning it because I just didn't understand what was going on under the hood. It wasn't until I started doing all the work with git on the command line that it started to make sense to me.

You might check out this link, I found it helpful.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-The-Command-Line

ReSharper is not yet available on VS 2022, but there is a "beta" in the form of the ReSharper 2021.3 EAP (early access program).

Get it here

i made one we use in our educational department, i remember seeing two different versions of t he bootstrapper, but you can see which one is the preview one by taking properties on the file and go to details, this link should be the correct version

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=enterprise&ch=pre&rel=17

What exactly do you have to test? Are the method names (of the ones you need to test) given by some scaffold code? To test functionality I'd just use a test. If the grading is about looking at the code (structure) itself however and your computer takes a while to open them in VS, maybe you can use https://code.visualstudio.com. With the right extensions and a little bit of setup you can also compile the project from within there.

From memory, to begin, it includes installing NuGet from the repositories, as well as adding a few others via commands through Visual Studio, have you installed all of those?

One of them is:

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -Version 2.1.2

It should pop-up as you're typing it, and if you're having trouble you can just download that through this link:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer/

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Once you have those installed let me know I think I should be able to help you further

Visual Studio Code is open source and you can find all the code in the GitHub Repo. You would probably need some technology where the code executing on the server side.

A better solution would be to look at this blog post https://enlight.nyc/projects/code-editor

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as in what? do you want a premade tile editor? https://www.mapeditor.org/

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if you want to code your own there isnt anything better on the planet.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

If you are running on Windows, use Visual Studio 2019.

If you are running on Linux, use Visual Studio Code

If you are running on a Mac, use Visual Studio for Mac

Hi, I'm the product marketing manager for Visual Studio. If you're asking about the Preview, it's meant to give developers a glimpse into what's coming in the next minor (or major) release. It's always going to be a bit less stable than the "release channel", because it's still being built. If you're looking for an environment to use day-to-day and aren't really looking to try out the features coming in the next release, you should use the release channel version. Keep in mind you can install both side-by-side, so you can also go both routes if you'd like. Hope that helps!

It would be nice if they were included with Windows by default, but in case you didn't know, the build tools are available as a separate install from this page:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

And there is an NPM package designed to install them for you:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/windows-build-tools

The added functionality may be available in a plugin. Here is some information about what VS Code can do in relation to your question.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/html

You'll want to follow the link at the bottom for CSS information too.

I know you said you don't want to go the boot camp or Parallels route, but that's your best bet for a full blown experience. However, if you're only looking to use C# to write web apps, Visual Studio Code, a newly-released app by Microsoft, is available for multiple platforms, including OS X. Worth checking out.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Windows Store App, for Universal Windows Platform or Windows 8.1?

Did you select this option while installing? Click to view Image

For 8.1, the option below marked one.

My apologies. I think i was told that in one of my classes in college. I've also been dealing with VB for almost a decade exclusively at work..

Anyway, according to this stack overflow post, you should be able to turn off autocorrect in VS by turning off some/all formatting options in the text editor (Tools->Options->Text editor->Advanced).

Bare in mind that this was from a quick google search and I have not tested it myself, but your post does not suggest you have tried it yet either, so it's worth a shot.

Edit: For C# you might want to turn off intelisense according to this link.

There are multiple ways you could do it, but data binding is probably the best way.

See this example

Could someone have used old documentation?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984291(v=vs.71).aspx

This is also worth a read:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13461759/c-sharp-openfiledialog-only-shows-xp-style-in-win7

Conclusion, setting the wrong value in visuastyle/visual style state, on application could mess things up

Downloaded Git, went to the project directory, issued the git command the from the Devops, projects page (which shows on a new project), under "Push an existing repository from command line". Now its all setup.

Fiddler has no integration with VS - it's standalone application (also you need to choose Classic version - https://www.telerik.com/fiddler/fiddler-classic ). It check all incoming/outcoming connections on PC and also can install Root certificate to decrypt HTTPS traffic.

