I am making changes to a Visual Studio wizard that creates a project from a template, and needs to add a reference to an assembly to the project that also lives in the extension directory. So I need to set the <hintpath>.
I have not been able to figure out how a running VS extension can discover its extension directory, which is a directory name like this:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\myCompany\myExtension
Using System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase yields:
"C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\myCompany.myExtension\v4.0_1.0.0.0__936015a19c3638eb\myCompany.myExtension.dll"
Unfortunately, not helpful. Using GetCallingAssembly() is no better--it points at another directory in the MSIL_GAC.
Is there a Visual Studio interface that returns this information? I haven't been able to find it.
If that's not possible, is it at least possible to determine if the extension is running in the experimental instance vs. non-experimental? I could use that information to locate the extension directory.
Maybe look at IInstalledExtension.InstallPath. You can get an IInstalledExtension via an IVsExtensionManager.
Unfortunately, the message in the remarks suggests this is not the right way to do things:
Although this API supports the Extension Manager infrastructure, we recommend that you do not use it because it is subject to change.
EDIT: Here's the code:
static IVsExtensionManager GetExtensionManager()
{
return myPackage.GetService(System.typeof(IVsExtensionManager)) as IVsExtensionManager;
}
static IInstalledExtension GetExtension(string identifier)
{
return GetExtensionManager().GetInstalledExtension(identifier);
}
static string GetExtensionDirectory(string identifier)
{
return GetExtension(identifier).InstallPath;
}
The string identifier is whatever you put in the "ID" field of your extension's source.extension.vsixmanifest file. It defaults to the package GUID.
Sorry for digging up an old answered question...
I was looking into a similar problem, and have implemented the Extension Manager, but decided this is just pretty awful, though if you do want to do use it these links will also help:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/24294185
http://blog.ninlabs.com/2011/04/auto-update-visual-studio-extensions/
However, I decided to look into how the CodeGenerator in Asp.Net.Scaffolding accessed template files. Turns out, very easily...
var path = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(GetType().Assembly.Location), "MyPath");
Simples
Related
I'm using visual studio to create a game using the SDL library. I've also created my own static library that my game relies on. (It's the basic engine that sets up sdl, maps, ect.). Now when I include one of the files from my custom library, I have to type it like this:
#include <SDL_Game_Engine/Files/whatever.h>
Obviously that can be a bit tedious in typing all that.
So what I'm wondering is if there's a way in properties that will allow me to type
#include <Engine/whatever.h>
(Basically take the whole path to the file and make a shortcut for it).
I know it's a long shot but it would be awesome if there is a way. I don't like to have my include directory to include up to the files directory that way I know that the file I'm using is in my SDL_Game_Engine library. Is this even possible (with my luck there's no way lol) but any suggestions would be awesome. Thanks guys!
PS. Using Visual Studio 2015
Not sure what the SDL library is but..perhaps you can place things in an app.config and then assign a variables to your path;
String filePath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["YourFilePathKeyInAppConfig"];
then use it in code:
someGameVarFile = filePath; //psuedo code
Is it possible to relate/link to other project files within the comments of the source code (C# in this case) in Visual Studio?
I've found you can use file:// hyperlinks, but those need an absolute path (plus they won't open in the code editor)... there's also <see cref>, which works with R#, but that relates to a symbol that must be referenced by the current project, so that doesn't work in my case.
For my specific case, I'd like to somehow relate Entity Framework's entity POCOs to their mapping configuration class (which resides in other project file which is not referenced by the project where the POCOs are defined).
Absolute paths won't work since this project is being worked on several computers with different absolute paths.
There's also HyperAddin but doesn't seem to have been updated since VS 2008, I'm using 2015.
Any ideas, or add-ins you might have used?
You can automate it with Visual Commander. The simplest command (C#) that requires you to select the relative configuration class file path in the editor (like Project1\config.xml) before calling it:
EnvDTE.TextSelection ts = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection as EnvDTE.TextSelection;
string relativePath = ts.Text;
string absolutePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(DTE.Solution.FileName), relativePath);
DTE.ItemOperations.OpenFile(absolutePath, null);
We are trying to translate a whole Javascript project into Typescript. In this project we use a variable called Storage, which is a keyword/protected word in Typescript.
