Visual Studio has a template for a Word web add-in. Clicking 'Start' opens Word with the add-in loaded, and allows for immediate debugging of the front-end javascript in the IDE.
Word was running the add-in in ie11.
With this project, the only options I've found are debugging with 'f12' debugger located in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\F12\IEChooser.exe (or System32).
I installed the latest version of windows to get access to the new Windows Terminal. This update also switched the Word add-in to load in edge instead of ie11, which requires the new Microsoft Edge Developer Tools.
I would like to get access to the functionality Visual Studio provides for debugging front-end code via an IDE instead of f12/edge developer tools. I cannot find out how Visual Studio allows this debugging as all of the properties are hidden away as settings in .sln and web.config etc.
Is there any way to debug this add-in with Visual Studio/vscode (preferrably vscode)?
There are many ways you can use VSCode for debugging but all debugging methods depends on external browsers like chrome, IE, edge debugger. I believe you do not want to perform this in VSCode.
This method will help you in some way. But I am sure you can manage this.
Step 1. Create a word web addin using Yeoman generator. Official link below
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/quickstarts/word-quickstart?tabs=yeomangenerator
They use nodejs and you can choose Angular / React / JS to build your addin.
The advantage is it will give you the flexibility to debug in any IDE .
Caveat: As I said above you can easily build the Addin with the help of web technology.
Step 2: Debugging: either you can use VSCODE Debugging functionality or use the browser
Step 3: If you choose browser: Go to sources > Choose Webpack > Select the .ts or /js file and set the breakpoint. Screenshot below for your kind reference.
note: I have selected Angular from office generator to build the addin. Then you can see the webpack under the sources. I believe this is the same for any technology.
Hope this will help you.
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I try to deploy my Word web add-on that created by Visual Studio 2017 using the Slideloading method.
When I upload the manifest file the message it gives to me seems fine saying:
Get started with your sample add-in!
Your sample add-in loaded successfully. Go to the HOME tab and click 'Show Taskpane' button to get started.
but when I go to use it, it fails saying:
Add-in Error Sorry, but we can't start this app because it isn't set up properly.
Although I followed the sideloading method well and changed the source location default value to: <SourceLocation DefaultValue="https://localhost:44300/App/Home/Home.html" />
Besides this method worked well by OfficeApp manifest.
If you created your add-in using Visual Studio and just want to test it, you can run/load the add-in simply by using F5 (Start) within the Visual Studio project. When you press F5 to start the project, Visual Studio will automatically host the add-in on your local IIS server and will open Word with the Show Taskpane button visible in the Home tab. The Word add-in quickstart describes this process in more detail. (Note: if you're using Visual Studio to run the add-in like I've described here, you shouldn't modify the localhost port number within the DefaultValue attribute of the SourceLocation element in the manifest.)
If you created your add-in using Visual Studio but want to be able to run it by using the Sideloading technique (i.e., without using Visual Studio), then you'll need to deploy the web application portion of the add-in to a web server. In your post, you say that you've specified https://localhost:44300/App/Home/Home.html as the initial page of your add-in. If you navigate to that URL using a web browser, does the page load successfully (with no certificate errors)? If not, that could indicate a problem with your web app -- for example, perhaps there is no web server running at localhost:44300, or perhaps the web server is running but there is no such path as App/Home/Home.html, or perhaps the web server is running and that is a valid path but the add-in web app isn't SSL-secured.
Is there an IDE like Xcode to develop cross platform apps using ionic? I played with creator.ionic.io but they charge 40$ per month for the complete app development. Can you suggest some open source IDEs? Basically I wanted something similar to ionic where I can drag and drop objects to build the UI
I had come across the same problem when i started at first and found some suggestions from ionic official website.
I copied contents here for convenience.
Visual Studio Code
VS Code is a new editor that comes with support for ES6 syntax, as well as TypeScript support. It will also prompt users to include TypeScript definition files and download them from Definitely Typed. Visual Studio Code is free and works on OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Atom
Atom is cross platform editor built on web technologies. Atom has many plugins to make ES6/TypeScript development very easy. If there isn't something provided by Atom or a plugin, you can even make a plugin yourself, using JavaScript. Atom works on OS X, Windows, and Linux.
