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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 2: Creating a Folder with a custom Image

Posted on 04/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

In part 2 of this VSAE series I will demonstrate how to create folders with custom images to the Management Pack to have a container ready for creating views later on. Make sure you take a look at the other … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 1: Creating a new CI Class

Posted on 03/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

I decided to do a VSAE series that explains how to use the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions to extend and customize Service Manager. This is indeed an excellent extension when Visual Studio is your Service Manager authoring tool! If it’s … Continue reading →

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Strong name key files for sealing your MPs … hmmmm?!

Posted on 03/07/2012 by Marcel Zehner

You may have heard that sealing Management Packs (MPs) is a good practice. This is definitely the case when you have MPs that contain classes, class extensions etc. because you can reference to those classes from other MPs. Referencing is … Continue reading →

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Autoincrement Property IDs

Posted on 04/06/2011 by Marcel Zehner

I’m writing this blog post while sitting in my car in the middle of a huge traffic jam at famous St.Gotthard in Switzerland (2 hours waiting time) The positive thing is that I have plenty of time to write a … Continue reading →

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Custom Icons for Views and Folders

Posted on 02/01/2011 by Marcel Zehner

When you create your own Views and Folders, Service Manager uses Default Icons. This is fine, but for a better presentation and recognition of views it makes sense to use custom Icons – especially when you have created custom Classes … Continue reading →

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