ProjectAggregator2.dll installed into IDE directory?

[key88sf]

Hi - is there any reason ProjectAggregator2.dll is installed into a root-level folder on the C: drive called "IDE" ?  I think it would be much cleaner and straightforward if this was placed into the regular SapphireSteel Software  directory, instead of a root folder.

[Dermot]

Unfortunately, this isn't in our control (not easily anyway).

ProjectAggregator2 is a Microsoft provided 'fix' for VS 2005. It isn't needed in VS 2008 - but we have to be able to run in both VS 2005 and VS 2008, and so we have to use it. It installs where the Microsoftie who wrote it decided where it should go - into C:\IDE. No idea why he/she chose that directory.

If you know what you're doing in the Registry you can move it to somewhere more sensible.

We'll probably get rid of it when we start supporting VS 2010 properly. I think supporting two editions of VS is probably enough - we dont support VS 2003 for example.

Dermot

[key88sf]

I'm running VS2008 on Vista, and if I rename the "IDE" directory so it can't located the aggregator, I get an error message when trying to open a rails .sln file. So it seems it is needed by 2008 as well?

[Huw Collingbourne]

Yes. The current version of Ruby In Steel has been developed using VS 2005 in order to ensure compatibility between our VS2005/2008 editions. Consequently the Project Aggregator is a requirement for all installations. I know that's a nuisance but to ensure VS2005/2008 compatibility we have no alternative. As Dermot said earlier, we will drop that requirement when we cease to support VS2005 in a future version.

best wishes

Huw

[Dermot]

If you want to move it, locate the key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F0956FDB-CAE8-4df0-9FD1-48938F83D36F}

in the registry and goto the subkey 'InprocServer32'. This contains the location of the ProjectAggregator2.

Just change this to where you want the DLL located and move the actuall DLL there.

Dermot