VisualD installer does not find visual studio 2019 community edition

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 13/06/2020 09:15, exo1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 08:20:32 UTC, exo1 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 06:55:10 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/06/2020 09:23, exo1 wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 07:15:25 UTC, exo1 wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 07:00:19 UTC, exo1 wrote:
>>>>>> I will try this updated version. However, what about these errors -
>>>>>
>>>>> Those errors are no more. Yay!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> However, go to definition for overloaded procs show a list of
>>>>> overloads instead of automatically going to the correct one. I
>>>>> thought the DMD engine was supposed to work automatically?
>>>>
>>>> Also "VisualD -> Compile and Run" does not seem to work. "Compile and
>>>> Debug" & "Compile and Disassemble" work.
>>>> And, it does not display any errors in the code, not even when I
>>>> save my
>>>> code.
>>>
>>> Are you using a VS project, or are you just editing source files that
>>> you build through dub?
>>
>> I get all 3 of these issues (autocomplete issue, run issue, no errors
>> issue) on a project created through VS2019 template for VisualD.
>> (Dunno whether it works with project created through dub init or not
>> because dmdserver currently crashes for it.)
> 
> Just an update: "VisualD -> Compile and Run" does run. Its just that it
> does not open the console window, instead it prints the output in the
> Output window of Visual Studio. The issue is that the extension does not
> show the Output window on its own. Instead we have to manually open the
> Output window to see the output.

Thanks for reporting back, I couldn't reproduce because I have the
output open at all times. The output pane should be switched to "Visual
D", though.

I think I have a fix for the crashing dmdserver, but Microsoft just
broke "Find in files" for visuald projects in their latest update. I'm
still trying to figure this one out for the next beta.