Stanford CS106 Lib and VS2008 Express

The CS106B is a great CS Stanford course available online (iTunes e.g.) in video and for free. All assignments and the course itself use an in-house developed library (not sure if it has a name, cslib, cs106 lib, dunno) available in all of the assignment zips as well as installable with the Xcode/VS2005 wizard installs. The problem - the VS custom wizard will install on VS2005 only (could be that a newer version exists but I couldn't find one). So how to port the VS wizard to VS2008 Express?

- I got the 2005 custom wizard setup, PCLibs-VS2005-ADT-Installer.zip and used a small tool , the LessMSIerables in order to extract the contents of the msi file. The msi contains four folders with all the stuff needed to create a new custom wizard. So, the tool extracted the following:

SourceDir

|- Includes Folder

|- Library Folder

|- Project Folder

|- Wizard Folder

- Now some copying:

1. The CS106CPPInc folder inside the 'Includes Folder' goes to

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include (as a subfolder!)

2. 'Library Folder'\CS106CPPLib.lib goes to

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib

3. 'Wizard Folder\AppWiz\CS106 Assignment Wizard' to

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\VCWizards\AppWiz

(meaning CS106... should appear as a sub-folder of AppWiz)

4. The three files in 'Project Folder' will go into

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\Express\VCProjects\Stanford. One of those three files, the CS106 Assignment Wizard.vsz, needs to be edited (a text file) and its second line should become:

Wizard=VsWizard.VsWizardEngine.9.0

You should now have a new group in the VS project wizard list, Stanford plus one item in that group (our project wizard).

Problem: you will get some warning LNK4204 when linking (complaining about missing vc80.pdb), I don't think we could do anything about those (even if we change the pdb file name to vc80.pdb), suggestions on this one highly appreciated!