Create an Instance of Visual Studio

[miztaken]

Hi,
My C# application have a following code to create an instance of
Visual Studio.

System.Type type = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.
8.0");
Object obj = System.Activator.CreateInstance(type, true);
EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte8Obj = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)obj;
MessageFilter.Register();
dte8Obj.MainWindow.Visible = false;

This code work ok in the PC with Visual Studio Installed but doesnt
work in the PC with only Framework installed.?

How can i make this work in PC with only framework installed?

I am using Visual Studio 2005

Thank You
miztaken

[Peter Duniho]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:08:21 -0700, miztaken <ju**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

[...]
This code work ok in the PC with Visual Studio Installed but doesnt
work in the PC with only Framework installed.?

How can i make this work in PC with only framework installed?

Maybe I'm missing something about your question, but...

If you don't have Visual Studio installed, you simply cannot create an
instance of it. That's what it means to install it: you copy the code
that is required for the product to run (including any COM automation the
application might support). That's the whole point of installation.

Pete

[miztaken]

If you don't have Visual Studio installed, you simply cannot create an *

instance of it. *That's what it means to install it: you copy the code *
that is required for the product to run (including any COM automation the*
application might support). *That's the whole point of installation.

So do you mean i have to ask my client to install visual studio IDE to
run my application?
This doesn't seem to be feasible solution..

If this code
System.Type type = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.
8.0");
Object obj = System.Activator.CreateInstance(type, true);
EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte8Obj = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)obj;
MessageFilter.Register();
dte8Obj.MainWindow.Visible = false;

required Visual Studio installed then how can we ship it?

Thank You
miztaken

[Family Tree Mike]

No, requiring users to have Visual Studio does not seem feasible. Why are
you doing this then? What do you want them to do with the IDE?

"miztaken" <ju**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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If you don't have Visual Studio installed, you simply cannot create an
instance of it. That's what it means to install it: you copy the code
that is required for the product to run (including any COM automation the
application might support). That's the whole point of installation.

So do you mean i have to ask my client to install visual studio IDE to
run my application?
This doesn't seem to be feasible solution..

If this code
System.Type type = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.
8.0");
Object obj = System.Activator.CreateInstance(type, true);
EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte8Obj = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)obj;
MessageFilter.Register();
dte8Obj.MainWindow.Visible = false;

required Visual Studio installed then how can we ship it?

Thank You
miztaken

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

EnvDTE is the automation interface for Visual Studio. If your application
uses this interface it must be an extension of Visual Studio, either using
simple automation or as an add-in yes?

Whatever you're doing that requires Visual Studio will also require the
users of your program to install Visual Studio on their machines.

You could concievably ask them to install Visual Studio Express.

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"miztaken" <ju**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi,
My C# application have a following code to create an instance of
Visual Studio.

System.Type type = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.
8.0");
Object obj = System.Activator.CreateInstance(type, true);
EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte8Obj = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)obj;
MessageFilter.Register();
dte8Obj.MainWindow.Visible = false;

This code work ok in the PC with Visual Studio Installed but doesnt
work in the PC with only Framework installed.?

How can i make this work in PC with only framework installed?

I am using Visual Studio 2005

Thank You
miztaken

[Peter Duniho]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:54:43 -0700, miztaken <ju**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

So do you mean i have to ask my client to install visual studio IDE to
run my application?

If your application requires Visual Studio to be present, then yes. You
do.

This doesn't seem to be feasible solution..

I agree. So, as Mike says, why are you writing your application with a
dependency on Visual Studio? What are you doing with Visual Studio that
is so essential for your program?

Pete

[Tim Jarvis]

miztaken wrote:

This code work ok in the PC with Visual Studio Installed but doesnt
work in the PC with only Framework installed.?

Well, there are licensing issues to be resolved before deploying a
Visual Studio SDK solution (VSX). If you want to distribute the VS
shell with your app, you will have to pay for it (I believe), or if you
are simply deploying a plugin, then the assumption would be that your
users already have VS installed.

You should be able to find the answers to your VSX SDK questions here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/vsx/default.aspx

Regards Tim.

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[miztaken]

Well i need to create a new instance of VS to handle one exception
that i receive while fetching objects out of excel file.
This is an official solution for the project, i consulted Microsoft's
website for this:-

Please have a look at this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...72(VS.80).aspx

Why would Microsoft suggest something like this.

I am confused and dont know what to do.

Please help me

miztaken

[Peter Duniho]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:21:02 -0700, miztaken <ju**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

Well i need to create a new instance of VS to handle one exception
that i receive while fetching objects out of excel file.
This is an official solution for the project, i consulted Microsoft's
website for this:-

Please have a look at this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...72(VS.80).aspx

Why would Microsoft suggest something like this.

