Can I use VSTA in application(w32), writen on Delphi????

Hi!

I got a question:

Can i use vsa in application(w32), writen on Delphi?

have you some samples for this? may be COM objects?

Thanks. Gorelikov Alexandr.

Gorlikov,

You can use VSTA in a Delphi application.  The Delphi application would either expose a COM API or a .NET API.  Integrating VSTA is not intrusive in your application, the integration remains largely separate.  We do not have a COM sample for VSTA v 2 at this time, but I will get one up later this week and post a link to it here.  In the mean time, you may want to go through the SDK walkthroughs and check out the ShapeAppBasicMFC sample.

Thanks,

-Melody

Gorlikov,

After further review of the ShapeAppMFC sample I believe this should be a good example for you.  Please take a look at this sample, and how the host calls into the external VstaIntegration library.  This library should also be a good starting point for you.  To apply this sample to your application, follow the steps outlined in the SDK walkthroughs- most of them will be the same.  Here is a link to the on-line documentation, please use this instead of the documentation included with the SDK because it has some important updates in it.

For the walkthroughs,

1)  Creating a Proxy Assembly- no changes

2)  Creating Project Templates- no changes.  To use the discovery method of the ShapeApp samples you will need to manually modify the project templates adding a post build event which moves the add-in assemblies to a known location.  Here is a link to a video which will walk you through this.

3)  Modifying ShapeApp to discover and load add-ins- try to emulate the ShapeAppMFC sample using the VstaIntegraion library,

• Update the HostItemProvider using your entry point type (specified in the proxy) instead of ShapeApp.Proxy.Application.
• Replace the HostTypeMapProvider file with the HostTypeMapProvider file created by ProxyGen.
• Update the VstaApplicationIntegration file with your entry point type instead of using ShapeApp.Proxy.Application, update the location to search for add-ins in, and update the class name with the host item name specified on the 3rd screen of ProjectGen.
  

4)  Incorporating the IDE- try to emulate the ShapeAppMFC sample.

If you have any questions or run into a problem with the walkthroughs or samples, please let me know.

Thanks,

-Melody

Thanks. I'll try to do it...

:)

Hi!

I've a first problem :)

fist of all(am i right?) I've to do :

"C:\Program Files\Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2.0 SDK\2008\Visual Studio Tools For Applications\Tools\ProxyGen\ProxyGen.exe"  /l:C:\VSTA\Project1.exe   /o:c:\out.xml

where "Project1.exe" - simple project(just an ampty form)

I have error:

C:\VSTA>s\Tools\ProxyGen\ProxyGen.exe"  /l:C:\VSTA\Project1.exe   /o:c:\out.xml
ProxyGen.exe : ProxyGen.exe [Version 9.0.30813.0]
c Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

An unrecoverable error was encountered during processing.
Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040202
This may have been caused by earlier errors.

ProxyGen.exe Information: 0 : Finished

that is wrong?

Gorelikov,

I do not see any problem with the ProxyGen command you are using, it worked for me when I substituted an empty VB form project for Project1.exe. Please send the empty project that is giving you trouble to vstasupport@summsoft.com and I will take a look.

Thanks,

-Melody