I am creating a Setup for my .Net Application using WIX.
I want to check the existence of a file before installing my WIX SET UP as a Dependency.
If that file not exist then a message should be displayed.
Any help would be appreciated.
To check for the existence of a file you can use the FileSearch-element in combination with the DirectorySearch-element. For an example you can take a look at How To: Check the Version Number of a File During Installation (you don't have to use the version part for your needs).
For displaying the dialog you can create your own SpawnDialog like described here. Another alternative would be to add the text as property to the Welcome-dialog and set the property based on your findings. Still another way would be to include a second Welcome-dialog and then invoke the needed one as described in this stackoverflow-question.
I'm developing a plugin for Redmine and encountered an issue of how to implement plugin specific settings in Redmine in the most neat way.
Is it possible to have a plugin specific settings in {redmine_home}/plugin/{my_plugin}/config/settings.yml while sharing with a core a model (in MVC terms) logic which reads YAML file, sets attributes of the model class, provides easy access to them, etc. ({redmine_home}/app/models/setting.rb)
I think copypasting or require'ing the core model in the plugin model is definitely a poor design so right now i'm tending to have a plugin specific settings in the core config {redmine_home}/config/settings.yml and when it comes to plugin controller to read a settings it relies on the core model to do that. ({redmine_home}/app/models/setting.rb)
Is this a proper design? Is there any better ways to do this?
Thanks.
I just checked 3 different plugins in our project all used something like:
options = YAML::load( File.open(File.join(Rails.root, 'plugins/fancy_plugin/config', 'settings.yml')))
So just copy pasting.
I'm having some trouble merging the localization satellite assemblies into the plugin DLL for CRM2011.
Either that, or I don't know how to use the merged resources afterwards.
I create a few plugins and create a basic resource file (default - English) and one for a specific culture (at the time of writing it's for Polish localizations, but later I'll need to add French as well).
I make sure not to sign the assembly itself, as ILMerge will sign the finished assembly itself.
This is the command I use to merge the extra satellite assembly:
ilmerge /targetplatform:v4,C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 /log:log.txt /keyfile:KeyFile.snk /out:Plugins.dll DynamicsCRM2011.Plugins.dll pl-PL\DynamicsCRM2011.Plugins.resources.dll
As you can see, the plugins are in .NET 4.0 and I've got the required .config file for ILMerge to use the required assemblies for merging.
The generated file appears fine, I can register it with CRM plugin-registrator, add new steps and so forth.
However, it will always use the default language. I've tried changing the System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.UICulture, but this didn't help. When I created a ResourceManager class and used GetString("ErrorMessage", new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("pl-PL")), I got an Exception that the specified ResourceManager doesn't know what to do with the specified culture.
I know of this question here. However, the posted solution seems to be an old one. The generated resource .cs files do not use a ComponentResourceManager. Also, parts of the code posted there have been marked as deprecated.
I'm not really sure what I'm am to do now, or how to further debug this, as I have very little experience when it comes to working with assemblies themselves. Please, help me get those satellite assemblies under control.
Update:
I've been working with sandbox plugins for a while now, and thus I no longer have access to things such as CurrentCulture (or at least I cannot change such things). I've tried tackling this problem once more: I've created a simple plugin which is fired when a new Account is saved. Nothing fancy. Here's the actual plugin code:
ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager(typeof(Properties.Resources));
var s = rm.GetString("ErrorAlreadyPosted", new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("pl-PL"));
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(s);
The code no longer throws an exception about not being able to find the specified culture... also the code obviously throws an exception at the end, but the important thing is WHAT the exception message is. I'd expect it to be in Polish.
Alas, it is not. The string returned by GetString is still in English.
The command I used for ILmerge is the same as before, but with the /lib parameter specified so that I don't have to copy all the CRM SDK dlls...
Apparently it is not possible to read resources from with the context of a Plugin.
Read up on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh670609.aspx#BKMK_UseXMLWebResourcesAsLanguageResources
Quote: When a plug-in requires localized text, you can use an XML web resource to store the localized strings so the plug-in can access them when needed. The structure of the XML is your option, but you may want to follow the structure used by ASP.NET Resource (.resx) files to create separate XML web resources for each language. For example, the following is an XML web resource named localizedString.en_US that follows the pattern used by .resx files.
This is all I know so far - have yet to build my own solution for localization of a crm plugin.
If you use a reflector tool to look at the generated assembly, do you see your resource(s) embedded correctly? You may be experiencing the bug as outlined in the link you posted.
Try setting Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture and\or Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.
Also try hooking into the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyLoad and\or AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve to debug which assemblies are being attempted to load and from where. You might need to customize their behavior so that instead of loading an external assembly to load an internal resource instead.
You can try embedding project references as resources instead of using ilmerge as well.
See this: http://bartlomiej.net/dotnet/embeded-assembies-into-an-executable/
The way we eventually handled this is by adding the localization XML files (generated by Visual Studio) as CRM resources, and created a bit of custom code which seeks the appropriate resource and then seeks the localization text inside.
It's, obviously, not as simple as just using the generated C# localization class, and requires some prep work. However, with that prep-work in place and with using nameof it's now almost as simple as the aforementioned resource classes.
I'm working on a Sproutcore UI for a project called "BWUnit". When using sc-gen to create models, etc it converts "BWUnit" to "BwUnit" in the generated files. Is there a way to prevent this from happening so I don't have to manually edit the files, replacing "BwUnit" with "BWUnit"?
so SproutCore unfortunately doesn't support what you want out of the box. This is their naming convention: http://wiki.sproutcore.com/w/page/27759680/FiedNotes-Suggestions%20on%20running%20the%20Sproutcore%20framework%20on%20a%20Windows%20(7)%20computer%20using%20a%20specific
If you are brave, however, you can edit the built tools and change the behavior of how the project and app names are prepared:
https://github.com/sproutcore/abbot/blob/master/lib/sproutcore/models/generator.rb#L462
If this is a feature you want and need, please open an issue here:
https://github.com/sproutcore/sproutcore/issues
Cheers,
Johannes
Hi I am wondering if it's possible to share modules throw apps.
In my project I have 3 applications and I am using the same module in each of them!
Making a plugin would be perfect, but my shared module is overwriting one of external plugin that I use. Do you have any idea of how I could do?
Maybe ordering module autoload... I don't have a clue!
Thanks!
You should put it in a plugin.
The order of plugins in your ProjectConfiguration determines the order they are loaded in. If you need to override another plugin, make sure yours is loaded after that.