I'll email everyone as soon as the dust settles down a bit, but in case anyone's watching here: ViEmu/VS2010 Beta 1 ready:

  http://www.viemu.com/blog/2010/05/18/viemu-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-1-ready/

All feedback is welcome.

Hi Jon

Ok, second issue partly solved by recording a VS macro and running that instead of using _viemurc, but I'm having some trouble mapping 'alt' key combinations. E.g. in my _viemurc I have:

     map <a-j> 4<down>zz

so that pressing Alt-j moves the cursor down by 4 lines and centers the view.
Standard mapping (without alt) works, e.g.

     map j <down>zz

but not with alt. Is this supported in the beta?

Thanks
Pete.

Pete, also, can you send me or post your _viemurc to try and repro the problem? Thanks! - Jon

Either here, or via the support form, or to any of my email addresses, it's fine. They all end up in my email inbox

Regards,

  -- Jon

Using Esc is not so bad. The freely downloadable "Windows Server 2003 Tools" include a utility called RemapKey.exe which lets you, well, remap keys on your keyboard (old Windows, XP, Vista, Windows 7 - works on all of them). Many people (like myself) have swapped around the Esc and Caps-Lock keys, which makes hitting the newly positioned Esc key easy.

The reason for this choice is that when VI was created (decades ago), keyboards had the Escape key in the current location of the Caps-Lock key, which makes it a sensible mapping. But I fully agree, hitting Esc "up there" is a pain, thus the remapping. The remapping takes a bit of getting used to, but given that I spend most of my waking hours behind a screen it makes it worthwhile.

Cheers
Pete.

Hi Jon

I have 'j' and 'k' mapped as follows:
   map j <down>zz
   map k <up>zz
so that my code view is always centered vertically.

When there are collapsed #region sections, two things happen:
1) As I scroll over it (j/k) it expands automatically.
2) If there are any collapsed code sections above the cursor, it no longer remains vertically centered. If there are many collapsed sections above it, the cursor remains at the top of the screen. Even 'zz' doesn't correct this. It does work however when all #region sections are fully expanded but that kind of defeats their purpose ;-)

Cheers
Pete.

No worries ;-). I read it again afterwards on the release page. It's still great to have it back - helps me with my own deadlines ;-)

Hi,

I'm getting an issue with the VS2010 beta 1 where the solution explorer shows the following error message at startup:

An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame.  This information is also logged by running the application with the /log parameter on the command line, which stores results in "C:\Documents and Settings\mdohert8\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ActivityLog.xml".

Exception details:
System.OutOfMemoryException: Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program.
   at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
   at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.ConstructContent()

Obviously at this point I'm not doing anything complicated as all I did was open visual studio 2010.

Details about my installation are as follows:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Version 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.0.30319 RTMRel

Installed Version: Ultimate

Microsoft Office Developer Tools   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Office Developer Tools

Microsoft Visual Basic 2010   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual Basic 2010

Microsoft Visual C# 2010   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual C# 2010

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010

Microsoft Visual F# 2010   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual F# 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Architecture and Modeling Tools   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Architecture and Modeling Tools
   
UML® and Unified Modeling Language™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Code Analysis Spell Checker   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Code Analysis Spell Checker

Portions of International CorrectSpell™ spelling correction system © 1993 by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010   01019-532-2002102-70869
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010

AnkhSVN - Subversion Support for Visual Studio   2.1.8420.8
AnkhSVN - Subversion Support for Visual Studio 2.1.8420.8
* Ankh.Package 2.1.8420.8
* Subversion 1.6.11 via SharpSvn 1.6011.1539.9366

SharpSvn is linked to: Apr 1.3.12, Apr-util 1.3.9, Neon 0.29.3, OpenSSL 1.0.0 29 Mar 2010, serf 0.3.1, SQLite 3.6.23, Subversion 1.6.11-SharpSvn-tag-1.6.11@936627, ZLib 1.2.4
SharpSvn is dynamically linked to: Cyrus Sasl 2.1.23
SharpSvn is optionally linked to: Berkeley DB 4.4.20, SharpPlink 1.6011.1539.9366

Crystal Reports Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010   
Crystal Reports Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

JetBrains ReSharper 5   Full Edition build 5.0.1659.36 on 2010-04-13T02:19:06
JetBrains ReSharper 5 package for Microsoft Visual Studio. For more information about ReSharper, visit http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/. Copyright © 2003–2010 JetBrains, Inc.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools   10.0.30319
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools

ViEmu (Symnum Systems S.L.U.)   1.0
ViEmu: Vi/vim emulation for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. (c) 2005-2010 Symnum Systems S.L.U. Please visit http://www.viemu.com for details.

Hope you can help.

Mike

I'm almost too embarrassed to admit it but it's Windows XP 32bit

Mike, we have installed all the packages you list, and it still doesn't fail. Can you send us a list or capture of what extensions you have installed in Extension Manager? That could be the cause. Thanks!

I've been getting a lot of crashing since I installed the beta, here are a couple errors from the ActivityLog.xml file I got just from scrolling through a file with my scrollwheel (these just popped up an error, and didn't crash VS2010).

2010/05/19 14:36:42.113
System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.Implementation.CaretElement.get_Top()
at HubTen.ViCaret.UpdateCaret()
at HubTen.ViCaret.ViewLayoutChanged(Object sender, TextViewLayoutChangedEventArgs e)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Utilities.GuardedOperations.RaiseEvent[TArgs](Object sender, EventHandler`1 eventHandlers, TArgs args)

2010/05/19 14:36:42.125
System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.Implementation.CaretElement.get_Top()
at HubTen.ViCaret.UpdateCaret()
at HubTen.ViCaret.ViewLayoutChanged(Object sender, TextViewLayoutChangedEventArgs e)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Utilities.GuardedOperations.RaiseEvent[TArgs](Object sender, EventHandler`1 eventHandlers, TArgs args)

2010/05/19 14:36:48.401
System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.Implementation.CaretElement.get_Top()
at HubTen.ViCaret.UpdateCaret()
at HubTen.ViCaret.GotFocus(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Utilities.GuardedOperations.RaiseEvent(Object sender, EventHandler eventHandlers)

I am running Windows 7 64-bit.  If I get another VS2010 crash I will post the errors from that too.