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Jochen

Posted: Friday, March 7, 2008 2:06:54 PM

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Hello,

I wanted to try Cuyahoga - but I've got problems building the solution. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition and I think that's where the problems are.

I experience some problems using conversion of the solutions file:
- "The project file 'F:\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\Cuyahoga\Modules\Cuyahoga.Modules.csproj' cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation."
- "The project system components are not installed on this computer. Please re-install Visual Studio."

Then, all the stuff in the solutions explorer is 'unavailable'.

Ofcourse, I read the stuff about the web application project model, but since they packed that with SP1 for VS 2005 - surely it must be integrated in 2008, right ? Just to be sure, I searced for this "web application project model' for VS 2008 Express Web - but couldn't find anything.

Any hints / tips ?

Jochen

martijnb

Posted: Saturday, March 8, 2008 1:36:26 AM

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Visual Studio Express editions don't support the web application project model unfortunately. You'll need at least the Standard Edition.

Jochen

Posted: Saturday, March 8, 2008 11:32:27 AM

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Martijn,
thank you for your response. I've just finished downloading VS 2008, I'll give that a try tomorrow.

Jochen

Posted: Sunday, March 9, 2008 8:24:44 AM

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Using Visual Studio 2008 now - problem solved.

wuetrs

Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:41:28 AM

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I´m using VS 2008 Professional Edition and have the same problem ("The project file 'F:\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\Cuyahoga\Modules\Cuyahoga.Modules.csproj' cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation." ) using trunk

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.21022.8 RTM
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5

Installed Edition: Professional

any idea ?

Ryan

Posted: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 3:56:41 AM

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Hi ya, just a quick FYI. I managed to get cuyahoga 1.5.2 up and running on a VS2008 express and SQL express install.

The latest version of VS2008 express does seem to support the Web Application Model, but there still a few steps that you need to take in order to get this working.
1. Download and install the latest version of VS2008 Express with Service Pack 1
2. Download and install the Windows SDK v6.1 (as opposed to v6.0a which comes with expresss) being carefull to install the developer tools.
3. Fire up Regedit and change the following two keys' values:

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\CurrentInstallFolder
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\WinSDKVWDTools\InstallationFolder

to c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\ as oppossed to c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0A\
(or something similar, depending on your installation paths)
4. Next fire up Visual Web Developer Express 2008 and open the cuyahoga project, you will be presented with the conversion wizard, step through the conversion wizard being sure to leave the project as a.net 2.0 project do not convert it to a .net 3.5 project.

Right and thats that. Additionally you can use SQL Express, if you have installed it, like so:

1. Modify the properties.config file set Server=.\SqlExpress in the connection string
2. From a command prompt type osql -S .\SqlExpress -E
3. Then create database Cuyahogo followed by [Enter] then go followed by [Enter] again

And that's all.

El Gringo

Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2008 11:42:02 AM

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Ryan wrote:

Hi ya, just a quick FYI. I managed to get cuyahoga 1.5.2 up and running on a VS2008 express and SQL express install.

Great job Ryan.

I followed your description and it it worked great. Just one thing. Every time I start debugging VSE 2008 starts about 7 Cassinis wink

Any idea how to get rid of that?

Best regards

Ricardo

Ryan

Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:46:46 AM

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Hmmm, I'm not sure, sounds like it is starting one for each module. Make sure Cuyahoga.Web is your default startup project.

El Gringo

Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:21:19 AM

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Ok, I found a workaround. When you unload all projects, then it works.
Yeah, I know... Sick

Maybe I find another solution.

martijnb

Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:25:48 PM

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El Gringo wrote:

I followed your description and it it worked great. Just one thing. Every time I start debugging VSE 2008 starts about 7 Cassinis wink

Any idea how to get rid of that?

Select the project that you don't want to start, check the properties and set 'Always start when debugging' to false.

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