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 the Visual Studio Experimental hive fails when Visual...

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 . see it in action! You can find...

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.   Here you've a quick snapshot...

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...

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 painful task to unregister all your guidance packages...

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...

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...

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 . In fact is not a bug into the action so...

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. Nevertheless...

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...