Missing VisualRust Project/Item Templates. (Originally: Installed. And Now?)

[ioncodes]

I installed VisualRust via the latest msi installer from AppVeyor. It has been installed successfully, but if I open Visual Studio, I can't see any Templates for Rust if I open the project wizard.

[werdahias]

same problem. loading shows a possibility of .rsproj but you cant create it

[Boddlnagg]

Can you open a Cargo.toml file? There should also be templates in the wizard, though ...

[ioncodes]

I can open the file itself, I can open any file with Visual Studio... However, if I force to open the folder (where the Cargo.toml resides), it opens up, but it doesn't offer any Rust-ish tools/features, such as debugging, syntax highlighting and autocompletion.

[denis-golubev]

I'm currently trying to use the Rust plugin with VS 2017 and still had a rsproj lying around (I think I tested the Rust plugin with VS 2015, which I do not have installed anymore ... I honestly don't know how I created that file 😆). It looks like this (perhaps you need to generate a unique guid, when you are trying to use it different projects):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
    <ProjectGuid>6449e950-4899-48a1-8681-cb5a310833fd</ProjectGuid>
    <ManifestPath>Cargo.toml</ManifestPath>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\VisualRust\VisualRust.Rust.targets" />
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildThisFileName).InMemory.Targets" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildThisFileName).InMemory.Targets')" />
</Project>

With this I could load the project, but the build hangs. Auto-completion worked only for local variables. I'll try to look further into it, when I have the time.

[werdahias]

seems to work

[ioncodes]

@denis-golubev How can I open the rsproj file? It isn't recognized by VS

[werdahias]

new text document-> enter it select standord opening program vs

[werdahias]

it opens up, but it doesn't offer any Rust-ish tools/features, such as debugging, syntax highlighting and autocompletion. i can confirm (partly). debugging with rust doesnt work, autocompletion,too. furthermore, git doesnt really work.

[ioncodes]

After following the steps described by @CountOmega the solution opens. It looks like VS understands it's a Rust project. I had to enable "Show All Files" to see the project files... Also as described by @CountOmega all other features don't work.

[werdahias]

Cargo.toml can be opened and edited, though. But working with it is really tricky.

[werdahias]

Biuld configurations cant be edited, too.

[werdahias]

It seems that line numbers arent really visible whilst using rust. I had to switch to on manually.

[werdahias]

vs always wants to save a sln in addition to rsproj after code edits if you close vs but you have to delete it otherwise your not able to open rsproj later

[werdahias]

only a few key words are highlighted e.g. mut let pub. String and comments, too. but other rustish word like use blalba arent highlighted.

[werdahias]

so you are forced to debug with rustup using the vs developer command prompt
@echo off cd C:\Users\Count Omega\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\Inventar C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat cls
batch script for debugging if it helps

[MaulingMonkey]

When attempting to build master ( f005c24 ) myself, I've noticed that src/VisualRust/VisualRust.projitems appears to incorrectly reference the templates, which may be related. This is my fix:

   <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">
-    <Content Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\VisualRust.Templates\bin\$(Configuration)\ProjectTemplates\Rust\127\ApplicationProject.zip">
+    <Content Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\..\bin\VisualRust.Templates\$(Configuration)\ProjectTemplates\Rust\127\ApplicationProject.zip">
       <Link>ProjectTemplates\ApplicationProject.zip</Link>
       <IncludeInVSIX>true</IncludeInVSIX>
     </Content>
-    <Content Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\VisualRust.Templates\bin\$(Configuration)\ProjectTemplates\Rust\127\LibraryProject.zip">
+    <Content Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\..\bin\VisualRust.Templates\$(Configuration)\ProjectTemplates\Rust\127\LibraryProject.zip">
       <Link>ProjectTemplates\LibraryProject.zip</Link>
       <IncludeInVSIX>true</IncludeInVSIX>
     </Content>
-    <Content Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\VisualRust.Templates\bin\$(Configuration)\ItemTemplates\Rust\127\Module.zip">
+    <Content Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\..\bin\VisualRust.Templates\$(Configuration)\ItemTemplates\Rust\127\Module.zip">
       <Link>ItemTemplates\Module.zip</Link>
       <IncludeInVSIX>true</IncludeInVSIX>
     </Content>

I can't spot the corresponding errors in AppVeyor, no idea what the build difference is, but this might be related to the templates being missing.

[MaulingMonkey]

Ahh - from that snippet you can also see the project and item templates were previously only included in Debug builds, whereas AppVeyor is only doing Release builds. I've created a fix for this in #286 .

[Pzixel]

Same here. Installed latest build from AppVeyor on 2017, but no project template appeared. Then I created rsproj manually and pasted @denis-golubev 's xml and it worked. It compiles and runs, but under debugger it just fails first time:

1>Target "BeforeBuild" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\VisualRust\VisualRust.Core.targets":
1>Done building target "BeforeBuild" in project "hello_world.rsproj".
1>Target "BeforeCompile" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\VisualRust\VisualRust.Core.targets":
1>Done building target "BeforeCompile" in project "hello_world.rsproj".
1>Target "CoreCompile" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\VisualRust\VisualRust.Rust.targets":
1>  Using "CargoBuild" task from assembly "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\VisualRust\\VisualRust.Build.dll".
1>  Task "CargoBuild"
1>    Task Parameter:ManifestPath=Cargo.toml
1>    Task Parameter:Release=False
1>    Running cargo in directory D:\Rust\hello_world
1>    C:\Users\Alex\.cargo\bin\cargo.exe build --message-format json
1>    MSBUILD : error MSB4166: Child node "2" exited prematurely. Shutting down. Diagnostic information may be found in files in the temporary files directory named MSBuild_*.failure.txt.
========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

But starts debug successfully if you run it again.

And autocomplete is not working (perhaps I didn't install something? But I ran rustup component add rust-src).

[werdahias]

Using this fix Autocompletion feature works, but building still crashes.