Can't Create Classes or Forms in Beta 2
On my test machine I had C# express beta 1 installed.
I followed the Uninstall procedures per:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/uninstall/
I installed the VS C# Express Beta 2
When I bring up my main solution 8 of 9 projects compile correctly.
These projects have about 275,000 lines of code and it is erroring on one
project being uable to find:
System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog,
It doesn't appear in intellesense?
Screen Print at link below:
http://images.modblog.com/files/mbgallery/31338/files/MissingFolderDialog.JPG
So I check the properties on all the references in the Solution's project that won't compile and notice it is still refering to System.Windows.Forms 1.1. I remove the reference and add it and now it has version 2 and the code compiles Hooray!!!
Now why it only messed up one reference in 1 project and all that was done was to install Beta 2, open up the solution and press F5 is a big mystery to me.
So I now that my code compiles I try to create a new class in one of the projects.
When I try and create a project or add an item to an existing projectm, the templates appear empty and nothing can be created. There were no error messages on the install.
Link to Screen print:
http://images.modblog.com/files/mbgallery/31338/files/TemplatesMissing.JPG
So I try to create another solution from scratch and I still get blank templates..
Any thoughts?
Ok this time I decided to download the VS 2005 C# Express Beta 2 Image as opposed to doing the install from the net again. So I download the .img file, renamed to .iso and burned with Nero 6.
Went to my Linux testing machine which never had VS 2005 C# express installed at all but had an XP partition that was updated with SP2 but virtually no other software on it other than a firewall and antivirus, spyware stuff.
Started the install on the Linux Test machine and then it ran quickly and then hung on the VS 2005 SQL server express install. I left it for 3 hours on that prompt. I finally killed it and then copied over my main application solution to this machine and it compiled and ran fine on VS2005 Beta 2. I was able to create projects and classes. Not sure what the VS 2005 SQL server express hung as that was a pretty virgin XP installed. I had even diabled the firewalls during the install just in case they were causing problems.
So I uninstalled the VS 2005 Beta off the original test machine that was set aside specifically for testing VS2005 and reinstalled it. Now the project converted ok, compiled ok and ran ok, and I can now create classes and solutions.
Not sure what was left over from Vs2005 C# Beta 1 that caused the problems as I followed the uninstalled instruction exactly.
Ah well I didn't want that miniscule amount of hair left on my head anyways!!!