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VS Blog Reader Sample, IL Projects, and a New Book

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It has taken me a while, but I finally uploaded the VSBlogger Add-in to a GotDotNet workspace. You can find it under the name VSBlogger. There are a couple known bugs, mainly that it saves its data files to the “C:\msblogger.dat” root directory rather than you’re profile data area. Second, it does not work against all blog servers, I tested it against a few servers other than the one we use at blogs.msdn.com, but I am not sure it will work on all of them. The sources are provided, and you are welcome to try it out, make fixes, add features, etc. Just remember that what is there started out as a demo, so not everything will work perfectly right now and it does not have all the features that other blog editors may have.

 

[Edit: 6/14, 3:57PM] Here is a direct link to the workspace: https://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vsblogger

 

 

I spent my free time over the past week converting my package for managing IL projects in VS from C++ to C#. It was not as easy converting this code base to C# as it was converting the IL text editor to C# from C++. The project has much more code in it than the language service has, so the amount of code to convert slowed me down. I also made a number of substantial changes to how the code worked that took a lot of time. For instance, I would keep the list of items in a project in a linked list in the C++ version. While you can create a linked list in C#, using generics would be much cleaner so I had to convert everything. The only real problem I have left is getting my property pages to appear, but I cannot get VS to look for my ISpecifyPropertyPages code. That will be my work item tonight.

 

 

While I am on the topic, Marc, Brian and I met today to discuss the second edition of our book. While we have not received final approval yet, it has more or less received the thumbs-up. So I guess this is the first public notice that we are working on the next version. We think this one will have more for different people, we plan on adding chapters for the Team System, as well as three chapters about VSIP (getting started, creating language services, and creating projects), as well as rewrites of some of the old chapters to refresh them and bring them up-to-date with VS 2005. There is no ETA yet on when it will be published, that is still being worked out. Also, the list of new chapters may change, but we think these will be added. Let us know if you have anything you would like to see, maybe there was something that we missed the last time, or maybe we went spent too many pages talking about something that could have been devoted to some other topic.

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  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2004
    Will we have any opportunity to see the managed language service soon? It would be very interesting to take a look on C# implementation of ILanguageServices... BTW. Are there any helper classes in VSIP to do this, like Package class?
  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2004
    I plan on donating the code to the packages to the VSIP SDK, but we are not sure when. I have also been thinking about putting some (if not all) of the code out there before we ship the book so that we can get some feedback. We are not sure when this will happen, but I will write about it if/when it happens.

    I am not too involved in the VSIP SDK (yet - changes to happen in the future), but I know they are adding some of this type of thing. I am not sure how much they have added.
  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2004
    I have read your previous Inside VS.NET 2003 book. I would love to see "a lot" more information on creating custom projects with VS.NET 2005. I have looked into using VSIP2003 (with the PIA), however, I would like to avoid using C++ all together. My understanding is that I can do this in VS2005.

    I have a really cool build process for creating SQL databases from .sql files. I would love to create this as a full-fledged VS project and let is play a part of the build process of a solution...not to mention leverage all the built-in editors that VS provides.

    Looking forward to the new book!
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