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ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

RichardWatson — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:12:30 GMT

I am building a new machine with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012.

I want to install "ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework" but it refuses to install because it is looking for Visual Studio 2010 (which I don't want to install).

I understand that 10.1 does not yet support Visual Studio 2012 (or Windows 8). Just wondering if there is some way that I can get this to install without having to install Visual Studio 2010? I don't really care about the various Visual Studio templates/wizards, i.e. I know that that won't work.

One thing that I could to is to simply XCopy the files from another machine.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

nicogis — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:06:49 GMT

for now vs2012 & windows 8 aren't supported from ArcObjects SDK 10.1
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1/index.html#//01510000006n000000

arcgis 10.1 & win8
http://events.esri.com/uc/QandA/index.cfm?fuseaction=answer&conferenceId=AC1DD535-1422-2418-7F1722E62B9B416A&questionId=4353

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

JohnHauck — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:21:36 GMT

I know this is kind of a lame suggestion but maybe you could install VS2010 Express along with VS 2012 and then install the SDK and remove the express version if you don't want it. But definitely working in "unsupported" territory.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

Anonymous User — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:58:16 GMT

We did install the SDK without VS2010 Express.
Just add the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\InstallDir (REG_SZ) with the value "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\" and start the setup for the SDK.

You will see a folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\DeveloperKit10.1\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0" (assuming a default ArcGIS 10.1 installation). There you will find the templates, snippets and xml schemas. Just copy these to the corresponding folders of the VS 2012 installation.
The snippets should be registrated in the SnippetsIndex.xml.

Most things seem to work fine with VS 2012, but we have troubles to build Addins:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]18317[/ATTACH]

Has anybody made the same experience? There seems to be a hard dependency on the very old version 2.0.0.0 of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.9.0.dll.
VS 2012 does not support this old version.

It would be very, very nice if ESRI would support VS 2012.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

BoyanBatchvarov — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:38:37 GMT

I created a simple test add-in in VS 2010 and moved the solution to VS 2012, targeting .Net 4.5.

The first issue I have is that VS 2012 can't find the ArcGISAddInHostGenerator, so editing the .esriaddinx doesn't reflect on the designer.cs.

An other one concerned the <AddIn language="CLR4.0"... /> attribute. If left to "CLR4.5" the add-in is recognized by the arcmap add-ins manager, but the main toolbar doesn't show. If left to just "CLR", the toolbar is visible but the commands display a "Missing" caption. If left to "CLR4.0", the add-in actually runs fine.

Then I tried to move an existing arcgis 10 add-in to arcgis 10.1, VS 2012 and .net 4.5, but I can't get it to work. If I leave the language attribute to "CLR4.0", the add-in compiles but arcmap crashes upon startup.

Can anyone that has gone through this share some light?

Thanks

Edit: I'd forgotten to uncomment <supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319"/> in arcmap.exe.config. Now I fixed some errors and the add-in works. Only problem that remains is the missing ArcGISAddInHostGenerator

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

JohnHauck — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:51:09 GMT

We are working on adding support for Visual Studio 2012. More information about this will be made available in the coming months.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

RichardWatson — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:33:06 GMT

John,

I appreciate the reply but telling us that more information will become available in the coming months is not very helpful.

Why is it a secret? Could you share your plans so that we can plan?

I think that there are couple of issues here.

The first issue, and the one that I care most about, is using Visual Studio 2012 in conjunction with the .NET 4.0 framework. If the answer is that it is going to take months to support this then that is unacceptable.

The other issue is support of the .NET 4.5 framework. This issue is probably tougher because the .NET 4.5 framework does not support XP amongst other issues.

Richard

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

nicogis — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:36:52 GMT

Update: now arcgis 10.1 sp1 supports windows 8 & windows server 2012
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/11/01/arcgis-10-1-and-windows-8/

but vs2012 isn't supported yet
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1/index.html#/ArcObjects_SDK_10_1/01510000006n000000/

I agree with Richard "... share your plans so that we can plan ..."

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

JeffJacobson — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:21:09 GMT

You guys will probably want to promote the Visual Studio 2012 integration idea on the ArcGIS Ideas site.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

ToddMacPherson1 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:44:04 GMT

What hair I have left I am pulling out. Crystal Reports support for VS 2012 was supposed to be out Q4 2012 now late Q1 2013 and now this. I have a small fortune invested in software and can't work because there is no support from vendors for VS 2012.

