VHS-AM
           Internal Release 1
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  VHS-AM intends to support a productive use
of Haskell through Visual Studio .NET extension
and Assignment Manager integration, spreading
around the utilization of the language and
expanding its application boundaries.

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CONTENTS

   1. Requirements
   2. Installing
   3. Features
   4. Known issues and bugs
   5. Contact info
   6. Acknowledgements

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1. Requirements

  VHS-AM Internal Release 1 requires:

	- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
	  2003 with Visual C++
	- Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.2 or
	  later, which can be obtained from
	  www.haskell.org/ghc
        - The installation must be run from
	  an user account which can modify
	  the Windows registry

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2. Installing

   Double-click VHS-AM-InternalRelease1.msi.
An intuitive wizard will guide you through the
rest of the installing process. When the wizard
is finished, you'll need to add an environemnt
variable called GHCPATH to your environment
variables. The value of this environment
variable must be set to the absolute path of
ghc.exe (ex.: c:\ghc\ghc-6.2\bin\ghc.exe).

OBS1: To create a new environment variable in
Windows 2000 or later, click with the right 
mouse button in <My Computer> and then in 
<Properties>. After that, click in the
<Advanced> tab and then in <Environment
Variables>. A new window will appear, in which
you can create the GHCPATH environment variable
by clicking in <New>.

OBS2: This MSI file must be installed in the
Assignment Manager Server, as well as in the
desired Assignment Manager Faculty Clients
and Assignment Manager Student Clients.

OBS3: In order to hide "student code" in 
Assignment Manager, you need to add a
Haskell code extraction rule: in VS.NET 2003,
access the <Tools> menu, then click in <Options>.
After that, click in <Assignment Manager> and
then in <Add New Rule>. A new row will be
created in the code extraction table. In the
<File Extension> column, insert ".hs". Then
specify BEGIN and END comments, such as
"--BEGIN_STUDENT_CODE" and "--END_STUDENT_CODE". 
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3. Features

   This version of VHS-AM allows you to:

   - Create and advertise Haskell exercises
     through Assignment Manager;
   - Solve and submit Haskell exercises
     through Assignment Manager; 
   - Compile a Haskell application;
   - Run a Haskell Application. 

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4. Known issues and bugs

  - You still cannot add another module to
    your Haskell Project.
  - Editor support is poor. All you have is
    a simple text editor to edit your Haskell
    source files.

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5. Contact info

   - Project website:
     www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/vhs-am

   - Project discussion list:
     vhs-ufpe@cin.ufpe.br

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6. Acknowledgements

The VHS-AM team would like to thank Simon
Marlow and Krasimir Angelov for supporting
the VHS-AM project.