DataAdapters and Devexpress

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Noël Francis Jr.
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I have a couple of questions, and I'm not quite sure to post them, so, if this is the wrong area, or if these queries have been answered already, please excuse me and point me in the right direction. Thanks. Most of my work involves the use of Visual Studio. I usually use Intellij IDEA for my other work, but Visual Studio has all the .NET tools. I recently got Rider, and I like it. However, I am running into some difficulties. 1.) Some of the work I do is with older .NET technology - specifically TableAdapters in Visual Studio. When I open the .xsd files in Visual Studio, there is a very nice nice interface to deal with it. Is there an analogue with Rider for dealing with these files? By default they are opened in their raw .xsd xml-type form. 2.) I have heard there is much discussion on this topic, but is there a straightforward tutorial on integrating tools such as Devexpress (specifically Devexpress, hehe). I 've seen some examples with people individually adding controls, but it doesn't work very well for me. Thanks in advance, community!

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Olga Diakonova
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Hello,

For TableAdapters Visual Designer support there is an open request on our tracker: RIDER-53410, please upvote and watch for monitoring the progress. For working with Devexpress, there is no specific tutorials, could you please clarify what exactly from DevExpress you are using and if you faced any specific difficulties?

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Noël Francis Jr.
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Hey, thanks so much for the response. What I'm looking to do is properly import the Devexpress tools into Rider, so I can work with them effectively . I've seen suggestions online, however they seem to involve adding the library files one by one (which sounds very tedious), and even when I have tried this, some of them simply fail to import (unless, of course, I'm importing the wrong files from the Devexpress installation). This is really the core of the issue. How do I go from a fresh install of DevExpress and Rider to working freely with the Devexpress controls, etc? 

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Alexandra Guk
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Hi Noël Francis Jr.! 

In Rider 2021.2, there are the following steps to add DevExpress controls to the project: 

  • Install DevExpress 
  • Open your WinForms project
  • Switch to the Designer and click `Manage Components` in the `Designer toolbox`. 
  • Tick the desired DevExpress components with checkboxes and click `Apply`. One can select several packages at one time. 
  • Done! All selected packages will add to the list of components. 

Please, let me know if you have any packages that load with errors or feel we need some improvements here. 

Should you have any other questions, let us know. Have a nice day! 

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