Starting point

[Grantx]

Hi,
I have downloaded Visual Studio community edition and would like to integrate it with Ninja. Can you tell me where to start, how I 'plug in' to the ninja environment in order to start creating and debugging simple projects?

Many thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Grantx,

Thank you for the post.

If you have not used visual studio before, I would suggest to first use Microsofts guides and videos to acclimate yourself with visual studio and how to use its debugger. Our support does not provide assistance with using visual studio specifically but you can utilize it with NinjaTrader for debugging purposes.

After installing the platform, you would just need to click the visual studio button in the NinjaScript editors toolbar to open the NinjaTrader project. You can use the following guide to enable debugging: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...isual%2Bstudio

You can also see the following documentation and example project for creating addons using visual studio, please keep in mind the NinjaScript editor visual studio button/debugging and the example addon project are two totally different concepts: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...t_overview.htm


I look forward to being of further assistance.

[Grantx]

Hello Grantx,

Thank you for the post.

If you have not used visual studio before, I would suggest to first use Microsofts guides and videos to acclimate yourself with visual studio and how to use its debugger. Our support does not provide assistance with using visual studio specifically but you can utilize it with NinjaTrader for debugging purposes.

After installing the platform, you would just need to click the visual studio button in the NinjaScript editors toolbar to open the NinjaTrader project. You can use the following guide to enable debugging: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...isual%2Bstudio

You can also see the following documentation and example project for creating addons using visual studio, please keep in mind the NinjaScript editor visual studio button/debugging and the example addon project are two totally different concepts: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...t_overview.htm


I look forward to being of further assistance.

Hi Jesse thanks for your reply. I have installed VS 2017 but Ninja tells me that it cannot find the installation. See attached. At first I tried loading it but Ninja informed me to close all instances of Visual Studio which I did. When I retried it said that it cant find the installation.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

I have provided this information to development for further review. For the time being if you will be using 2017, you would need to manually open the .csproj file in the documents user data directory. Otherwise, you would need to continue using 2015 for the time being.

Once I have further details on this item I will reply back here.

I look forward to being of further assistance.