Contents tagged with VSX
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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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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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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.