Storyboard Designer - A Visual Studio Shell application sample

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New Post: Can't compile the StoryboardDesignerUI project

dge66 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:48:54 GMT

Hi Andre, could you please give details of your solution? Which file you modified? I got the same problem. Thanks!

Created Issue: Run from Experimental Hive

leandro1979 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:01:12 GMT

Hi,

I download the code, and I can see that in the Debug tab of dsl project is the line:

/ranu /rootsuffix Exp /DesignTimeRun "..\..\..\Debugging\Debugging.sln"

So, I set the StoryboardDesignerDslPackage project as startup, and run the solution.

The Experimental Hive is showed and I can see the Storyboard1.stb file in the project, but when I edit it, I only can see the xml.

I tried to create new diagram, but I can´t see the option to add new items.

I have instaled el VS 2008 SDK 1.1.

I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks

New Post: Error executing and installing the application

bernhardfrank — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:26:06 GMT

Hi,

I got the same error (I had only the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) )

The solution: I installed:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (got this automatically with my VS 2008 install)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1

after this the StoryBoard Designer installation worked fine

Would recommend to add Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 to the prerequisites.

cheers,
Bernhard

NEW POST: No VS integration?

awykel — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:25:12 GMT

I agree I thought this ran inside Visual Studio 2008 allowing you to create Story boards of your application and share them with team members, I thought this would be a different product type, however integrated with VS. Nice to see you can do things in Isolation I just downloaded the Isolation SDK my self.

Would there be a lot of work to integrate this into VS and make it run as at the project level? If so it would be a fun side project to teach me how to use the Extensibility package.

NEW POST: Error: processing a directive named 'deploy'

gajesh — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:12:33 GMT

I am able to compile the storyBoard project and setup project first time successfully.
As soon as i say "Run Custom Tool" for any text template file (Files.tt) of set up project, i got deploy processor error.(see detail error at the last of this post)

*What is to be done to resolve this error?

*Is it possible to get step by step documentation of this project or some video which describe how to create and deply Isoloated Shell application?

Any sort of help regarding the Isoloated Shell deoplyment will be very useful for me.

Detail deploy error:
_An Exception was thrown while processing a directive named 'deploy'. The transformation will not be run. The following Exception was thrown:
System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
at EnvDTE.Properties.Item(Object index)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.VSHost.TextTemplatingService.ResolveParameterValue(String directiveId, String processorName, String parameterName)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Deployment.InstallerDefinitionDirectiveProcessor.GeneratePostInitializationCode(String directiveName, StringBuilder codeBuffer, CodeDomProvider languageProvider, IDictionary`2 requiresArguments, IDictionary`2 providesArguments)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.RequiresProvidesDirectiveProcessor.ProcessDirective(String directiveName, IDictionary`2 arguments)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.Engine.ProcessCustomDirectives(ITextTemplatingEngineHost host, TemplateProcessingSession session, List`1 directivesToBeProcessed) C:\user\gajesh\Projects\PCMonitoring\StoryboardDesigner\Trunk\Source\Setup\StoryboardDesigner\Files.tt 8 4 StoryboardDesignerSetup_

Thanks & Regards
Gajesh

COMMENTED ISSUE: Instalation Issue

adnankhan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:29:35 GMT

Greetings,
I keep getting this error on install and trying to run the application. I installed the Visual Studio 2008 Shell Isolated Mode Redistributable package before the application. I even tried installing the Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Integrated). didn't help. I also copied the cab files to the install directory of the application.

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Microsoft Visual Studio Shell Isolated Edition
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Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.
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OK
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Comments: ** Comment from web user: adnankhan **

This post will help: http://www.codeplex.com/storyboarddesigner/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=19393

COMMENTED ISSUE: Instalation Issue

adnankhan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:27:31 GMT

Any word on this. I am getting same issue. Please help!

NEW POST: Source Code

ethos — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:49:22 GMT

I downloaded the source code and rebuilt it. When I run the application I don't see any project templates so it is not possible to create new projects. I did set the templates location to

StoryboardDesigner\Trunk\Source\Platform\StoryboardPlatform\Templates\Projects
StoryboardDesigner\Trunk\Source\Platform\StoryboardPlatform\Templates\Items

Please help.