That's already sort of your issue (and not entirely your fault.) This isn't technically even the right subreddit for this question, you would be looking for /r/vscode.

Visual Studio Code is a text editor. It doesn't have a full compiler and stuff built into it. It's basically a fancy notepad with plugin support. By installing the C++ plugin to VS Code, all you are getting is correctly colored syntax highlighting for the code you type. It has no way to assemble the code into an actual executable file. The benefit is that it's really lightweight and fast, but light on features.

Plain old Visual Studio (this subreddit) is a fully-featured IDE that comes with support for C++, C#, and all of the .NET languages including the relevant compilers and project types to assemble everything.

You have a couple options. It is possible to install a compiler that VS Code can access.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp

Or you could install the full version of Visual Studio Community and install the "Desktop Development with C++" workload.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

Yes you go directly to this link (click) to view. At the time of writing it is about $500 US.

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Oh, i though the preview would update automatically to release when available. The installer doesn't seem to list it under available either.

Looks like it needs to be downloaded separately. Thank you for pointing it out.

Hmm... The preview is 17.1.0, yet the release is 17.0.4. Why would the release be a lower version number?

Opening it now, the release version gives me the same error.

You didn't use it, so there is no problem. Dependsing on employee count and the companys revenue, you can use community edition. Here are the license terms: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/en/license-terms/mlt031819/

I'm talking specifically about Visual Studio Code. Because it's not a full featured IDE (though it can be used that way) it is a lot more forgiving for things like editing C code.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Glad I could help. Also, you might want to ask in the more relevant sub /r/vscode. This sub is for Visual Studio while you are using Visual Studio Code

As VS is for all sorts of things you need to pick a topic and then branch out later when you get the hang of one area.

so go for a c# book for example (that mentions visual studio).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-easy-steps-Updated-Visual-ebook/dp/B088FZ2CL6/ref=reads\_cwrtbar\_3/260-9794074-3433049?pd\_rd\_w=igbVA&pf\_rd\_p=def27313-02d8-4931-9645-dab9534dbb35&pf\_rd\_r=VAQ0PGQM07XRGW709C39&pd\_rd\_r=6f61c6...

1. You can use OpenSSL to generate your own Certificate Authority and then use that to generate the certificate that will secure your application.

This will require you to install the Certificate Authority on each computer that will trust your certificate.

1. Check to see if the free https://letsencrypt.org/ service can provide the kind of certificate you need.

ASP.NET does not come with a Combobox control.

Here's a ComboBox Control for ASP.NET project.

Telerik also has that contol

I don’t have time at the moment to teach what Git and Node.js is – and how they work, but I will leave you with the links to the official websites:

• https://git-scm.com/
• https://nodejs.org/en/

There should be lots of tutorials teaching the basics.

On the other hand, if you just want something different than the default themes, then it would I would rather recommend installing the Color Theme Editor extension, and picking one of the ones that comes bundled with it. I hope this helps.

I may be reading things wrong, but I think what's implied on https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/?tab=business , if you pull down the "Visual Studio" part of "Compare", is that if you buy an annual subscription (not monthly) it includes perpetual use rights to Visual Studio itself after the subscription services expire. Per the page at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/visual-studio-professional-subscription/dg7gmgf0dst3/0001 though, it costs more than twice the $500 2019 standalone version.

Here’s a cheat sheet: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/keyboard-shortcuts.pdf

What type of development are you doing and what kinds of things would help you? I can link some great resources but this could go a lot of ways depending on your response!

Have you tried this? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/identifying-and-customizing-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2019#identify-a-keyboard-shortcut

Here’s a list of common shortcuts: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/keyboard-shortcuts.pdf

Happy to help. Community is completely free with no trials. When your trial is up, you can download Community. It won’t renew but you’ll get a prompt when it expires.

I would love to help you as I’m working on creating a better experience for students. LMK if you want some resources or have questions. Here’s a keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/keyboard-shortcuts.pdf

Tokenization can be used outside of compilers. Otherwise, code editors like VS Code would need to have a compiler for every language they support for syntax highlighting (??).

