Once we have the guidance package and the DSL package living on the same visual studio hive one thing that we will need for sure is the ability to launch recipes from the DSL designer.
For that we need to find out the command bar GUID of the DSL designer.
Steps:
- Open the DSL solution
- Open the Constants.cs file located under the DslPackage.csproj
- Look for:
internal static partial class Constants
{
// Menu identifier
public const string Language1CommandSetId = "a00ac613-8df8-4537-b7c7-89d31a44651c";
}
- Update the HostData section of the recipe manifest
<
HostData
>
<
CommandBar
Guid
="a00ac613-8df8-4537-b7c7-89d31a44651c"ID="65536"/>
</
HostData
>
Notice that the ID for the DSL RTM version will always be 65536.
Pablo
A guidance package and a DSL package are registered by default in different visual studio hives. A guidance package lives on the main hive and a DSL package lives on the Experimental one.
So the first thing that we need to do is migrate one of the packages so the live on the same hive.
I am going to migrate the DSL package to the main hive, the procedure is very simple:
A DSL solution consists of 2 projects, the Dsl.csproj and DslPackage.csproj and we need to edit both:
Dsl.csproj:
Change the line:
<PropertyGroup>
<StartProgram>$(DevEnvDir)\devenv.exe</StartProgram>
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartArguments>/rootsuffix Exp /DesignTimeRun "..\..\..\Debugging\Debugging.sln"</StartArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
To
<PropertyGroup>
<StartProgram>$(DevEnvDir)\devenv.exe</StartProgram>
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartArguments>/DesignTimeRun "..\..\..\Debugging\Debugging.sln"</StartArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
DslPackage.csproj:
Change the line:
<PropertyGroup>
<StartProgram>$(DevEnvDir)\devenv.exe</StartProgram>
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartArguments>/rootsuffix Exp /DesignTimeRun "..\..\..\Debugging\Debugging.sln"</StartArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
To
<PropertyGroup>
<StartProgram>$(DevEnvDir)\devenv.exe</StartProgram>
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartArguments>/DesignTimeRun "..\..\..\Debugging\Debugging.sln"</StartArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
And
<TargetRegistryRoot>Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0Exp</TargetRegistryRoot>
To
<TargetRegistryRoot>Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0</TargetRegistryRoot>
After this changes the guidance package and the DSL will live in the same visual studio hive, which means that one is going to be "visible" by the other and viceversa.
Pablo
