WSH in VS.NET 2003?

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From: Gerry Hickman (gerry666uk_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:20:25 +0000

Hi,

Microsoft have a development environment called Visual Studio .NET 2003.
It works fine with C# files, but not with WSF/HTA files.

If you create a new WSF file, the IDE complains that the 'job' element
is not supported by the active schema. It seems impossible to choose a
schema that correctly works with WSF files, even if you put XML at the
top, it doesn't see it as XML - probably because of the extension being WSF.

You run into similar problems trying to use the IDE for HTAs.

It's a shame it won't work properly because there are some potentially
nice facilities such as syntax coloring, script outlining, script only
view, expand/collapse function blocks, tabbify selection and so on. In
theory it should also be possible to set breakpoints and run the script
from within the IDE (but this doesn't seem to work).

All of these things work to a degree, but never 100% correctly. Maybe
there's a way to create a schema file specially for WSF and HTA, but
I've been unable to find out how to do this. 

-- 
Gerry Hickman (London UK)

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