Could Visual Studio Shell be an IDE for FIVEWIN?

[Otto]

Visual Studio Shell provides a core IDE for users to develop their own custom programming language or development tools, so "it doesn't provide languages or compilers, or a lot of the content of Visual Studio," Crim said. It will be available in two modes, integrated and isolated.

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/06/0 ... l_eclipse/

[Antonio Linares]

Otto,

It sounds very interesting. Thanks for the info.

Now we just need to know when it will be available to start reviewing its SDK.

[Otto]

I think the downloads are working.
Regards,
Otto

[Antonio Linares]

It seems as it is already available

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/es-es/vstudio/bb510103(en-us).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/

[Antonio Linares]

Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[Antonio Linares]

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=ea9 ... ac0731b8a8

[Antonio Linares]

http://msdn.com/vsx

[Rick Lipkin]

Very interesting .. just curious what the Windows forms designer does .. someone will have to load it up and let us know .. Can it create .rc files ??

Rick Lipkin

[Antonio Linares]

Rick,

I have just downloaded the "Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0" but it refuses to install unless I have Visual Studio 2008 installed (don't know what exact version needs to be installed).

So I have downloaded the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) Redistributable Package" and actually I am installing it to see if those two tools are enough to start testing it

[Armando]

Antonio:

Perhaps this can help you

Get Started
The Visual Studio 2008 Shell Preview is now available. To begin developing and testing your own Shell instance, download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the Visual Studio 2008 SDK August 2007 CTP. The SDK contains everything you need to build packages for the Visual Studio Shell, as well as basic documentation to help you get started. For more information on features, customization points, and how-to resources, read the Shell details page.

Regards

[Antonio Linares]

Armando,

Thanks, but those betas are already finished.

It was enough to install the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) Redistributable Package" and now the "Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0" is properly installing.

Lets see if I can post some screenshots

[Antonio Linares]

Could someone download and install "Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) Redistributable Package" from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

I have tried it in Vista and in XP and in both I get an "Invalid licence data" when I try to finally run it. Don't know how to get rid of this error...

Already tried http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/ ... 92765.aspx
without luck

[Antonio Linares]

I have not been able to solve the "Invalid licence data" error yet, but I implemented a little "hack" using this FiveWin code:

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#include "FiveWin.ch"

function Main()

   local hWnd := FindWindow( 0, "Microsoft Visual Studio" )
   
   DEFINE WINDOW oWnd

   EnableWindow( SetParent( hWnd, oWnd:hWnd ), .T. )
   
   EnableWindow( FindWindow( 0, "Start Page - Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator)" ), .T. )
     
   ACTIVATE WINDOW oWnd

return nil


So I have been able to bypass the error and start using the free distributable IDE. Here are the first screenshots of the resources editor:

[Antonio Linares]

With this little FWH app, the "license" error is totally bypassed. Hopefully we can find a better solution

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#include "FiveWin.ch"

#define GW_CHILD        5
#define GW_HWNDNEXT     2

function Main()

   local hWnd1 := FindWindow( 0, "Microsoft Visual Studio" ), hWnd2, hCtrl
   
   DEFINE WINDOW oWnd

   EnableWindow( SetParent( hWnd1, oWnd:hWnd ), .T. )
   
   EnableWindow( hWnd2 := FindWindow( 0, "Start Page - Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator)" ), .T. )
   
   hCtrl := GetWindow( hWnd2, GW_CHILD )
   while hCtrl != 0
      EnableWindow( hCtrl, .T. )
      hCtrl = GetWindow( hCtrl, GW_HWNDNEXT   )
   end   
     
   ACTIVATE WINDOW oWnd

return nil


[Antonio Linares]

It seems as RC, RES and RCT (this one looks like an extended RES) are supported: