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Question about VSTA and WPF

Laurent Bogni — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:02:12 GMT

Hello,

I try to integrate VSTA with a little application I've written. I got some question, because I'm tired to pass all my night without fixing this problems. I want to useWPF UserControl in my WPF App.

Can I use directly WPF types with VSTA (FrameworkElement, UIElement) ?

I declare in Application.cs, which reprensents my running session

public System.Windows.UIElement GetAddInUI02(String UIType)

If I use

(1) AddIn = AddInToken[0].Activate<IEntryPoint>(AddInSecurityLevel.FullTrust);

GetAddInUI02 returns A __TransparentProxy instance, which I can never cast to something.

If I use

(2) AddIn = AddInToken[0].Activate<IEntryPoint>(AppDomain.CurrentDomain);

then everything works finebut I can't unload my assembly with the standard code (from ShapeApp and the same for (1)), so I can't recompile my assembly with VSTA. I've to stopmy app, delete my compiled directory, restart my app, recompile, etc...

Is there a solution for me? I don't understand...

Thanks !!

The Future Without VSTA

bsculley — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:48:06 GMT

At this point it is pretty clear that Microsoft has no intention of continuing to support VSTA (or if this is not true, somebody please enlighten me).

The question is what should those of us who have integrated VSTA into an exisitng application do in the future? I have an app developed in VS2008 with VSTA 2.0 included to support user developed scripting. This functionality is right at the heart of the application and it can't function without it. Thre are also a large number of user developed C# scripts that need to continue to be supported.

We would like to move to VS2010, but obviously cannot do so given the current state of affairs.

Does anyone have any insight into what optiions are available going forward and how to get from here to there?

Thanks,

Bob

Can I use VSTA v1 in VS2010?

Sun Kim — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:30:53 GMT

I am using VSTA v1 in MFC C++ application.

I have to use VSTA v1 in VS2010 due to internal situation.

Is that possible?

When I migrate from vs2005 to vs2010, and VSTAhookup / Proxy project are targetted to .NET framework 4.0.

that makes error when loading *.dll made by VSTA.

the error message is "The given key was not present in the dictionary"

and it's related with System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2

at this time, I tried to change VSTAhookup / Proxy project target Platform and .net framework to v90 and .net 3.5

it worked ok until now.

do you have any idea of using VSTA v1 under v100 and .net 4.0 directly?

VBA 7.0 SDK for 64 bits !

mb@noesis.fr — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:44:17 GMT

Hello everyboby

This is avery good news !
As you can see, Microsoft Office 2010 works now with VBA 7.0.

VBA 7.0 is a 64 bits application !

Everybody is waiting now the SDK from Summit !

Please send a mail to summit to ask this SDK !

(because alone it's not enough )

Thank you for your help

Laurent

Problems with .config file

Allen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:06:58 GMT

Hi,

In my VSTA project,I added a "BasicDataToAccess.dll" refrence. But I don't have the dll's sourc code.

           ####My VSTA project code:######
           Dim iJob As New BasicDataToAccess.IOperator()
           iJob.Run()
           ####################

It should get a ConnectionString from "BasicDataToAccess.exe.config".

But I can't get the values in my VSTA project.

I added "app.config" into me VSTA project,i can't get the value either.

Dim sConnStr as string = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("RDBConnStr")

How to run Sample HelloWorld_VSTA2

LWay — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:40:06 GMT

Hello,

I'm a complete newbie on VSTA.

I have some questions on how to run the HelloWorld sample based on the READ ME file:

2) Run the included setup file -> which file?

3) Build the sample add-ins -> how to build? When I click on HelloWorld_VSTA2_AddIn2.sln, a message box says 'Unable to load context.'

Is there more discussion on this sample? I would appreciate it as the ShapeApp samples seem to be too complicated for a first look into VSTA.

Regards,
L. Way

Simple Sample for VSTA integration into CSharp Hello World App

Michael — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:45:44 GMT

Hi !

I am currently evaluating the VSTA and I think that the ShapeApp samples are too complex for showing the basics of VSTA. Is there a small skeleton sample app available ? Also creating registry entries, gacutil stuff etc should be put into a script so a rookie like me does not deal with that.

