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Japster24
06-21-2011, 09:27 AM
Maybe I'm just missing it...has anyone used Eclipse with VBPro? I searched the forum and nothing came up. I'm a little shocked. I have to be missing something...

Thanks,
-jp

kinook
06-21-2011, 08:42 PM
I'm not too familiar with it, but isn't Eclipse an IDE for interactively developing and debugging applications, rather than an automated tool that would be used within a build process? I believe that Eclipse developers typically use automated tools such as Ant for actually building projects developed in Eclipse (VBP does include an Ant action).

That said, if Eclipse supports a command-line interface, you could call it from a Run Program action.
http://www.visualbuild.com/Manual/runprogramaction.htm
If it supports a COM automation interface, you could call it from a Run Script action.
http://www.visualbuild.com/Manual/runscript.htm
In either case, you could also wrap it in a custom user action.
http://www.visualbuild.com/Manual/userdefaction.htm

Japster24
06-22-2011, 09:21 AM
I ended up just using some batch and ant commands as you suggested. I guess I was just surprised to see that Visual Studio make commands for sln & proj files were an option and there was nothing for Eclipse that was as easy to do.

Maybe something to think about in a future rev...or maybe not given I'm the only one who seems to have mentioned Eclipse.

As always, you guys rock. Thanks for the quick response!
-jp