I have an old project that uses MPXJ library to access MS Project 2010. However it doesn't get the files save as Project 2010 format even if I uses the latest MPXJ 4.0. What else do I need to do to get the files of that format? I've searched MPXJ website but there seems to be no document about the changes and a tutorial to modify existing codes.
you should not need to make any changes to read Project 2010 files. The MPXJ API has not changed significantly with the 4.0 release: there are a few new Task and Resource attributes. If you are using the "presentation" information from the MPP file, you'll find that colors have changed from being represented by an enumeration to being Java Color types. That's pretty much it.
If you are still having specific problems reading Project 2010 files, feel free to raise a bug at SourceForge, or drop me a note directly.
Cheers!
Jon
Disclaimer: I maintain MPXJ
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I'm trying to import an XML generated in MS Project 2016 into another system, but the XSD I have seems to be from an older version. I've only been able to find it for 2007 and 2010. I can probably tweak what I have to account for the differences, but it would be nice to not have to. Are schema definitions for newer versions of Project available somewhere?
Sadly I'm not sure they exist. I look for updated versions periodically but I haven't come across any yet.
The most recent version I have has the filename mspdi_pj15.xsd, and the comment in the file says Revision date: 2012-07-18. This was extracted from the Project 2013 SDK.
One word of warning is that regardless of MS Project version changes, the XSDs don't match what Project actually reads and writes in a few areas. I use the XSD to generate JAXB code as part of MPXJ, and I've had to make a number of manual revisions to the published XSD to get it work correctly. Unfortunately I'm not sure that publishing the changes is possible as the original file is copyright Microsoft and doesn't mention redistribution.
I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I have two separate piece of code that functions outside of Visual Studio.
The last step performed by the second piece of code currently creates a new c# source file. I would like to combine both pieces of code into a single VSIX extension.
Unfortunately I have never worked with VS Extensions and I am a bit lost. I have worked through various VSIX examples, but none of these create files.
Can anyone perhaps point me to a working example of how to add new source files to a project via an extension?
I have seen some examples, but they all refer to old Add-In style plugins and not VSIX.
Create a VS 2017 extension to add new code file
As we know the Visual Studio Extensions is:
Extensions are add-ons that allow you to customize and enhance your
experience in Visual Studio by adding new features or integrating
existing tools. An extension can range in all levels of complexity,
but its main purpose is to increase your productivity and cater to
your workflow.
So, the Visual Studio extension is service for Visual Studio IDE to customize and enhance your experience in Visual Studio, rather than serving a specific project.
What I suspect the Project and item templates should be helps.
Hope this helps.
I've been working on a VS Code extension that uses Roslyn's workspace API to load a project, at the moment the extension supports .NET Core's old project.json format via the ProjectJsonWorkspace type in the Microsoft.DotNet.ProjectModel.Workspaces package.
With the new tooling changes being released soon I'm keen to support the new .csproj build format but can't appear to find a .NET Standard compliant workspace that supports it.
My understanding is that as it's using MSBuild, I will need to use the MSBuild (Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.MSBuild) package, however it does not support .NET Standard at this moment in time.
What is the best solution if one exists, or will I have to look at creating my own workspace implementation?
Having spoken with various people it appears that there is no .NET Standard compatible MS Build workspace, this can be seen by this answer below to the following GitHub issue:
We haven't done the work to make MSBuildWorkspace work properly with the new MSBuild cross-platform. In the meantime, you might look at what omnisharp does to populate it's workspace.
So it seems that at the time of writing if you want to target the MSBuild workspace in a .NET Standard compliant project then you'll need to build your own custom workspace using Roslyn's workspace API, this is exactly how OmniSharp do it.
Update (16/10/2017):
Whilst MSBuildWorkspace does still not support .NET Standard, there is a library called Buildalyzer that works cross-platform and will generate an AdhocWorkspace for you, allowing you to achieve the same goal.
using Buildalyzer.Workspaces;
// ...
AnalyzerManager manager = new AnalyzerManager();
ProjectAnalyzer analyzer =
manager.GetProject(#"C:\MyCode\MyProject.csproj");
AdhocWorkspace workspace = analyzer.GetWorkspace();
The same library will also allow you to reference a solution file too.
I am trying to set up references to the CRM 2011 sdk
Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll
Microsoft.Xrm.Portal.dll
Microsoft.Xrm.Client.dll
While trying to use the CrmSvcUtil.exe to generate the early bound types for CRM, I get an error Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CodeGeneration.dll cannot be located. I could not locate the dll in any of the packages that I downloaded using Nuget PM.
Can anybody advise on the usage and how to obtain this?
Use the Early Bound Generator in the XrmToolBox Tool Store. It contains the functionality to generate code using the Xrm.Client. Or if you really just want to use the DLL and do everything by hand, it contains the DLL in the download.
Update
As of March 2020, the EBG no longer supports the deprecated Microsoft.Xrm.Client usage. Hopefully you've transitioned off of that. You can still download older versions of the EBG on NuGet if you're stuck on that client generation.
I am working on a website that is English by default and optionally in Spanish. I am generating local resource files for each page with language appropriate content for various items.
So far to create my pair of resource files (default and Spanish) for each page, visual studio 2010 generates the first file like default.aspx.resx. I create the Spanish version manually by copying the default file and renaming to default.aspx.es.resx.
Is there a way to have visual studio generate both files for me? I can generate the default file, add controls to the page, and generate again and visual studio is smart to not blow away any work I've done in that file. I would like to be able to also update the Spanish resource file automatically.
There is no tool in Visual Studio (at least I haven't found one when researching the same request), and we dropped the idea of writing smart macros for that purpose that parse resx files and modify other based on changes.
There is, however, a decent free tool that supports creating and aligning resources: Zeta Resource Editor.
You can add files and entries on click, and editing resources is much nicer than in Visual Studio, in addition to quite a few other useful features.