Contents tagged with GAT
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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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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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GAX/GAT February 2008 Release
Finally, and after a grand effort, we got a final release of GAX/GAT February 2008 Release.
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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:
A0
- 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)
- Preview transformation and properties reflection. -
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).