Setting up for SDK and Visual Studio 2008

[AndrewDavis]

Hi,
I have a new computer setup which includes ArcGIS, and Visual Studio 2008.  I have all of the .dlls and other things I need to build extensions, but I am not seeing any of the development templates I have in my previous setup (Command Button, Tool template etc..)

I think that there may have been a step missed in the installation of the SDK.  I am looking for the install files for the SDK to try and do the SDK install over, and make sure I do it correctly.

Is there any advice out there?

Andy
GIS guy

[TomCohen]

I am also having this issue. Did you ever manage to get it fixed?

I had Visual Studio 2008 installed prior to installing ArcView and the ArcGIS Server Web ADF Runtime (both 9.3.0). However I don't see any ArcGIS templates in VS2008. Both installs went through will all the default options which as far as I'm aware should give me Visual Studio support.

I know there is an ArcGIS .NET SDK but as far as I'm aware it has nothing to do with VS2008 templates and is more about documentation / diagrams (but someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

I need to install all the 9.3.1 upgrades and service packs but if there's any chance I'll have to do a reinstall at some point to resolve this issue I'd rather fix it first.

Any suggestions very much appreciated!

Tom

[AndrewDavis]

I am also having this issue. Did you ever manage to get it fixed?

I had Visual Studio 2008 installed prior to installing ArcView and the ArcGIS Server Web ADF Runtime (both 9.3.0). However I don't see any ArcGIS templates in VS2008. Both installs went through will all the default options which as far as I'm aware should give me Visual Studio support.

I know there is an ArcGIS .NET SDK but as far as I'm aware it has nothing to do with VS2008 templates and is more about documentation / diagrams (but someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

I need to install all the 9.3.1 upgrades and service packs but if there's any chance I'll have to do a reinstall at some point to resolve this issue I'd rather fix it first.

Any suggestions very much appreciated!

Tom

If you have the SDK installed you do get templates, help, and additional documentation.

You get the basic templates for baseTool, baseCommand buttons.  The documentation is very good in the helps.

[JeffreyHolden]

I did the same thing but in Visual Studio 2010 and was wondering where the templates were.
The folders existed but no templates.

Then I tried the pulling down the .NET Framework 3.5 instead off  the .NET Framework 4.0.
The following templates appeared:
ArcCatalog Add In
ArcMap Add In
ArcGlobe Add In
ArcScene Add In

Sometimes the solution is simple.   I reinstalled twice before I discovered this.

Jeffrey Holden

[TomGiles]

Gents,

I can confirm Arcgis uses .Net Framework 3.5 to add those templates - 4.0 will not work. Maybe you guys have the same issue as Jeffrey.

Also, the Express version does not support 'ArcGIS Snippets', however you can access some of them (it seems to be a subset) through Insert Snippet --> ArcObjects. I believe the installation of the .Net SDK from the installation CD adds this to VS2008Express.

[TomCohen]

I'm just looking for the Web ADF and ArcMap Add-in project templates (so I don't think the ArcGIS SDK can help me), but still not having any joy.

I have looked through the template folders in the VS2008 install directory but so far haven't found any ArcGIS templates, so I'm fairly sure they were never copied over in the first place.

My (Windows 7) laptop has the full version of .NET 3.5 SP1 installed and the 'client profile' of .NET 4. As far as I can figure this shouldn't affect Visual Studio as I can't use the client part of .NET 4 to develop anything (also I'm wary of uninstalling this part of .NET 4 as I don't know what uses it on my machine).

Could anyone provide the full path of their ArcGIS Web ADF / Add-in templates, and is it possible to just download them from somewhere and copy them in myself?

Any help much appreciated!