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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...
Posted: Oct 08 2008, 03:02 PM by jescrich | with 2 comment(s)
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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: Registering and Using Guidance Packages on the Visual Studio Experimental Hive Registering and/or using a guidance package in...
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...
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...
Posted: Aug 15 2008, 02:09 PM by jescrich | with 7 comment(s)
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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...
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...
Posted: Feb 27 2008, 05:48 PM by jescrich | with 2 comment(s)
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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 . Mainly the most important improvements are that now you can use GAX side by side with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 and now you don't have to do the...
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...
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...
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...
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