Hey I know people have started forums already concerning this problem.
I'm trying to create a SFML project template in VS2015 Express (I've also tried it in VS2017). I've followed many guides and answers to this problem on here, MSDN forums and others.
No matter what I try, the project template cannot open up my source and header files from the original project I created the template from. "Document cannot be opened: It has renamed, deleted or moved."
I'm working with/on:
Win10 PC; 64-bit
VS Express 2015 for Windows Desktop; v. 14.0.25431.01 Update 3
VS 2017; v. 15.3.5 (rather use VSE 2015 though)
What I've tried:
- Opening the MyTemplate.vstemplate file in texteditor, adding true in TemplateData;
adding: filename.cpp or
filename.h, replacing the filename with the .cpp and .h filenames in the TemplateContent section
unchecked Automatically import template when exporting template
unzipping, adding source files, rezipping and placing zip file in Templates\Project Templates zipped and unzipped
adding new mentioned zip file above (with source files inc.) into My Exported Templates folder
haven't deleted Properties folder in MyTemplate.vstemplate bc I couldn't find a file there?
I've been at my desk for around 3 hours and have hit my first roadblock, I don't know what to do. Please assist, guys.
EDIT: Found the problem; although the original .cpp and .h files aren't being added into the exported template.
When I create a new project using my custom template, the source files (from the original project used to create the template) are not automatically added into the new project's files. So I have to manually copy the files from my original project to the new project's folder.
Any way to have the original source files added into the new project's files so I don't have to this manually every time?
I know this is pretty old but I'm going through the same thing and it was driving me crazy. So I figured out how to edit the project template to make it work.
I used Winrar, but I'm sure there's a bit simpler approach but here it goes:
I went to C:\Users\MyName\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates
and opened my SFML template with winrar. I then copied all of my .h and .cpp files from the original project into the template. I did this with another instance of winrar by dragging and dropping the files.
Then, I edited the MyTemplate.vstemplate file. I added a new "ProjectItem"Line by copying and pasting one of the ones already there. For example:
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="ReadMe.txt">ReadMe.txt</ProjectItem>
This was an original line and I copied it and edited it to match one of the files I added. For example, I changed ReadMe.txt to SFML.cpp in a new line.
I did this for all of the new files, saved it and then it worked!
Let it be noted that I did not extract the template .zip at any point.
I was trying to #include a cpp file with some functions so I can use that cpp file later with other projects. It gave me an 'already defined in .obj' error and since then that .cpp file was like binded with my project. (I understood that's not the way, the answer here helped me with the already defined)
If I exclude the .cpp file from the project, remove it from the directory and remove the #include line it still looks for it:
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'std.cpp': No such file or directory
Diagnostic:
Outputs for D:\MY DOCUMENTS\C#\PROJECT\D3DTESTC++\COWS AND BULLS\CBMAIN.CPP|D:\MY DOCUMENTS\C#\PROJECT\D3DTESTC++\COWS AND BULLS\STD.CPP: (TaskId:15)
It shouldn't be looking for the std.cpp at all, I removed it! So is there a way I can reset the project and recompile so that the program doesn't look for it? I already tried Rebuild and Clear -> Build Project
When I ran across a similar problem with VS Express, I wound up having to open up the the .vcxproj file (which is just XML), and remove the offending
< ClInclude Include="FILEPATHANDNAME" > tags.
Many of the solutions here will not work
Fullproof method:
Open the vxproj file that is giving you trouble in a text editor.
remove all references to the file it cannot find.
OK, I have no idea how I did it but I'm still going to try to write what I did.
Save all and Close solution
Open the .vcxproj file (not .sln)
Build -> Clean [Project Name]
Save all and Close
Open the .sln file again.
Build -> Project Only -> Clean Only [Project Name]
Build -> Project Only -> Build Only [Project Name]
That's exactly what I did and worked for me. I think the main thing to do is clean, save, close, open, build, but I'm not sure.
In Solution Explorer you can select/deselect option "Show All Files".
Try both options and make sure excluded file is not included in project for both of them.
That's what I had:
I used "Show All Files" option (so you can see all the files in project directories). I excluded one of my .cpp files from project. However, it behaved as this file is in project.
