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how to make visual studio highlight buggy code files like netbeans ?

Howdy, after translate to c# (from java) and using visual studio, I found that visual studio dosent have the netbeans feature that highlight the buggy code files in files browser and lines that contains errors in the left side of the code. I think this feature very useful and let me find some error before press compile/run. so I want to ...

Creating a Word 2003 Add-In Toolbar

Hello, I have been perusing the internet in search of the best way to accomplish this, but have had no luck. If someone here has experience with Office add-ins, I would really appreciate any help, I'm not asking for a solution by any means, just assistance with which direction to take. The software I'm working on is primarily in VB.Net ...

VS2010 add-in to show target framework in solution explorer

Is there a VS2010 add-in that shows a project's target framework version in the Solution Explorer window? ...

Is there a tutorial to tell me how to write a add-in for Visual Studio 2008

I want to write a add-in for Visual Studio 2008. It will provide a friend UI to show and edit bitmap image when I'm debugging projects about image process. I know how to access IDebugger interface in VC6, but I don't know how to do it in VS 2008. And I prefer to C/C++ guide other than C#. Thanks. I found it: Debugger Object(http://m...

Set IE Homepage with c# and disable changing it?

Hi all, One of our customers requested us to develop an IE ToolBar which sets clients homepage to their company web site and track it via registry. We would like to track users homepage if it's still set to company's web site. Questions: I can set it via registry but we also want to disable for user to change it (disabling the ie ho...

Is there a visual studio add-in that can check if CSS classes/id's are not in use across the solution?

Just as the title states. If not, any good web services you've used to cleanup bloated stylesheets? ...

How to uninstall VMware add-in from visual studio 2008?

Hi I've VMware Workstation 6.5.2 installed on my PC. This program's add-in, use assign F6 key to one of its commands. The problem is that when ever I reassign F6 key to BuildSolution command, after reopening VS, the add-in change my settings and reassign it to its command again... What I have to do?! Is it possible to uninstall this add...

Programmatically evaluating expressions / debugging

I'm writing a Visual Studio Add-In, nothing serious, just to experiment. I need to evaluate a piece of code when the debugger is running, and It's being very hard for me to google / search in SO for it. Let's say that hovering Person1.Name it will display "JustAName". I want from my add-in code, when a command is executed, evaluate the...

Can custom map tiles be consumed via ArcObjects within my ArcGIS 10 Desktop AddIn?

Can I programmatically consume and render custom map tiles in ArcMap via our ArcGIS 10 Desktop AddIn? The AddIn is built using the ArcObjects SDK for C#/.NET and ArcGIS 10. Pulling and rendering map tiles is NOT the AddIn's primary function. But we would definitely like to implement this feature if it can be done. More specifics: ...

Open a web page inside Excel?

I'm looking to develop a simple excel plugin that sends data from Excel to a web site and then displays that web site inside excel (presumably with IE). Can anyone point me resources that might be helpful? ...

Outlook 2002 C# COM Add-In build with VS2008 does not start

Hello! I am facing a curious problem: I am trying to build a Add-In for Outlook 2002 with Visual Studio 2008 using the shared add-in template. I want a simple hello world within the OnStartUpComplete method. That works pefectly on my development machine, but not at all on a clean machine with outlook 2002. I used the generated setup pro...

Mono.Addins doesn't find add-ins in ASP.NET and doesn't throw any exceptions either

I have a solution with an assembly that declares an AddinRoot; and an add-in project that extends an extension point in that assembly and which is deployed to a Mono.Addins lookup directory. In addition, I have a desktop application project that uses the AddinRoot assembly and initializes the AddinManager - it works fine and finds the a...

VS2010 Add-In, adding a command to a context menu?

Hi, I know there are already some threads about this, but I just won't work for me. What I want: I need a new entry in a context menu of the Visual Studio Source Control Explorer. For this I started a new Add-In Project. What I used: I used this article as a guide. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/team_foundation/archive/2010/06/24/extending-...

Why does creating multiple Tool Windows breaks other tool windows dockable state

I have a simple Visual Studio AddIn that exposes documentation and snippets, each on a separate tool windows. Both use the same UserControl. At any time, the user can double-click on document items inside the tool window to open the document item inside another Tool Window, that shows up in Visual Studio's documents zone (right next to t...

How to Categorize Visual Studio AddIn Commands

I would like my AddIn commands to appear their own category, in the tools menu's customize dialog. Right now, they appear under the Addins category. ...

Need Help on Python + Outlook

Hello All, I am developing Outlook addins using Python and I am not able to fetch Message-ID of the selected Mail. I have googled and read lot but didn’t get any satisfying solutions and I don't want to use any other Property except Message-ID. My whole Outlook Addin is Based on logic of the MessageID cause I have my own server and I wan...

Any tool that can change all the References in the Solution for us?

When we have a solution with more than one project and some of these projects are using references to the project in the same solution, for debugging purposes we change the reference to point to the Project , not to the DLL ... well we do it with hand! I was wondering if there is tool that does this for us automatically? so when I have a...

com excel addin: how to uninstall older version when install newer version after product name change

Env: Visual Studio 2008, Shared COM Excel Addin, RibbonX, I use Setup project created in VS 2008 .NET framework 35 SP1 product name changes say: prod name is myProd for version 1.0, prod name is myProdX for version 1.1 When I install version 1.1, I want to uninstall 1.0 first user setting is saved in a folder A in 1.0, it will be s...

Get HTML from Office selection

Hi, I'm working on a project where I have created Office Addin's for Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook. I have a button that is supposed to get the get the whatever the user has selected and import it into a WYSIWYG editor. For now this is how I get the selection and extract html. Excel.Worksheet sheet = excelApp.ActiveSheet; excelApp...

Word Add-in for working with files over WebDAV

I want to make a ms word add-in, that does this: It asks for a user, password and a network path which correspond to a WebDAV server, for a certain user, and if entered correctly, displays an interface from which a user can select to create, or open a file. When a user opens a document, he can click save, and that file will get updated ...