Projects that provide Visual Studio IDE support.

Debugging

Debugging VS packages can be a royal PITA. The hive can be used but install.bat often requires it to be reset each time.

Hive:

Cosmos.VS.Package is setup for debugging via a second (non hive) instance but the path is set for the default directory on x64.

Hive:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
D:\source\Cosmos\source\Cosmos.sln /ranu /rootsuffix Exp

Non hive:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
D:\source\Cosmos\source\Cosmos.sln

Resources

VSIX

• MSDN: VSIX Deployment
• How do I deploy a VSIX file?

MEF

• MSDN
  • Visual Studio 2010 Editor Extensibility Samples
  • Extending the editor
  • Managed Extensibility Framework in the Editor
  • Getting Started with Editor Extensions
  • Visual Studio Extension Deployment
• How to integrate a language service (Video)
• Chris Granger's talk on Language Integration in the 2010 Editor
• Chris Granger's talk on Lighting up the editor with extensions

Projects

Cosmos.VS.Package

MPF project.

Provides:

• Support for the .Cosmos project type
• Project configuration dialogs
• X# custom tool generator

Cosmos.VS.Windows

MPF project and VS Package.

Provides UI for Cosmos debug windows in VS. Contains windows, toolbars and menu options.

Separate from other pacakges because:

• Threading and hosting issues
• It is a different project type.
• Allows external testing by Cosmos.VS.Windows.Test

Cosmos.VS.Windows.Test

Testing project for Cosmos.VS.Windows. Not used by VS itself.

Cosmos.VS.Wizards

Provides:

• Support for creating new Cosmos projects from within Visual Studio.

Cosmos.VS.XSharp

MEF project.

Provides:

• Syntax coloring for X#.
• Code completion / intellisense (future)

X# custom tool generator is in Cosmos.VS.Package.