This variable is used a lot, and it's a bit tricky to change it, so I'd prefer to change the Storage in the definition file lib.d.ts. But I'm not able to tell Visual Studio to use this new version of lib.d.ts, it always throws an error at compilation, even if the Intelli-sense is working correctly.
Is there a configuration thing I can change somewhere ?
Thanks
The lib.d.ts file simply describes what will be available at runtime, in this case the DOM Storage interface.
Removing the clash in lib.d.ts won't remove any clashes at runtime.
One possible temporary fix is supplied by the fact that interfaces are open in TypeScript, which would allow you add to it, for example, you could include the following instead of changing lib.d.ts in order to get compilation...
interface Storage {
myCustomThing(a: string): number;
}
This will allow you to compile and get your code base into TypeScript, at which point you can use Visual Studio to refactor the name of your Storage variable to avoid the clash.
Here is a working version on the TypeScript Playground.
I doubt that it's possible to change it in Visual Studio. You may want to take a look at here:
http://typescript.codeplex.com/discussions/429115
I am trying to create empty solution file for Visual studio 2010 but I am unable to do so?
We used to create empty solution file for vs2008 by
EnvDTE::_SolutionPtr ptrSoln(_T("VisualStudio.Solution.9.0")); but I am unable to find equivalent for VS2010.
I was able to find how to create project but not Solutions?
I found the answer. Answer lies in previous question mentioned by me - How can I create new blank solution in vs 2008 programmatically?
I forgot to add reference to EnvDTE, EnvDTE80. EnvDTE90 and EnvDTE100 assembly. Also name of solution class is Solution4 instead of Solution3. So code snippet which works is:
string visualStudioProgID = "VisualStudio.Solution.10.0";
Type solutionObjectType = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID(visualStudioProgID, true);
object obj = System.Activator.CreateInstance(solutionObjectType, true);
Solution4 solutionObject = (Solution4)obj;
solutionObject.Create("C:/", "Test");
solutionObject.SaveAs(#"C:/Test.sln");
Not 100% sure what you're asking. If you just want an empty solution with some pre-created folders, which would be a file just named yourProject.sln, go to whatever primary language you have installed (C++ in my case), and make an empty project. This will give you an empty solution file, with just one folder, it would be named yourProject in my case above, and a few project files related to the language. If you want to add a new project to this solution, go to:
File->Add->New Project. Fill in the rest with whatever application type your project/program needs to be. This is how it's done in C++, I don't know how to do it in, say C#. However, you didn't specify a language... So I'm not sure where to go to help you, Visual Basic? C++?
In Visual Studio 2010, I want to create a project template that includes links to two files that should exist on the system. One of them is a common AssemblyInfo.cs file. Another is the strong name key file (*.snk).
I need these references to be relative, because each developer's workspace will be set up differently. Is it possible for the project template to somehow figure out where these files reside in each developer's environment?
From reading about templates, it sound like they're pretty static so I wonder if tricks can be done to do something like this. If nothing else, I can add bogus references that will cause compilation errors and force the developer to hook these files in. But if I can do it for them, that would be better.
You should set the CreateInPlace property to true in the vstemplate. The documentation says
Specifies whether to create the project and perform parameter replacement in the specified location, or perform parameter replacement in a temporary location and then save the project to the specified location.
If you want relative paths to work, you need the parameter replacement to occur in the place where you're creating the project, not in a temporary location.
Microsoft have confirmed that this is a bug with the extensibility model and project templates. I managed to get round this by using IWizard. I added the following code in the RunFinished method of my IWizard implementation:
//Get linked file directory
string coreDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(MyProject.FullName);
//Data folder
ProjectItem propertiesProjectItem = slSharedProject.ProjectItems.Cast<ProjectItem>().Where(p => p.Name == "Data").First();
propertiesProjectItem.ProjectItems.AddFromFile(coreDir + #"\Service\TheFileIWantToLink.cs");
This code links in a copy of TheFileIWantToLink.cs file to my shared Silverlight project (slSharedProject).
You could try to integrate a Wizard into your Project Template and set the Paths to the linked files. If i remember right you don't have to create an User Inteface; you only have to specify the correct replacements in the replacementsDictionary and VS will replace the values in your Template File. See this or this for further information.