I'm trying to create a Visual Studio extension that works alongside the Sequence Diagram Designer, and I'd like to be able to register for an event that will notify me whenever the selection changes on the diagram. The IMonitorSelectionService interface appears to offer such an event, but I don't know how to get an instance of this service from a VSPackage.
What do I need to do in order to get an instance of this service, or is there some other more easily accessible event that I could use instead?
You should be able to do the following:
IMonitorSelectionService monitorSelectionService = ((IServiceProvider)store).GetService(typeof(IMonitorSelectionService)) as IMonitorSelectionService;
Where store is the Store of the diagram you're interested in.
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I need my Visual Studio extension to react to debugging events. I've registered a IDebugEventCallback2 and I'm receiving events, but all I get for each event is an opaque IDebugEvent2 and a Guid, many of which are not only undocumented but don't appear anywhere on the web (or in my registry).
My specific requirement at the moment is to know when the process is Continued - ie. the user has hit Continue, Run to cursor, etc. What Guid should I be looking for?
Or is there some other event family that I should be subscribing to?
(More generally, is there some way I'm missing to find out about the events that are delivered to my IDebugEventCallback2::Event callback, when many of them don't appear in MSDN or anywhere else? Thanks!)
There is no easy way to do this. Actions such as Continue and Run to cursor are abstractions implemented by Visual Studio and do not correspond to any unique event(s) with respect to the debug engine. The debug engine event reporting interface IDebugEventCallback2 will enable you to get notified only on fine-grained events such as when creating a breakpoint or reaching a breakpoint.
While Visual Studio enables you to perform actions such as Continue and Run to cursor programmatically, it does not provide a direct way to get notified when they are taken.
You can use EnvDTE.DebuggerEvents.OnXxx events to get notified when something is about to happen. In particular, the OnEnterBreakMode event enables you to intercept a breakpoint hit and possibly take an action. You can also inspect all the details of the reached breakpoint(s) using the current EnvDTE.Debugger inside the event handler.
Now with some effort, you can use these constructs to implement events that correspond to all Visual Studio debugging actions including Continue and Run to cursor accurately. If you require additional events not provided by EnvDTE.DebuggerEvents (such as when a breakpoint is inserted), you have no choice but use IDebugEventCallback2.Event. In this case if you have specific events in mind, please mention them explicitly and I might be able to tell you the corresponding IDebugEventCallback2.Event GUIDs.
You probably got off on the wrong foot here, the IDebugXxx interfaces were really intended to create your own debugging engine. Still useful perhaps to see what is going on in the existing engine, you are suppose to use QueryInterface() to discover the specific interface that matches the event. Like IDebugEngineCreateEvent2, IDebugProcessCreateEvent2, IDebugProcessDestroyEvent2, etcetera. There are a bunch of them, they are listed in the VSSDK\VisualStudioIntegration\Common\Inc\msdbg.h header and include their IID.
Best thing to do is peek at this sample, it shows how to crack the event notification into the specific interfaces. The AD7Events.cs source file shows the wrappers. Do keep in mind that this sample was made to show how to create an engine, not how to use the one already built into VS.
But yes, you are not going to get a "continue debug" event out of this. A debugging engine does not need that event since it is already responsible for taking care of that by itself. It already knows when it calls IDebugProgram3::Continue().
Surely what you are looking for is IVsDebugger.AdviseDebuggerEvents(). That's the one that tells you what the built-in debugger is doing. You need to pass an object of a class that implements IVsDebuggerEvents, your OnModeChanged() method will be called with a DBGMODE notification. I don't see a lot of fantastic examples that demonstrate usage, this web page might be helpful.
I want to programmatically set association data for three-state workflow instance.
I want to do this using a feature receiver (on activate), using C# code through visual studio.
Is this possible ? Any code sample ?
I've just built an MS Outlook Add In using Visual Studio and Office 2010. I've installed it ok on 4 machines, but one user is getting the following error -
Error found in Custom UI XML of "...."
...
...
Failed to find Office control by ID
Everyone is running Windows 7 and Outlook 2010 - not sure why this person is having a problem. Can anyone suggest how to diagnose this?
