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I have a question, what is the intended developer environment for developing WHS add ins?
I currently have visual studio 2008 installed on my main computer. I've copied the WHS api dlls to that machine and reference those in my projects. I do my development and partial testing from that machine. The final testing involves copying my .dll to the AddIns folder on my WHS machine. Once copied I run the WHS console (remotely), install, test, uninstall.
The testing and debugging part is annoying.
Is it intended that I install VS2008 on my WHS machine and debug the console by attaching to the console process? I've held back from doing that because I don't want to clutter my WHS machine up too much with unecessary software & dlls.
ThanksWednesday, February 20, 2008 3:04 AM
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The intent is probably that you test exactly as you're doing. You might want to consider testing in a virtual machine if what you're developing has a good chance of messing up WHS, but you can't really test an add-in outside of WHS.Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:08 PMModerator
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Lliam,
Installing Visual Studio is not necesairy and I would not recommend it for a live WHS machine. In that case I would sugest installing WHS in a virtual test machine using VPC.
Also might also have a look at Brendan Grant's devolper tips at "http://www.brendangrant.com/WHS/WHSDevTips.htm" (recommended). For simple development task I prefer using my development desktop using Brendan's Testloader and the Studio remote debugging service for remote debugging the real thing.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:12 PMModerator
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The intent is probably that you test exactly as you're doing. You might want to consider testing in a virtual machine if what you're developing has a good chance of messing up WHS, but you can't really test an add-in outside of WHS.Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:08 PMModerator
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Lliam,
Installing Visual Studio is not necesairy and I would not recommend it for a live WHS machine. In that case I would sugest installing WHS in a virtual test machine using VPC.
Also might also have a look at Brendan Grant's devolper tips at "http://www.brendangrant.com/WHS/WHSDevTips.htm" (recommended). For simple development task I prefer using my development desktop using Brendan's Testloader and the Studio remote debugging service for remote debugging the real thing.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:12 PMModerator -
Thanks guys!Friday, February 22, 2008 8:59 AM