WebStorm
WebStorm is a paid IDE that provides many features, such as advanced refactoring support, automatic compilation of code, and gulp/grunt/webpack support. Out of the box, WebStorm comes with support for ES6 and TypeScript, as well as Angular and Ionic syntax support.
ALM
ALM is a free open source IDE built for typescript development, it can be run on any computer running chrome and can be hosted on a server and used on any computer with internet access.
Angular IDE by Webclipse
Angular IDE is a freemium IDE built for Angular 2 and TypeScript development providing integrated terminal support helping with node and npm management. Out of the box, Angular IDE includes code completion and validation for ES6, TypeScript, and Angular 2 HTML templates.
Personally i am using "Brackets" its open source as well and really good.
I think community gets totally confused about the OP's question here.He is asking not about an IDE for developing Ionic apps.He is asking the IDE like an Ionic creator.Which is the IDE anyone can create ionic apps without writing a code.
What is an Ionic Creator? See here.
Creator is a simple drag-&-drop tool for going from idea to App
Store, with just the drag of a mouse.
There is no such free and open source tool but the price you have mentioned is not correct with the official Ionic creator. It is $24/mo.You can see details here.
PRO
$24/mo for individuals
Unlimited Projects
Private Projects
In-Tool Code Editing
Basic & Native Exporting
Creator Mobile App
Note:
By using above tool you can create Ionic 1 apps only.There is no support for Ionic 2 yet. You can see the Roadmap of Ionic 2 creator here.
I'm interested in developing with typescript on linux. So I found the above mentioned plugin. I installed eclipse and also the eclipse-typescript plugin as described here. Now I can edit typescript files and see the highlighting. But it is not possible to debug a script. When I try to debug it, there is no debug configuration available.
Is the plugin able to debug a typescript?
I also read in this wiki, but this single page doesn't help me. I googled around and did not found any howto or help...
Thanks
Is the plugin able to debug a typescript?
It isn't supported. Based on my empirical (but certain) observation of : https://github.com/palantir/eclipse-typescript/tree/master/Bridge/src
You could debug the generated JavaScript though (and I highly recommend you do that anyways). And in fact learn to use google chrome debug tools (you'll thank me someday) since they have a live edit and continue, repl, profiler etc.
Alternatively you can try WebStorm which fully supports debugging TypeScript on linux.
At the same time, TypEcs (another TypeScript plugin for Eclipse) features debugging - http://typecsdev.com/. The plugin supports two modes of TypeScript debug:
Standalone: this mode is suitable for debugging server-side NodeJS applications written on TypeScript,
Web Remote: this mode is connected to Google Chrome web browser and allows you to debug TypeScript web application.
So you can try this one.
Our Excel 2007 VSTO solution (built in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 using C# 3.5) is published via ClickOnce.
Clients deploy by clicking a URL using Internet Explorer that looks something like:
http://ourserver.com/ouraddin.vsto
It sometimes causes the Program Compatibility Wizard to pop up post-install and display "This program might not have installed correctly ..."
Does anybody know any workarounds?
I found this post which talks about modifying the manifest files, but that seems to apply to regular ClickOnce solutions not VSTO.
How to prevent "This program might not have installed correctly" messages on Vista
I tried using the MageUI app to open the VSTO file and look for a way to embed the supportedOS tags but there was nowhere to put it.
I also found documentation on editing VSTO manifests, but would prefer not going down this route unless absolutely necessary as one would think the publish wizard out of the box should just work.
http://codeidol.com/csharp/c-sharp-in-office/Deployment/Editing-Manifests/
Perhaps there is a way to modify the source VSTO ClickOnce schemas in the build system to avoid editing the manifests as a post-build task?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Chris
Call me blind but how exactly do we suppose to install Visual Web Developer with Web Platform Installer 3? There is no such an option. The other options do not install it, e.g. WebMatrix, MVC3.
Open Web PI and type Visual Web Developer in the search textbox, hit enter. If it is supported on your platform, you will see it in search results.