[question] Conan in Visual Studio

[zxuan99]

What is your question?

Hi,

I have 1 question and hope that you can answer them.

1. My conan server and client (which consists of Visual Studio) are on different machines but on the same network in an offline environment. Without using Visual Studio Conan extension, may I ask what are the configurations needed in the Visual Studio so that it is still able to inject the necessary properties into the project?

Thanks

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[davidsanfal]

Hi @zxuan99 !

The configuration of a conan server doesn't depend on the compiler you are using, you just need to add it as a remote to the conan client to use it. To add it to the client you have to run a conan remote add.

conan remote add myremote https://myservername.mydomain.com

Here is the complete conan server documentation.

If you need any additional help feel free to ask.

Thank you very much!

[zxuan99]

Hi @davidsanfal ,

I think you have misread my question

If I used the Visual Studio Conan extension, the project in Visual Studio will automatically generate relevant files and folders such as conan, conandata and relevant property sheets. However, if I prefer not to use Visual Studio Conan extension (since I link it to my private server instead of Conan Center), how should I go about to configure my Visual Studio so that it is able to automatically generate the required files, folder and property sheets.

[memsharded]

Hi @zxuan99

I am afraid your question is not fully clear. If you mean how to use the MSBuild generators, the process would be something like:

• use MSBuildDeps, MSBuildToolchain generators in your conanfile
• conan install will generate the files
• Add the generated .props files to your current VS project. From the IDE it is something like in the Property view, right click, add existing properties pages. In https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/tools/microsoft/msbuilddeps.html you can read about the generated files, which ones you might want to add in which projects or subprojects.