March 2008 - Gary Depue's VSTA Blog

Gary Depue's VSTA Blog

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VSTO/VSTA Power Tools v1.0

Andrew Whitechapel announces VSTO/VSTA Power Tools for developers working with VSTA which includes the Pipeline Verifier. VSTO/VSTA Pipeline Verifier A GUI tool that reflects over custom pipeline assemblies to validate the complete VSTA pipeline. Standalone...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 10:02 AM by Gary
ISV's proxy assemblies and references to proxy assemblies in add-in project templates and projects require unique version information

Description of the problem: On a machine with VSTA v1 and VSTA v2 installed, compile the v2 ShapeAppCSharpAppAddIn project in the basic shapes sample. You'll get this error: Error 1 The type or namespace name 'ApplicationEntryPoint' does not exist in...

Published Thu, Mar 13 2008 6:29 PM by Gary
InvalidOperationException: Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'ShapeAppForm' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.

I created this macro in SDK sample Shapeappmacrorecordingcsharp and built it: public void Macro3() { this.Visible = false;//<=set break point here this.Visible = true; } 1 Launch the IDE (out of process) from ShapeApp 2 Set breakpoint at this.Visible...

Published Fri, Mar 07 2008 10:17 AM by Gary

Filed under: VSTA 2.0, Out of process debugger, thread safe, cross-thread operation