For those having similar issues, you don't have to remove any add-in.
What is happening is: Outlook will try to load all ribbons (found in your ribbon xml) into any window the user goes to. Then it'll complain about not finding ID x or y.
Just make sure your GetCustomUI method in Ribbon.cs does not load the entire ribbon XML at once but rather loads it per fragment.
If you're not sure what IDs you need to target, use a breakpoint in GetCustomUI then start Outlook, surf different views (main, new email, new appointment, calendar...etc) in order to gather the IDs for the views wherein you need to show you add-in.
In my case, I needed Microsoft.Outlook.Explorer, Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Compose and Microsoft.Outlook.Appointment.
Therefore I changed my GetCustomUI to:
public string GetCustomUI(string ribbonID)
{
switch (ribbonID)
{
case "Microsoft.Outlook.Explorer":
return GetResourceText("MyAddin.RibbonsForOutlookExplorer.xml");
case "Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Compose":
return GetResourceText("MyAddin.RibbonForOutlookMailCompose.xml");
case "Microsoft.Outlook.Appointment":
return GetResourceText("MyAddin.RibbonForOutlookAppointment.xml");
default:
return null;
}
}
Of course, I had to break down my Ribbon.xml into the three XML files mentioned above. The result: Outlook will ONLY load the fragment needed for a given screen (appointment, new email ...) and will not complain about "not finding an ID on screen X or Y".
Finally, for those who are not sure why some users get that error while others don't: it's because of "Show add-in user interface errors" option (in Options -> Advanced). If that is unchecked then Outlook will ignore the malformed ribbon XML errors. If it checked, users will get related errors about your add-in (if any exists) and also about other add-ins.
If it works for everyone except one user. As #Brijesh Mishra mentioned check if the user has got any other addin and if he is having own quick access tool bar customized.
If he has got any of this then, remove the other addins and try to install or reset the quick access tool bar customization.
For all of you that use a Designer-based VSTO plugin, and not the XML solution.
I searched all the web for this problem, but only found XML-based solutions.
There's nothing for Visual Designer on the web, because in this case you don't have to override the "GetCustomUI" method.
Ribbons designed by using the Visual Designer return a RibbonManager by default.
This RibbonManager object represents all Ribbon (Visual Designer) items in the project and is automatically handled in background through the active window inspector.
So you don't have to write any special code to handle different windows.
To configure it correctly you just have to:
Add one extra Visual Designer Ribbon for every window the user goes to
in the Ribbon Object go under "RibbonType", open the checkbox list an only activate the corresponding window, where the ribbon should appear.
If there is more than one window checked in the list, Outlook trys to insert the ribbon in all the marked windows. Even if the corresponding window is currently not opened. That's the reason, why the error "Failed to find control ID" appears.
the actual fix for me was to separate the ribbon XML files containing the customUI and redirecting to the correct one in the GetCustomUI method (implemented using Office.IRibbonExtensibility)
in example:
public string GetCustomUI(string RibbonID)
{
switch (RibbonID)
{
case "Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Read":
return GetResourceText("namespace.type1.xml");
case "Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Compose":
return GetResourceText("namespace.type2.xml");
default:
return null;
}
}
I'm in VS2010, in a new Word Add-In project. This is my first attempt at Word development using VSTO. The example I'm trying has this line:
Document vstoDoc = Globals.Factory.GetVstoObject(this.Application.ActiveDocument);
But when I add this line Visual Studio says it can't find "Factory". Indeed, it's not in Intellisense.
I've got references to:
Accessibility
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v9.0
Microsoft.Office.Tools.v9.0
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v9.0
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.v9.0
Office
and all the usual System references.
Where am I going wrong and why can't I get to "Factory"?
stdole
That example looks a bit weird to me. Never seen that sort of reference before.
Generally, with Vsto, you hook into EVENTS on, say, the main Word App object.
Then, from within the event, you usually are passed a reference to the particular DOC object that the event is occurring for (say, being opened or saved, etc). In that way, there shouldn't be any need for using the "globals" object or the "factory" object, whereever they might be.
What method is that code in? A little more context might help.
