Could Visual Studio Shell be an IDE for FIVEWIN?

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:57 am

Ok, I answered in the MS forums and posted some screenshots showing the bug (?).

We need to find a solution for this issue or this Visual Studio Extended has no meaning for us, as we don't need a source code editor only. We need an integrated resources editor (not an external one), plus a project manager and a source code editor.

These two last capabilities are already available in UEStudio and work excellent!

Otto · Post by **Otto** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:41 pm

Hello Antonio,

as you can see on the screen capture res-files are working ok.

My problem is/was how to provide in shell isolated development environment the VS own resource editor for editing the resources (.RC or .res).
And this answer is in this
How to: Register Editor File Types article:

The easiest way to register editor file types is by using the registration attributes provided as a part of the Visual Studio SDK managed package framework (MPF) classes. For an example of how to do this, see the Managed Basic Editor Sample (C#) sample. If you are implementing your package in native Visual C++, you can also write a registry script that registers your editor and the associated extensions. For an example, see the Basic Edit Sample sample.

Regards,
Otto

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:44 pm

Otto,

RES files are working fine by default :-)

Thanks for pointing this!

RC files are not supported (yet?). So we need to create RES files and use them with VSX.

So actually we have a new free resources editor! :-)

Rick Lipkin · Post by **Rick Lipkin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:23 pm

Antonio

I guess being a compiled .res there is no need to worry about .rc formatting ..

I use rc2dll32.bat to create my forms .dll .. I guess I could just as well burn the .res into my executable .. however I prefer .dll

Any thoughts on that ??

Rick Lipkin

Gale FORd · Post by **Gale FORd** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:30 pm

If you look at your rc2dll.bat file, I think you can comment out the command line to compile the .rc file.
It is the one right before the ilink32 command.

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:47 pm

Rick,

DLLs with embedded resources are working fine! :-)

They are properly edited, modified and saved!

It seems that Santa listened ;-)

Rick Lipkin · Post by **Rick Lipkin** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:29 am

Antonio

I will have to try one more time to load the shell .. I was kinda 'bummed' out reading the thread .. but have re-newed my interest.

Have the day off tomorrow for new years .. I will take a shot at it ..

Thanks
Rick