• Nicholas Londey (8/8) Dec 22 2014 Hey, has anyone recently built and run VisualD using VS2013
• Rainer Schuetze (17/24) Dec 23 2014 This is not the official way to do it using the VS SDK, but what I
• Nicholas Londey (9/11) Dec 29 2014 Before this step I needed to go in and delete my existing 12.0D*
• Rainer Schuetze (4/15) Jan 01 2015 Could be that the settings written from earlier tries made it always

"Nicholas Londey" <londey gmail.com> writes:

Hey, has anyone recently built and run VisualD using VS2013 
(community edition/pro). With minor additions I was able to get 
it to build but have been  unsuccessful debugging it. Using the 
given instructions to install the extension in the AppData folder 
and using /RootSuffix but instead it always loads the installed 
version's dll.

Will continue to look into it but if anyone has already solve 
these problems any hints would be much appreciated.

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 22.12.2014 11:57, Nicholas Londey wrote:
 Hey, has anyone recently built and run VisualD using VS2013 (community
 edition/pro). With minor additions I was able to get it to build but
 have been  unsuccessful debugging it. Using the given instructions to
 install the extension in the AppData folder and using /RootSuffix but
 instead it always loads the installed version's dll.

 Will continue to look into it but if anyone has already solve these
 problems any hints would be much appreciated.

This is not the official way to do it using the VS SDK, but what I 
usually do is:

- make a copy of "<VS-Install-Dir>\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Rainer 
Schuetze\VisualD\0.3\visuald.pkgdef" to visuald_debug.reg

- load it into an editor

- replace $RootKey$ with 
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0D_Config"

- replace "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VisualD\\" with the path to the 
debug version of VisualD.dll

- launch VS once with "devenv /RootSuffix D" to initialize the registry 
for hive "12.0D_Config" and exit

- run visuald_debug.reg to create the appropriate registry entries

- launch VS again with "devenv /RootSuffix D"

This should now show Visual D installed. Registrations needs to be rerun 
after changing the VS installation (e.g. by installing a new version of 
Visual D), because the configuration is rewritten then.

"Nicholas Londey" <londey gmail.com> writes:

Thanks, with a bit more fiddling I was able to get it to work. 
Now have VisualD launching VisualD in the debugger.

 - launch VS once with "devenv /RootSuffix D" to initialize the 
 registry for hive "12.0D_Config" and exit

Before this step I needed to go in and delete my existing 12.0D* 
folders in the registry as well as remove/rename "C:\Program 
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Rainer 
Schuetze\VisualD\0.3\visuald.pkgdef". After that the new 12.0D 
visual studio loaded without the installed VisualD and the 
subsequent steps worked.

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 30.12.2014 06:31, Nicholas Londey wrote:
 Thanks, with a bit more fiddling I was able to get it to work. Now have
 VisualD launching VisualD in the debugger.

 - launch VS once with "devenv /RootSuffix D" to initialize the
 registry for hive "12.0D_Config" and exit

 Before this step I needed to go in and delete my existing 12.0D* folders
 in the registry as well as remove/rename "C:\Program Files
 (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Rainer
 Schuetze\VisualD\0.3\visuald.pkgdef".

Could be that the settings written from earlier tries made it always 
take the version from the extension folders.

 After that the new 12.0D visual
 studio loaded without the installed VisualD and the subsequent steps
 worked.

Good. Now waiting for pull requests ;-)