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Guindance automation toolkit and extensions for Vs 2008 and Vs 2005

Hi,

We have extended SCSF to tailor to our needs and have created our own UI framework on top of SCSF. Our framework currently supports the following.
1. GuidanceAutomationExtensions_Apr2007.msi

It is known that GAX apr2007 supports only VS2005. Now we are planning to move all our UI applications built on top of our framework to VS2008. This implies that the framework also needs to be migrated to VS2008. I want to know the following.

1. The version of GAX(Guidance automation extensions) and GAT(Guidance Autotmation Toolkit) that i need to use which can coexist in VS2005 and VS 2008. Currently i see that the GAX July 2007 for vs2005 and vs2008 is a CTP release which may not be suitable. Also it has lot of problems, which needs to be fixed using a patch.
2. Are there any tools available that can migrate all existing VS2005(.NET 2.0) code to Vs2008(.NET 3.5)

I appreaciate your advice on the above. Thanks in advance

-Ranjith

ranjith_chev Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:11 AM

Hi,

Re: 1) The GAX July 2007 CTP should install ok on VS 2008 on most cases. Depending on if you have run previous VS 2008 betas on your box you may need to modify one line in a config file if it doesn't out of the box for you. There is a current limitation, that may be fixed in a next GAX release, where you can right now install GAX only to VS 2005 or VS 2008 on the same box, but not both. If you need your guidance package to run on VS 2005 and VS 2008 on the same box then you're out of luck for now...

Re: 2) What kind of code are you referring about? VS 2008 will migrate solution and project files for you. If you mean your classes, etc, then you will have to do this by hand but most .Net framework code should be backward compatible. GAX code will run ok in VS 2005 and VS 2008.

HTH,
-Victor.

vga Monday, January 14, 2008 6:13 AM

Hi Ranjith, AFAIK you can install GAX on VS2005 or VS2008 but not on both at the same time and you will have to make the migration manually (which I think it should consist on changing the references and not much more).

HTH
-Adrian

Adrian Alonso Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:15 PM

vga Monday, January 14, 2008 6:13 AM

Hi,

While trying to install Guidance automation extensions JULY 2007 CTP it displays two options. Install for VS2005 or for VS2008 codenamed ORCAS. My questions are

1. Does this mean that I can never use projects already created using VS2005 anymore if I install GAX for VS2008 codenames ORCAS? If the answer is YES, what else can i do to run my previous projects created using VS2005. (should it be like, uninstall JULY 2007 CTP and then again install it for VS2005??)
2. Next, I have installed VS2008 RTM licenced version in my dev box. But while installing GAX july 2007 CTP the option says (install for VS2005 or Vs2008 for ORCAS). Does this mean i cannot use this JULY 2007 CTP for VS2008 RTM release?
3. Are there any plans to come out with a version of GAX for both VS2005 and VS2008 which coexists?? Because our customers may use both vs2005 and vs2008.

Thanks,
Ranjith

ranjith_chev Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:27 AM

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