How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

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【EntLib】Enterprise Library 3.1 を Visual Studio 2008 で使うには？

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re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

MarkG — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:01:46 GMT

Please, clarify the order of operations:

1. Install EL3.1 (with the integrated tool)

2. Run the script

3. Run devenv / setup

Is it correct?

Thank you

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Subu — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:55:38 GMT

I tried the above order. but getting an error. Could you please help

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Allan Wissing — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:41:49 GMT

devenv does not appear to have a /setup switch?

Can you please advise the correct syntax?

__Allan

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

J Hornberger — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:20:10 GMT

I believe the .reg file assumes you installed the ent lib in c:\program files\... and that windows is installed in c:\windows\system32

If your system doesn't match that you may need to edit the reg file prior to running it and inserting the values into your registry.

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

J Hornberger — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:12:40 GMT

If you already ran the reg file and you didn't install entlib in c:\program files or windows isn't in c:\windows, you will need to go in and edit the registry with regedit.

Search for '488366a4-630c-4a0e-a6a2-b019cee13bea'

There are a couple places to update, so look at all the sub nodes from '488366a4-630c-4a0e-a6a2-b019cee13bea' and make your changes.

Then run the above devenv command and you should be good to go.

It worked for me.

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

mamun1net — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:48:46 GMT

what changes should i do in '488366a4-630c-4a0e-a6a2-b019cee13bea'

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Michael Hoffmann — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:26 GMT

EL 3.1 won't appear in VS2008 on Vista64.

I edited the .reg to change "Program Files" to "Program Files (x86)" (the default install location) before running the install steps as outlined.

Also made sure I ran the steps logged in as administrator *and* as an admin install (msiexec /a) to boot.

Just for simple tests I created a project and added an app.config file and right-clicked on it for the editor. Nothing in the context menu (as I would expect from prior VS2005 install, albeit those were on XP32bit).

Any suggestions?

Mike

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Jack Ghostine — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:33:28 GMT

Works great, thanks. And did not break the integrated tool for VS 2005.

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Magnus — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:25:15 GMT

You can get the Configuration Editor to appear inside VS2008 on 64-bit Vista too but you have to make changes under WOW6432 registry keys. The simplest way to get it working is to search through all of the registry for '\Program Files\Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.1 - May 2007\' whenever you get a hit change 'Program Files' to 'Program Files (x86)'.

I did not get the context menu to appear but from the context menu I can choose "Open With ..." and in the dialog I get the Configuration Editor as an alternativ and viola the editor appears inside the Studio.

Happy hunting!

Magnus

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Magnus — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:29:07 GMT

Man am I tired. In the above post it shoud read

"I did not get the context menu *item* to appear ..."

Magnus

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Magnus — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:43:44 GMT

The simplest way to get it to work in 64-bit Vista may actually be to follow the directions here http://blog.lyalin.com/2008/01/visual-studio-2008-and-enterprise.html. Haven't tried it thou.

Magnus

re: How to get Enterprise Library 3.1 working in VS 2008

Magnus — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:02:17 GMT

At last! I even managed to get the context menu item to appear when right-clicking app.config. After having searched through and corrected the registry as described above I kept getting an error, "The operation could not be completed", when running devenv /setup.

If you are running on Vista you need to do this from the VS2008 Command Prompt

runas /env /user:Administrator "devenv.exe /setup"

That did the trick.

Magnus