custom tool registration

custom tool registration

• dobry

  Hello,

  neither I'm sure, if we speak about the same thing. Too many things is names "custom tool". I mean tool, which you write to "Custom tool" field in File Properties. Like "MSDatasetGenerator".

  As far as I know, this to work correctly, needs COM registration (regasm) + few more registry entries. See for example "Registering Custom Tools" in VSSDK. Or look into "Generators" registry entry under VS root. RegAsm know about those as well

  But mine original post was about regpkg tool, which is used with VsPackage. I coudn't find atribute for those Generator entries. Found them (2nd post) but, it seems to have a little inconsistent name (not ProvideXXX).

  Anyway, thanks alot for response! Hope, this info'll help someone.

  Regards,

  
  
  

• Salva Madrid

  Hello, maliger!

  I am not dure I understand what did you mean but if the question was: How to register custom tool and make it available for work The answer is following way:

  in example we have

  • assembly with custum tool we want to register MyCustomTool.dll placed at root of drive C:/
  • the MyNamespace.MyCustomTool is a namespace of the generator class(es)

  to register custom tools in this assembly in your system:

  1. Run VS Command Line
  2. Type command: RegAsm.exe C:\MyCustomTool.dll
  3. Type command: GacUtil.exe /i C:\MyCustomTool.dll
  4. That is all! Custom tool registered. Sometimes you should relaunch the VS

  to remove custom tool from your system:

  1. Run VS Command Line
  2. Type command: RegAsm.exe C:\MyCustomTool.dll /unregister
  3. Type command: GacUtil.exe /u MyNamespace.MyCustomTool
  4. That is all! Custom tool is removed from the system.

  Hope it will help you. But maybe you meant something differ

  
  
  

• v.iyer

  I found it:

  [Guid("77BAF5D3-55AA-4878-BB75-D42747562E7D")]
  [ProvideObject(typeof(GDataSetGenerator456), RegisterUsing = RegistrationMethod.CodeBase)]
  [CodeGeneratorRegistration(typeof(GDataSetGenerator456), "Gordic C# Code Generator for XSD (456)", "{fae04ec1-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}", GeneratesDesignTimeSource = true)]
  public class GDataSetGenerator456 : BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite
  ...

  Its strange, that CodeGeneratorRegistrationAttribute is not prefixed with "Provide" as many other regpkg attributes.

  
  
  
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