Hello GAT Team!
I have written an Extender for C# projects and for Solutions using the IExtenderProvider.
Specifically the extender is going after prjCATIDCSharpProjectBrowseObject (4EF9F003-DE95-4d60-96B0-212979F2A857) and vsCATIDSolutionBrowseObject (A2392464-7C22-11d3-BDCA-00C04F688E50).
Based on which object is selected, it provides one of two seperate Extender Objects from the IExtenderProvider::GetExtender method.
The extender is simply providing some additional properties for use within the PropertyGrid - these properties are being stored within the Solution.Globals collection and Project.Globals collection.
I have plans to extend the current provider to include various files within the project, however with the powerful built-in filtering of recipes and templates provided by the GAT I thought it best to see if there is a way I could use the GAT framework to create a sort of "bound" extender.
Any advice on how to proceed
Thanks in advance,
IExtenderProvider the GAT way...
Tommi Pitkala
public object GetExtender(string ExtenderCATID, string ExtenderName, object ExtendeeObject, EnvDTE.IExtenderSite ExtenderSite, int Cookie)
{
DTE root = (DTE)ExtenderSite.GetObject("");
// This type is from the Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.Library.dll in your IDE\PublicAssemblies folder.
// It provides an System.IServiceProvider interface over the DTE (any OLE service provider, more properly)
VsServiceProvider provider = new VsServiceProvider(root);
// This service is the one responsible for managing guidance packages in GAX.
IRecipeManagerService manager = (IRecipeManagerService)provider.GetService(typeof(IRecipeManagerService));
GuidancePackage package = null;
// If you want the package to be enabled automatically upon asking for it:
package = manager.GetPackage("MyPackage");
// Otherwise, if you want to just get a previously enabled package:
// package = (GuidancePackage)manager.Components["MyPackage"];
if (package == null)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("MyPackage is not enabled.");
}
// This service manages the bound and unbound references, and can be used to query
// whether a given recipe is enabled for a given target.
IAssetReferenceService service = package.GetService<IAssetReferenceService>(true);
if (service.IsAssetEnabledFor("MyMockExtenderRecipe", DteHelper.GetCurrentSelection(this.Site)))
{
// Return the appropriate extender.
}
return null;
}
Note that I used a mock recipe to enable the filtering capability. It may be the case that you actually want to have a real recipe doing some actual work too.
HTH
/kzu