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Visual Studio and Repository Schemas


It is great that we now have language sensitivity in VS when editing repository schemas.

One thing that is a real pain when editing schemas with multiple structures is not being able to tell which structure you are in when you search for things and land on a field.  It would also be helpful to be able to search within a particular structure - say you search for "refund" or "deposit" or "date" fir example, and it finds a match, hwo do you know if its found it in the structure you are interested in?

I know this is not an issue if we have separate schemas per structure, but many systems only have one large schema with all structures i it.

I have resorted to copying a structure  out into notepad to examine it, and even then its not always obvious you only have the structure you are interested in if that structure is 500+ lines of code

2 Comments | Posted by Gordon Ireland to Visual Studio Integration, Repository on 2/24/2025 12:36 PM
Marty Lewis
One of the things we have in-progress is enhancing Repository and rpsutl to generate individual source files for all of your structures, files, templates, etc., to help make the transition to having individual schema files much easier. We're also enhancing the tools to make this experience work better between your Visual Studio projects and the Repository UI, so that we can automatically regenerate the changed structures and keep your sources up-to-date.

Maybe not a perfect fit, but would having the tools help manage the individual files for structures be a potential solution for you?

2/27/2025 10:38 PM   0  
Gordon Ireland
Hi Marty. That would be great where i was responsible for making decisions like that.  But as a freelancer I have to go with what I find, and that's when it's a real pain.

Biggest problem is doing a search for a field and not knowing what structure it's in

2/27/2025 11:13 PM   0  
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