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Registry redirection on Visual Studio 2008 RTM & SP1 (part 1)
First of all a quick overview, I made a VSIP package which originally addresses just Visual Studio 2005, in where I added support to work with the regular hive and with the Experimental hive. In fact there are no much differences between those but in my package I require to know which registry hive is the current one. Since VS 2008 I used the same bits to address VS2005 and VS2008. The only thing that I had to do was just register the same package made for 2005 but, for VS 2008.
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Guidance Automation Extensions for VS2008 SP1 is available.
Today has been released the Guidance Automation Extensions - February 2008 Release SP1, which addresses the following issues:
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T4 Editor RTM is finally out!
After several months of work I'm really happy to announce that we've finally shipped the T4 Editor RTM version. Now it comes in different flavors as a Community Edition and a Professional Edition. You can check the most important difference between those version here.
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How to know which is the current running Visual Studio registry hive.
It’s really useful to know the current registry hive when, for example, when you’re running Visual Studio into the experimental hive even considering, that since Vs 2008 it includes the RANU option (Run as Normal User) with basically means that Visual Studio will loads the information from the HKCU instead of HKLM. You can find more information about that in the Aaron Marten blog.
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T4 Editor: coming soon!
Since some time ago, we're working in a new release of the T4 Editor. Maybe one of the most interesting feature is the ability to have intellisense in the contained language. Victor has posted some screenshots that showcases that feature, check it out here.
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Testing T4 templates using mock framework (MoQ)
Some time ago I wrote a post in which I talk about how you can do unit tests over your text templates using the GAX Host. In that example I used a very simple template which receives just a couple of string properties. But it becomes more complicated when you have properties which are complex types ok I know, most probably you're thinking that can resolve that just creating your own mock objects and you're right.
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GAX/GAT February 2008 Release
Finally, and after a grand effort, we got a final release of GAX/GAT February 2008 Release.