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New Sample Available: Two Applications Share a HostID Sample

I posted a new sample today which goes with my previous blog. This sample demonstrates many of the host Application, hostID, proxy and entry point combiniations outlined in the Application, HostID, Proxy, and EntryPoint Associations blog. If there is...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 11-18-2008

Filed under: vsta, HostID

Application, HostID, Proxy, and EntryPoint Associations

There are a variety of configurations possible between host applications, hostID's, proxies, and entry points. Which configuration to use is a design decision which requires careful consideration, especially if you are deploying multiple applications...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 11-17-2008

Filed under: vsta, HostID, ProjectTemplatesLocation

Monitoring and Controlling the IDE- Catching the File.Exit and other events

You may wish to monitor a user’s actions in the IDE and respond to or cancel them. I found a great article and sample which shows how to catch any and all events. One common request that this could be used to address is responding to the user exiting...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 11-13-2008

Filed under: vsta, VSTA.exe, File.Exit, IDE

Error when running setup- VSTAVersion

There is a somewhat confusing error that appears when running setup, if the registry entry VSTAVersion = 9.0 is not present. The error states “Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.” To correct this add the above...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 11-13-2008

Filed under: vsta, setup, error, Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application

Generics Part I: Generic Parameters of Intrinsic Types

With VSTA v 2 it is possible to use generic parameters of intrinsic types with minimal effort. The example below demonstrates this with a method added to the ShapeApp.Application class which accepts a List<string>. Steps: 1) Create the proxy file...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 10-24-2008

Filed under: vsta, ProxyGen, Proxy, Generics

After ~5 minutes of idle time debugging macro projects fails with an IPC Port error.

After ~5 minutes of idle time, VSTA macro projects are unable to debug and VSTA IDE displays a “Failed to write to an IPC Port: The pipe is being closed” or similar. Second attempt produces this error message “Requested Service not found”...

Posted to Gary Depue's VSTA Blog by Gary on 10-22-2008

Filed under: IPC Port, Debugger, InitializeLifetimeService

Host Attributes in the Proxy File

In the proxy file, all types and non-static members in non-classEntryPoint types are marked with a host attribute. The host attributes HostTypeAttribute and HostMemberAttribute are used to reconcile name changes. When there is no name change the attribute...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 10-17-2008

Filed under: vsta, Proxy, Host Attribute

VSTA Documentation on MSDN

The MSDN site now includes documentation for VSTA v 2.0 . The documentation available through the MSDN site is an updated version of the documentation included with the SDK. Updates in the on-line documentation include sections on how to properly expose...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 10-10-2008

Filed under: vsta, MSDN, help

Updated EventSample with EntryPoint Generic Event Handling

There is a new sample up demonstrating generic event handling in entry point classes. Click here to download EventSample VB v2.1 – Exposing Generic Events in Entry Point Classes Excerpt from EventSample VB v2.1 EventHandlerT in EntryPoint Classes...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 10-08-2008

Filed under: vsta, event handling, EventHandling, Generics, EventHandler<T>

Tools to Automate VSTA 2 Integrations: AutoProxyGen and Templates

We have new downloads up including templates and a new tool AutoProxyGen which automates ProxyGen and can be used in build events. AutoProxyGen : This tool automates the process of using ProxyGen and can be used as a build event. AutoProxyGen includes...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 10-01-2008

Filed under: vsta, addin, ProxyGen, AutoProxyGen

Sample: Watchdog to terminate orphaned VSTA process

This is an IPH sample , IPHTerminateOrphanedVSTA. It uses a global mutext to start one, and only one, simple observer thread. The observer thread continues to execute while the vsta process is alive, whether or not a project is open.. The observer thread...

Posted to Gary Depue's VSTA Blog by Gary on 09-26-2008

Visit Summit at PDC 2008 Booth #518

Summit Software is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at PDC2008. We invite you to visit us during your visit there and learn about VSTA 2.0 and how integration of VSTA 2.0 with your application can lead to competitive advantage. Our team...

Posted to Dave's Blog by dschneid on 09-17-2008

Filed under: VSTA 2.0, PDC2008

Solidworks 2009 Shipping with VSTA

Solidworks Corporation has integrated Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) into its Solidworks 2009 product line as a significant enhancement to the Solidworks API. Solidworks is a 3D mechanical CAD product used by product designers and...

Posted to Dave's Blog by dschneid on 09-12-2008

Filed under: VSTA

New EventSample for VSTA v 2 (VB.Net)

Click here to download EventSample VB v 2.0 for VSTA v 2 Overview: This sample is intended to expose several common tasks in VSTA, including: declaring an object, using and manipulating a form, and handling form events and event args. This sample contains...

Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog by Melody on 09-02-2008

VSTA 2.0 RTM now available

I am pleased to announce the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) 2.0. The VSTA 2.0 RTM bits are available from the following location: http://www.summsoft.com/VSTAInfReq.aspx If you have an account with...

Posted to Dave's Blog by dschneid on 08-27-2008

Filed under: VSTA 2.0 RTM

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