I may become an alcoholic drinking beer waiting for this to materialize.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

ToddMacPherson1 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:48:14 GMT

We are working on adding support for Visual Studio 2012. More information about this will be made available in the coming months.

Months is unacceptable. This should be a priority with teams working around the clock to provide a solution ASAP.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

mustafaguner — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:49:41 GMT

We did install the SDK without VS2010 Express.
Just add the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\InstallDir (REG_SZ) with the value "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\" and start the setup for the SDK.

You will see a folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\DeveloperKit10.1\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0" (assuming a default ArcGIS 10.1 installation). There you will find the templates, snippets and xml schemas. Just copy these to the corresponding folders of the VS 2012 installation.
The snippets should be registrated in the SnippetsIndex.xml.

Most things seem to work fine with VS 2012, but we have troubles to build Addins:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]18317[/ATTACH]

Has anybody made the same experience? There seems to be a hard dependency on the very old version 2.0.0.0 of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.9.0.dll.
VS 2012 does not support this old version.

It would be very, very nice if ESRI would support VS 2012.

Hi everyone I am trying integration Arcgis for desktop with Visual Studio 2012 but so far I could not be successful
I have used Arcgis 10.0 first I added registry path "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\InstallDir" after that entered value path to (REG_SZ) of InstallDir and started Arcgis SDK but I have get a framework error.... what I am missing thanks in advance...

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

nicogis — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:55:51 GMT

For now the support VS2012 is in ArcGIS Runtime SDK 10.1.1 for WPF ( http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1/0151/015100000092000000.htm ) and ArcGIS API for JavaScript version 3.(1..3) (http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/jsapi/#api_codeassist)

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

RichardWatson — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:58:08 GMT

For now the support VS2012 is in ArcGIS Runtime SDK 10.1.1 for WPF ( http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1/0151/015100000092000000.htm ) and ArcGIS API for JavaScript version 3.(1..3) (http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/jsapi/#api_codeassist)

And ArcGIS API for Silverlight:

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/silverlight-api/

Of course, what we all want to know is when do ArcObjects support it. Maybe in SP2?

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

nicogis — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:22:58 GMT

In ArcGIS Ideas is 'Under Consideration' : http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087E00000004JrS&returnUrl=%2Fapex%2FideaList%3Fc%3D09a300000004xET%26category%3DArcGIS%2BEngine%26sort%3Dpopular ...

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

AlexeiB — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:56:42 GMT

I am running VS 2012 and Arc 10.1 SP 1 and am looking into making a desktop tool. At present time I cannot see ArcMap Add-In as per

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcobjects-net/conceptualhelp/index.html#/Walkthrough_Building_custom_UI_elements_using_add_ins/0001000001ms000000/

Having read this thread it appears ArcObjects does not support VS 2012. Is this still the case?

Thanks,

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

RichardWatson — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:20:22 GMT

Yes, it is. If you require the templates now then you need to install Visual Studio 2010.

My >guess< is that ESRI will add support for Visual Studio 2012 in 10.2. We should all know the last week of this month at the ESRI Developer Summit.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

KennethMack — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:04:34 GMT

Hi-- I just installed Visual Studio Express 2012. Trying to get started but now I find this thread. The last post is March-- any chance VS 2012 is supported now, in mid-May? Or do I need to download and install 2010.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

RichardWatson — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:31:59 GMT

RE: ArcObjects SDK for .NET

10.1 SP1 is the current version and in that version Visual Studio 2012 is not supported.

According to ESRI, 10.2 is scheduled for release in June. I have not seen any official announcement from ESRI as to whether or not this release will support Visual Studio 2012.

Re: ArcObjects SDK for Microsoft .NET Framework - Visual Studio 2012

KennethMack — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:08:25 GMT

Thanks for the reply Richard. We run 10.1 SP1. What would you recommend, I'd like to create a custom query form, pretty simple, so a user can query a related table to a feature class for records in a certain date range and a few other fields, and see the resulting features selected on the map, and run a report.

I'd rather not install VS 2010, any other ideas? Doesn't seem like the kind of thing that python does.

Thanks,
Kenny