Showing posts with label visual studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual studio. Show all posts

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Grunt / Bower / NPM for Visual Studio


What is Grunt/ Gulp / NPM?
You may refer "An Introduction to Bower, Grunt and Gulp" Section at this article

NPM (Node package manager) is useful to manage UI packages.

How do i install them 
Follow the Steps in here

Opps! I  don't see gulp working 
If you get the below error

"Error:Failed to load   <your project location>\gulpfile.js"...
'gulp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Solution: We need to install gulp  --> which needs npm ( node package manger)

Step 1: Download & Install node.js in your the system.

Step 2:  Next Goto All Programs -> Node.js -> nodejs Command promt

Step 3:  run the below command to install gulp
npm install gulp -g

Note: you might face issues trying to install using npm if behind a proxy for which you may these solutions

Can I integrate it with my Online hosted Builds

Oh! Yes Have a look at here

Cant find .npmsrc
I ran npm config set <option> <value>, the file ~/.npmrc seemed to be created automatically, with the option & its value as the only non-commented-out line.
ref:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15536872/nodejs-npm-global-config-missing-on-windows 


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Hope this helps you!

Monday, May 23, 2011

visual studio dev server thows an error during start

Visual studio dev server thows an error during start
like the one below

"An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions"

The user action section in this link should help fix the issue


So you may do it for any exe which uses the same and it will work for you

Devops links

  Build Versioning in Azure DevOps Pipelines