Monday, December 22, 2008

Ensemble Tofino for Visual Studio - Enabling Flex for .NET

New release of Ensemble Tofino is now available at our company's website here. The latest release includes features such as:
- intellisense code completion for Action Script and MXML sources
- debugging flex applications
- object browser now has type references as active hyperlinks
- "show all files" for flex projects in the solution explorer
- comes in 2 variants, one with rebundled Flex SDK, and one without
- Options page added. Access the options page via Tools > Options > Projects > Flex Projects
- "Go to definition" in Flex sources and object browser
- and many more

For complete change log, please go here.

For support questions, please send them to tofinosupport@ensemble.com.

Tofino is available for free.

Happy coding and merry Christmas/Happy holidays!

Dave in snowy vancouver.

15 comments:

firdosh said...

does this work with the free Visual Studio express ??

David said...

Hi Firdosh,

Unfortunately Visual Studio Express doesn't allow add-ons, it's a Microsoft policy.

See
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/05/31/visual-studio-express-and-testdriven-net.aspx,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Express

For support questions around tofino, feel free to email tofinosupport@ensemble.com. You will get much faster response.

Cheers!

David

Unknown said...

Hi, I've installed this tool on VS2008, but after creating Flex project VS outputs following errors:
--------------------
04:09:04 *** Unexpected java bridge exception.
Using JVM: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
OS: Windows XP (Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2)
System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception.
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.initialize(TraceCallback errorCallback)
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.EnsureInitialized()
---------------
Maybe you know whats wrong?
Thanks ahead

alexandern said...

Excellent add-on!

How would you go about theming the fonts? :P

Lame request, but highly needed :)

Would be kewl if I could apply this theme to actionscript files
http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/2007/11/12/DesertNightsAVS2005ColorScheme.aspx

Sriram said...

I also got the same error as mentioned by Lioshyi. Did any solutions found for this problem?

Ameya said...

I am also getting the exception as below, please suggest if you get the work around.

Error 1 unexpected exception: Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridgeException: Unexpected java bridge exception.
Tofino version: 0.0.0.0Using JVM: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
OS: Windows XP (Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2) ---> Ensemble.General.Support.AssertionFailure: Flex SDK not found: C:\Program Files\Ensemble\Tofino\sdks\3.2.0
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.TofinoConfig.get_FlexHome()
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.<>c__DisplayClass1.< StartBuild >b__0()
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.InvokedUnLockedAction(JavaAction action)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.InvokedUnLockedAction(JavaAction action)
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.InvokedLockedAction(JavaAction action)
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.StartBuild(String projectDir, LogCallback logCallback, ProgressCallback progressCallback)
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Compiler.FlexBuilder.Build()
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Project.FlexProject.InvokeMsBuild(String target) -1 0

David said...

Hi Everyone,

I dont check my blog frequently enough. Please use mailto:tofinosupport@ensemble.com for any support questions. The problems you are facing is a memory fragmentation issues, and we have fixed in the latest build. See http://www.ensemble.com/products/tofino.html

Ameya said...

Hi David,

I got it working wit the changes in settings in Tofino.config file (setting min and max heap size to 0)

<configuration>
<!-- heap values are in megabytes -->
<JavaBridgeMinHeapSize>0</JavaBridgeMinHeapSize>
<JavaBridgeMaxHeapSize>0</JavaBridgeMaxHeapSize>
</configuration>


Please let me know if it is the right way to get it working ??

HD said...

Dave,
I got the latest Tofino version but still got the same exception as others did. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

David said...

Ameya,

0/0 or 0/256 should work. Some users have reporting that a setting of 0/0 fails on large projects, however, 0/256 seems to working fine. Note, this is due to memory fragmentation issues. 0/0 means to use the system default for jvm minimum and maximum.

tfforums said...

same exception here - I installed the sdk seperately...

Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridgeException: Unexpected java bridge exception.
Tofino version: 0.0.0.0Using JVM: C:\devenv\sdk\jdk1.5.0_11/jre/bin/client/jvm.dll
OS: Windows XP (Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3) ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception.
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.EnsureInitialized()
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.InvokedUnLockedAction(JavaAction action)
--- End of inner exception

However this exception appears when loading the project also:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception.
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.initialize(TraceCallback errorCallback)
at Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.EnsureInitialized()
while in Ensemble.Tofino.Plugin.Support.FlexJavaBridge.GetSwfPackages()

Arpit Khandelwal said...

Did anyone get a solution to this exception?

Arpit Khandelwal said...

Tried the latest version 2.2010.1.7 but doesn't work. Same exception.
I wonder if anyone was able to use this add-on.

Fabrizio Salas said...

Yes I solved it. First of all my dear comrades, in order to install the Tofino (Flex) framework, previously you need to install the Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008. If there's a previous update, like: KB945140 or any other patch to VS2008 (installed by SQLSERVER 2008 or windows automatically <- this is why I hate that) then remove it MANUALLY (Control Panel & physical folders).
Do not use the "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool" to do that, because this application is just useless.

Then follow the steps:
1. Download and install the Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 not the beta one, but the real one.

2. If you already have install tofino (flex) framework then remove it completely (Control panel & physical folder); if you don't have installed it yet then attaboy!

3. Install again the Tofino (flex) component, from skratch.

4. run the following command:
devenv /resetskippkgs and it will reload the components for ya.

VoilĂ !

Anjitha said...

I had a same problem then I found It is related to Java version.

Follow this same method as Fabrizio said but make sure you have JDK/JRE 6.0 (31 release) [JavaSetup6u31.exe] works for me.

In this forum they say tofino still not working properly with JAVA JDK 7

https://forums.ensemble.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60