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GAX/GAT for Visual Studio 2008 Troubleshooter
As Victor has posted, we made a simple troubleshooter to use in case of you are having troubles with the installation and use of GAX/GAT for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). This utility provides a simple log of certain information about how was installed GAX/GAT on your host, making much easier the diagnose of any issue with that. So if you're having troubles just run the utility and post the information in the GAX/GAT specific forum.
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Visual Studio T4 Editor is finally out!.
Today we released a new version of the T4 Editor.
You didn't heard about T4 templates or Text Transformations, before?, That's a technology made by P&P and was used by the DSL Tools team to able to run text transformations in its projects. Now the T4 template bits will be available for free as a part of the VS Orcas, so you would be run your own transformations in your projects for free. For example a common case is the artifacts generation from a database.
Some of the features of the new T4 Editor:
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- Available for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (Orcas B2)
- Colorization of directives, text blocks and code.
- Intellisense on directives and attribute values.
- Support for multiples host (GAX, DSLTools and a new Clarius one)
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Dealing with the UnfoldTemplateAction and parameter replacement.
There are a well known issue with the UnfoldTemplateAction which is provided in the GAX Library. Basically this action able you to unfold .vstemplate files by hand but it has a ugly issue in where you can't do any parameter replacements than the default ones.
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Use a simple Form instead of the GAX Wizard
A recipe execution implies three parts which are, the arguments, the data gathering and the actions that will be executed using those arguments. By default the data gathering service in GAX was implemented over the Vs Wizard Framework due to a wizard is a very common scenery to gather values.
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Registering a GAX Guidance Package in the Experimental Vs Hive
One of the features in the latest July 2007 CTP version of GAX/GAT is the possibility to include switches in the installer execution at design time (that's the switches that will be added in the installutil execution when you register a GP through the Register GAT action, as show in the following picture).
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Customizing GAX Wizard Pages (part 1)
There are some parts that you could want to customize in the wizard page, unfortunately most of this part are not exposed. GAX wizard was implemented over the Visual Studio Wizard Framework and each page inherit from its WizardPage base class and the only thing that you can change is the logo through the Logo property and regarding the title you just can change the text, but no any other property.
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New T4 Template Visual Studio Editor.
During this past month I've been working in a new T4 template editor as a part of the SFT.
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Recipe Designer and SFT June CTP
Today we shipped the June CTP of the Clarius Software Factories Toolkit, which includes a new version of the Recipe Designer. The main change what I've been working on, is the serialization behavior in order to support round tripping, beside that was an interesting opportunity to work implementing a custom serialization in a Dsl.
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ClariuS Software Factories Toolkit June CTP is out!.
The Software Factories Toolkit June CTP is finally out and the key improvements in this release are:
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Testing T4 templates using the GAX host
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Clarius Software Factory Toolkit February 2007 CTP is out.
Finally the new February CTP of the ClariuS Software Factory Toolkit is out and you can download now, from here.
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Guidance Automation Extensions Febreary CTP is finally Out!
Some weeks delayed but is finally out!, this new Febrary 2007 CTP basically has support for Vista and includes another minor bug fixes. The most relevant bug fixes are the follow:
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Removing Code Snippets from VS 2005
Quite a while ago I ran into the issue where I couldn't remove code snippets from VS. It seems that is not enough (using the hard way) with removing the registry key (that's it: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Languages\CodeExpansions\CSharp\[PathToYourSnippet]) and the proper snippet file.
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DSL Tools: how to change the size, position and order of the swimlanes.
There are an easily way to change the position, size and order of the swimlane shapes in your dsl. To do that, you just have to create a partial class of the swimlane that you want to modify its boundary and then override its BoundRules property, like this:
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Web Service Software Factory on MSDN Magazine
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Web Service Software Factory Dec 2006, is out!
I'm glad to announce that after several months of work the Web Service Factory is finally out. This version includes:
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Hey, Victor have tagged me, so here I go...
Victor have tagged me, so.. here my 5 personal things...