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Sample/reference launcher app for WSL distro Microsoft Store packages.
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README.md Getting Started: VS2019 can't open DistroLauncher-Appx/DistroLauncher-Appx.vcxproj #64

Open Hoverbear opened 4 years ago

Hoverbear commented 4 years ago

Hi!

In step 5 of https://github.com/microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher#getting-started the instruction is:

Make sure to change the name of the project in the DistroLauncher-Appx/DistroLauncher-Appx.vcxproj file to the name of your executable we picked in step 4. By default, the lines should look like:

In this case the user has been instructed to open the project in Visual Studio already (by opening the .sln), so the user is unable to find the vcx.proj in the solution explorer:

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They then might try to open the file directly via "File -> Open" and selecting the correct file. They'd see this error:

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A user unfamiliar with VS2019 (which sounds like a common thing for folks who want to build WSL distros) may not know they need to change to "Folder View" in the "Solution Explorer" under the "White Square in Front of Folder with Arrows implying they rotate or something" icon.

Hoverbear commented 4 years ago

I also noted that the current defaults are different than the README suggests:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher/blob/1f8551f7e2ea22bba2e6fb02f01e7a5f7fb757f3/DistroLauncher-Appx/DistroLauncher-Appx.vcxproj#L13-L14

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