I think the recommended way of doing this is:
Globals.ThisAddin.Application.ActiveDocument
I'm facing some troubles still while learning, so I guess it tends to get worse once I play with the big kids: warnings in dynamics aren't as precise and informative as VS's, there are no mouse-over tips, and exceptions to show me exactly where I've got it wrong.
I'm just too used to Visual Studio, it's intellisense and all the tools (dynamics is quite new when compared to Visual Studio)
More than solving simple code issues, i'd like to learn how to solve upcomming ones i might have in code not written by me or anything else i'd solve in 3 minutes in Visual Studio, as well as tips on how to survive in dynamics ax without all the Visual Studio tools.
The code editor in Dynamics AX has some intellisense, typing the name of a table or class variable followed by . or :: will give you a list of fields or methods available for that item. After you type the ( to start a method call, a tooltip pops up with parameters available on that method. When starting a new line, you can right click and List Tables, List Classes, List Types, etc. Most of those commands are also available via Shortcut Keys. Note that the intellisense only works if all the code in the method up to the location of your cursor is syntactically correct.
Make sure you have updated the cross reference in your development environment (Tools/Development tools/Cross-reference/Periodic/Update). With an updated cross reference, you can right click an any table, field, class, method, extended data type, or enum in the AOT and choose Add-Ins/Cross-reference/Used by to see where that item is used in the system.
You can also use Tools/Development tools/Code explorer to view the source to the application with all types, variables, and methods turned into hyperlinks so you can click to go right to the definition of that item.
Another useful tool is Application hierarchy tree, available either under Tools/Development tools, or on the right click Add-Ins menu. This will show you the class hierarchy, so you can easily see, for example, that SalesFormLetter derives from FormLetter, which derives from RunBaseBatch.
In the editor, you can highlight text and right click to Lookup Properties/Methods or Lookup Definition.
If you are trying to track down where in the system a particular infolog message is generated there are two strategies to use:
Set a breakpoint on the first line
of the method Info.add(). Then when
you run the code generating the
message, you will pop into the
debugger as soon as the infolog is
generated. You can then look at the stack
trace in the debugger to see where the code is that
generated the message.
Run Tools/Development
tools/Label/Label editor and search
for the text of the message. Select
the Label ID of the message, then
click Used by to see where that
message is used in the system.
There is also http://www.axassist.com/ which extends intellisense and many other extensions
What these guys said already is very interesting and helpful.
I'd like to add that within AX in real life you are probably working with multiple contexts. e.g. Code running in the client, code running in server, code running in p-code and in IL, COM integrations, Enterprise portal and so on.
My point is, if you want to figure something out through debugging, you must first understand where the code(s) you'd like to debug is running.
Knowing that is important because you might have to allow debugging or give permissions in multiple places.
Examples:
Windows AD debugging users (add yourself)
Allow debugging on client
Allow it on server
Disable IL if you want to use MorphX, otherwise attach the process in VS.
Allow World Wide Web Publishing Service to interact with desktop for EP.
One last thing, you are starting to work with ax right now, perhaps you will need to work with AX7(Dynamics 365 for Operations). This version of the system works only with visual studio. It is still x++, but you have a lot of the things VS provides you.
Take a look on EditorScripts Class,On AX Editor you can use it by right click and choose "Scripts". It is a kind of intellisense that can make by your self, for example: here is my in-line comment whenever I type "mycom" and press "tab"
public void template_flow_mycom(Editor editor)
{
xppSource xppSource = new xppSource(editor.columnNo());
int currentline = editor.currentLineNo();
int currentcol = editor.columnNo();
Source template = "//Partner comment "+date2str(today(),123,2,1,3,1,4, DateFlags::FormatAll )+" at "+time2str(timenow(), 1, 1)+" by MAX - Begin\n";
template+=strRep(" ", currentcol)+ "\n";
template+=strRep(" ", currentcol)+ "//Partner comment "+date2str(today(),123,2,1,3,1,4, DateFlags::FormatAll )+" at "+time2str(timenow(), 1, 1)+" by MAX - End\n";
editor.insertLines(template);
//move cursor to the empty line between the comments
editor.gotoLine(currentline+2);
editor.gotoCol(currentcol+4);
}