VisualStudio 2005 Express

marks27 wrote on 2/5/2008, 6:53 AM

I am attempting to get play with a couple of scripts in VS 2K5 Express.

I follow the instructions in the SDK and all is good until the bit about "...set the Start Action to 'Start external program'."

No joy on finding this option. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

marks

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marks27 wrote on 2/5/2008, 4:21 PM

Hmm, Google knows all....

It appears that the "Start Action" property is not presented in the Express Edition, and the project file needs to be edited directly, as per:

<code>

To start McmlPad from within Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, you must edit the .csproj file for the solution because the Start Action setting is not available in the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. The following example code from the Z.csproj file shows the additional XML code:

<PropertyGroup>
<UseVSHostingProcess>true</UseVSHostingProcess>
<StartWorkingDirectory>$(windir)\eHome</StartWorkingDirectory>
<StartArguments>-load:"resx://Z/Z.Resources/Default" -assemblyredirect:"$(FullyQualifiedOutputPath)" -markupredirect:"resx://Z/Z.Resources/,file://$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Markup\,.mcml"</StartArguments>
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartProgram>$(windir)\eHome\McmlPad.exe</StartProgram>
</PropertyGroup>

</code>

This is a snippet from one of MS's own web -sites.

Interested to know if anyone else uses this method to debug scripts, or is there a better way with the Express Editions.

Hope this helps someone.

Ciao,

marks