Visual studio code is a code editor according to visualstudio.com: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs

You're showing an IDE not a code editor. A compiler compiles code and has nothing to do with the color or any other formatting applied to the code. Here's how syntax highlighting works on Visual Studio Code (not an IDE!) https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/08/syntax-highlighting-optimizations

Good luck!

A bit of good news, I found someone who managed to implement WebView2 (which is currently only c++) on WPF. Here's the nugget if you're interested: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MtrDev.WebView2.Wpf/

After installing and running it, I'm glad to say that it runs Edge v81 (latest one that scores 2 points less than google chrome).

If you are looking at what is taking up space to clear enough for the install; WinDirStat is a neat tool to find out what files and directories are taking up space on a drive. Available for download here

Another one I use is TreeFileSize Available for install here

Half way down this page are the development builds

VS 2017 is brilliant but there's always a problem with third party integration. 2015 fundamentally changed the way that extensions worked which meant a load of them just disappeared :/

Go to http://www.asp.net and watch the videos on getting started with MVC and entity framework. Then watch the videos getting started with web api. You will have more questions then, so come back and ask them aster that.

Apple's IDE is Xcode. You'll be able to compile C++ on a Mac with Xcode, but I think Xcode is mostly targeted at Objective-C and Swift developers.

Maybe check out MonoDevelop if you want to do C# work on a Mac.

Regarding red code from ReSharper - at the moment you need to regenerate VS project from Unreal Editor when adding a new file. This is because UE generates a force included file for each .cpp with predefined macros. We'll add a workaround for that in the next R# release (or you can try the latest preview build from https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/nextversion/).

I answered the main question before I saw this. To do a single regex/replace that would catch both cases would look like this.

Find: (\!?)empty\(([\$\w+]+)\)
Replace: $2->result_array() $1== true

https://regexr.com/49qam

What you are specifically looking for is the Visual Studio Isolated She'll. This allows you to create IDEs based of of Visual Studio without needing it installed. Note that this functionality seems to have been discontinued. See: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/isolated-shell/

u/JonnyRocks u/lantz83 so, by cross searching both your comments I've found something called Visual Studio Isolated Shell . Might this be the solution?

which edition of visual studio 2013 did you install?

I am guessing you are following this: Steam Community :: Guide :: Setting up a Source Engine 2013 Multiplayer mod

Which sent you here: Visual Studio Older Downloads - 2017, 2015 & Previous Versions (microsoft.com)

under 2013 there a re a few editions, which one did you get?

Microsoft is incredibly good at backwards compatibility support. However you are using a very old version of Visual Studio. I strongly encourage you to try VS 2019 Community edition: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

You can buy MSDN access. They have downloads for all old Visual Studio version along with old Windows versions, etc.

ETA: Link here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/

In the examples above, I already enabled intellicode and I always enable it.

but intellicode won't help much in this case. you can find the differences between intellicode and word filtering at intellicode (Microsoft.com) and fuzzy matching (Wikipedia

You may want to look at Visual Studio Codespaces If you’re only using it occasionally and you don’t want to pay any licensing fees for VS enterprise that might be worth it.

You could use community edition, but there are restrictions based upon company size/profit which could cause you problems if you’re not careful.

Cloud Advocate at Microsoft here.

If it's a key you received that isn't linked to an MSDN subscription, then yes. You can use that key to install VS2017 Enterprise without any rights to upgrade to the latest version (that comes with the MSDN Subscription).

I would double-check the terms of the license as they may vary depending on your type of usage.

To be honest, I'd look into Visual Studio Community Edition if the only thing you're doing is learning. It's free and it still has tons of features. If you need to compare what is/isn't included compared to Enterprise, you can look at the Compare Matrix.

Does that help?

you should be able to get the free 2012 express from here - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

as long as you have an account you should be able to get it.

Your flair here says "visual studio code" and if you're a noob I would suggest using the full version of visual studio which contains a compiler and debugger. It will help you greatly: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/cplusplus/

Download the free community version.

