I want to contribute, but never write windows software before. so how? #165

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1. rawbeans commented on Feb 19, 2023

   

   rawbeans

   on Feb 19, 2023

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   I just set up a dev environment yesterday to add some features to this application. Here is what I did:

   • Installed Visual Studio Community. I only checked the box for Windows Desktop C# development (about 8 GB)
   • Cloned the most active fork (in my opinion): https://github.com/elig0n/Switcheroo
   • Loaded the solution in VS. It prompted me to Reload some projects for .NET 4.8 (was set up for 4.5). I chose Reload All
   • The resulting app had build errors. The reload removed some necessary code. I added this back in, and only kept the changes that incremented build/version numbers in the project files.
   • At this point, building the solution (ctrl+shift+b) worked fine. I could build a release, and the output binaries would be created properly. From here I could either just run the exe, or copy the files over to the Program Files install location.
   • However, if I tried to run the application in the debugger, it gave me an error A project with an Output type of Class Library cannot be started directly. To fix this issue, I updated "Startup Project" in the solution's properties to Switcheroo from Switcheroo.Core

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2. leondatamatic commented on Sep 15, 2023

   

   leondatamatic

   on Sep 15, 2023

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   Thanks a lot for the question zzmm88 and the same for the answer rawbeans! I love switcheroo; all keys and no distraction.