Is there a help integration package that can make wxWidgets documentation available through F1 help in Visual Studio 2017?
To be specific, if I were to click on a wxWindow class in Visual Studio 2017's editor, it would be great if the wxWindow Class Reference page would just pop up.
I found some data online on integrating the wxWidgets help data into VS 2008, but as I recall the help subsystem has had an overhaul since then, and I don't want to do a bunch of download/install/grinding only to find that the result doesn't go into VS 2017.
Thanks in advance for knowledge you have on this.
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Before deciding to download Visual Studio 2019, I just wanted to know whether a visual form designer is available that generates c++ code.
If not, does anyone know of an easy to use development environment that does?
Thanks.
I am a beginner learning Visual Studio 2019 Community. Specifically MFC C++.
It is challenging as I am struggling to find good reference material and examples. Youtube has been very helpful for tutorials and examples. However, all the information I have found are using earlier versions of Visual Studio which are not a step by step process. I have found myself doing additional research or experimenting to find the same tool used in the example.
My current issue is the example creates a new class with the base class type of "CFormView". However no such value exists in my version of Visual Studio.
With that being said. I have two questions.
Please advise on how to create a CformView class in VS.
Is there any good quick learning guides for MFC in VS 2019? It would be great to have tutorials.
Thank you in advance.
VS2017 and VS2019 have become difficult development environments to continue program development with MFC/ATL.
If you want Wizard-guided development as you've seen in previous books and resources, the best shortcut is to go back to VS2015 and port the results to VS2017 or VS2019.
I have similar answers to similar questions several times.
For example, see these answers and their links.
How to add database to MFC project in Visual Studio 2017?
I am missing the Add new item Add "MFC Class From Typelib" in VS-2019
The big ATL wizard misery.
Deprecations - Visual Studio 2019
Add ATL Simple Object in Visual Studio 2017
Changes to Project Templates and Code Wizards in 15.3
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Release Notes
I had a question about the editor for visualStudio. Basically, I am following along with a course for C++ and at this point, we are defining a function in a staticLib. We then proceed to call the function in the staticLib file of which the editor reminds that the include statement has not yet been declared.
I have attached screenshots for this as follows:
Notice that his microsoft visualstudio suggests that he make the #include "../StaticLib/foo.h"
Where mine is as follows:
And I do not really get any suggestions no matter what I type. Would someone mind helping me out with this as I am relatively new to visual studio community 2015 but I find that this is really helpful as I am a java programmer who used other IDE before and such suggestions just happen automatically for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated !
Thank you
Visual Studio by default does not have this functionality. It will be available after installing commercial ReSharper plugin:
Is it possible to embed Visual Studio 2010 (Express ?) source code editor into my application.
What is another most preferred way to interconnect my application with Visual Studio?
Don't want to embed my app into visual studio for some religious reasons =)
If you don't want to make your application a plug-in then make a plug-in that provides an interface for your application using some sort of IPC.
Also see Embed Visual Studio 2010 Editor into a Tool Window. As far as I understand, application has to be a plug-in/extension in order to do that.
MSDN How to: Get References to the DTE and DTE2 Objects
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/68shb4dw.aspx
is interesting starting point for solving my problem.
I've been developing a couple of C# tools recently, but primarily working with a lot of legacy Visual Basic 6.0 code (I know, I know...). For the C# development, I've been using Visual Studio 2008 Professional edition that I downloaded using our MSDN subscription here at work.
But, as a change of pace over the weekend, I was going to check out a complex C++ project that we have. However, when I went to open it through Visual Studio, it wouldn't open it saying that the .vcproj file type wasn't supported. I figured it was a compatibility issue and that the project file type had changed between versions of Visual Studio, but when I tried creating a new C++ application inside Visual Studio 2008 Pro, the option just wasn't there.
I've been searching online by way of Bing, Google, MSDN, and MSDN subscriber downloads to no avail. Nothing I've found so far explains why this is happening.
I have found the express edition of MS Visual C++ 2008, but I could not locate the "full version" of this part of Visual Studio.
Any help would be much appreciated.
It sounds like you haven't got it installed.
Go to Add/Remove Programs (or Programs and Features, or whatever Windows 7 calls it) and modify your installation. You'll get a list of checkboxes so you can install C#, VB.NET, Crystal Reports etc... and Visual C++. Check that checkbox and wait the hour or so for the installer to do its stuff.