I don't think they do.

The article you referenced starts with this sentence:

If you programatically call into Visual Studio automation
from an external (out-of-proc), multi-threaded application,
you can occasionally get the errors "Application is busy"
or "Callee was rejected by caller."

In other words, the solution described in that article is specifically for
a situation in which you are _already_ automating Visual Studio.

I don't see anything in that article that suggests you ought to _add_ a
dependency to Visual Studio if you don't already have one.

I am confused and dont know what to do.

Perhaps you could go back to the beginning. What are you _really_ trying
to do?

You seem to have already settled on a solution for whatever problem it is
you have, but unfortunately you've misread the references you're looking
at and seem to have gotten yourself into a situation where the solution
you're attempting is entirely inappropriate.

Rather than asking how to get an entirely inappropriate solution to work,
it would probably be better to work on getting a solution that isn't
entirely inappropriate.

Pete

[miztaken]

Hi there,
I am doing OLE Automation not VS automation.
I am opening Excel File programmatically but when i create an
application then it gives me error so the solution was to create a new
instance of VS and then automate the excel application and then do
works, close excel app and close the instance of VS.
This is what i am doing and i am getting error?

Thank You
miztaken

[Peter Duniho]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:56:54 -0700, miztaken <ju**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi there,
I am doing OLE Automation not VS automation.

Well, yes and no. It's clear from your first post that you ARE using VS
automation. That's what creating an instance of Visual Studio
programmatically is. Automation.

But, I also understand your statements to mean that you are only using VS
automation because of the article you referenced. And since you would not
be using VS automation except for having read that article, we can safely
say that the article that you've referenced is not relevant to your
original problem.

I am opening Excel File programmatically but when i create an
application then it gives me error so the solution was to create a new
instance of VS and then automate the excel application and then do
works, close excel app and close the instance of VS.

What is it about using VS automation that seems to address your problem?
I am certain that using VS automation is not what you want to do, but it's
possible that understanding why you thought that article was helpful, and
what the code in the article is actually accomplishing for you would help
us to understand what your original problem is.

This is what i am doing and i am getting error?

The only error you've described so far is the inability to automate VS
without having VS installed. That error is completely expected and we
really can't get you past that without suggesting one of two things:
either stop trying to automate VS, or tell your client that they need to
install VS.

Personally, my vote is for "stop trying to automate VS". But no one can
help you do that until you explain what problem it is you were having that
led you to automating VS in the first place.

Pete

[miztaken]

Hi Peter,
you are correct.

The problem, to solve which, i have used that VS Automation code, is
not related to this forum thus i didnt posted the thing in detail.
But here is my problem:
My application requires me to extract embedded office file from Office
Files i.e. embedded documents from Office Files.They are called
InlineShapes.
So while creating an instance of it (Office File) i get an unusual and
unpredictable exception like:

1. Error: Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC
2. Error: Call was rejected by callee. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80010001 (RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED))

So i googled for a while and then for Error 2, i came up with the
above link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...72(VS.80).aspx
The title of the article on the web states the same title [Call was
rejected by callee.]
So i don't think its not relevant, or am i missing something?

Anyways, i used that code and it was stable.
But when i stated testing and deploying i got this problem?

Thank You
miztaken

[Peter Duniho]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:14:55 -0700, miztaken <ju**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi Peter,
you are correct.

The problem, to solve which, i have used that VS Automation code, is
not related to this forum thus i didnt posted the thing in detail.

Well, I do agree your problem doesn't appear to be related to this forum.
But your mistaken use of VS automation doesn't really change that. It's
still not related to this forum.

[...]
So i googled for a while and then for Error 2, i came up with the
above link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...72(VS.80).aspx
The title of the article on the web states the same title [Call was
rejected by callee.]
So i don't think its not relevant, or am i missing something?

It's hard to say. After all, this isn't the correct forum so there's not
necessarily anyone here who actually knows the answer to the problem
you're really having. I know I don't.

But, looking at the link you posted, it's not clear to me why you're using
the VS automation as part of that solution. The interesting part of the
sample code has nothing to do with VS. They just happen to be presenting
it in the context of VS automation. But it looks to me as though all you
really need is the MessageFilter class that's there. The rest of the
stuff in the Main() method is just for demonstration purposes, including
the VS automation.

So, copy the MessageFilter class and IOleMessageFilter interface
declarations to your own project, call MessageFilter.Register() before you
automate Excel, and MessageFilter.Revoke() when you're done. Don't do any
of the VS automation stuff.

If that doesn't do the trick, then you probably need to find a forum where
Excel automation is more on-topic. Your chance of finding someone who
actually has some expertise in the area is much greater there than here.

Pete

[miztaken]

No it didnt worked.

I am consulting other forum..

thanks for your help

miztaken