How can I create a Visual Studio 2008 menu option?

Question

I'm not sure if what I'm asking for qualifies as a full-fledged add-in, but here goes...

I'd like to put an option in one of the menus (Edit, perhaps) that gives me the opportunity to clean my text-- namely, sometimes in the course of business my quotation marks around strings wind up "slanted" instead of straight up and down, a consequence of cutting and pasting from outside sources.

It would be great to have a "clean quotes" option in VS that does a search and replace in the current document and puts in the correct quotes. How might I go about doing this, and thanks for the advice.

Answer 1

Are you saying you have different fonts in your code window??? This doesn't happen to me. I can't make this happen to me. There is only one font for the code at a time. Can you provide a concrete example?

Answer 2

The easiest way to do this is under the Tools menu. Click Tools->External Tools... You can specify any program you want using macros for the current directory/file etc. You will have to find/create the tool to do what you want, but it is pretty simple to add. You can also go to the Tools->Customize... dialog to add a toolbar button or key binding.

For your particular problem you could very simply write a little command line to to fixup your file for you or use use something like sed.

Answer 3

Thanks for the tips guys.