Jose Escrich

Using Wireless Connection on HYPER-V without sharing it.

jescrich — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:03:40 GMT

As you know, the wireless adapters are not supported on HYPER-V (HV) so, the most common scenario in that case, is go and create a Private Virtual Network on your Hyper V console then go to your Wireless Adapter and share the connection for the new Private...(read more)

Registry redirection on Visual Studio 2008 RTM & SP1 (part 1)

jescrich — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:02:00 GMT

First of all a quick overview, I made a VSIP package which originally addresses just Visual Studio 2005 , in where I added support to work with the regular hive and with the Experimental hive. In fact there are no much differences between those but in...(read more)

Guidance Automation Extensions for VS2008 SP1 is available.

jescrich — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:58:00 GMT

Today has been released the Guidance Automation Extensions - February 2008 Release SP1 , which addresses the following issues: Registering and Using Guidance Packages on the Visual Studio Experimental Hive Registering and/or using a guidance package in...(read more)

T4 Editor RTM is finally out!

jescrich — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:45:40 GMT

After several months of work I'm really happy to announce that we've finally shipped the T4 Editor RTM version. Now it comes in different flavors as a Community Edition and a Professional Edition . You can check the most important difference between those...(read more)

How to know which is the current running Visual Studio registry hive.

jescrich — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:09:08 GMT

It’s really useful to know the current registry hive when, for example, when you’re running Visual Studio into the experimental hive even considering, that since Vs 2008 it includes the RANU option (Run as Normal User) with basically means that Visual...(read more)

T4 Editor: coming soon!

jescrich — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:18:43 GMT

Since some time ago, we're working in a new release of the T4 Editor . Maybe one of the most interesting feature is the ability to have intellisense in the contained language. Victor has posted some screenshots that showcases that feature, check...(read more)

Testing T4 templates using mock framework (MoQ)

jescrich — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:48:16 GMT

Some time ago I wrote a post in which I talk about how you can do unit tests over your text templates using the GAX Host . In that example I used a very simple template which receives just a couple of string properties. But it becomes more complicated...(read more)

GAX/GAT February 2008 Release

jescrich — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:02:00 GMT

Finally, and after a grand effort, we got a final release of GAX/GAT February 2008 Release . Mainly the most important improvements are that now you can use GAX side by side with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 and now you don't have to do the...(read more)

GAX/GAT for Visual Studio 2008 Troubleshooter

jescrich — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:13:30 GMT

As Victor has posted , we made a simple troubleshooter to use in case of you are having troubles with the installation and use of GAX/GAT for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). This utility provides a simple log of certain information about how was installed...(read more)

Visual Studio T4 Editor is finally out!.

jescrich — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:28:00 GMT

Today we released a new version of the T4 Editor . You didn't heard about T4 templates or Text Transformations, before?, That's a technology made by P&P and was used by the DSL Tools team to able to run text transformations in its projects. Now the...(read more)

Dealing with the UnfoldTemplateAction and parameter replacement.

jescrich — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:14:36 GMT

There are a well known issue with the UnfoldTemplateAction which is provided in the GAX Library. Basically this action able you to unfold .vstemplate files by hand but it has a ugly issue in where you can't do any parameter replacements than the default...(read more)

Use a simple Form instead of the GAX Wizard

jescrich — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:07:51 GMT

A recipe execution implies three parts which are, the arguments, the data gathering and the actions that will be executed using those arguments. By default the data gathering service in GAX was implemented over the Vs Wizard Framework due to a wizard...(read more)

Registering a GAX Guidance Package in the Experimental Vs Hive

jescrich — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:48:00 GMT

One of the features in the latest July 2007 CTP version of GAX / GAT is the possibility to include switches in the installer execution at design time (that's the switches that will be added in the installutil execution when you register a GP through the...(read more)

Customizing GAX Wizard Pages (part 1)

jescrich — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:28:00 GMT

There are some parts that you could want to customize in the wizard page, unfortunately most of this part are not exposed. GAX wizard was implemented over the Visual Studio Wizard Framework and each page inherit from its WizardPage base class and the...(read more)

New T4 Template Visual Studio Editor.

jescrich — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:00 GMT

During this past month I've been working in a new T4 template editor as a part of the SFT . If you're working with dsl or gax you already know, how the editor looks when you try to edit a text template file, it looks like this: So now you can have a fully...(read more)