October 2007 Archives

Better later than never. I uploaded IronXSLT 0.2 release.

New in this version:

• IronXSLT should now run without Visual Studio 2008 SDK
• A notion of a Startup stylesheet in XSLT Library project
• "Debug" page in XSLT Library project properties, which has Startup stylesheet dropdown list
• "Set as StartUp Stylesheet" context menu item for XSLT stylesheets
• "Start Debugging(F5)/Start Without Debugging(Ctrl+F5)" commands support - runs startup stylesheet

My goal was to make F5/Ctrl+F5 working intuitively right - when you work on XSLT Library project F5 should run project with debugger and Ctrl+F5 - without. When you have more that one stylesheet it's nice time saving feature, not to mention that start debugging command finally starts debugger as it should.

But what to run? So I introduced a notion of a startup XSLT stylesheet in a project. It's kinda like startup object in C# projects, but currently only affects debugging within Visual Studio. You mark your startup stylesheet either via project properties (Debug tab):

 or via new context menu item I added to XSLT stylesheets:

Once you have startup stylesheet in XSLT Library project you can start it as you usually start project with or without debugging:

I also spent unbelievable amount of time trying to make startup stylesheet bolded in Solution Explorer. It still doesn't work on project load...

Anyway, get IronXSLT 0.2 at http://www.xmllab.net/downloads. It's free. Give it a try with Visual Studio 2008 Beta2. Find more documentation at http://xmllab.net/ironxslt.

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