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Something I missed from reading Grigori’s blog post on the GAT/GAX release for VS2008…

 “…Guidance Automation Toolkit has the following improvements to the earlier release, the July 2007 Community Technology Preview“

 It’s gone to final release….so NO MORE excuses, i’m installing it on my system at work :-)

- Great work -

At some point during GAT action execution, one might need some sort of conditional processing. 

For instance, depending on some choices made during the gathering wizard, some actions won’t be executed.

In the example I’ll be using, the user is prompted to fill in two messages.  Next to these, two checkboxes will indicate if the corresponding message will be displayed (not much of a show-stopper there…;-)).

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During the Web Service Factory Workshop last week we saw a new feature in the GAT / GAX July 2007 release…registering your GAT package in the Experimental hive.

To accomplish this you simply need to add the <RegistrationSettings> element to your guidance configuration file:

That’s it.  Next time your perform a ‘Register Guidance Package’ action, the package will be registered into the hive.

Notice: 

1. It think this even works with the Clarius SFT, which overrides the ‘Regular’ or ‘Regular & Hive’ options.
2. For those of us debugging the GAT packages using the ‘Debug | Start external program’ feature (as explained by Tom Hollander here), simply add the ‘/rootSuffix Exp’ value in the ‘Start Options | Command line arguments’ box.

I’ve just added the GAT /GAX Resource page. I’ll try to update this page during some time this week….

More info here