I've seen the podcast about visual studio integration to edit and create templates, xslt, usercontrols and css. After doing some research I can't find anything about it. Has it been released yet?
I would really love to do this stuff with visual studio support.
I thought this was scheduled for the 4.1 release of Umbraco. Not 100% sure about that . I am 100% sure that this is not released yet. Visual Studio support is an awesome feature indeed
You can actually do all of this in Visual Studio already (see my blogpost for an example of how to set-up your project).
The only problem is when you're developing with multiple people and do not share a database, the master pages don't get registered properly I believe. The simple solution (for now) is for the other developer to open up the master page and save it.
as far as I can overview your example this is great for debugging usercontrols on a local machine. But the feature I'm looking for is to automatic load all your exsisting files of your umbraco webpage into visual studio (css files, xslt files, templates and so on) and be able to edit them. So you don't have to use your browser to edit something in your code. Just strike STRG + S in visual studio (or click a button or what ever) and your changes are live. And to have the full power of Visual Studio.
That's what the podcast was showing and I hope this will be possible sometime :)
@ sebastiaan With the demo on CodeGarden Templates where inserted into the database also. That is one thing that is not possible at this moment. and that would be very cool to have.
@Timsn yes, it is mainly for debuggin, but this immediately allows you to edit all of the things you want in VS. You only have to add the "UmbracoFramework" and not the "UmbracoModules" project. However, I think you might need to do some custom development in the future, so it would be a small time investment to make a modules project as well.
I hope to release the VS templates + macros shown in the video during this fall, presumely along with the 4.1 schedule.
The project was some work I did for R&D for Courier 2.0 coming later this year with 100% VS integration on (almost) every thing (ie. create templates, macros, etc. directly from VS.NET - YAY!).
Hello, I am noobie and I would like to know too (I am still trawling the forum to find out how).
I know the rest of the world loves browsers, but geez, developing in one is really retarded...I feel like I work in a government department or something....
Anyway if anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate them too!
I don't believe there are any plans for this to be released any time soon. I know some other devs have looked at building integration tools for VS but it's really quite a lot of time that needs to be invested.
But you don't need any kind of 3rd party component to edit in VS, I'm not sure I've ever used the in-browser editor to do anything for Umbraco, I only work in VS. You can either run through a local IIS or Cassini, what ever you prefer.
I have now read through those, I guess that will be the way I end up doing things too, so working through that now and will see how I go. I see also that there are also some similar ways shown on the wiki.
Visual Studio integration
I've seen the podcast about visual studio integration to edit and create templates, xslt, usercontrols and css. After doing some research I can't find anything about it. Has it been released yet?
I would really love to do this stuff with visual studio support.
Hi Tim,
I thought this was scheduled for the 4.1 release of Umbraco. Not 100% sure about that . I am 100% sure that this is not released yet. Visual Studio support is an awesome feature indeed
Cheers,
Richard
You can actually do all of this in Visual Studio already (see my blogpost for an example of how to set-up your project).
The only problem is when you're developing with multiple people and do not share a database, the master pages don't get registered properly I believe. The simple solution (for now) is for the other developer to open up the master page and save it.
Hi Sebastiaan,
as far as I can overview your example this is great for debugging usercontrols on a local machine. But the feature I'm looking for is to automatic load all your exsisting files of your umbraco webpage into visual studio (css files, xslt files, templates and so on) and be able to edit them.
So you don't have to use your browser to edit something in your code. Just strike STRG + S in visual studio (or click a button or what ever) and your changes are live. And to have the full power of Visual Studio.
That's what the podcast was showing and I hope this will be possible sometime :)
@ sebastiaan With the demo on CodeGarden Templates where inserted into the database also. That is one thing that is not possible at this moment. and that would be very cool to have.
Cheers,
Richard
PS: I like the blogpost you wrote.
@Timsn yes, it is mainly for debuggin, but this immediately allows you to edit all of the things you want in VS. You only have to add the "UmbracoFramework" and not the "UmbracoModules" project. However, I think you might need to do some custom development in the future, so it would be a small time investment to make a modules project as well.
Thanks Richard! :)
@sebastiaan, sounds good, I'll try that. Maybe it's getting me way closer to what I want to do with VS than I thought. Thanks.
I hope to release the VS templates + macros shown in the video during this fall, presumely along with the 4.1 schedule.
The project was some work I did for R&D for Courier 2.0 coming later this year with 100% VS integration on (almost) every thing (ie. create templates, macros, etc. directly from VS.NET - YAY!).
That would be awesome! Looking forward to the release :)
Thank you Niels.
Was this feature ever released? Is it supported in v.4.5.1?
Hello, I am noobie and I would like to know too (I am still trawling the forum to find out how).
I know the rest of the world loves browsers, but geez, developing in one is really retarded...I feel like I work in a government department or something....
Anyway if anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate them too!
Thank you.
I don't believe there are any plans for this to be released any time soon. I know some other devs have looked at building integration tools for VS but it's really quite a lot of time that needs to be invested.
But you don't need any kind of 3rd party component to edit in VS, I'm not sure I've ever used the in-browser editor to do anything for Umbraco, I only work in VS. You can either run through a local IIS or Cassini, what ever you prefer.
Matt has a pretty good write up on his blog about how he does it and I've left a comment there which explains how I do it: http://blog.mattbrailsford.com/2010/07/14/visual-studio-project-structure-for-umbraco/
Thanks Slace,
I have now read through those, I guess that will be the way I end up doing things too, so working through that now and will see how I go. I see also that there are also some similar ways shown on the wiki.
Thank you!
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