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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/06
Great: a few more additions for my Delphi XE3 toolbox:
2012-09-05
madExcept 4.0.5 release comes with the following changes:
- added support for XE3
- a couple of bugfixes and minor improvements
madCodeHook 3.1.2 comes with the following changes:
- added support for XE3
- added support for Metro (AppContainer integrity) apps
- fixed: crash in CreateProcessEx (32bit)
- fixed: uninjection crash in w2k3 error reporting service
–jeroen
via: madshi.net – home.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/06
The problem with localized error messages often is that it is virtually impossible to find information about them.
For instance the below error got reported by a client for me to fix (click on the picture to get a larger version) has a few big problems:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/06
So I won’t forget: .NET Framework Libraries.
It contains the download links, setup instructions (for debugging, troubleshooting and source/symbols downloading) and licensing information.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/06
A while ago, I blew quite a few Visual Studio Solution and Project builds because I was experimenting in a suite of solutions with the Configuration Manager adding other Solution Configurations than Release and Debug, and mixing x86/AnyCPU platforms to facilitate Debug & Continue.
Lesson learned: don’t do that!
Keep it simple:
- Keep your Solution Configurations at Release and Debug,
- Perform conditional defines in your automated build server,
- Limit the mixing your platforms to a minimum.
We noted the anomalies a little late in the process (in retrospect, when taking over the solution suite, we should have started with setting up and Build Automation right at the beginning, then fix all the solutions that came from Visual Source Shredder, but alas: you are never too old to learn from your mistakes).
The anomalies were spurious (and hard to reproduce) build failures at developer workstations, wrong builds of assemblies ending up on the final build directories and more. And best of all: Visual Studio not failing, warning or hinting upon most issues.
The history in the version control system was not helpful enough to assist in fixing it, so the fix was this:
The last step is a lot more complex, because of a couple of reasons:
My workaround was as follows:
Finally, I get to the title of this blog entry: Visual Studio will always generate a directory when creating a Blank Solution, and does not support creating an Empty Solution in a directory.
There are many posts describing how to workaround this, but the actual downloads are usually gone because of link rot (Jakob Nielsen’s alert from 1998 still is totally right about it). Thanks to they webarchive.org WayBackMachine though for keeping some of them alive.
So I went with Peter Provost’s solution, and amended it from Visual Studio 2005 to all Visual Studio versions that support .NET that I have used or still use: 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012 a.k.a. VS11.
All files are in Change set 89386 on BeSharp.CodePlex.com.
His solution uses the ShellNew command for .sln file extensions that is stored in the registry:
ShellNew is versatile, so you can also embed the fresh solution file into the .reg file, see this ShellNew article for a few nice examples.
Note that generating a new ShellNew verb for .sln is something other than loading a .sln (loading a .sln is done through VisualStudioLauncher).
Back to the .sln file: this one is different for any version of Visual Studio. Historically, the basic format is the same though (and I think this – in combination with VisualStudioLauncher – is the main reason it is not XML).
An empty solution file looks like this (note the empty line at the beginning), as described in Hack the Project and Solution Files:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00 # Visual Studio 11 Global GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution HideSolutionNode = FALSE EndGlobalSection EndGlobal
The accompanying .reg file like this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln\ShellNew] "FileName"="Visual Studio Solution - VS11.sln"
When you look at the Format Version inside the .sln version, you see that it (12) is one bigger than the internal Visual Studio Version (11).
That is because Microsoft stepped up the internal version from Visual Studio .NET (2002) and Visual Studio 2003 from 7.0 to 7.1, but the solution file format version from 7.00 to 8.00 as the table below shows.
Note that the .NET 1.x versions of Visual Studio (2002 for .NET 1.0, 2003 for .NET 1.1) don’t have the GlobalSection/HideSolutionNode/EndGlobalSection part and the # Visual Studio xx line.
With a little bit of querying, I got at this table:
| Visual Studio version | Internal version | Solution file format version |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio .NET (2002) | 7.0 | Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 7.00 |
| Visual Studio 2003 | 7.1 | Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 8.00 |
| Visual Studio 2005 | 8.0 | Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 9.00 |
| Visual Studio 2008 | 9.0 | Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00 |
| Visual Studio 2010 | 10.0 | Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00 |
| Visual Studio 2012 (a.k.a. VS11) | 11.0 | Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00 |
All files to get you going are in Change set 89386 on BeSharp.CodePlex.com.
It was a bit hard to get all those version numbers, so here are the sources I used:
–jeroen
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