Hi team, I'd love to make contribution to this project and have one issue. I tried to run it on Visual Studio and the app crashed here. I am using VS 2026 18.4.2. Is there anything I am missing? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/882985025803530332/1486975822672691260/image.png?ex=69c775a6&is=69c62426&hm=788771d9b66b1b2da8287bb258a8d9b61d2b3a3fe7297074cce2b2a6a3afae6f&

I presume you ae following? https://docs.umbraco.com/contributing/umbraco-cms/contributing/build ? Although I did just try to step through it and there are maybe some minor mistakes.. > To build the front end you'll need to open the command pallet (Ctrl + Shift + P) and run >Tasks: Run Task followed by Client Watch and then run the Client Build task in the same way. think this should be

Client Install

not

Client Watch

Also the example code to run instead of tasks says

npm run dev

... not

npm run build

?

Thanks for your tip

Was just going to say.. just building the client and login scripts and launching via f5 in vscode has completed though did have to go to the debug console to find the port it's running on...

I never tried with VSCode

also beyond the documentation there are other launch options.. wonder what these might be for? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1486975822949781504/1487039160320655493/image.png?ex=69c7b0a3&is=69c65f23&hm=bb6349ecacf975414e2282a3a3e38bdebe3068f1a2a8be0534e531ff80abedba&

I was going to use the debugging feature from VS

debug in VS Code too.. just depends I guess on your IDE of choice....

So have you ever tried with Visual Studio?

Aaah.. sorry read your initial post as VS Code.. 🙁

So did you try it with Backoffice Launch option in VSCode?

nope just the default .Net Core Launch (web)

It works fine on VSCode

I wonder if the different options are for the area of the codeebase you want to be working on .. just netcore then no need for Vite?

But still nnot working in VS

just looking at the docs for VS and it talks about gulp... which I don't think is in use anymore.. 🙁

I didn't check it carefully yet

From VS Insiders (latest build) I can launch debug session and get to the install screen... I did alter to Umbraco.Web.Ui (for Kestrel) over iis express... just out of habit.

Ooohhhh, that's weird

Yep, I see that too.. but it's only a message.. not an error https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1486975822949781504/1487048481284685884/image.png?ex=69c7b951&is=69c667d1&hm=6f974ec90c311464545add240f6ce87f2487d1389d3663a3384073c7eb64ce53&

The first build, in the background does a npm install and build, that takes absolutely forever, without you being able to see that it's happening in Visual Studio - so it usually just looks like it's crashed, but it isn't. So I recommend just doing the npm steps beforehand, then VS will skip doing that for you.

Heh @Sebastiaan so no need to search for anything to do with gulp... like the docs say.. 🙂

that appschema thing is likely just a warning?

Also we've both already done the npm i, npm run build already...

Sorry!! I didn´t actually read the chat, I just saw the first screenshot and noticed that it was just waiting for the frontend builds to succeed

Another one I see.. is VS Code says there is a container.. is that docker and should be somehow running the codebase in docker now? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1486975822949781504/1487050308604399616/image.png?ex=69c7bb05&is=69c66985&hm=3771561610e2ff5946db239070b67b4001420107c65e77badec6f5807c2be74b&

That should be updated, it was a little project that fell off the radar - it was incredibly difficult to maintain at the time, should be much easier these days. It would actually really help with people wanting to contribute as you can just do it from the browser on github.com with a proper devcontainer. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1486975822949781504/1487051533513392279/image.png?ex=69c7bc29&is=69c66aa9&hm=f3a012481ffcacca38ef424db602922c5713de88f97dd53400370285a2444801&

In my case, running debug on Visual Studio will be crashed and closed automatically within 30 seconds

If VS closes automatically you're going to have to look at some log files, that doesn't sound healthy.. unfortunately I've never seen anything like that before.