Could Visual Studio Shell be an IDE for FIVEWIN?

Otto · Post by **Otto** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:26 pm

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/

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:47 pm

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 · Post by **Otto** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:50 pm

I think the downloads are working.
Regards,
Otto

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:54 pm

It seems as it is already available :-)

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:11 pm

Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0:

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:30 pm

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:40 pm

http://msdn.com/vsx

Rick Lipkin · Post by **Rick Lipkin** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:22 pm

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:29 pm

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 · Post by **Armando** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:53 pm

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:56 pm

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 :-)

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:00 pm

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:23 am

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:

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:51 am

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

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:14 am

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