I created a trivially simple empty project and chose "File | Export Template". All this works and I can now add a project of that type if I restart VS. What I want to be able to do is customise the tree node that my custom project templates appear under in the New Project dialog. For instance, at the moment they appear directly under 'Vi...
I have successfully created (and manually edited) an Item Template that will add a number of files in one 'shot'. I want these files to all be created under a folder that should be created at the same time. In Project Template .vstemplate files I can specify a Folder element, but the schema does not allow one in the Item Template. Any ...
Hi I'm working on Visual Studio package. I need to know when mouse selection is done in the code editor. I have to update some object when selection is changed. Currently we are doing this with CommandListener implementing IOleCommandTarget and attached to the IVsTextView. The problem is that mouse selection doesn't come as a command...
Hello, I created an AddIn for Visual Studio, which should handle the case when the user debugs an application and an unhandled exception is thrown. I registered the events "OnExeceptionNotHandled" and "OnExceptionThrown" using the "Events" property of the application object. In the documentation one can read that these events get fired b...
Rephrasing the question to see if I get some views. Following is how you would get the current solution directory from an add-in: _applicationObject = (DTE2)application; // retrieved from OnConnection method string solutionDir = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(_applicationObject.Solution.FullName); How would you do this via a VSPack...
I have a VSPackage with a dockable tool window containing form data. If there are unsaved changes in this form, I would like to cancel a close to either the tool window and the visual studio IDE if the user clicks cancel on saving changes before closing. I can perform the save test on close, but I don't see any event handler methods or...
This is done manually by going to the "Error List" output window and double-clicking on the first error or pressing F8. Is there a way to automate this? (I'm using C++ if that matters.) ...
Given a type name, is it possible to use DTE to find the ProjectItem that the type is located in? Something similar to how the Navigate To... dialog works in Visual Studio 2010. The closest I could find is Solution.FindProjectItem, but that takes in a file name. Thanks! ...
Hi, I am trying to extend Visual Studio 2010 RC to be able to use a custom programming language. The first two things I've tried to do is a syntax highlight/Intellisense feature (easily done, thanks to "Ook!" sample from PDC09) and a possibility to create new project templates (i.e. be able to open *.myproj files). For this second tas...
I have created a visual studio add-in for VS2008. The add-in uses as web service to access data required by the developer. However, currently the only way to get the service to work is to add the service bindings to the machine.config of the pc. I know this is a bad idea and its causing errors left and right in my other applications. ...
Hi I'm trying to write a Visual Studio 2010 addin, and wish to persist some information in the solution file. For this a custom GlobalSection, or the ability to add to the SolutionProperties globalsection would be ideal. However, I can't find any information whatsoever on how to access the said information from the extensibility obje...
I've read a fair amount about the improvements of the extensibility story in VS2010 being much improved (i.e. MEF based, etc.), but have yet to get my hands dirty. I've recently ran across a real world scenario that's making me want to dive in, but I'm surprised to not find a lot of helpful info on getting up and running with what I wan...
I am attempting to write a Visual Studio 2010 add-in for Team Explorer that adds a root node, just underneath each project. This root node should not have any children, and no context menu, just a double-click action. I have used the samples provided here to create a folder node, with leaf nodes underneath. The leaf nodes I can make do a...
Hi I want to instantiate classes that I have written in Visual Studio 2008 and then populate a listview with these instances which resides in a form that opens up from within Visual Studio. To give you an example let's say we have a class Employee within our solution. Using VS Extensibility I would like to open a form in VS that contain...
I'm currenlty working on an add-in and require the functionality to add custom item templates to a project programatically. I'm currently installing the templates (which are of a .zip format) in ..\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates\. From within the add-in I then call the following code: string templateLocation = (solution as...
Is there a way from within a Visual Studio Add-in to get visual studio to rebuild its cache in a similar way to calling DevEnv.exe with the /InstallVSTemplates command? ...
When creating a Visual Studio Add-In, how can you utilise an app.config for the add-in. If I add one to the project and deploy it then when the Add-In runs and I programmatically try to access it via the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings its not picking up the config file for the add-in. Am I doing something wrong or is there another mea...
Hiya, I'm trying delete a class body in using the new Text Editor code model in a Visual Studio 2010 extension. That is, I'm trying to use the Delete method on ITextEdit to delete everything between curly brackets. I can get access to the Absolute Character Position of the start and end of the class using the codeClass.GetStartPoint(...
I currently have a visual studio add-in and have created a new output window pane which I can write text to successfully. However, when the output window is not open or it is minimised then it doesn't open (popup) when I call the Activate() method on the pane. Any ideas how I can achieve this? ...
I'm iterating through a solution and its projects and items and need to retrieve the path to the items on disk. I can retrieve the project file name from Project.FullName and can get a project items path using ProjectItem.Properites.Item("FullPath"). However, for an item in the solutions 'Solution Items' folder, the items Properties m...