However they did it, our license isn't tied to a login, I had to manually enter the product key when I installed it. Our Office 365, on the other hand, is tied to a login like you described (and I'm assuming IT assigned a license to my login, as I've never had to enter a key for Office) but our Visual Studio is not like this.

See this: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/purchasing-visual-studio-professional/

It sounds like you have the monthly subscription, whereas we have the standalone license.

this is... there is not enough info. One guess, you have 2017 installed and 2019 is failing.

Here is the installer. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

What version number is your windows?

community is free forever for individuals: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

For individuals

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps

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however if you are a company with over 250 people OR you are making more than $1 million dollars revenue then you must use at least professional.

signing in lets you keep your settings across devices. so anytime i setup a new installation, all my color and layout savings are saved.

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios

from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

<snip from community terms & conditions>

IF YOU COMPLY WITH THESE LICENSE TERMS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS BELOW.

1. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.

a. Individual License. If you are an individual working on your own applications, either to sell or for any other purpose, you may use the software to develop and test those applications.

<end snip>

From that I assume as long as you are an individual and not working on a project associated with an organisation then you should be fine to distribute as you wish, as far as I can tell.

terms &amp; conditions

The company I work for is pretty large and they are wired up with Microsoft licensing so that if I put in my email address in a trial download it becomes licensed.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

The reason for this post is that the download link above is for some reason pointing to the preview version. In the past if you wanted to download Visual Studio you downloaded from the link above and got the latest RTM. If you wanted a preview version there was a separate link for that.

If they are buying it in bulk it may be through a diffrent portal and you'd need to find who admins that, but mostly now days you just go here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/ and most people's needs are met by the pro licences. At $45 a month it isnt "cheap" but it's usually doable.

It appears you're trying to install a very early preview, and not one of the public previews.

Are you installing from here?

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/

> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Diagnostics.HubExtensions, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.

This part of the trace suggests that you have a package that is not correctly installed, specifically, the DiagnosticsHubExtensions. You could try a reinstall of VS, you may need to re-download the installation media (you can find that here).

Damn. How's bout when you start a new project, look for the templates online in the dialog box that pops up?

OR

Open the bad template. Then right click project in solution explorer and open file location. Delete the unwanted junk and overwrite it in that location. Check date modified on files.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/hello-world-c-using-visual-studio-2017

Sure, there's some info about it here which might get you started at least. I rarely use C++ these days, so you'll be more expert than me in about 10 minutes :)

I don't have a problems with VS17 or VS15 and that's with ReSharper loaded up for both, but there are other options to code with C#, namely Rider from Jetbrains and of course Visual Studio Code and C# plugins.

Been using the following from https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/setup

code () { if [[ $# = 0 ]] then open -a "Visual Studio Code" else [[ $1 = /* ]] && F="$1" || F="$PWD/${1#./}" open -a "Visual Studio Code" --args "$F" fi }

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C: Schneier, Bruce: 8601421901154: Amazon.com: Books

The above is my favorite book on cryptography. as u/smuccione said its vulnerable to frequency attacks. You can read about that here Frequency Analysis | Cryptography | Crypto-IT (crypto-it.net)

I'm one of one programmers employed by this company. There is a guy in SoCal (I'm in Northwest Arkansas) that works with us and had a Xamarin backend and Xamarin.Android front end done. I was hired to do the Xamarin.iOS front end and start taking over the other projects, which means we are well with in the bounds of 5 or less programmers for the Community version that Microsoft sets out.

As far as if the solution is intense on the system, it can't be that intense. I'm basically copy over this to iPad.

This is what you want:

http://www.amazon.com/AOC-e1659Fwu-16-Inch-3-0-Powered-Portable/dp/B00CMKOVMO/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1433965874&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=usb+monitor

In the end I think it's better than a 17 inch because you end up with more "usable" room and if you are stuck on a small table or coffee bar with not much room you can just pull the laptop only out.

you don't want video or games really on that extra screen, but it works great for code.