topic Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported? in ArcObjects SDK Questions

Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

JakubSisak — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:18:28 GMT

I am in the process to migrating to ArcGIS 10. I have a lot of VBA customization that i would like to convert to the new "add-ins" structure.
Can i use VS 2010 Express or do I need to stick with 2008. In the article below, VS 2010 Express is not listed as one of the supported IDEs.
http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgissdks/10.0/system-requirements

Please Advise,

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

DaveMcPherson — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:01:45 GMT

Hi Jakub

In short, no, it's not supported. VS2010 Standard, Professional & Premium are all supported, but not 2010 Express, as it was released at about the same time as ArcGIS10.

VS2008 Express is supported - but has functional limitations, eg no debugging facility, as far as I understand.

Dave

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

AndrewMay — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:24:31 GMT

I would be suprised if you couldn't use VS2010 Express as long as you make sure you are targetting the .net 3.5 framework rather than .net 4.0 with your project. I've not tried it so can't make any guarantees.

There is a way to debug using VS Express, see http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/11414-Express-Edition-gt-cannot-debug-DLLs for details.

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

DaveMcPherson — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:08:38 GMT

The problem is that the SDK won't even install if you have VS2010 Express loaded. The installer pops up a window listing the supported versions of Visual Studio (which includes 2008 Express but not 2010 Express), then bails. ESRI have confirmed to me that it is not supported.

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

JakubSisak — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:45:23 GMT

Thanks folks. I will go with the supported version. I just needed to know what to install and as Aurecon pointed out the SDK will not even install without the 2008 version already installed.

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

TerryGiles — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:13:12 GMT

If I'm reading this thread correctly, I cannot install any of the SDKs if I have Web Developer 2010 Express installed? Has anyone tried installing Web Dev or any of the other express versions after installing the SDKs? My concern is that in addition to developing add-ins for desktop, I also am working on a Silverlight application which requires some version of VS 2010 and we cannot afford to buy the full version. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks,

Terry

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

ChrisWhitmore — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:28:19 GMT

ArcGIS Server 10 - Web Applications supports Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition.

ArcGIS Server 10 for the .NET Framework install guide

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

TerryGiles — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:39:42 GMT

Hi Chris,

Yes, but if I need to do development for both server (specifically the Silverlight 2.0 api) and desktop apps will I need to uninstall web dev 2010 express, install the sdks and then re-install web dev 2010 and keep a copy of vs 2008 for the desktop work?

And if so, any chance that SP1 will allow VS 2010 express?

Thanks again, TG

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

ChrisWhitmore — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:16:08 GMT

If I understand you correctly -

No need to uninstall VS 2010 Web express. The SDKs only check for the supported VS editions - unsupported VS editions do not affect the installation one way or the other.

Your VS 2008 edition, VS 2010 Web Express, GIS Server - Web Apps, and Desktop/SDK can all co-exist on the same machine without any problems.

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

TerryGiles — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:45:22 GMT

Hi Chris,

Yes, that's basically what I'm trying to ask. From Dave's 2nd comment above it sounds like the desktop SDKs won't install w/ VS 2010 express editions on the machine. We still haven't received 10.0 so I cannot confirm this, just trying to plan ahead. Thanks again to all,

TG

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

GlennCard — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:32:58 GMT

For ESRI forum staff: Will ArcGIS Desktop v10.0 be supported in Visual Studio 2010 Express within the next quarter of this year?
GEC

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

JakubSisak — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:15:48 GMT

It is already supported according to this ArcGIS blog:
http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgis/archive/2010/08/03/ArcGIS-10-and-Visual-Studio-2010.aspx

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

grahamwood — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:16:49 GMT

vb 2010 express works fine. Just remember framework 3.5. The installation is the only pain in the ass part you might have to add in the esri tools manual.

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

BorisPavcic — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:21:32 GMT

Hello

if I understand rigth from last posts: Visual Basic 2010 Express is supported, but how to install ArcObjects SDK, because some window popups and it says that I don't have installed supported version of Visual Studio, so i cannot instal SDK ?

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

JakubSisak — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:47:10 GMT

Hello

if I understand rigth from last posts: Visual Basic 2010 Express is supported, but how to install ArcObjects SDK, because some window popups and it says that I don't have installed supported version of Visual Studio, so i cannot instal SDK ?

It seems that you will have to install VS 2008 Express then the SDK then remove VS 2008 and install VS 2010 Express. Unless the most current installer has been upgraded.

Re: Is Visual Stidio 2010 Express Supported?

GordonKnight — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:29:44 GMT

I am a new user and installed ArcGIS SDK on a machine with VS Express 10 on it. The Windows Mobile SDK would not extract or install correctly without VS Express 8 being on the machine. The problem was VS Express 8 won't install with VS Express 10 install previously. The work around that I used was to install VS Express 8 on a spare laptop, extract the Windows Mobile SDK, transfer the files from that laptop to the desktop that I am using.

I'm not sure if this is the best way to do that because I am just learning but it seems to work alright with the minor projects that I am using to learn.