Visual Studio 2015 for Ionic

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Hi all,

just wondering if anyone has any experience using Visual Studio 2015 for an Ionic/Cordova project?

Personally it seems to be failing at every possible stage with very vague error messages, so I still haven’t actually managed to get an Ionic app to run through VS2015.

From what I can see, it looks like it’d be quite a useful tool for those who are used to Visual Studio, if it were to work… obviously.

I’m trying to test it out to see if I can recommend a client use it or not, but as I have not had any luck (yet), I’d like to see what others think.

I personally use the CLI tool along with PHPStorm which seems fine to me.

Cheers

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You can look at this article : http://www.spritehand.com/2015/04/using-ionic-with-visual-studio-tools.html

I have managed to do it with this article (using the second method) in the beginning and it worked. But I reverted back to CLI myself, as I couldn’t see much of an advantage.

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  1. many if not most projects have a rest api (server side) component: vs 2015 with visual studio tools for node works great, nothing better out there.
  2. if you are talking client side, I suggest you use your browser for angular/js debugging, css work, etc. I only go to the emulator when that works 100%.
  3. if you are considering using ms tools for the entire experience - which includes their handling java, the android sdk, node, etc. - I suggest you don’t. You are better off installing them yourself and understanding where all the pieces are and how they interact. The only thing you lose is their emulation debugging - to me it’s not worth putting all my eggs in that basket.
    Good luck!
    P.S. I’m going back and forth with jetbrain’s webstorm instead of vs, and I’ve used vs since .net 1.1
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Hey thanks for the replies : )

As it stands I’ve basically told them not to bother with VS, yeah the notion of it all being self contained and gui based was a nice one, but really, the only config work that’s necessary is config.xml, so I’ve said they can effectively use any text editor they want.

As it stands I will recommend PHPStorm/WebStorm but there we go.