Ice Visual Studio Add-In
Visual Studio is one of the most popular development environments for Windows. The Ice Visual Studio Add-In provides seamless integration of Ice application development with the Visual Studio IDE, making it a breeze to create and modify Visual Studio projects for Ice applications.
The add-in provides the following features:
- Handles all aspects of translating Slice files
- Incrementally recompiles Slice files after modifications
- Maintains dependencies among Slice files
- Highlights compilation errors in Slice source code
- Automatically removes obsolete generated source files
- Supports C++, .NET, and .NET Compact Framework projects
- Simplifies the inclusion of Ice libraries and assemblies
The Ice Visual Studio Add-In supports both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. (The add-in is not available for Visual Studio Express.)
Installation
The Ice Visual Studio Add-In is installed automatically by the Ice 3.4.2 installer for Windows. However, an updated version of the add-in (3.4.2.1) is now available that corrects several issues discovered since the Ice 3.4.2 release. To use the updated add-in, first install Ice 3.4.2 and then install the update. Visit the download page to obtain the files, and see the release notes for more details on the changes in this update.
Documentation
Please refer to the Ice manual for usage instructions.
Source Code
The source code for the add-in is available on the download page. Refer to vsaddin/INSTALL.txt for build and installation instructions.