
When creating template snippets, intellisense still only provides snippet specific options, which can make authoring snippets challenging.Ī couple of times now I’ve started a new MP project in Visual Studio using the Operations Manager Visual Studio Authoring Extensions, and about 45 minutes into my development realized I’ve created the wrong project type.Informational schema errors are still logged when you configure module parameters outside of a template group.Go To Definition doesn’t function if you are already previewing an existing item (essentially only works when called from fragments in your projects).No intellisense support when configuring module parameters outside of Template groups (painful when creating custom modules).MPBA Tool still doesn’t resolve Alert Strings where the default Language is not the workstation language (switch your machines language and all the missing alert string messages will disappear).Sadly still no xml templates provided for datasource, monitortype, probe or condition detection modules. They’ve also changed the Project templates to make it a bit more explicit which versions of Operations Manager each project type supports, and added 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2 explicitly as new project types. MPBA “Resolve” option now works correctly with generated fragment files.MP Simulator can now simulate Agent Task workflows.


MP Context Parameter replacements can now be used in Module parameters that have non-string data types.Monitor templates now set Auto resolve to “True” by default and Severity to “MatchMonitorHealth”.


You’ll need to uninstall the previous version if you’ve already got it installed, as the installer won’t perform an upgrade (at this time, I also uninstalled Visual Studio 2010, as I only had that version installed for MP Authoring, everything else I’m doing has since moved on to more recent versions of VS). I know items such as previewing files and source control enhancements This means all of the new VS 2012/3 features that you’ve been waiting to use are now go. One of these that I’ve long been awaiting is. A new version of the System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions has now been released, featuring many bugfixes, improvements and enhancements.
