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Web Service Factory Workshop – Loved it
Apparently not a lot of people were up to date with the Web Service Factory Workshop which was held at Info Support last week (see Olaf’s post here). Don and Olaf did a terrific job at explaining the ins and outs. Which reminds me, we still need you buy you real (Belgian) beer = topic 11 
To our surprise we were sitting next to the cream-de-la-cream of the Dutch Software Factory community!
Another surprise was the openness of the different participants about there products, ideas, etc..one thing’s for sure, we need to do some catching up here (= Belgium).
BTW…the Belgium user-group “Visug” is planning a redelivery of some the tech-ed sessions next Thursday, including the Web Service Factory : Modeling Edition…
How to keep intellisense during GAT config editing
Problem:
I use (need 
) intellisense when editing GAT config files. However, it stops working when it can’t resolve a type.
e.g. Intellisense breaks after including TypeAlias.xml, it can resolve “<xi:include …>”
| <Recipe Name=”GenerateRepeatingClassT4″ Bound=”false”> <xi:include href=”TypeAlias.xml” xmlns:xi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude” /> |
Solution:
Add the “xi:include” element to different complex types defined in the “http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-core” namespace.
1. Edit the GuidancePackageConfig.xml, located at: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8XmlSchemas
Note: If the xml file is missing, do a search for it and copy the file into this directory to achieve intellisense.
2. Add xmlns:xi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude”, resulting in the following heading.
| <xs:schema attributeFormDefault=”unqualified” elementFormDefault=”qualified” xmlns:xi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude” xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-core” xmlns:gax=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-core” version=”1.0″ targetNamespace=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-core”> |
3. Find the “Recipe” element, add the following element “<xs:element ref=”xi:include” minOccurs=”0″></xs:element>”
| <xs:element name=”Recipe”> <xs:annotation> <xs:documentation> Defines a recipe. </xs:documentation> </xs:annotation> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref=”xi:include” minOccurs=”0″></xs:element> <xs:element name=”DocumentationLinks” minOccurs=”0″> <xs:annotation> <xs:documentation> A list of documentation links to be displayed by the Guidance Navigator window as part of the information for a given recipe. </xs:documentation> </xs:annotation> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref=”Link” maxOccurs=”unbounded” minOccurs=”0″ /> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> |
Use the same approach (step 3) when you encounter other “failing” xi:include references.
Macros – Visual Studio 2003
Been going through my existing VS.NET 2003 macros the other day… Close all active documents:
Good ‘ol macros
Been going through my existing VS.NET 2003 macros the other day…
Close all active documents:
Sub CloseAllDocuments()
Try
If DTE.ActiveDocument.Collection.Count > 0 Then
DTE.ActiveDocument.Collection.CloseAll()
End If
Catch
‘Lazy catch, we do nothing
End Try
End Sub
Or just use “>Edit.CloseAll” in the immediate window.
To collapse all projects in the solution explorer:
Sub CollapseAll()
Dim UIHSolutionExplorer As UIHierarchy
UIHSolutionExplorer = DTE.Windows.Item( _
Constants.vsext_wk_SProjectWindow).Object() If (UIHSolutionExplorer.UIHierarchyItems.Count = 0) Then
MsgBox(“Nothing to collapse. You must have an open solution.”)
Return
End If
Dim UIHSolutionRootNode As UIHierarchyItem
UIHSolutionRootNode = UIHSolutionExplorer.UIHierarchyItems.Item(1)
Dim UIHItem As UIHierarchyItem
For Each UIHItem In UIHSolutionRootNode.UIHierarchyItems
UIHItem.UIHierarchyItems.Expanded = False
Next
UIHSolutionRootNode.Select(vsUISelectionType.vsUISelectionTypeSelect)
End Sub
