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9/27/2015 10:37 PM
 
Tony Henrich


Joined: 12/15/2008
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I can never open the source of DNN in Visual Studio and get it to compile right away. I used to spend a lot of time fixing the references of the projects to get it to compile eventually.

I tried to open CTP5 today and it froze my Visual Studio 2015 and got tens of thousands of errors! I killed VS and decided I wasn't going to spend a single second trying to get it to compile. This is very frustrating. Why can't DNN even compile correctly the first time?? I want to 'Rebuild Solution' and expect VS to restore the Nuget packages and compile fine. 

What does it take to make the DNN solution compile without a lot of user intervention? Why are there many broken references in the projects? 

I suppose I can try the Install file but why is the Source file always so broken?

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9/28/2015 2:28 AM
 
Kivi Com


Joined: 2/25/2009
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We are facing similiar issues ater migrating to Visual Studio 2015. Existing projects did not compile sucessfully - in Visual 2013 there is everything OK (the same code (!)).

I've done some research and manually add some missing references (there were some problems with System.Management classes). I was not able to fix errors in DotNetNuke.UnitTests (or something like that). Finally i excluded Unit test projects from solution. Now it is OK (rebuild all working) but this is just a workaround.

Any other member facing similar issues after migrating to Visual Studio 2015? I will check the exact projects name and write it down in this thread.
 
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9/28/2015 7:54 AM
 
cathal connolly


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you must compile the solution first of all in "release" mode- this builds the various packages and ensures they are in place. You can then (optionally) build in "debug" mode (if you need to debug)
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9/28/2015 1:16 PM
 
Tony Henrich


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I am opening DNN_PlatformNoTests.sln. It doesn't compile either in debug or release modes. Then I found out that  DNN_Platform.sln compiles fine. It's already in release mode. So what's the deal with DNN_PlatformNoTests.sln? I have been using it in earlier DNN versions and it worked fine and lately it gives a gazillion errors.  I use it because I thought it's the same as DNN_Platform.sln without the test projects and so I don't have to worry about them if they don't compile. 

Expect users to be using the different solution files if you're including them in the archive file. 

I guess my lesson now is never open DNN_PlatformNoTests.sln.
 
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9/28/2015 2:56 PM
 
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we're aware DNN_PlatformNoTests.sln needs fixed - as it's a CTP that will be done by the final release.
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