That's how I managed to fix it:
I switched "Show All Files" off and saw this file still belongs to project! So I excluded this file once again.
As I see, that's a known issue.
This worked for me, hope it will be useful for someone else.
Try to verbose builder output to see exact steps of what's going on. I suppose, you use Visual Studio, right?
Go to menu "Tools -> Options"
In options dialog, select "Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run"
Change current mode of "MSBuild project build output verbosity" from "Minimal" to something like "Diagnostics" or "Detailed".
Rebuild your project and investigate Output windows
Builder dump should shed more light on your current settings (I suspect you have more references to that file than you expect)
This happened to me because I renamed folder from inside the IDE. None of the above solutions worked. The only way to fix this is by opening vcproj in notepad and you should see the offending files in the <ItemGroup>. Just delete those lines.
Or sometimes, like in my case, the issue is simply in the naming of the folders in the location. I had a very long path with folders that I like to name with special characters so they show up at the top and it's easy to access them.
As soon as I put my solution in a folder just in D: drive, the issue was gone.
When I renamed a file, I found I had to go to SolutionExplorer, Source File, select the file, first exclude from Project, then re-add it to project, and rebuild the solution it lives in. It was still showing up as the old file name under Source Files for me.
I had the same problem, but I had another .sln worked fine. After tooling around with the Project->Properties-> to make them look identical, nothing worked. I opened both .vcxproj files and copied the contents of the working version into my non-working version. (I noticed that the two files had different lengths. The non-working version was longer by about 20 lines.) I just changed the RootNameSpace to the non-working version's name. I saved the non-working file and presto! It worked.
I removed those sources from Project and re-added them. Somehow, references were messed up after a hurry project refactoring.
For people having problem related to "error C1083: Cannot open source file":
Error is caused by settings in *.vcxproj file. Probably you deleted/moved source file by file explorer, not by Visual Studio's "Solution Explorer". Thus, your *.vcxproj file is corrupted. Fix is to manually correct settings in *.vcxproj file.
How Visual Studio settings files work
Visual Studio saves solution's info into file. This file is usually in project's solution directory, has extension .sln and base name is same as name of solution, f.ex.:
NameOfSolution.sln
Similarly, project's info is saved into one file (each project has its own file). Base name of this file is name of project, extension is .vcxproj, and usually is located in subdirectory named as your project, f.ex.:
NameOf1stProject/NameOf1stProject.vcxproj
NameOf2ndProject/NameOf2ndProject.vcxproj
Both *.sln and *.vcxproj files are textual files. You can open them by using Notepad.
How to fix problem
Find *.vcxproj file responsible for your project.
If you don't know where it is, open in Notepad the *.sln file of your solution. Search for name of your solution. You will find line like:
Project("{9AA9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D22-00B0C01AA943}") = "NameOf1stProject", "NameOf1stProject\NameOf1stProject.vcxproj", "{A8735D0A-25ED-4285-AB8F-AF578D8DB960}"
Value under "NameOf1stProject\NameOf1stProject.vcxproj" is location of *.vcxproj file of your project.
Open found *.vcxproj file by text editor (f.ex. Notepad).
Search for line on which is filename you are struggling with.
Example: if you are looking for "RemovedFile.cpp", then you should find line:
<ClCompile Include="RemovedFile.cpp" />
Delete that line.
If you have opened Visual Studio, it asks you if it should refresh solution - select yes. If it is not opened - just start using it.
In case of any problems, try to rebuild solution (top banner -> Build -> Rebuild Solution)
In my cases, it worked. 30 mins of trying to fix, <1 minute of fixing.
This helped in my case. To sum it up, my path to the project was too long, so I moved my project to something shorter i.e. D:\my_project and everything worked in a blink of an eye.
I had this same problem, but for me the issues was that I was using Bash on Windows (WSL) to clone the repository and then using VS to compile.
Once I deleted my clone and used Windows command line (cmd.exe) to clone the repo then the error 1083 went away.
This is caused by not removing/deleting the file properly. Go to Solution Explorer, select your solution, at the left corner, activate the icon: show all files.
(if you already removed the problem file, restore it from recycle bin)
Select the problem file, do remove and delete from within Solution Explorer and you should not have this problem. And remember to do it the proper way from now on.