I believe I am not the only one with that request, help would be really appriciated.

Recieve ShapeAppMFC Shape Events

Kuhn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:48:39 GMT

How do i get Shape events like ColorChanged in VSTA from ShapeAppMFC?
Normaly i would write:

shape.ColorChanged += new ColorChangedEventHandler(...);

The Problem is, i only have a IShape. The AvailableShapes Property only uses IShape. If i try to cast the IShape in Shape i get a InvalidCastException. How do i get the Shape Event Connection?

how to add a new type into TypeInfrastructureManager

Allen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:47:00 GMT

just like

typeInfrastructureManager.CanonicalNameToTypeMap.Add("ShapeAppCSharp, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Samples.ShapeApp.IMessa" +

"geFilter", typeof(global::Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Samples.ShapeApp.IMessageFilterClass));

typeInfrastructureManager.TypeToCanonicalNameMap.Add(typeof(global::Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Samples.ShapeApp.IMessageFilter), "ShapeAppCSharp, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Samples.ShapeApp.IMessa" +

"geFilter");

how can I add System.Drawing.Color into TypeInfrastructureManager?

DPM & Silverlight

Noam Maoz — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:26:39 GMT

Hi,

We are looking for the same ability as DPM in Silverlight.

Is there any solution for Silverlight?

Regards,

Noam Maoz

Can I use VSTA in application(w32), writen on Delphi????

gorelikov_sasha — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:27:49 GMT

Hi!

I got a question:

Can i use vsa in application(w32), writen on Delphi?

have you some samples for this? may be COM objects?

Thanks. Gorelikov Alexandr.

Migrate VBA projects to VSTA

sheisters — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:56:47 GMT

Hello,

because for quite a while VBA integration is no longer supported in .Net applicatin now we evaluate to integrate VSTA in our business application. But we have a lot of customers use VBA within our aplication and it would be very expensive if these customer have to rewrite all their code. I think this is not acceptable.

Is their a wizard or automated tool to migrate/convert VBA projects to VSTA?

Thanks, Stefan

VSTA process is not killed when VSTA IDE is closed

himanshu — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:25:00 GMT

Close VSTA IDE using the close button on the top right side, Open process explorer and you can find VSTA still running.

Is there a way to capture the event and kill the process.

Trapping the event when VSTA exits

himanshu — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:41:29 GMT

Is it possible to trap the exit event of VSTA, our application passes data to VSTA editor using remoting so we want to unregister the remoting channel when VSTA is closed..

Some general questions

eli — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:43:24 GMT

Hi,

I'm evaluating if we could use VSTA in our software, but I have some general question about features I would like to have:

Is it possible to have a dynamic object model? I would like to 'register' my object model at startup, because not all information is available at compiler time.
Is it necessary to register every host application with VSTA? Suppose I have 2 versions of the same program, do I need to register them both, or can I somehow register all current and future versions at once?

And then one small detail that I encountered:

I noticed from the examples that if the hosting application stops, the IDE is not terminated as well. I suppose it is possible to couple these two?

Thanks,
eli

Migrating customer VBA to VSTA?

mmk01569 — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:35:15 GMT

Can anyone point me to information on how to help our customers migrate their existing VBA to VSTA?
Thanks,
Mike

VSTA and Web services

DeanBennett — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:29:53 GMT

I have 2 hopefully simple questions.

1) Can I use VSTA from within a web service to run macros?

2) I plan on doing htis all in VB.Net if possible. Does proxygen always create C# file or can it gererate .vb code?

VSTA With VB.Net / Help Please

bpreston — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:50:06 GMT

I am trying to add VSTA to a VB.Net app to allow users to write custom procedures based on application conditions. I would like to be able to add some code modules that would be exposed to the host application and vice versa.

Thanks In Advance.

VSTA and WebForms

vtcoder — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:52:46 GMT

Does VSTA 2.0 have any support for custom WebForms?

