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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions for Visual Studio 2012/2013 available now!

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For those following our Blog and working with System Center Operations Manager 2012 Operations Manager:

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions supporting latest versions of Visual Studio are now finally available!

   

You can get them here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30169

   

The System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions—VSAE—is an add-in for Visual Studio which provides Lifecycle Management Tools to support Management Pack Authoring.

More details can be found at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5236.visual-studio-authoring-extensions-for-system-center-2012-operations-manager.aspx

   

   

Feature Summary

  • VS Projects for Monitoring MPs, System Center 2012 and later MPs including Operations Manager and Service Manager.

       

  • MP Item Templates for quick creation of MP Items.

    • XML MP Item Templates (generates MP XML for editing).

    • Template Group Item Templates (Abstract your intent from MP XML).

    • Snippet Templates (generates MP XML from CSV)

         

  • IntelliSense for MP XML for the following versions:

    • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

    • System Center Operations Manager 2012 and later

    • System Center Service Manager 2012 and later

         

  • Integrates into Visual Studio Project System with *.mpproj.

    • Enables building within VS & MSBuild.

    • Supports custom build tasks (simply edit *.mpproj or *.sln)

    • Build multiple MPs (multiple *.mpproj) in a solution.

    • Integrates into any VS supported Source Control systems.

         

  • MP Navigation Features

    • Management Pack Browser for browsing MP Items.

    • Go to Definition

    • Find All References

         

  • ResKit Tools integrated

    • Workflow Simulator
    • Generate Visio Diagram
    • MP Best Practice Analyzer
    • MP Spell Checker
    • MP Cookdown Analyzer

   

Supported Operating Systems
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8.1

   

Other Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2013
    Hi, I can't install these extension in Visual Studio 2010. The prerequisite check fails saying I don't have VS2012 neither 2013. Do you know where can I download the old version of this extension to be installed with VS2010? Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2013
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