Visual D 0.3.26 released

[PhilE]

On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 20:47:45 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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> On 07.06.2013 22:59, Diggory wrote:
>> Thanks for your great plugin! The integration with VS is great,
>> especially the debugging.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> There are a few things I think could be improved though:
>> - I couldn't get it to work properly on VS 2012, the 
>> functionality seems
>> to be there but it doesn't hook up with the buttons properly. 
>> For
>> example, "Start Debugging" fails, and so does "Build -> Build 
>> Solution"
>> with "The method or operation is not implemented", whereas
>> right-clicking in the solution explorer and choosing "Build" 
>> works just
>> fine. It seems all toolbar actions and actions on the main 
>> menu bar
>> don't work, whereas right-click actions do. It works fine in 
>> VS 2010.
>>
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> I test it with the VS 2012 Shell from time to time, and it 
> works for me. I also think other use it successfully. The 
> context menu items refer to the project only, while the buttons 
> are for the solution, so maybe this is the difference. Does 
> building the project from the menu work?
> Maybe you have some addin/extension that hooks the build 
> command and somehow conflicts with Visual D?
>
>> - I couldn't find a way to get it to play nicely with a 
>> hierarchical
>> folder structure. I can add a folder in VS but it's actually a 
>> filter
>> rather than a folder, and if I create a subfolder with a .d 
>> file in and
>> then add it to the project it just shows up in the top level. 
>> Since D's
>> modules work based on folder structure it would be nice if 
>> Visual D
>> worked the same way.
>
> If the filter actually matches the folder on disk, there is 
> some link between the project and the disk. You can also drag a 
> folder into the project and Visual D will add all files in the 
> directory rebuilding the folder hierarchy.
> If you use the new item dialog and select the package, both a 
> folder and disk and a filter in the project are created.
>
>>
>> - It would be nice if ctrl-shift-space showed the parameters 
>> expected
>> like in other languages in VS. Visual D seems to already have 
>> that
>> information because when you hover over a function name it 
>> shows the
>> signature.
>
> It does that to some extent if you generate JSON information 
> with the project build. Unfortunately a recent version of dmd 
> changed the format making it tedious to get the parameter 
> names, so you only see the types ATM. Long term, it should be 
> merged with the semantic analysis that also drives the tool 
> tips.

Apologies if this is totally the wrong place for my questions. 
I'm trying to get started with D and I'm using Visual D. I can't 
work out how to run unit tests in any module other than that 
containing main, either in static libraries or even other modules 
in the same library. How is this done? I have the command line 
parameter -unittest set, which runs unit tests in the file 
containing main, but no others.