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Danielku15 / BetterStartPage

A Visual Studio like start page which replaces the news section by a custom project dashboard.
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Not working in VS2017 (15.8.0) #36

Closed willemodendaal closed 6 years ago

willemodendaal commented 6 years ago

I installed the extension, changed the default start page in Startup options and restarted visual studio.

A start page renders that looks as follows. Right-click does not do anything (no context menu to edit):

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Definitely configured in options:

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Danielku15 commented 6 years ago

Any reason why you still use 15.5.4? I recommend upgrading VS to the latest version.

silkfire commented 6 years ago

Not working as of VS2017 15.8.0. Getting the same empty page as willemodendaal.

devtony42 commented 6 years ago

I'm seeing the same thing as @silkfire -- BSP was working fine in 15.7.x as of this morning. Upgraded to 15.8 just a short while ago and I'm getting the blank start page that @willemodendaal initially described.

Danielku15 commented 6 years ago

You're right. In the latest updates Microsoft again made changes to their internal models. I will work on it as soon as possible.

It's really terrible that the internal models change that often. Maybe I will find a better way of creating them.

maisoui commented 6 years ago

same here. Thank you for your job. Great extension!

Danielku15 commented 6 years ago

Problem solved. I was able to find a better system to create the original start page than calling tons of internal functions. This solution should be now more future proof. Version 1.18 is available on the Marketplace.

stijnherreman commented 6 years ago

I guess due to the changes, VS 15.7.x is no longer supported? I just get a blank page.

I'm not yet upgrading due to a bug in 15.8.x that breaks unit test running.

Danielku15 commented 6 years ago

It's not possible for me to test on all versions for me as also I am only running on one version.

If you could check the ActivityLog for errors maybe we can find out what's happening. With my latest changes that should be more future proof I did not check if it works for older versions.

stijnherreman commented 6 years ago

There are no errors or warnings in the ActivityLog, the only entries are:

Begin package load [BetterStartPage.BetterStartPagePackage, BetterStartPage, Version=1.18.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8241d264d40ca15b]
End package load [BetterStartPage.BetterStartPagePackage, BetterStartPage, Version=1.18.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8241d264d40ca15b]
Begin export of category 'Environment_StartPage' ({255FE6D3-A0AE-4076-A509-D581B2BE4F9E}) from package 'Visual Studio Environment Package' ({DA9FB551-C724-11D0-AE1F-00A0C90FFFC3}). 3363820 KB of virtual memory currently available.
End export of category 'Environment_StartPage' ({255FE6D3-A0AE-4076-A509-D581B2BE4F9E}). 3363820 KB of virtual memory currently available.

No worries though, I'll just wait for the bug fix by Microsoft and then upgrade to the latest version.