| About the Visual Studio templates |
The SDK contains templates for Visual Studio 2005 and later projects (Visual Basic and C#). The templates help you to quickly create the basic framework for different types of projects by referencing the necessary SDK library, setting the project type, and creating initial project forms and code. Each template is useful for different purposes. You need to choose one of the templates depending on the kind of functionality you want to develop.
The available project types are:
- BC Meridian UI Extension: An extension to the user interface of the Meridian Enterprise PowerUser or Meridian Enterprise Configurator that can include process automation, business logic, and user commands. This project type suits the majority of programming needs. For example, an interface extension can contain custom properties and property pages, commands, and event handling. This project type produces a .NET dynamic link library (DLL) visible to COM that must be registered with Meridian Enterprise Configurator in the vault. The DLL will run in-process with the client application.
- BC Meridian Application: A stand-alone application capable of accessing Meridian Enterprise vaults. This project type produces a standard .NET executable that can be run from within Windows.
- BC Meridian Task: An extension for the Meridian Enterprise Task Server. This extension will be delegate tasks that have been submitted to it by Meridian Enterprise client applications using VBScript or user interface extensions.
Templates are installed into special folders of the current user where Visual Studio can find them. The folders where Visual Studio looks for templates can be configured in the Visual Studio options. If there are no SDK templates in the User project templates location folder or the User item templates location folder, then you should manually copy all files from the following folders to the respective locations:
C:\Program Files\BC-Meridian\BlueCielo .NET SDK\SDKVersion\Templates\VisualStudioVersion\ProjectTemplates
C:\Program Files\BC-Meridian\BlueCielo .NET SDK\SDKVersion\Templates\VisualStudioVersion\ItemTemplates
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