Visual Studio 2015 support?

I'm wondering about LightSpeed designer support in VS2015. We are actively using VS2015 since it was released with a "go live" license for many types of development. When do you anticipate integrating/supporting LightSpeed and VS2015? Thanks!

I asked about this a while ago as well. Its in RC status, so things should be stable

http://www.mindscapehq.com/forums/thread/3032590

I just checked the latest nightly build and it doesn't have any vs2015 integration option

We are still working on getting this integrated. We will make an update once this is available.

Jeremy

Jeremy,

Could you provide a rough estimate on when it will be available? VS2015 will be released next week.

Thanks!

Hi Jared,

Microsoft have not posted the DSL tools SDK for VS 2015 RTM yet. That's what the LightSpeed Designer leverages. We're waiting on that. Until that happens, we can't provide an estimate sorry.

Kind regards,

John-Daniel Trask

Thanks for the reply! I'll be anxiously waiting for an update. I appreciate the good support you guys offer for your products!

As an update we are hoping to have this added into the nightlies next week pending testing. I will post another update once this has been merged in.

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy,

Will you update this thread when it's in the Nightly build?

Cheers

Hi all,

We have support for VS2015 now in the nightlies, we have also bumped the version number on LightSpeed to 5.5 to coincide with this. You can find the nightly build under the new LightSpeed 5.5 section in the downloadables.

Let us know if you encounter any issues.

Jeremy

Hi guys, couple of questions:

• What other changes are there in 5.5? Is it an in place upgrade/overwrite of 5.0 or alongside?
• Can we install 5.5 if we are using both VS2013 and VS2015?
• When will 5.5 be added to the subscriber nuget feed?

Hi Jeremy,

I have just installed the LightSpeed 5.5 August 03 nightly on VS2015 Enterprise. It was a clean install, I uninstalled all previously installed Mindscape products beforehand. I can not find the Lightspeed Model in the list of "New Items", and opening a previously created .lsmodel file just results in an XML file being shown.

I uninstalled everything Mindscape, and tried VS2013, and this is the same behaviour. After Installing 5.5 again, I tried opening the .lsmodel file in VS2013 again and it worked fine, with the exception that the Output window opened up and displayed the message "Licensing conflict: 127.0.0.1 is using the same license key as this machine". VS2015 is still just showing the XML file contents.

Please Advise

Thank you

What you have described sounds like no integration has been installed.

When you run the installer, on the Custom Setup screen (the 3rd screen in), do you see "Model Designer (VS2015)" listed as a child of "Mindscape LightSpeed 5.5"?

Jeremy

Yes, when I run the installer the VS2015 option is present and is selected to be installed. The installer then takes around 5-10 minutes to complete (longer than normal?), and says finished.

After that, no integration appears to be installed in VS2015. Also, after playing around in VS2013 some more, it seems only some lsmodel files are opening correctly, and some wont (cant differentiate between ones that are working and ones that are just showing as xml). Going back to an earlier version of lightspeed resolves these issues in VS2013 as well.

Not sure if its relevant, but I upgraded from Win8.1 Pro to Win10 Pro along with the installation of VS2015 and LightSpeed 5.5. I've un/re-installed Lightspeed 5.5 several times now (all with the VS2015 support selected) to try out several things. Nothing has made any changes in VS2015.

Caelan

Are you using US English or another language?

Assuming you are on a 64 bit version of Windows, if you open up regedit, can you check for the existence of the following key:

HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Packages{af67eb34-a276-4aad-9e7a-9a672c30f1f1}

And if that exists can you verify that the file pointed to by the CodeBase key exists (and is readable by the user you run Visual Studio with).

Thanks!
Jeremy

I'm using US English - I'm on 64bit Windows 10.

Before checking I did the following: Uninstalled -> Restarted -> Re-Downloaded -> Installed

The key exists following the install, and CodeBase points to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mindscape\LightSpeed\Tools\Designer\Mindscape.LightSpeed.Generator.Integration.DslPackage.14.dll

The file exists, and there is still no change in VS2015 Enterprise. I created a new project, and in the "New Item" dialog, no LightSpeed Model is present (via search, or under the Data Tab), and opening an old project with a .lsmodel file just shows the XML contents still. VS2015 Enterprise was installed with all options, but has no additional extension or modifications.

I've also just now started up VS2015 as:

devenv.exe /log

and the ActivityLog file has no indication of any errors or any reference to lightspeed at all. Not sure if this is helpful or not.

I had same issue (no lightspeed model in add item list) after windows reinstall

Solution was:

1) Open existing project with lightspeed model
2) Open model in the designer
3) Activate LightSpeed

That is not the same issue. In VS2013 I have the lightspeed model in the add item list. Here I have attached a photo of VS2013 with two files open - a newly created, and correctly working lsmodel file, and also a previously created lsmodel file. One is opening fine, and the other is just showing the XML contents. After closing and opening this same project in VS2015, now both files show as XML only.

Now something else that's really weird, in the picture, the lsmodel that is open in VS2013 but showing as XML, if i open it while the solution is open, it shows as XML. But if i close the solution and just open the lsmodel file by itself (with Control+O) then it will load the model correctly, but then I can't save the file, the custom tool wont run and it wont update the .cs files behind the model. (Opening the lsmodel in VS2015 with cnrl+O doesnt work, tried it)

So basically, VS2015 = no integration, and VS2013 is just giving me weird bugs since the upgrade to 5.5, sometimes will open lsmodel files as XML and sometimes wont.

I maintain that rolling back to a previous version of lightspeed restores VS2013 to working, but then I can't build most of my projects because they are leveraging new C# 6 language features.

