Could Visual Studio Shell be an IDE for FIVEWIN?

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:57 am

Ok, I answered in the MS forums and posted some screenshots showing the bug (?).

We need to find a solution for this issue or this Visual Studio Extended has no meaning for us, as we don't need a source code editor only. We need an integrated resources editor (not an external one), plus a project manager and a source code editor.

These two last capabilities are already available in UEStudio and work excellent!

Otto · Post by **Otto** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:41 pm

Hello Antonio,

as you can see on the screen capture res-files are working ok.

My problem is/was how to provide in shell isolated development environment the VS own resource editor for editing the resources (.RC or .res).
And this answer is in this
How to: Register Editor File Types article:

The easiest way to register editor file types is by using the registration attributes provided as a part of the Visual Studio SDK managed package framework (MPF) classes. For an example of how to do this, see the Managed Basic Editor Sample (C#) sample. If you are implementing your package in native Visual C++, you can also write a registry script that registers your editor and the associated extensions. For an example, see the Basic Edit Sample sample.

Regards,
Otto

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:44 pm

Otto,

RES files are working fine by default

Thanks for pointing this!

RC files are not supported (yet?). So we need to create RES files and use them with VSX.

So actually we have a new free resources editor!

Rick Lipkin · Post by **Rick Lipkin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:23 pm

Antonio

I guess being a compiled .res there is no need to worry about .rc formatting ..

I use rc2dll32.bat to create my forms .dll .. I guess I could just as well burn the .res into my executable .. however I prefer .dll

Any thoughts on that ??

Rick Lipkin

Gale FORd · Post by **Gale FORd** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:30 pm

If you look at your rc2dll.bat file, I think you can comment out the command line to compile the .rc file.
It is the one right before the ilink32 command.

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:47 pm

Rick,

DLLs with embedded resources are working fine!

They are properly edited, modified and saved!

It seems that Santa listened

Rick Lipkin · Post by **Rick Lipkin** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:29 am

Antonio

I will have to try one more time to load the shell .. I was kinda 'bummed' out reading the thread .. but have re-newed my interest.

Have the day off tomorrow for new years .. I will take a shot at it ..

Thanks
Rick