You get all this for free in Visual Studio Community 2013

This post is about installing Visual Studio Community 2013 on a Windows 8.1 Professional on a laptop computer (Toshiba Satellite S70 series).

I wanted to see what I will get installing Visual Studio Community 2013. I downloaded vs_community.exe from this site here:
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs
Installation starts with double clicking the downloaded program from the downloaded location.

 

You require something like 8 GB for the program. Check and accept license terms to go forward.

 

 

I selected everything as shown here .

I started late in the night and I just let it extract files from internet and install. I just clicked Install
In the morning I noticed that installation was successful and I could launch the application. You will have to have a Windows Live account or other authentication.

Clicking on Start Visual Studio brings up the start screen. I chose the blue theme.

 

This is the version information:

 

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013
Version 12.0.31101.00 Update 4
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.5.51641

 

Installing you will be getting all these for free:

 

Installed Version: Professional

Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013   06177-004-0444002-02503
Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013

 

Visual Basic 2013   06177-004-0444002-02503
Microsoft Visual Basic 2013

 

Visual C# 2013   06177-004-0444002-02503
Microsoft Visual C# 2013

 

Visual C++ 2013   06177-004-0444002-02503
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013

 

Visual F# 2013   06177-004-0444002-02503
Microsoft Visual F# 2013

 

Visual Studio 2013 Code Analysis Spell Checker   06177-004-0444002-02503

Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2013 Code Analysis Spell Checker

 

Portions of International CorrectSpell™ spelling correction system © 1993 by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

 

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

 

Windows Phone SDK 8.0 - ENU   06177-004-0444002-02503
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 - ENU

 

Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio Package   1.0
Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio

 

ASP.NET and Web Tools   12.4.51016.0
Microsoft Web Developer Tools contains the following components:
Support for creating and opening ASP.NET web projects
Browser Link: A communication channel between Visual Studio and browsers
Editor extensions for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Page Inspector: Inspection tool for ASP.NET web projects
Scaffolding: A framework for building and running code generators
Server Explorer extensions for Microsoft Azure Websites
Web publishing: Extensions for publishing ASP.NET web projects to hosting providers, on-premises servers, or Microsoft Azure

 

ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2012.2   4.1.21001.0
For additional information, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=309563

 

ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2013   5.2.21010.0
For additional information, visit http://www.asp.net/

 

Common Azure Tools   1.3
Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Microsoft Azure Tools.

 

Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools   1.3
Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools

 

NuGet Package Manager   2.8.50926.663
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/

 

PowerShell Tools   1.3
Provides file classification services using PowerShell

 

PreEmptive Analytics Visualizer   1.2
Microsoft Visual Studio extension to visualize aggregated summaries from the PreEmptive Analytics product.

 

SQL Server Data Tools   12.0.41012.0

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools

 

Windows Phone 8.1 SDK Integration   1.0
This package integrates the tools for the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK into the menus and controls of Visual Studio.

 

 

 

 

 

Getting to know DocumentDB - Part 2

For Signing up for DocumentDB read here:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-do-you-sign-up-for-azure-documentdb.html

Getting to know Document DB - Part 1 here:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/08/getting-to-know-documentdb.html

In Part 1 we found that we need to install Microsoft Azure DB Client Library.

In this post we will install the client library as well as look at the Microsoft created sample which is perhaps the best way to look at the details of DocumentDB.

Installing Microsoft Azure DocumentDB Client Library
Client Applications connect to Azure DocumentDB service using Client Library.
In order to install Microsoft Azure DocumentDB Client Library you need to run the command:
PM> Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client-Pre

PM is the Package Manager Console. If you do not know how to get to the console read here.
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-do-you-install-nuget-package-manager.html

•  Launch Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web Update 3. -Run as administrator

Make sure you have the NuGet properly installed. If not get it from the Gallery Tools | Extensions and Updates...

• Click Open the Packet Manager Console

Type in the install script mentioned above and you will get an error message as there is no solution yet.

• Download the C# Sample from here:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Azure-DocumentDB-NET-Code-6b3da8af
Download, extract and open it in Visual Studio.

When you build you may get some 12 error messages.
Now in the Package Manager Console run the Install again as shown
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PM> Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client -Pre
Attempting to resolve dependency 'Newtonsoft.Json (= 4.5.11)'.
Installing 'Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client 0.9.0-preview'.
You are downloading Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client from Microsoft, the license agreement to which is available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=509837. Check the package for additional dependencies, which may come with their own license agreement(s). Your use of the package and dependencies constitutes your acceptance of their license agreements. If you do not accept the license agreement(s), then delete the relevant components from your device.
Successfully installed 'Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client 0.9.0-preview'.
Adding 'Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client 0.9.0-preview' to DocumentDB.Samples.DatabaseManagement.
Successfully added 'Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client 0.9.0-preview' to DocumentDB.Samples.DatabaseManagement.
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Build the project again:
Now you are still showing six errors.

 

Some of these are related to missing references:

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I guess the latest SDK (Microsoft Azure SDK 2.4)  is needed.
Go to notifications area and install the latest SDK.

Download the SDK

Run the SDK
Web Platform Instlaler takes over.

Now you are ready to install MSFT Azure SDK for .NET (VS2013) -2.4
Click Install.

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Once you download the Microsoft Azure SDK, the errors go away and the build succeeds.

We look at the details of the project in the next post here.
 

Get NuGet Packet Manager for VS 2013

Given a VS Project, NuGet Packet Manager provides support to automatically,

• Download
• Install
• Upgrade
• Configure and
• Remove

packages.

Download NuGet Packet manager extension for VS 2013 from here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/

The NuGet Gallery here (nuget.org) is the central package clearing house used by all package authors and consumers. You need Power Shell 2.0 to work with NuGet Packet Manager.

There is also an independant command line bootstrapper tool called nuget.exe that you may want to use:

http://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/58939