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New Post: Nested Structures

DLBlanchard — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:25 GMT

I'm afraid I'm denser than you: could you elaborate on how you go about "Chaining collections together"? I'm trying to achieve the same effect as you describe in your original post.

New Post: Read configuration element data that is not in an attribute?

AdaskoTheBeAsT — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:34:33 GMT

Ok I missed that this is currently possible by setting flag "Has Custom Child Elements" to true.
If I have for example configuration element named OperationElement with such flag I have to write partial class

public partial class OperationElement
{
    public string Script { get; set; }
    private bool HandleUnrecognizedElement(string elementName, global::System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
    {
        this.Script = reader.ReadString();
        return true;
    }
}

And all works as expected

New Post: Read configuration element data that is not in an attribute?

AdaskoTheBeAsT — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:57:03 GMT

It would be also nice if CSD would allow to use CData elements.

I found sample implementation here
Sample article

New Post: Read configuration element data that is not in an attribute?

jholovacs — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:50:25 GMT

I have an optional element hanging off my configuration called cnfNotes; my intention is to have this node basically be a free text field like so:

<account id="someid" name="somename" ...>
    <bankInfo id="someid" name="somename"... />
    <notes>
        blah blah blah...
    </notes>
</account>

...but I cannot figure out how to access this value programmatically. Is this not supported?

New Post: Sharing items between diagrams

janimatyastct — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:15:26 GMT

First I would like to send a big Thank You for everyone participating in this great tool, because it makes creating configurations a joy. The question I face now is that is it possible to share items (sections, elements, etc.) between diagrams? I think the answer is no, because the code for the diagrams is always re-generated.
I think it would be a nice feature to allow elements and collections be shared among diagrams, because now if I need to have some elements be shared among diagrams (have the same name), it is possible to copy-paste them, but they result in identical generated classes thus collide with each other (not if I put them into different namespaces or rename them). If this tool would allow referring to content in other diagrams, this issue would not arise.

New Post: Cannot find a schema that defines target namespace ..

jgauffin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:45:53 GMT

I get the following warning:

Warning 1   Cannot find a schema that defines target namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/dsltools/ConfigurationSectionDesigner', schema validation skipped. M:\Dok\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\ServiceBrokerLib\ServiceBrokerLib\ConfigurationDesigner.csd  2   2

I use the latest version of the VS2012 extension.

New Post: ConfigurationElementCollection and the generated XSD

AsherBarak — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:22:08 GMT

Hi,

Has there been any progress on this?

Best,

Asher

New Post: Custom type problem

taicodev — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:46:06 GMT

Hi and thank u again for this brilliant tool. We used to use in when we where using VS 2010. and after moving to VS 2012 it was one of those few extensions we were messing a lot :). I am very glad to see this project is still alive and u added support for VS 2012, but what we can not figure out is, how to add custom types? the only option we have is by right-clicking on designer and selecting import external enum, but even in this case we have to choose external DLL file. what we want to to is to use Types from same project (In our case configuration section designer is part of our Class Library project). can u explain this a little bit?

in VS 2010 we could right-click on Type Definitions root node and select add from there but now there is no menu entry there.

so let me ask u one more time, how to work with custom types in VS2012 and Config Section Designer?

New Post: ConfigurationElementCollection and the generated XSD

CCPFC — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:56:45 GMT

Has there been a fix for this? (Have been busy and might have missed it.)

New Post: Nested Structures

CCPFC — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:53:48 GMT

In case there is anyone else as dense as me. This is easy just by chaining Collections together and ending with an element.

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

iLMaX — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:58:36 GMT

I'll fix it during this week (i hope)

New Post: Documentation update

andym1978 — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:23:59 GMT

I have updated the documentation to include instructions for VS 2012. I have also included links to the required SDKs.

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

andym1978 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:12:59 GMT

IlMax is now working on this one.

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

andym1978 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:20:41 GMT

I had to rollback the changes temporarily due to some issues. We will let you know when it is ready.

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

fdsaasdf — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:43:12 GMT

Is this tracked somewhere? Can you share a link to the bug/patch/...? Need a beta-tester? B-)

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

andym1978 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:42:15 GMT

I have applied a user submitted patch that may help with this issue. I've uploaded the source code. If no issues found, we will include this in next build.

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

andym1978 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:39:19 GMT

Thank you for the comment. This is currently an active work item for this project, so will hopefully be completed soon.

New Post: Configuration Collection of type 'AddRemoveClearMap': why do children need a key property?

fdsaasdf — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:07:38 GMT

[This question originally asked on StackOverflow.com, but got no attention there]

I'm using Configuration Section Designer (CSD) to manage my .NET app.config file structure, and so far I'm lovin' it.

Problem is, I need a collection of items that doesn't lend itself to having a key. This is a list of permissions having a type {User | Group} and a name. There can be several items of the same type and several items of the same name.

It makes sense not to be able to do this using a collection of type BasicMap; but what about AddRemoveClearMap collections? (Ok, the 'map' in AddRemoveClearMap doesn't help, I need list semantics).

This is what CSD says when I try to configure it like this:

The Item Type of this collection does not have a key property.

Here's a screenshot.

Any pointers are welcome.

PS. This StackOverflow answer suggests I add a bogus (unique) GUID property to the objects in the collection and use that as the key. Is there a way to bend CSD to allow that, short of editing the CSD source code?

New Post: VS 11 Support

Atrejoe — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:46:52 GMT

Same here, great work!

New Post: VS 11 Support

andym1978 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:55:46 GMT

Great. Thanks for the help.