I am relatively new to Acumatica. I have been following the Development series of training videos and hit a hard stop on T300 video 4 after opening the website in Visual Studio and then trying to publish the changes in my customization project (after detecting/updating changed files).
Error: The CodeDom provider type "Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeProvider, CppCodeProvider, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" could not be located.
My environment is pretty simple:
- Acumatica ERP 2018R1
- Visual Studio Community Edition
- Windows 10 Pro build 1803
I found a number of posts suggesting that I install a nuget package, which may or may not have helped but did not fix the problem. (Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform)
I stumbled across a reference to the node_modules folder (sorry, lost that post link) which prompted me to check my TST vs DEV instances, and I found it does not exist in my TST instance. I also then noticed that the error I received during publishing happens after a series of lines about node_modules.
After a little more digging, I found https://stackoverflow.com/a/43494775 which seems to have stopped the node_modules folder from being created and appears to have solved my problem publishing inside of Acumatica.
Other posts for visual studio claimed that the issue comes from the C++ compiler not being included in GAC in VS2017, but I completed the T100 and T200 courses on VS2017 without any issue. The problem seems to be connected specifically to opening the Acumatica Website in VS2017.
Does anyone have any experience with this issue that can confirm disabling NPM restores won't cause me headaches down the road? Or is there a better solution? I don't recall anything in the setup guides telling me to make this change, and I haven't found any references that this was an issue before VS2017.
