Very cool idea but appears to be quite buggy. I have installed it on a couple of machines and many of the achievements, although they list 10 of 10 completed, have not triggered the actual achievement and are still (8 hours later) not triggering the achievement. Additionally, the plugin doesnt seem to work when running Visual Studio as an Administrator (the recommended way for running VS). In addition, I had several simple ones (Like click the close all but this menu item 10 times) that I had to do about 40 times to get to actually register the 10 unique clicks. Novel idea but still some work to be done. Also some information that explains HOW to get the achievement would be nice. Some of the achievements are quite cryptic and confusing if you are not a VS2010 Ultimate Power User. To the comments about how this is an "advertisement for Visual Studio Ultimate" that really is not true at all. There are only a very few that cannot be completed without Ultimate. Many of them only reuire FxCop, which is readily available as part of the Windows SDK or as a separate download. you should ALL be using FxCop anyway!! :) John Angelini MVP Client Application Development
Great idea, but only 3 stars because it feels a bit like an advertisement for Visual Studio Ultimate. It's only a bit of fun, so why not allow everyone to fully participate? Also, needs way more achievements. Ideally I'd like to see them dynamically update as time passes, to keep it interesting.
Cool idea. But in order to make it usefull rather than "just for fun" can you add achievements based on the good Code Metrics and good Coding style? (As you use FxCop). Also might be good idea to implement StyleCop unless it will use too much memory.
2012, WIX 3.6 and 3.7, version 2.1 of this extension.
Recently Visual Studio started locking up when cleaning or building. Determined by unloading my WIX projects that they were involved in the crashes.
The exception thrown was AccessViolationException, but the call stack didn't show any obvious culprits.
I upgraded from WIX 3.6 to 3.7, but that didn't work. I then went through all my extensions, enabling/disabling them in turn until I found the one that, when disabled, fixed the crash.
And that extension was this one.
I suggest you guys try to repro.
Hi Everybody,
i got a following execption after installing VSAchievements extension. it seems that the extension could not connect to the user profile i think (but ton't no).
Here's the exception text:
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackageinitialize
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Visual Studio Version: 10.0
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Loading plugins.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.DebugEventsListener initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.VsSolutionEventsListener initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.PopupManager initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.VsDocumentEventsListener initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.FxCopAchievements.FxCopManager initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.SrcAchievementsCommon.SourceAnalyzer initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Die Laufzeitbindung kann für einen NULL-Verweis nicht ausgeführt werden.
bei CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object )
bei System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute1[T0,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0)
bei AchievementService.Client.AchievementClient.GetAchievements()
bei Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.AchievementManager.LoadControllers()
bei Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.AchievementManager.Login()
bei Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.AchievementManager.Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.IAchievementManager.Initialize(IAchievementManagerSettings settings)
bei Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPac
Fun addon, however one thing that irks me is all the bumf I get in the output window when loading a solution. It creates an Output Pane of "VSAchievements" and spams all this:
FxCopHelper: Install FxCop Resolver
FxCopHelper: FxCop Path:c:\Program Files\Microsoft Fxcop 10.0\FxCopCmd.exe
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackageinitialize
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Visual Studio Version: 10.0
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Loading plugins.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.DebugEventsListener initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.VsSolutionEventsListener initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.PopupManager initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Core.VsDocumentEventsListener initialized.
Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage: Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.FxCopAchievements.FxCopManager initialized.
And so on...
Any way to tell it NOT to do so? I really don't need to see all that every time I open a solution etc. An option to surpress it in the Tools / Options / VS Achievements menu would be perfect.
Hmm not that I know of. Where do I check? The only item in the Tools / Options window for this is "Enable FX Cop". I have the latest version from the gallery, and definitely haven't tweaked any config files or anything (if there are any).
I've just upgraded to version 3.0, and I get a failed to load error. I added the /log command line switch and got the error in the ActivityLog.xml file as follows:
Description:
SetSite failed for package [Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage, Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Package, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7ea9aff8f26d837d]
GUID:
{2C44B77C-3814-4094-AA99-B1E35ECDD5FE}
Hr:
80004003 - E_POINTER
Any ideas?
This matches my error as well, I posted above but I will post again my log:
<entry>
<record>43</record>
<time>2013/01/15 14:08:48.044</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>SetSite failed for package [Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage, Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Package, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7ea9aff8f26d837d]</description>
<guid>{2C44B77C-3814-4094-AA99-B1E35ECDD5FE}</guid>
<hr>80004003 - E_POINTER</hr>
<errorinfo>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.</errorinfo>
</entry>
<entry>
<record>44</record>
<time>2013/01/15 14:08:48.053</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>End package load [Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage, Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Package, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7ea9aff8f26d837d]</description>
<guid>{2C44B77C-3814-4094-AA99-B1E35ECDD5FE}</guid>
<hr>80004003 - E_POINTER</hr>
<errorinfo>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.</errorinfo>
</entry>
This is totally broken for Visual Studio 2010. Does anyone have any idea what the issue is? I have already tried un-installing and re-installing FxCop with no success.
I had the same issue and it was solved after installing FX Cop 10 and Windows SDK 7.1 - get it here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
If you also have trouble installing the SDK 7.1 (as I did) get rid of the newer C++ redistributables as described here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowssdk/thread/8f3350f9-0b47-40ae-b070-f2ccbf041875/
Any idea why the Complex achievement (50+ projects in a solution) would not unlock? Project has 62 projects and it won't unlock. There is a bunch of solutions folders though, so maybe it is 50 in the root?
I get the following two errors when I start Visual Studio (this is from ActivityLog.xml)
<entry>
<record>43</record>
<time>2013/01/15 14:08:48.044</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>SetSite failed for package [Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage, Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Package, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7ea9aff8f26d837d]</description>
<guid>{2C44B77C-3814-4094-AA99-B1E35ECDD5FE}</guid>
<hr>80004003 - E_POINTER</hr>
<errorinfo>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.</errorinfo>
</entry>
<entry>
<record>44</record>
<time>2013/01/15 14:08:48.053</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>End package load [Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.VSAchievementsPackage, Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Package, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7ea9aff8f26d837d]</description>
<guid>{2C44B77C-3814-4094-AA99-B1E35ECDD5FE}</guid>
<hr>80004003 - E_POINTER</hr>
<errorinfo>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.</errorinfo>
</entry>
Is there a way to fix this? Let me know if you need more info
We support some of the Windows 8 achievements in C++ in VS2012 -- take a look! http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ed9e23e2-ff50-43e3-9aa6-c91f27bd6a6d/
I just downloaded and installed the latest version (first time ever installing) and when I launch Visual Studio I get "Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.Package [...] package did not load correctly. No time to provide more details at the moment but I'll uninstall the plugin and try again sometime.