Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

I have a quick question for anyone who can help:

Can I load up my nopCommerce "source" project files and compile in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express?

I have tried many times in the past to make changes and then compile but never actually got it to work so I have always just gone with mods that others have posted the binaries for, or just left well enough alone! I have a plugin that requires a change to the code in a certain file and the project to be compiled but I keep getting an error when I open my project files -

"Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read."

These are the original source files I downloaded from nopCommerce website, nothing has been modified.

Any advice please...

Maybe nobody is using the Express version (that's why you don't get many replies).
I don't use it but let's try to help.

What is the exact error message and when does it happen ?

The error happens when I just open up my project "nopCommerce.sln" (original files from nopCom website). It happens with v2.00 & 2.20.

I first get the pop-up errors about solutions folders not being supported in my version of the application. I read before that solution folders are not supported in my version of VWD but just to ignore. I have done this in the past and my project would load up fine with older versions of nopCom, v1.9 and lower.

Now after the files load up I get a pop-up saying "One or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly. Please see the output window for details."

Then in the output window I get:

"Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read."

If I then do a build I get some more error messages.

Can you try to create an emtpy MVC app from the Express edition ?

File - New Project - ...MVC3

Yes I can do this no problem, build also completes with no errors -

------ Build started: Project: MvcApplication1, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
  MvcApplication1 -> c:\documents and settings\glenn\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\MvcApplication1\MvcApplication1\bin\MvcApplication1.dll
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Maybe I should try get Visual Studio 2010 and see if it works ok with this?

did it say what MVC# (number) ..was installed when you created a new project ?

where can I find out the version?

When I select new project I do select the option for "ASP.NET MVC3 Web Application".

OK..so u have MVC3.
Have u tried with a proper VS2010 ?

No, I don't currently have the version.

I will look into getting one though and see if this solves.

I'll post back.

Cheers...

Hi,

You can get full versions of VS2010 and SQL 2008 from the Microsoft Website Spark program, you pay nothing for the first three years and you get the full versions and its not just those two bits of software you get either, you get more.