Benefits from Telerik and Visual Studio Online Gallery in VS2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by VSX Team | Comments 9
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With the VSIX deployment in Visual Studio 2010 the world become a better place for developers – we are now able to add small tools to our IDEs and customize them the way we want with just a few megs of download from the Online Gallery. If we don’t use the tool for some time and we don’t want it to eat some of our PC resources we can just disable it through the Extension Manager. If we don’t like a tool we can simply remove it. The VSIX deployment guarantees that a tool is uninstallable, as the deployment is just an xcopy operation. Even if the IDE fails with the uninstall, we can use Windows Explorer, navigate to the Extensions folder (either %appdata%\..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions folder, or [vsinstalldir]\Common7\IDE\Extensions folder).

 

There is a new entry in the Visual Studio Online Gallery, Telerik.Web.UI.VSPackage for some time now, which was recently renamed to Telerik WebUI VSExtensions. By the time of the rename, three new packages were added – Telerik Silverlight VSExtensions, Telerik WPF VSExtensions and Telerik WinForms VSExtensions.
These are all the updated versions of the specific Visual Studio Extensions for RadControls -  the composition of Telerik RadControls project templates, New Project Wizard, Project Configuration Wizard and Upgrade Wizard.

 

ExtensionManager_WebUI_VSExtensions_Installed

 

The Visual Studio Extensions in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2010 Service Pack 2 release now can be updated/replaced with the version in the Online Gallery, so you won’t need to download the entire installer to get your projects and the Visual Studio Extensions updated anymore. We will be updating the VSExtensions in the Online Gallery with each RadControls release and any time we fix a critical bug. That said, you can acquire vsextensions with a bugfix before the Service Pack of RadControls is released.

As usual, we welcome your feedback. Keep it coming!

 

Cheers,
Erjan Gavalji
The Telerik VSXTeam

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9 Comments

  • Szilárd Fatér 20 May 2010
    Update does not work unfortunately (Windows 7, VS2010 Pro). It says "Extension Telerik.Windows.WPF.VSPackage must be uninstalled through the Windows Add/Remove Programs dialog." But it is not listed there and I do not want to remove the whole Telerik RadControls for WPF Q1 2010 package.
  • Erjan Gavalji 20 May 2010
    @Szilárd,

    You're right, the RadControls for WPF SP1 release still has the MSI limitation. We're preparing the SP2 release of RadControls for WPF, where that will be fixed. Please, bear with us some more.

    Cheers,
  • Cyril 24 Jun 2010
    I have the same with Telerik ASP Controls
    (Telerik.Web.UI.VSPackage must be uninstalled ....
  • Erjan Gavalji 24 Jun 2010
    @Cyril,
    Please, upgrade your RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX to the latest version. You should be able to use the Online Gallery now.

    Cheers,
    Erjan
  • Cyril 29 Jun 2010
    @ Erjan

    Thanks a lot for respondig.

    I have updatet my Controls (VS-> Telerik -> ASP -> UPDATE -> Download -> Install)
    (Update with Projekt Update...)

    Still the same issue....


    Best Greetings

    Cyril
  • Vanwinkle 02 Sep 2010
    It's September and still broken. :(
  • Erjan Gavalji 02 Sep 2010
    @Vanwinkle, can you start a support ticket so that we can try helping?
    Basically you could follow the steps below:
    1) Uninstall RadControls;
    2) Start a Windows Explorer and navigate to [VS2010InstallDir]\Common7\Extensions\Telerik
    3) Delete the Telerik.CommonPackage and the Telerik VSExtensions subfolders
    4) Run the latest RadControls installer again

    The problem should be gone now.

    Cheers,
    Erjan
  • JVilimek 20 Oct 2010
    The uninstallation helps ;) thanks a lot.
  • --Kdc 09 Dec 2010
    Again - TELERIK ROCKS!  Thanks!

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