Running Guidance Packages in the Experimental Hive

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To run your Guidance Package in the Experimental Hive:

  • Open your Guidance Package in VS2010
  • Build your guidance package solution
  • Configure the debugging setting to launch VS2010 in an experimental instance of Visual Studio: open the Guidance Package project property window, set the debug location to devenv.exe, and set command line argument to “/rootSuffix Exp”.
  • Reset VS2010 Expermiental Hive: Go to Start All Programs Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SDK Tools and click on “Reset the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Experimental Instance”.
  • Clean and Rebuild the Guidance Package solution.
  • Press Ctrl + F5. This will start an experimental instance of Visual Studio.
  • In the new instance, select File > New > Project and create a project of the type of the Guidance Package you just created. You are now ready to execute your recipes.

See also

Using Guidance Packages | Installing a Guidance Package | Enabling a Guidance Package | Uninstalling a Guidance Package | Launching Templates | Launching Bound and Unbound Recipes | Using the Guidance Navigator