I'm new to building addins for Visual Studio, but have managed to build a simpe tool for VS2010 that does a little text manipulation in the currently active code window. I've got to the point where I need to know the language (VB.Net, C# or whatever) of the current text view. I have tried to get the filename (so I can look at the extens...
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...
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. ...
I'm develop a VC Add-In for VC6 and VC9. The following codes are from my works. In CViaDevStudio::Evaluate, after I call pDebugger->Release() and it's all OK. But in CViaVisualStudio::ReadFromMemory, after I call pDebugger->Release() or pProc->Release(), VC9 will prompt a error complaint a unspecified error number. I don't know why. I th...
I'm develop a Add-In for VC6. (Oh, I've asked many questions about it.:)) I should get the active process ID in debug. Now I took project's name as process name to get the process ID. But it will failed if the process name is not same as the project's name. So I want to get the executable file name, that is in Project Settings'->Debug->E...
I'm writing a Visual Studio add-in and have a 16x16 bitmap resource that I would like to use as the button image for my menu item. Following these instructions from the MSDN, I renamed the resource 1 and the file 1.bmp, then edited Resources.resx accordingly: <data name="1" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms"> ...
I am working on a Visual Studio plug-in. Given a VSLangProj.Reference, is there a way to programmatically determine if that reference is a project reference or a file reference? ...
How can i create a right click menu for VS 2008\10 that will be specific for a class file? ...
I wrote a Add-In for Visual Studio 2005/2008. It will prompt a window with some edit controls as child windows. But if open VS with a document and then open my Add-In, those child edit controls will lose input focus when type Tab/Delete/Backsapace/Ctrl-C etc. without any document and then open my Add-In, it is OK. I think I found th...
Another question about my add-in for visual studio. Now, I had two experiments as following: In my add-in library's main thread, I call CreateWindowEx to create a window(or CreateDialogParam to create a modeless dialog) and call CreateThread to create a thread where the window's message loop is running. Then I will have a problem I've ...