I have struggled for a while now to get the ClearCanvas SDK on my machine. I am not too great with Visual Studio as I am mostly a novice when it comes to Visual C#. I finally managed to get the templates to work on my machine though. This is how I did it:
- Download & Install Visual C#2008 Express Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
- Download & Install ClearCanvas SDK 1.3
http://www.clearcanvas.ca/dnn/Downloads/tabid/70/Default.aspx
- Take note of the path ClearCanvas spits up with it error regarding the Global Assembly Cache. (C:\Program Files\ClearCanvas\SDK\1.3\bin\vswizards\ClearCanvas.VSWizards.dll)
- Register the wizards in the Global Assembly Cache:
- Find the gacutil.exe file on your computer. (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin)
- Open command line and go to this directory.
- run the command below (use the path as shown in the error message.)
- gacutil.exe /i "C:\Program Files\ClearCanvas\SDK\1.3\bin\vswizards\ClearCanvas.VSWizards.dll" - Install the visual studio templates:
- Find the template files in the following folders:
C:\Program Files\ClearCanvas\SDK\1.3\bin\vstemplates\project_templates\
C:\Program Files\ClearCanvas\SDK\1.3\bin\vstemplates\item_templates\
- Copy the template files to the following folders:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress\ItemTemplates\1033
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress\ProjectTemplates\1033
- Now register the templates by running the following command at command line:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress.exe" /setup - You should now be able to open up Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition and see the ClearCanvas Project Templates as well as Item Templates.
