The DotEdit development environment requires the complete Taskmaster Capture installation, a project
that you download from IBM developerWorks, and completion of basic
tasks in Microsoft Visual Studio.
This procedure provides details about how to set up the DotEdit
development environment.
- Confirm that Microsoft Visual
Studio 2010 and the complete installation of IBM® Datacap
Taskmaster Capture are installed on the
developer workstation.
- Download the DotEditPanels Visual Studio project from the
IBM developerWorks web site at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-datacap-taskmaster/#download.
- In Visual Studio, click .
- Open the project My Documents\Datacap\DotEditPanels\DotEditPanels.csproj.
- If necessary, click Finish to convert
the project and then click Close.
The
base classes and pre-built custom panels for the Datacap sample applications
are displayed in the Solution Explorer.
- In the Solution Explorer, right-click the DotEditPanels C#
project and choose Properties.
- Click the Build tab and scroll down
to the Output section.
- In the Output Path field, click Browse and
select the C:\Datacap\DotEdit folder.
Important: If multiple developers are developing
different panels for use in the same environment, you need to share
a single Visual Studio project under your source control infrastructure.
Taskmaster DotEdit uses a single DLL
file,
C:\Datacap\DotEdit\DotEditPanels.dll, that
contains the custom panels for all
IBM Datacap
Taskmaster Capture applications.
Taskmaster adds new panels that
you create to the existing DLL file. When development and testing
are complete, you must distribute the updated DLL file to all
Taskmaster DotEdit client installations.
Additionally, you must configure the DotEdit task setup to use the
new panel. This is explained further in the
Configuring
the DotEdit field-at-a-time interface topic.
