VS addin: View markup. Does exists something like that?

Question

While working with ASP.NET using Visual Studio (2008) I have discomfort issue: source code editor context menu has only item 'View Designer' but nothing about to view markup quickly!

To see it you need to open Designer and click Markup label in the bottom of a window. Or use Shift+F7 hot key (by default).

So I want to add an item menu 'View Markup' in additional to 'View Designer'. I guess I have to use a Visual Studio add-in if it already exists or write it by myself.

What do you think about that? Is it possible? Or is some solution already exists?

Answer 1

If you right click the file in "Solution Explorer" you get a "View Markup" option.

Answer 2

Generally, to add a command to the context menus you'd do the following:

Tools | Customize

On the "Toolbars" tab put a tick next to the "Context Menus" item - this will add a new toolbar to your IDE, with buttons for Editor Context Menus, Class View Context Menus, Debugger Context Menus, etc

Then switch to the "Commands" tab, select the command you want, and drag it to the appropriate menu, and you're done - in this case in the left hand pane select "View", and then in the right hand pane, scroll down until you get to "View Markup".

That being said, in this instance, I can add the button to the context menu for the code editor, but it's greyed out, and unusable - I guess it needs some context that it gets from the Solution Explorer that it doesn't get from the Code window - which is odd, because it's pulling the same details through for "View Designer" and "View Code".

I guess I'd use Shift+F7 then, sorry about that.

Answer 3

When you are in code view and would like to see markup view there is no Keyboard shortcut for that. Here is what worked for me:

http://www.karpach.com/Visual-Studio-F7-View-Source.htm

Answer 4

Tools > Options > Keyboard

Search for View.ToggleDesigner in "Show Commands Containing".

Add new shortcut to Global/Editor with F7.

This works without needing a macro for VS2008/2010