Projects that provide Visual Studio IDE support.
Debugging VS packages can be a royal PITA. The hive can be used but install.bat often requires it to be reset each time.
Hive:
Cosmos.VS.Package is setup for debugging via a second (non hive) instance but the path is set for the default directory on x64.
Hive:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
D:\source\Cosmos\source\Cosmos.sln /ranu /rootsuffix Exp
Non hive:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
D:\source\Cosmos\source\Cosmos.sln
Note that some VS parts, the custom VS debugger for example is in \Debug.
MPF project. Does not appear to be a VS Package. So what is it? This was our first package from very old VS, might be old crapp COM model?
Provides:
Provides UI for Cosmos debug windows in VS. Contains windows, toolbars and menu options.
Separate from other pacakges because:
Testing project for Cosmos.VS.Windows. Not used by VS itself.
Not VSIX, not MEF, not MPF. Why is this a separate assembly?
Provides:
MPF project and VS Package.
XSharp Language Service
Provides:
X# custom tool generator is in Cosmos.VS.Package.
VS debugger requires a process that starts paused, and is then later started. To do this and to unify the process that is used, we use a proxy process which then controls the actual execution environment (VMWare, QEMU, etc).
This provides a custom debug engine to Visual Studio to handle tracing, breakpoints, stepping, watches, etc.
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