How to enable CodeLens for Visual Studio 2017 Community [duplicate]

You can see the officially enabled set of features per Visual Studio edition on the Compare Offerings page of the Visual Studio website. A note on CodeLens + SSDT in particular: CodeLens was not officially supported as part of Visual Studio 2015 Community, nor is it supported in Visual Studio 2017. While some earlier versions … Read more

Turning off “Language Service Disabled” error message in VS2017

To solve this issue do the following: Create file in root directory of your project and call it tsconfig.json Add this: { “compilerOptions”: { “allowJs”: true, “noEmit”: true, “module”: “system”, “noImplicitAny”: true, “removeComments”: true, “preserveConstEnums”: true, “sourceMap”: true }, “include”: [ “scripts” ], “exclude”: [ ], “typeAcquisition”: { “enable”: true } } Please have a … Read more

Guidance for running tests using MSTest v1 in Visual Studio 2017 15.8.1

I was getting a similar issue running Xamarin.UITests and resolved it by installing the “NUnit 2 Test Adapter” Extension in Visual Studio. In Visual Studio 2017 you do this from Tools > > Extensions and Updates… > Online > Search “NUnit Adapter” > click the NUnit 2 Test Adapter then the Download button to install. … Read more

How to edit (customize) Color Themes in VS2017 Preview

The actual extension is now live for VS 2017. – vaindil The official Visual Studio 2017 Color Theme Editor has arrived! I recommend using it instead of the hack below. Since the hacked version has some downsides that the official plugin does not have: it requires restarting visual studio when importing themes, plugin updates cause … Read more

vsvars32.bat in Visual Studio 2017

VS2017 suffers from very seriously brain-damaged install path location choices. Most damning dumb thing they did is to make the edition name (Professional, Enterprise, probably Community) part of the path. This makes it quite difficult to find tools back reliably from one machine to another. There is one environment variable that I think can solve … Read more

VisualStudio Build Tools 2017 offline installer

All steps to install build tools: Download build tools Download layout files for offline installation: Possible workloads are specified here. Following command contains workloads for msbuild and C++ build tools. Run (exe file will have some version numbers in name): vs_BuildTools.exe –layout c:\BT2017offline –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreBuildTools –lang en-US Copy c:\BT2017offline … Read more

Command line warning D9035: option ‘Gm’ has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release

Try selecting <inherit from parent or project defaults> for the Enable Minimal Rebuild option (under C/C++ > Code Generation). After this, the option should show No (/Gm-), not in bold. Make sure you do this for your project(s) (you could have several projects in the solution), and all property pages they inherit from. I had … Read more

SSDT installation issue (Failed to execute EXE package.)

The answer from Nick is very helpful, but I still failed at SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe /repair with the same error Error 0x800703e9: Failed to execute EXE package.. Then I tried it with a very straightforward way: (Disable UserAccountControl first) copy SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe to c:\temp and execute SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe /layout to download a local copy of the bundle. open C:\temp\redist … Read more