How do I use the profiler in Visual Studio 2008?
I know theres a build option in Config Properties -> Linker -> Advanced -> Profile (/PROFILE), however I can't find anything about actauly using it, only articles I was able to find appear to only apply to older versions of Visual Studio (eg most say to goto Build->Profile to bring up the profile dialog box, yet in 2008 there is no such menu item).
Is this because Visual Studio 2008 does not include a profiler, and if it does where is it and where is the documentation for it?
Microsoft has released stand-alone Profiler for VS 2008 here
The profiler is only available in the Team System editions of Visual Studio 2008. The last version that I used that included a profiler was Visual C++ 6.0.
For Visual Studio 2005, you could try Compuware DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition.
There was also a list of .NET profilers in the What Are Some Good .NET Profilers question.
As I understood from reading a few sites, when you use VS 2008 stand alone profiler to create .vsp files, you will need either VS2008 Premium or Ultimate to view .vsp files.
By the way, I installed VS2012 Release candidate which is available for free (trial version?) and I can use its profiling engine.
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I recently got the new version of Visual Studio and I can't seem to find how to create an empty project for C++. The options seem to be only C# and Basic.
The default (typical) installation of Visual Studio 2015 no longer contains the C++ compiler and tools. This was a very popular ask from the community as many developers do not want the footprint C++ brings.
If you go and try to uninstall Visual Studio 2015, the installer screen will pop up and you'll see a button named "Modify". This will change your current installation. Do a custom install and pick the C++ features / libraries that you require.
As far as I know, most editions have C++ support, including Express for Windows, Express for Desktop and the popular Community edition.
Try to open VS with Admin's rights. I tried it, and it works!
I am using vc# for GUI and vc++ for processing part as it includes 3D modeling.I am using SQLite and it works fine with vc# but i am not sure how to import SQLite libraries in vc++.visual studio 2008 supports SQLite i guess.how to use the same in visual studio 2012 for c++?
does visual studio 2012 requires additional drivers or something?can somebody give me step by step installation procedure of SQLite in Visual studio 2012 for c++?
There is now an official installer out on this page here:
http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/downloads.wiki
It will install the design-time components into VS2012, as well as the official System.Data.Sqlite binaries.
There are many downloads on that page, the one you need is about half way down and you can get there by searching for this:
sqlite-netFx45-setup-bundle-x86-2012-1.0.84.0.exe
here is a direct link: http://system.data.sqlite.org/downloads/1.0.84.0/sqlite-netFx45-setup-bundle-x86-2012-1.0.84.0.exe
PS: It is important to note that the design time components are not supported for VS Express due to licensing restrictions.
Is there a way to compile a Visual Studio 2012 project without having the VS installed? I need to compile C++ stuff for windows quite rarely and buying the product is not justified as there's no profit (community projects). In most of the cases the project and solution files will be available. If there's a way to compile the code with SDK, could you please share an example?
Thanks!
You can download visual studio express for free. Whenever you build a solution, the bin folder in your project folder will contain the compiled code.
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx
EDITED: (per MS website)
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop enables the creation of desktop apps in C#, Visual Basic, and C++, and supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and Win32.
Sign in to Visual Studio within 30 days with your Microsoft account to synchronize your settings across multiple machines and register your product.
Your best bet is likely going to be using msbuild which will allow you to build a solution or project without having Visual Studio installed.
If you have the free version VC++ Express installed (and thus the compiler toolchain), you might find it more interesting to use Eclipse CDT as IDE on top. At least the newer versions (I think since Helios) support using the native MS toolchain. You can import from native
VS projects also.
Eclipse is the more powerful IDE IMHO, and will additionally support other toolchains (either cross compiling, or Windows alternatives as MinGw GCC).
Do you know software support assist for Visual C++ 2010 Express ?, as Visual Assist X for Visual Studio
Installing any plugin requires running the IDE in Integrated Mode (rather than Isolated Mode), which means you'll need a full version of Visual Studio. The express editions simply don't have the feature.
Couple of options to get a version capable of Integrated Mode:
If you are a university student, you can download a full version of Visual Studio from MSDNAA.
If you are a student where MSDNAA is not available, you can still get the full copy from DreanSpark if you can show proof of being a student. (A report card should suffice)
You could purchase the full version of Visual Studio -- I'm assuming this is probably cost prohibitive.
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.