Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

MonsterEd — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:01:50 GMT

All I can say is, *FAIL* on the ISLE choice. See just some of the issues:

Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/.../304683

Something that "simple" was never an issue pre ISLE/post deprecation of Setup and Deployment Projects. Sigh....wasting time right now fixing things that never needed fixing....sigh again.

The Flexera KB (number of issues) alone should give pause....at least they have a KB....now dig in fellow devs! Sigh...

What is a mystery is why deprecate instead of giving a CHOICE??? You're actually pushing a 3rd party product, and now have to deal with issues created by such 3rd party product! Even from a biz standpoint, that's strange....

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Guruprasad — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:03:36 GMT

Hi Richa,

Let me know if any videos or document to run the Coded UI tests as a part of TFS auto build in VS 2012?

Thanks and Regards,

Guru

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Kevin — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:49:40 GMT

1. I open VS2008 Solution with SQL 2012 SSDT, then click on Build. I can deploy the SQL reports to ReportServer.

2. Since SQL 2012 has no option to connect to TFS, I now open same VS2008 Solution in VS 2012 RC, but get this error:

Unsupported

This version of Visual Studio does not have the following project types installed or does not support them. You can still open these projects in the version of Visual Studio in which they were originally created.

- CRMReports, "C:\TFSTEST\CRMReports.rptproj"

Can you assist ?

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Kevin — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:49:08 GMT

1. I open VS2008 Solution with SQL 2012 SSDT, then click on Build. I can deploy the SQL reports to ReportServer.

2. Since SQL 2012 has no option to connect to TFS, I now open same VS2008 Solution in VS 2012 RC, but get this error:

Unsupported

- CRMReports, "C:\TFSTEST\CRMReports.rptproj"

Can you assist ?

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:20:35 GMT

Hi robert ivanc, I am the PM owner for Web Publishing. Just wanted to give you a quick heads up regarding Web Deployment Projects (WDP). We have not yet finalized on our long-term plans regarding WDP, but I can tell you that we will not be able to get the support in time for VS 11 RTM. One of the items that we have on our radar post VS 11 RTM is to provide a first class publishing support for Website Projects. We are hoping that we can deliver that which would lessen the needs for WDP. If you don't mind could you share your WDP related scenarios with me over email to ensure that we have all of our bases covered? My email is sayedha [at]{MicrosoftDOTcom}.

Thanks,

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi | http://sedodream.com/

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Candy Chiang — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:36:37 GMT

Unfortunately there is no WiX migration wizard but you can use Dark.exe (which is part of the WiX toolset) to decompile the MSI that you built using VS setup projects into WiX source files (.wxs files), then use Votive (the VS IDE plug-in for WiX) to load your .wxs files. This would give you a good starting point.

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Mark — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:39:28 GMT

Richa - another vote for setup/web deployment projects, or at least some better walk throughs and examples for how to upgrade. I've already looked at the link in your 28 March reply, but drilling down to ISLE feature set it's not going to be enough without purchasing a more functional edition.

WIX would appear to be the other option, but it's not even mentioned despite (I believe) being a CodePlex MS spin off.

What would be great would be a WebSetup > Web Deploy and/or a Setup project > Wix migration wizard.

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

robert ivanc — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:15:36 GMT

How about web deployment projects? It shows them as unsupported - is there any chance of supporting them or a migration path?

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Richa Prasad - MSFT — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:01:26 GMT

@Emil - We have made some fixes to not scramble the solution file. The fix will be available in the RTM release of Visual Studio 11.

re: Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

Emil Tabakov — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:12:58 GMT

Hey guys,

This is really great. Unfortunately, Visual Studio 11 still wants to change my Visual Studio 2010 solution file in order to work properly. Which means that we should maintain two different solution files and sometimes this can be really inconvenient.

Apart from that the integration between these two versions looks great.