There's now a free version of Visual Studio 2012 which allows opening mixed-language solution files. This means it should now be possible to build the desktop version of Quest without having to use one of the paid-for versions of Visual Studio.
Anybody want to give this a try and let me know if it works?
The Pixie
13 Sep 2012 19:46
I will give it a go over the weekend. Is there anything special I will need to do, or does Quest just open as a project?
Alex
14 Sep 2012 11:10
You should be able to simply open the .sln file.
It will complain about the projects it doesn't support (definitely the Setup project, likely all the web projects too) but it should be able to build enough for you to build and start the Quest project.
I've not tried it myself though.
The Pixie
14 Sep 2012 22:12
It is an evaluation trial only, and it lasts only a month, and you have to register with MS to get a serial number to get it to work. It does not support Setup, Webeditor, webplayer (as you guessed).
But it does open the other projects, and I did do a "Rebuild solution", which reported completing successfully.
Alex
15 Sep 2012 11:12
Excellent!
Registering for the serial number should be free by the way, although looking at the comments on that blog post, who knows where you actually go to get one.
The Pixie
15 Sep 2012 19:59
just fired it up again, and it is not now asking for a serial number or saying it is only for evaluation, so it seems to be good-to-go.
Pertex
16 Sep 2012 15:26
Yipiiee, VS2012Express is running on my PC. Managed to load the project
Utente000
19 Aug 2013 19:11
VS Express 2012 can't open the WebEditor and the WebPlayer. How can I edit it?
Alex
19 Aug 2013 21:29
The Visual Studio Express version I linked to is for Windows desktop apps, so I suppose it won't work for ASP.NET projects.