Jose Escrich : VSX

Registry redirection on Visual Studio 2008 RTM & SP1 (part 1)

jescrich — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Guidance Automation Extensions for VS2008 SP1 is available.

jescrich — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

T4 Editor RTM is finally out!

jescrich — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:45:40 GMT

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...(read more)

How to know which is the current running Visual Studio registry hive.

jescrich — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:09:08 GMT

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...(read more)

T4 Editor: coming soon!

jescrich — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:18:43 GMT

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...(read more)

GAX/GAT February 2008 Release

jescrich — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Registering a GAX Guidance Package in the Experimental Vs Hive

jescrich — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Customizing GAX Wizard Pages (part 1)

jescrich — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)