No development with Visual Studio C# 2010 Express?? (1 Viewer)

[SvenL]

Hello folks,

I am a professional developer (C, C++, C# and several others) and I am using MediaPortal since 2011. - I recently discovered a bug in the BASS player when playing certain files and some other glitches I really would like to fix and send an apopriate patch and try a self-compiled x64 build.

I have checked out the git repository and tried to open the solution file with Visual Studio 2010 Express and I am getting an error that this solution file uses features that my product is not covering?

So am I right that opening the solution file is impossible with Visual Studio Express 2010 ?

Kind regards!

Sven

 

[regeszter]

Hi,

have you checked MediaPortal Wiki > MediaPortal 1 > Contribute > Development > Building MediaPortal from source > Build Prerequisites?

 

[sccrgoalie1]

When I open in Visual Studio 2012 it works fine and does not upgrade. Maybe now you need 2012?

 

[SvenL]

In detail: Visual Studio 2010 C# does not support folders within soluttions. So the following folders are shown as "not available" in the project explorer:

• Hcwhelper
• Mpe
• MusicShareWatcher
• Plugins
• PowerScheduler
• Tv Library

I'll try Visual Studio 2012 and report again...

Kind regards!

Sven

PS: I think an open source project should not use features which require at least the professional version of VisualStudio.

 

[Owlsroost]

So am I right that opening the solution file is impossible with Visual Studio Express 2010 ?

Yes you get the 'not supported' messages, but that doesn't actually stop you building individual exe's, dll's etc (which is what I normally do during development), and you can use the build .bat files to build the full installer files if you need to. I use VS2010 Express (C# and C++) myself for MP dev.

 

[HomeY]

Hi Sven,

Just so you're sure that you aren't working on stuff that has been recently fixed
Did you see these threads?

BASS Visualisation fix
Music Gapless Playback

and TNX for the effort

 

[SvenL]

Thanks for the hint HomeY!

The problem I am experiencing is that the BASS player won't play certain files in my library at all. I have no problems when using WSAPI.

Kind regards!

Sven