August 2008 - Posts

• XML Editor Reuse

  It is always good to see that someone else finds the code that you have written useful enough to be reused in another application. Here we take a look at where SharpDevelop's XML Editor has been reused. The XML Editor was originally added to SharpDevelop 1.0 back in April 2005. MonoDevelop Some time ago I ported SharpDevelop's XML Editor so it could be used from inside MonoDevelop. Currently there is an addin available for MonoDevelop 1.0. MonoDevelop 2.0 now ships with this XML Editor after Michael Hutchinson from Novell integrated it in March this year. I also believe that it is being used to help provide at least some part of the autocompletion for ASP.NET. It will be interesting to see how Michael builds on and improves the XML Editor code. Kaxaml Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML Editor written by Robby Ingebretsen. Kaxaml version 1.0 and 2.0 use a modified version of SharpDevelop's XML Editor. Robby has replaced the user interface part so the autocompletion popup window now uses WPF. He has also modified it so the autocompletion popup window behaves the same as Visual Studio's XML Editor. For example, SharpDevelop automatically inserts the equals sign and double quotes an attribute name is autocompleted whilst Visual Studio will autocomplete just the attribute name and then automatically insert the double quotes after the equals sign is typed in. Intellisense for Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 Stefan Dobrev has written an addin to provide XML autocompletion for the as yet unreleased Expression Blend 2.5. This addin uses the XML Editor code from Kaxaml to provide the autocompletion. Stefan has modified this code slightly to add support for the Expression Blend's code editor. Posted Aug 31 2008, 03:00 PM by MattWard with 1 comment(s) Filed under: XmlEditor

• IronPython 2.0 Beta Integration

  Support for IronPython 2.0 Beta 4 is now available with SharpDevelop 3. Missing Features Some of the features have been disabled compared to the IronPython integration in SharpDevelop 2. Forms designer C# and VB.NET code conversion to Python Both of the above features involve converting code to and from a Code DOM. Support for the Code DOM is reduced in IronPython 2 so the above features have been temporarily disabled. Compiling IronPython 2.0 beta 4 re-introduced support for compiling python code to a .NET executable or dll and so SharpDevelop supports this. There is however one limitation. The working folder needs to be set to the folder containing the compiled dll or executable otherwise it will not be able to locate any local assembly references that are not in the GAC, for example IronPython.dll. IronPython Console There's now an IronPython console which can be used to type in IronPython expressions and have them evaluated interactively. It is currently missing code completion which will be implemented shortly. From the View menu select Tools and then Python Console. Posted Aug 20 2008, 09:27 PM by MattWard with no comments Filed under: Python

• Attach to Process

  SharpDevelop 3 supports attaching the debugger to a running process. From the Debug menu select Attach to Process. The Attach to Process dialog will show the managed processes by default. Select the process and then either double click or click the Attach button to attach to the process. When you have finished debugging you can detach from the process by selecting Detach from the Debug menu. Posted Aug 20 2008, 09:16 PM by MattWard with no comments Filed under: Debugger