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

Note that some VS parts, the custom VS debugger for example is in \Debug.

Cosmos.VS.Package

MPF project. Does not appear to be a VS Package. So what is it? This was our first package from very old VS, might be old crapp COM model?

Provides:

• Support for the .Cosmos project type
• Project configuration dialogs
• X# custom tool generator - Move to Cosmos.VS.XSharp probably

Cosmos.VS.Launch

This is a separate asm because it allows us to build stand alone utilities which reference it and also eaiser testing outside of VS.

Cosmos.VS.Windows

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

Not VSIX, not MEF, not MPF. Why is this a separate assembly?

Provides:

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

Cosmos.VS.XSharp

MPF project and VS Package.

XSharp Language Service

Provides:

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

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

Comos.Launch.VMware

VS debugger requires a process that starts paused, and is then later started. To do this and to unify the process that is used, we use a proxy process which then controls the actual execution environment (VMWare, QEMU, etc).

Comos.Debug.VSDebugEngine

This provides a custom debug engine to Visual Studio to handle tracing, breakpoints, stepping, watches, etc.

• AD7.Impl \ AD7Process.cs
  • Launches DebugHost, which then launches VMWare etc
  • Contains pipes for communicating to VMWare's serial port to DebugStub
• BreakpointManager.cs
  • contains notes on breakpoints

References

• http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/debugenginesample/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4149