This post is long overdue. I was held up with activities on CCF 2009 SP1 release, which will be out shortly. Let us get started with installing Mce.
Mce is a core component of CCF framework. You can choose to install Mce framework components by selecting the “MCE Components” option under Framework in CCF 2009 installer as shown below
Mce software factory and DSLs are present under Developer Tools and Samples section in the installer as shown below
Please note that you should have Guidance Automation Extension version 1.4 installed for using Mce Software Factory. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF79C099-4753-4A59-91E3-5020D9714E4E&displaylang=en
Mce framework is nothing but a set of .NET assemblies and you can find these in the Framework directory under your CCF 2009 installation folder.
To verify Mce software factory installation go to Add or Remove programs Applet in control panel and make sure you have the following components installed. If you have both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 you will see Software Factory, WorkUnit and Logical View DSLs installed separately for 2005 and 2008.
Make sure that there is new Solution type “MCE Solution” in the New Project dialog in Visual Studio under “Guidance Packages”
After you create a Mce Solution you should see three menu options to create specific Mce project types.
In the Add new Item dialog you should see Item Templates corresponding to LogicalView and WorkUnit DSLs
In the next post I will show you how to create your first multi-channel enabled application