This is on MS 2010
If you have that file in your project directory but you still got the error, on your IDE go to Solution explorer--> Remove that file-->then open the project directory on your file explorer-->Select that file and drop it on a specific location in IDE solution explorer. I fixed it this way. I use the Windows platform.
I got this error when I got a code from my peer and I tried directly running it on my system. Ideally to avoid such errors, I should have just copied the source and header files and should have created the VS solution of my own.
To resolve the errors I removed the files from the Solution Explorer and added them again. Following image shows the Solution Explorer window.
The remove option comes after right clicking on the file names.
I want to use "FileTemplates" plugin in Sublime Text 2. I installed it with Package Controller, but when I use "Create file from template" and select something, nothing happens! It doesn't even create a file.
How can I make it work? Any ideas?
You need to find you current user's packages folder. Here you will find where the FileTemplates package has been installed. On my Windows system it is %APPDATA%\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\FileTemplates. You may also get to this folder from the Preferences menu by selecting Browse Packages...
Inside this folder there is a Templates folder. Inside this folder you will find the pre-canned file templates. You may create your own by copying and pasting the existing files to create the templates you like. You will need to create a .file-template file in the FileTemplates folder. This file is an xml file which tells sublime where to find the actual template and what parameters to the file creation the user may pass into the template. For instance $name is the parameter that the user is prompted for which will be used to name the file created from the template. Hope this helps.
I'm creating an automated build system for a group of projects. Most are C# and VB but we have a few VC++. I need to extract the AssemblyName properties for all of the projects before the build starts to perform some custom stuff. The C# and VB projects have an AssemblyName element inside the .csproj and .vbproj files and I can grab them using xml dom. There is no equivelant in the .vcxproj file. How do I figure out what the AssemblyName is going to be for a VC++ project by just looking at the project file (vcxproj) or the files included in the project? Does the compiler simply use whatever file contains the main entry point as the AssemblyName?
e.g. Win32ConsoleApp1.cpp -> Win32ConsoleApp1.exe?
Thanks, those elements were not in my .vcxproj. Perhaps you have an older .vcproj? Anyway it did lead me to find <TargetName/> in the Microsoft.Cpp.props file that is imported into every .vcxproj file. In there is the following line:
<TargetName Condition="'$(TargetName)' == ''">$(ProjectName)</TargetName>
This was no good for my goal of retrieving the name of the assembly that will ultimately be generated because the value $(ProjectName) is expanded during runtime. So I started tracking down were ProjectName is set. It’s in Microsoft.Common.targets and is set to $(MSBuildProjectName). Again no use to me because that too is expanded during run time. I then had to disassemble MSBuild.exe, its dependents, and finally found the Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator class were MSBuildProjectName it is set. It’s simply the project file’s name minus the extension. E.g. MyConsoleApp1.vcxproj -> MyConsoleApp1.
I also did some experimenting and by simply right clicking my VC++ project in Visual Studio and selecting “rename” and saving the project a new element is added to the project file called <ProjectName/> with the new value I entered. So based on all of this the logic I’m going with is to parse the .vcxproj file and look for the <ProjectName/> element. If it’s in there then use it; if not simply use the project file’s name minus the extension.
This actually is in the .vcxproj file, under the headings <TargetName> and <TargetExt>. The default settings will be $(ProjectName) and .exe (for an application). The name is actually, by default, named based on the project, not a .cpp file.
However, if the user changes this (in ConfigurationProperties->General), you'll see, in the XML, something like:
<TargetName>$(ProjectName)</TargetName>
<TargetExt>.exe</TargetExt>
I would like Visual Studio to automatically put my .h file in a folder /ProjectPath/include and my src file in /ProjectPath/src. That way, if I use the "Create class wizard" for instance, it would put the good path by default without me having to change the folder. Anyone know what setting I should change to get this behaviour when I add file ?
Thanks,
Jean-Philippe
You can right click on a folder in solution explorer and go to properties, you need to set the Filter property.
For example the Source Files folder by default has a filter like this in a C++ project: cpp;c;cc;cxx;def;odl;idl;hpj;bat;asm;asmx