NEW POST: Can't compile the StoryboardDesignerUI project

AndreClaassen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:27:55 GMT

I have had the same problem. The problem is the custom build rule for the vsct file. There is a hardcoded path to the Visual Studio 2008 SDK. The SDK should be installed at c:\Program Files. I have changed all pathes in the file and now it seem to work.

NEW POST: Setup Error, unable to find Isolated redist pkg

erich — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:16:26 GMT

Hi,

I am getting the following error when installing the designer:
"Storyboard Designer"
This setup requires the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell Isolated Mode Redistributable package. Please install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell Isolated Mode Redistributable package and run this setup again.

I verified that the redist pkg is installed by inspecting the installation directory contents and in the Control Panel Add and Remove Programs.
C:\VS 2008 Shell Redist\Isolated Mode>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 90BA-F8DA

Directory of C:\VS 2008 Shell Redist\Isolated Mode

01/19/2008 09:42 AM <DIR> .
01/19/2008 09:42 AM <DIR> ..
10/16/2007 02:00 PM 1,330 ReadMe.enu.txt
10/16/2007 03:05 PM 30,150 VS 2008 Shell Redistribution License.enu.txt
10/11/2007 02:41 PM 162,040 VS Shell 2008 EULA.enu.rtf
11/08/2007 07:22 PM 402,475,536 vsshellisolated.enu.exe
4 File(s) 402,669,056 bytes
2 Dir(s) 84,291,907,584 bytes free

Control Panel lists:
Visual Studio 2008 Shell Isolated Mode Redistributable Package
Version: 9.0.21022

Is this a VSShell issue or a Storyboard Designer issue?

Regards,
Eric

NEW POST: No VS integration?

rlarno — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:34:39 GMT

A Visual Studio Shell application sample... does that mean that an application like this will always run as a stand-alone application, and never as an integrated tool of Visual Studio (as in Visual Studio 2008, the development environment)?

Because of the domain of the application: being able to model software, I would expect this sort of applciation to be build as a Visual Studio package so that the storyboard could be part of a Visual Studio solution (being able to be checked into source control e.g.)

I would understand that one would use the Visual Studio Shell to build an application, like a video editing application or something where you would be able to reuse concepts like projects, builds, output, errorlist etc.

I agree though, that user stories do not need to apply to software, one could model all sorts of processes with it.

COMMENTED ISSUE: Instalation Issue

meile — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:04:44 GMT

Hi all,

I got the same error message. After installing the full SDK before installing Storyboard Designer, the error no longer occurred. After checking the sources of the Storyboard Designer, I saw that in the project file 'StoryboardDesignerDsl.csproj', there were some references to the following SDK assemblies:

These presumably didn't make it into the msi installer package. So there's some work to do I guess.

Hope this helps,
Meile

COMMENTED ISSUE: Instalation Issue

ironmala — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:28:15 GMT

Get same error. Using windows vista ultimate and vs 2008 team suite RTM + the isolated shell runtime.

NEW POST: Error executing and installing the application

meile — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:20:43 GMT

Jorge,

Glad I could be of service. Still it interests me though what's causing the problem in the first place. I think the problem should not exist at all. I'll be surely looking into it, just because it intrigues me and because I think other users should not have to have the same problems. I'll be sure to post my findings here.

Regards,
Meile

NEW POST: Error executing and installing the application

jorgeser — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:31:18 GMT

Thanks a lot Meile,

I have installed Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0, Visual Studio 2008 Shell - integrated mode - Redistributable Package and Visual Studio 2008 Shell - isolated mode - Redistributable Package, and I haven't had problems installing the Storyboard Designer application.

It has been helpful.

Regards,

Jorge

NEW POST: Error executing and installing the application

meile — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:09:53 GMT

Hello,

I had the same problems. But I chose to also install the full fledged SDK for VS2008 and the integrated shell. And after that the install of StoryboardDesigner went as smooth as can be. So there must be some prerequisite that is not correctly listed, but is available when the SDK or the integrated shell version is installed.

Just thought this might be helpful.

Regards,
Meile

CREATED ISSUE: Instalation Issue

dleblanc — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:07:19 GMT