February 2004 - Posts

Renaming Interop Functions
19 February 04 11:33 PM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

In a previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/allend/archive/2003/10/16/56791.aspx ) I ranted about a weird behavior in generating Interop Assemblies where case changes occured in function names. Well, it turns out that the TLB is the culprit. All methods Read More...

Filed under: Interop

Partner Summit Next Week
19 February 04 11:24 PM | AllenD | 2 Comments   

If you are coming to the VSIP Partner Summit next week, I'll be around so please stop by and say “Hi”. Several from the VSIP team will be on hand for the dinner after the first day of sessions so take advantage of that mixer to provide feedback Read More...

Filed under: VSIP

Localizing your VS package resources
18 February 04 09:33 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

I had this question come to my inbox today: Can someone confirm how to setup your VSIP Package for multiple languages? I did a little digging and realized that the docs are vague on exactly how this works. The EnvSDK samples show you what to do, but there's Read More...

Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

Getting to IServiceProvider services with VSIP Extras
16 February 04 05:02 PM | AllenD | 2 Comments   

If you have access to the underlying Package base class, it exposes a method to get services called GetService. You use it like so: IVsShell vsshell = (IVsShell) GetService(typeof(SVsShell)); vsshell can then be used to call methods it exposes (the IVsShell Read More...

Filed under: VSIP, Interop

Managed code and the IVsHierarchy interface in VS7.1 (Everett)
11 February 04 02:51 PM | AllenD | 3 Comments   

In the VSIP Everett Extras release (currently in beta - see http://www.vsipdev.com for more details) we've enabled managed code to more easily integrate into Visual Studio. The problem is that there are some issues with VS's treatment of the IVsHierarchy Read More...

Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

Too long away
11 February 04 02:35 PM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

Whew! It's been a long time since I posted anything. I've had my tonsils and adenoids removed. Boy was that painful. Well, I'm back in full swing now so look here for future musing on VSIP, VS, Interop and other things I find fascinating. Read More...