Hi Caesay,

The VS2013 issue is a known issue with the DSL tools. Edit your project and have a look at the Compile Include for the .lsmodel if memory serves right something is added to this section which then causes the DSL tool to always open the model as xml. Have a look at my one and then let me know what you projects section looks like I did experience the exact issue a few years back hasn't happen since but I managed to track it down to the project and every time this happen just removed the error line and everything was 100% again.

<Compile Include="Model\Model.cs">
  <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
  <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
  <DependentUpon>Model.lsmodel</DependentUpon>
</Compile>

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Johan

Here is what the xml in the csproj looks like for the model that is not working

<Compile Include="QuickShareModel.cs">
  <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
  <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
  <DependentUpon>QuickShareModel.lsmodel</DependentUpon>
</Compile>

So it looks pretty much the same as yours. I compared the XML entries for the one that was working, and the one that was not working - and I found the culprit in another place.

<None Include="QuickShareModel.lsmodel">
  <Generator>LightSpeedModelGenerator</Generator>
  <LastGenOutput>QuickShareModel.cs</LastGenOutput>
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>  <---- This line was causing the problem.
</None>

After removing the SubType entry, the file loaded again in VS2013 while the project was loaded. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

This is only part of the problem though, and does not solve the lack of integration in VS2015.

Has there been any developments on the 5.5 VS2015 support? According to everything I can find officially, Lightspeed is said to support VS2015, however after installation for me, no integration can be found.

Has anyone else been able to get this working?

Hi Caesay,

Works 100% fine on my side.

Can create new models and open existing models.

Im using vs2015 ent are you on ent as well?

By the way i'm now also experience this problem. I reinstalled windows many times while trying to get rid of crashes, and now i am unable to install LightSpeed with VS2015 Community. Install finishes without errors, but there are no integration.

@caesay and @core: Can you go to the Help/About Microsoft Visual Studio dialog and click "Copy Info" and then either email the pasted contents to support at mindscape.co.nz or in a reply here.

Can you also go to Tools/Options and check if there is a "LightSpeed" item in the list.

Lastly can you also check for the existence of the following file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Data\1033\LightSpeedModel.zip

Thanks!
Jeremy

I have just downloaded the 8/18 nightly build. I see the LightSpeed item in the Tools/Options list and I see the LightSpeedModel.zip in the folder. What I don't see yet is the ability to create a new Lightspeed Data Model from the Data Item list.

Below is what I get from the Help/About Dialog

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 Version 14.0.23107.0 D14REL Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.6.00081

Installed Version: Professional

Visual Basic 2015 00322-40000-00000-AA514 Microsoft Visual Basic 2015

Visual C# 2015 00322-40000-00000-AA514 Microsoft Visual C# 2015

Visual C++ 2015 00322-40000-00000-AA514 Microsoft Visual C++ 2015

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

ASP.NET and Web Tools 14.0.20711.0 ASP.NET and Web Tools

ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2013 5.2.30624.0 For additional information, visit http://www.asp.net/

Common Azure Tools 1.5 Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Microsoft Azure Tools.

GenerateUnitTest 1.0 Generates unit test code for methods in classes under test.

JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate 2015.1.3 Build 102.0.20150724.141603 JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate package for Microsoft Visual Studio. For more information about ReSharper Ultimate, visit http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper. Copyright © 2015 JetBrains, Inc.

LightSpeed Designer for Visual Studio 2015 af67eb34-a276-4aad-9e7a-9a672c30f1f1 LightSpeed Model Designer for Visual Studio 2015 (c) Mindscape 2015

Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools 1.4 Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools

Microsoft Azure Tools 2.7 Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - v2.7.30728.1602

Microsoft Code Digger 0.9 Microsoft Code Digger

Microsoft.Pex.VisualStudio 1.0 Pex

NuGet Package Manager 3.0.0 NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/.

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

SQL Server Data Tools 14.0.50730.0 Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools

VisualSVN 5.0.2 Integration with Subversion version control. For more information about VisualSVN, see the VisualSVN website at http://www.visualsvn.com Copyright © 2005-2015 VisualSVN Ltd. All rights reserved.

VSColorOutput 1.4.5 Color output for build and debug windows - http://blueonionsoftware.com/vscoloroutput.aspx

Xamarin 3.11.450.0 (2ab5145) Visual Studio extension to enable development for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.

Xamarin.Android 5.1.0.115 (d23da369e436488f38c8ab8fe8a9ae7d9ea5256b) Visual Studio plugin to enable development for Xamarin.Android.

Xamarin.iOS 8.10.0.0 (7741cc495ab0baf04ff0405d0604bc27f0ecae2e) Visual Studio extension to enable development for Xamarin.iOS.

Xamarin.iOS Unified Migration 1.0 Automated migration for Xamarin iOS Classic projects to Unified

Xamarin.TestCloud.Integration 1.0 Early preview of Xamarin Test Cloud integration

Xamlr 1.0 A better XAML formatter for Visual Studio

@qixotic - It looks like its installed correctly - are you using US English or another language?

Jeremy

US English. It just doesn't show up in the Add New Item dialog. Is there any other info I can send you that will help you help me get my Lightspeed back?

You can try doing a refresh of Visual Studios caches as it may be the case where the template has for some reason not been picked up. This seems to have fixed some of the other issues we have seen.

From an administrator command prompt, change directory to your Visual Studio 2015 install location, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0, then cd Common7\IDE, then run devenv /setup

Jeremy

The devenv /setup trick fixed it for me. Thanks.