I’ve got a pro license of Visual Studio 2012, and decided to install it instead of my existing VS 2010 Express install.
Because I didn’t actually have anything very important on my current install, I decided to uninstall my current VS 2010. When I originally installed it, I made sure it got installed on my E: drive. To give you a bit of context on my setup, I’ve got an SSD as a boot drive (C:) and a specific drive (E:) which I use to install all my programs. I find it helps me backing up my stuff, as well as “separating concerns”, since my boot drive is only used for… well booting 🙂
I then set off about installing VS2012, and the first screen I was presented with was where you actually define where your install is going to go. So I just change the drive letter to be E: instead of C:.
To my surprise, this is what I saw in the next screen:
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“No good!”, it still wants to use over 2Gb of my C: drive, even though I told it to only use my E: drive.
- The C# Editor in Visual Studio for Mac is Completely New. Roslyn, the.NET compiler platform, is.
- Download Visual Studio Code for macOS. Open the browser's download list and locate the downloaded archive. Select the 'magnifying glass' icon to open the archive in Finder. Drag Visual Studio Code.app to the Applications folder, making it available in the macOS Launchpad.
After a bit of Googling, it it turns out more people have had this same problem, and there’s even been a blog post on MSDN about it. While there’s been some conversation on the comments in the blog post aforementioned, none one really seems to have come up with a decent (or at least temporarily decent) solution to the problem.
So here’s a “temporarily decent” solution to this problem:
Simply create a SymLink from the folder where VS “wants” to be installed, to the folder where “you” want to install it. This way, you “trick” the installer to think it’s being installed on the system drive, but is is in reality installing it to the drive you defined on your symlink.
Think of it as a shortcut to a folder deeply nested within your file system. You can have it sitting on your desktop, but when you actually open it, you will find that the path to it is something like <letter>mydeeplynesteddirectory.
So in order to do that, all you will need to do is the following:
- Open command line as an administrator (you can type “cmd” and right click on it to run as admin)
- Enter
mklink /J 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0' 'E:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0'- Where the
Jflag indicates you’re creating a directory junction (see more here) - The first path is where VS is trying to install itself
- The second path is where you want it to be installed
- Where the
- Carry on and let it install
You will now notice the whole of it (except for things it adds to the registry) will have been installed on your preferred drive.
Q & A
Q: Why are you calling your solution “temporarily decent”? It seems perfect.
A: It turns out that when you install any updates to VS, they will end up in your system drive, since VS updates don’t “understand” symlinks, and in fact remove them.
Q: And you only say that now? What do I do then?
A: A comment added to this answer on StackOverflow seem to imply that you can do the update, and then merge your files manually by copying them into your other drive. You will need to re-create the symlink after that, but considering you don’t get udpates every day, it’s probably worth.
Q: Will this be a problem for ever?
A: By the looks of it, yes! If you read the blog post I linked above, MS seems to think that’s the way to go now, and you should have bigger drives if you wanted to have to avoid this whole workaround.
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What a wonderful time to be developer. I'm down here at the BUILD Conference in San Francisco and Microsoft has just launched Visual Studio Code - a code-optimized editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux and a new member of the Visual Studio Family.
Visual Studio Code (I call it VSCode, myself) is a new free developer tool. It's a code editor, but a very smart one. It's cross-platform, built with TypeScript and Electron, and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Visual Studio Code has syntax highlighting for dozens of languages, the usual suspects like CoffeeScript, Python, Ruby, Jade, Clojure, Java, C++, R, Go, makefiles, shell scripts, PowerShell, bat, xml, you get the idea. It has more than just autocomplete (everyone has that, eh?) it has real IntelliSense. It also as IntelliSense for single files like HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, and Markdown. There's a huge array of languages that Visual Studio Code supports.
IMHO, the real power of this editor is its project IntelliSense for C#, TypeScript, JavaScript/node, JSON, etc. For example, when an ASP.NET 5 application is being edited in Visual Studio Code, the IntelliSense is provided by the open source projects Roslyn and OmniSharp. This means you get actual intelligent refactoring, navigation, and lots more. Visual Studio Code's support for TypeScript is amazing because it has JavaScript and TypeScript at its heart.
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Visual Studio Code has git support, diffs, interesting extensibility models through gulp, and is is a great debugger for JavaScript and Nodejs apps. They are also working on debugging support for things like the .NET Core CLR and Mono on all platforms.
This a code-focused and code-optimized lightweight tool, not a complete IDE. There's no File | New Project or visual designers. If you live and work in the command line, you'll want to check free tool out.
You can download Visual Studio Code now at http://code.visualstudio.com.
They'll be blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vscode and you can email them feedback at vscodefeedback@microsoft.com and follow them at @code.
Download Visual Studio Code and check the the docs to get started. Also note the docs for ASP.NET support and Node.js support. Visual Studio Code is a preview today, but it's going to move FAST. It automatically updates and will be updating in weeks, not months.
And here's some screenshots of Visual Studio Code because it's awesome. Code what you like, how you like, on what you like, and you can run it all (by the way) in Azure. ;)
Have fun!
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