[MonoDevelop] Visual Studio 2005 Import

[Gideon de Swardt]

Is everybody for native support for VS.NET? 

I think native support would provide needed functionality and high
flexibility for users to switch between VS.NET, SD and MD. Especially as
VS.NET developers would not switch over immediately, it is process and
native support would allow them to test drive MD without having to convert
their projects. I know this was a feature that I requested, back in the days
when I was test-driving SD.

> Notice that after the project is loaded, it will look like to any other
> native MD project, and it will be built and executed using the MD build
> system.

So to implement native support for VS.NET project does not depend on XBuild?

> > A questions that just jump straight out at me, would be how would
> > current AddIns integrate with VS.NET 2005 project and solution files?
> 
> Add-ins interact with projects using the MonoDevelop.Projects object
> model, so the format used to read the project is not relevant.
> 
> > I know that for instance the WebReference AddIn would have to change to
> > use the native WebReference xml element for VS.NET projects instead of
> > just adding ProjectFiles to MD project and hiding it them from the user.
> > In fact the AddIn would require a separate NodeBuilder for loading
> > WebReferences for VS.NET 2005 projects.
>
> The IFileFormat implementation should take care of it. At load time, it
> could parse the WebReference xml element and add a ProjectFile to the
> project being read, and do the reverse operation when saving.

Wouldn't it make sense to add dedicated WebReference elements to the MD
project file format, the same as the current Reference elements. This way
you don't have to convert one way for reading and then back again for saving
for VS.NET projects, but all projects will handle them the same?

Gideon

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