thereceipe designer has not been working correctly for either the first version of the install or the latest update. (i.e. the second version of the june 2007 tk with the propertyprocessor fix)

If i create a new receipe and open it up. the design surface appears fine but the toolbox "Receipe Designer" only contains one item "Argument" all others items that are on the video do not appear in my toolbox.

anyone else seen this problem??

Hi Mick,

This may be due to a mix of two different versions of the DSL Tools runtime. I've asked the team to look into this and I'll get back to you ASAP.

thanks,
-Victor.

Hi Mick,

There is a known issue in Visual Studio/DSL Tools regarding the caching of toolbox items. Please try right clicking on the Toolbox and selecting "Reset Toolbox". This may fix it. If that doesn't work please let me know and I'll point you where the file caching the toolbox items lives so you can delete it and VS will properly recreate it (I don't remember from the top of my head where this file lives).

HTH,
-Victor.

Hi Mick,

The video and documentation for the Recipe Designer is oudated (sorry!). We are working on having an updated version ASAP and we didn't want to delay the shipping of the bits.

In the Jun07 CTP drop the Recipe Designer is serializing directly to a GAX XML package configuration file, which means there is no more need for the "Generate" menu which was used previously to generate a corresponding GAX XML package configuration file from the model file (.recipe).

The .recipe file is now both, the actual XML package configuration and the storage where the model is persisted. That's is the reason too why it's roundtripping. You can modify your recipe using the designer surface or the xml and they will keep in sync.

Let me know if you have questions,

thanks,
-Victor.

Looking in debugview i get the following trace when registering a package.. a significant line relating to this is the 2nd last one... Package 'Clarius.RecipeDesigner.RecipeDesignerPackage, Clarius.RecipeDesigner.DslPackage, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4ae4b538a4da32ed' failed to load. this would indicate why i dont get the proper toolbox???

Hi Mick,

This may be due to a mix of two different versions of the DSL Tools runtime. I've asked the team to look into this and I'll get back to you ASAP.

thanks,
-Victor.

Hi Mick,

We haven't been able to repro this. By the error it looks like VS can't load the Recipe Designer package, which may be due to a few different things (PLK, etc) that we have tested and a working ok on several Virtual PCs.

We could try to repro on a configuration as much similar as yours as possible. Can you tell me the version # of the different bits you have installed (VS SDK, etc)?

thanks,

-Victor.

Hi,

I've got the Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0,GAT/GAX Feb 2007 CTP installed. I've also copied the info from my vs about box (below). I've also reinstalled VS SDK and Clarius a few times. Trying to think of anything else that I could reinstall that might be causing the problem.

About Box Info:

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0.50727

Installed Edition: Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual C# 2005

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005

Microsoft Web Application Projects 2005 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Web Application Projects 2005
Version 8.0.50727.762

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer 77642-113-3000004-41643
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer
Version 8.0.50727.147

Clarius Software Factories Toolkit 1.0
Provides runtime and design-time extensions to GAX/GAT, DSL Tools and MPF plus frameworks and standalone tools for helping developing Software Factories for the .Net platform.

Crystal Reports AAC60-G0CSA4B-V7000AY
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005

Enterprise Library Configuration Editor 3.0
Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library Configuration Editor

Extensions for Windows WF
Windows Workflow Foundation Tools for Visual Studio

Microsoft Recipe Framework Package 8.0
This package provides services to the guidance packages.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB926601)
This service pack is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this service pack will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926601

ReSharper 3.0 Full Edition build 3.0.447.19 on 2007-05-28T22:59:28
ReSharper add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. For more information about ReSharper, see the ReSharper website at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper.
Copyright © 2003�007 JetBrains, Inc

SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Designer
Version 9.00.1399.00

SQL Server Integration Services
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer
Version 9.00.1399.00

SQL Server Reporting Services
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
Version 9.00.1399.00

TextTemplate Language Service 1.0
Clarius TextTemplate Language Service

Visual Studio Package Load Analyzer 1.0
A utility that analyzes package load failures in Visual Studio 2005.

PageMethods Add-in for Visual Studio
PageMethods Add-in for Visual Studio. Provides well-defined URLs for ASP.NET web pages. http://metaSapiens.com

i uninstalled everything....

(actually i had toedit the registry for all guidance packages because i couldnt remove webservice software factory and the web client sf and as a result could not remove GAX, i checked an earlier post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=502698&SiteID=1).

i then reinstalled, GAX/GAT & SFT and it looks like its working ok now.

Note:I didnt remove or update the VS SDK by the way. so maybe it was just the installer had problems.

weird.

thanks for the help guys....

anyways back to work!!

hi,

i followed the example of your video, but the "Generate" menu item never appears when i right click.

regards.

Hi Mick,

There is a known issue in Visual Studio/DSL Tools regarding the caching of toolbox items. Please try right clicking on the Toolbox and selecting "Reset Toolbox". This may fix it. If that doesn't work please let me know and I'll point you where the file caching the toolbox items lives so you can delete it and VS will properly recreate it (I don't remember from the top of my head where this file lives).

HTH,
-Victor.

Hi Mick,

The video and documentation for the Recipe Designer is oudated (sorry!). We are working on having an updated version ASAP and we didn't want to delay the shipping of the bits.

In the Jun07 CTP drop the Recipe Designer is serializing directly to a GAX XML package configuration file, which means there is no more need for the "Generate" menu which was used previously to generate a corresponding GAX XML package configuration file from the model file (.recipe).

The .recipe file is now both, the actual XML package configuration and the storage where the model is persisted. That's is the reason too why it's roundtripping. You can modify your recipe using the designer surface or the xml and they will keep in sync.

Let me know if you have questions,

thanks,
-Victor.