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Vortrag über Visual Studio Extensibility in Leipzig
Am nächsten Freitag, 6.7.2007, bin ich um 19:30 bei der .NET User Group Leipzig zu Gast und halte dort einen Vortrag über Visual Studio Extensibility.
Die Themen des Vortrags an diesem Abend:
- Code Snippets
- Project/Item Templates und Wizards
- Makros
- Add-ins
Ein gewisser Schwerpunkt wird beim Thema Visual Studio Add-ins liegen, wo ich u.a. auf den einen oder anderen Fallstrick hinweisen werde, über den ich bei der Entwicklung von GhostDoc gestolpert bin.
Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, eine Anmeldung ist erforderlich. Laut dem Organisator Torsten Weber laufen die Anmeldungen gut, noch ist aber Platz für weitere Interessierte.
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GhostDoc 2.1.0 Released
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GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML
documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited
from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from
name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.
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Quick Facts- Support for VB.Net added
- Full support for events, including inherited documentation and user-defined custom rules.
- Download on the GhostDoc Website
- Users of earlier versions: Please read the ReadMe on upgrading!
About this Release
For Visual Basic developers, version 2.1 is what 2.0 should have been: VB.Net support has been added again. Even though I got help (huge thanks to Daniel Root for the translation of the demo project), I spent more time than I wanted on testing, debugging and deployment – in the end it’s a huge number of small things that add up.
C# developers who have to implement many interfaces with events (like I do) will enjoy the full support for events, as it includes a text generation rule for using inherited documentation (VB.Net developers benefit from this of course, too).
What’s New in GhostDoc 2.1.0:
- Added: Support for Visual Basic .NET has been added again (was disabled in version 2.0.0), but still is regarded as "experimental". The feature is turned off by default and you have to turn it on in the configuration dialog. Please see the docs for more information.
- Added: The setup for the demo project now contains a VB.Net version.
- Added: Full rule support for events (configurable default documentation, inherited documentation e.g. for interface implementations, and used-defined custom rules)
- Added: New macro
$(DeclaringTypeKind)that specifies the kind of type a member is defined in (i.e. class, struct or interface). - Changed: All occurrences of "class" in the default templates have been replaced by
$(DeclaringTypeKind). - Changed: As the next version of Visual Studio (codename "Orcas" ) will be named Visual Studio 2008, all texts have been updated accordingly.
- Fixed: Documentation of constructors of structs referring to the initialization of a "class" instance.
- Fixed: Problems with parameter names starting with an '@' (e.g. "@class").
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Visual Studio Add-ins at BASTA!
I’ve received an email that I was accepted as a speaker for the BASTA! conference in September in Mainz, Germany . The topic will be the development of add-ins for Visual Studio 2005.There’s a thing or two that I learned while working on GhostDoc that I’d like to share. My goal is to show both how easy it is to write and debug a simple add-in to be used just by yourself (and maybe your closest buddies), and what it takes to create a “production quality” add-in that runs on the various language versions of Windows and/or Visual Studio.
This will be my first “large” conference as a speaker and I’m sure it will be pretty exciting. Good thing that I’ll have a “warm-up phase” in the next months, speaking about Visual Studio extensibility in general at various .NET user groups (more on that soon).
Note to self: Things to avoid as a speaker