Introduction

Visual Studio Tools for Tizen provides Tizen-specific tools to improve your productivity. You can create, build, and debug Tizen applications using Visual Studio. Using Visual Studio Tools for Tizen you can:

• Create applications for TV, wearable, and mobile profiles
• Debug your application from Visual Studio
• Verify the profile performance and memory usage of your application

Prerequisites

To work with the latest Visual Studio Tools for Tizen, you must have Visual Studio 2019.

Note

Visual Studio Tools for Tizen works with all Visual Studio variations, including Community. Installing or re-installing Visual Studio with .NET desktop development and .NET Core cross-platform development toolsets is recommended.

Visual Studio Tools for Tizen

To use Tizen Tools in Visual Studio, you must install:

1. Visual Studio Tools for Tizen Extension
2. Tizen Baseline SDK

Install Visual Studio Tools for Tizen Extension

The Visual Studio Tools for Tizen extension is registered in the Visual Studio Marketplace. You can install the extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace in the Visual Studio IDE.

1. In the Visual Studio menu, select Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
2. In the Visual Studio Marketplace, search for Tizen.
3. In the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen option that appears, click Download and close the Visual Studio IDE. \
   The installation begins.

Alternatively, you can download the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen extension from Visual Studio Marketplace.

Install Tizen Baseline SDK

Baseline SDK contains Tizen-specific libraries and tools such as profiler, debugger, and so on.

After installing the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen extension, you must set up the Tizen baseline SDK. You can do one of the following:

• Install a new Tizen baseline SDK
• Configure an existing Tizen baseline SDK

Install New Tizen Baseline SDK

1. In the Visual Studio menu, select Tools > Tizen > Tizen Package Manager.
2. Select Install new Tizen SDK.
3. Read the license document and click I Agree.
4. Enter the root directory path where you want to install the Tizen baseline SDK and click Next. \ The baseline SDK is installed automatically.
5. In the Package Manager window that appears, select Main SDK.
6. Select Tizen SDK tools and click install. You can see the installation progress in the Progress tab.

Configure Existing Tizen Baseline SDK

You can use Tizen Package Manager to configure the existing Tizen baseline SDK path and each tool path directly:

To set up the Tizen baseline SDK path:

1. In the Visual Studio menu, select Tools > Tizen > Tizen Package Manager.
2. Select Use installed Tizen SDK.
3. Enter the root directory of your existing Tizen Studio installation and click OK. \ The Tizen baseline SDK is installed automatically.

To set up each tool path directly:

1. In the Visual Studio menu, select Tools > Options > Tizen > Tools.
2. Enter the root directory of your existing Tizen Studio installation in the Tool Path (Tizen SDK) field. The other tools paths are configured automatically.

Troubleshoot

If you encounter any issue with the installation, verify whether:

• VSIX is installed correctly. To verify that, go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions and search for Tizen.

  

• Tizen baseline SDK is installed correctly. To verify that, go to Tools > Options > Tizen > Tools.

  

• Tizen Project properties have been copied correctly. Ensure that the Tizen.NET.ProjectType.props and Tizen.NET.ProjectType.targets files are located in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Tizen\VisualStudio folder.

  

Uninstall Visual Studio Tools for Tizen

To uninstall the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen:

1. In the Visual Studio menu, select Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
2. In the Manage Extensions window that appears, select Installed > Visual Studio Tools for Tizen and click Uninstall.
3. Read the warning and click close. Close the IDE.
4. In the VSIX Installer window that appears, click Modify. \ The modifications are completed and the tools are unistalled.