If not, are others doing any of this on their own? I'd like to potentially use VSTA to allow custom web form development to be plugged into an ASP.Net 3.5 application.

I'm just now digging into VSTA so some if this may become obvious as I get into it, but I thought I'd ask to see if others have gone this route.

Thanks for any info

VSTA - Help getting started for Developers

Dog — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:23:48 GMT

Our software currently uses VBA and we need to swtich over to VSTA.

Our software is written in VB6.

It was no problem to integrate VBA within our software, however, I am absolutly at a loss trying to figure out how we can integrate VSTA within our VB6 software.

Does anyone even know where I should start? I imagine that it should be as simple to integrate VSTA as it was for VBA.

I just need the very basic calls required to integrate VSTA, it should be about a page or two.

Thanks for your help. I am at a total loss, and overwhelmed by the huge volume of information about VSTA that I don't need.

DOG

VSTA Pricing for Internal Company Use

fins2thright — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:27:46 GMT

My company is developing an internal application that could potentially use VSTA to allow user extensions to the application. It is unclear from the Microsoft documentation whether we would be required to license VSTA for such an application because it will not be resold, and we have valid licenses for Visual Studio and MSDN (which includes the VS SDK).

Can you provide any guidance on whether (and how) VSTA is licensed for internal corporate applications?

Microsoft to stop offering VBA distribution licenses to new customers on July 1, 2007

wilfis — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:27:42 GMT

Since June 1996, when Microsoft first announced the Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) licensing program, Microsoft has been offering VBA for licensing to Independent Software Vendors and others who wished to integrate VBA into their own applications. As previously announced, Microsoft does not expect to make significant enhancements to VBA. This does not impact the current support commitments for VBA in any way, and of course, it does not impact any license arrangements that are in force.

Microsoft is investing its application programmability resources in Visual Studio® Tools for Applications (VSTA) and its companion set of tools, Microsoft Visual Studio® Tools for Office (VSTO). We encourage you to consider VSTA for new applications that require application programmability technology. Summit Software is also Microsoft’s vendor for VSTA licensing.

As of July 1, 2007 Microsoft will no longer offer VBA distribution licenses to new customers. Existing VBA customers will still be able to purchase additional VBA licenses from Summit Software and Microsoft for existing solutions.

Migration to VSTA from VBA

Michael Gerhardt — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:36:41 GMT

We are currently in the process of evaluating if the migration to VSTA
should be done.

We have currently, in our in-house demo project, the VBA functionality
of the VBA-SDK included. The project structure enables us to the IDE to
modify and debug code to be run. The code uses the COM-Model from the
application for interaction (events, methods, etc.).

Since we are currently in beta and pre-release state we could still migrate
to VSTA. The open question right now is how work-intense is this switch to VSTA?
Since everything seems to be running ok right know this is a decision based
solely on the cost-factor of the migration and possibility of inconsistency.

Is there a possibilty that VSTA runs under Windows 2000 Professional?

Cheers,

Michael Gerhardt

Does .Net framework (2.0 or 3.0) have the VSTA scripting engine built in?

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:02:38 GMT

I'm just beginning evaluation of VSTA and am a bit familiar with VSA. My understanding is that VSTA will replace VSA as the new scripting technology of .Net. Does that mean its already a part of the .Net framework or is it only available through Summit via the SDK. This seems to be a very gray area. Basically, I only want my production app to be able to launch scripts using the scripting engine in .Net as can be done currently using VSA, not give them a development/debug environment or macro recorder etc. What are my options here?

The type or namespace name 'IProxy' does not exist...

engrkurt — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:08:18 GMT

downloaded Visual Studio 2005 SDK 3.0 (August 2006 CTP), the latest VS SDK with VSTA.

followed the walkthrough instructions to create a proxy then a proxy DLL. but the project will not compile

C:\ShapeAppSamples\ShapeAppCSharp\ShapeAppCSharpLib\Proxy.cs(17,99): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'IProxy' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

i searched but could find no similar topic so far...perhaps someone has already encountered this problem and knows the solution?

the line is question is...

public partial class SizeChangedEventArgs : global::Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.IProxy {