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| | Total Hits: 103 | Today: 0 | Author: Joshua Jensen | Rating:  |
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The Auto Build Environment add-in uses a new file called SolutionName.slnenv residing in the same directory as the solution to provide build environment variables tailored to a given solution file. .slnenv stands for "solution environment." The Auto Build Environment add-in executes this file at solution open time and before the start of each build, resetting the build's environment variables accordingly.... |
| | Total Hits: 74 | Today: 0 | Author: cppmanuf | Rating: |
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Ever since I started using the STL heavily, I was constantly annoyed at the inability of the Visual Studio debuggers, or any debugger, for that matter, to properly parse them. Sure, I could see how many elements were in a vector, but I couldn't actually view them outside of code. And I could look at all the elements of a std::list, if I didn't mind having a treelistview that was larger than a doublewide. Other types were even more ridiculous, particularly maps, stacks, and queues. So, fed up wit... |
| | Total Hits: 75 | Today: 0 | Author: Willem Fourie | Rating: |
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x.doc is short for "External Documentation." It is a Visual Studio (VS) 2005 add-in that provides a means to manage and visualize source-code comment documentation interactively in the IDE. Its main feature is that it provides an easy way to 'externalize' the documentation comments using the documentation XML include tag. It also has many other features which are documented in the Features section below. This type of add-in is not new and has been developed by others - see the Resources section ... |
| | Total Hits: 35 | Today: 0 | Author: Rama Krishna Vavilala | Rating: |
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Fortunately, Visual Studio .NET Extensibility API is quite rich and provides an amazing level of control. The solution turned out to be pretty simple. Visual Studio .NET fires two events before any command get executed AfterExecute and BeforeExecute. The BeforeExecute event allows the handlers to optionally cancel the command execution. So the add-in can handle the BeforeExecute event and write the text as it is and cancel the default command execution. Here is a detailed description of the add-... |
| | Total Hits: 17 | Today: 0 | Author: dacris | Rating: |
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I decided to create a utility that converts projects from the new Visual Studio .NET 2003 (codename "Everett") to Visual Studio .NET 2002. This is because in my experience I was working with both and found it hard to manually convert the projects and it often introduced problems, so I made an automated tool to do this job for me. So, all who are having the same difficulty, this tool is for you.... |
| | Total Hits: 49 | Today: 0 | Author: Alberto Bar-Noy | Rating: |
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This is very handy keyboard shortcut which started with the need to mark and select a word inside the IDE of VC6 without having to take my hand from the keyboard and use the mouse. In order to do that with the standard IDE commands of VC6 IDE one needs to use a couple of keyboard shortcuts. For example, when the cursor is in the middle of a word one has to press Ctrl + left arrow to go to the beginning of the word and then press Shift+Ctrl and right arrow to select the word, or double click the ... |
| | Total Hits: 85 | Today: 0 | Author: Andreas Saurwein Franci Gonçalves | Rating: |
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Won't work. Anyway, with some tricks you can do exactly this. The nice thing is that you will never ever again need to use "Find" to locate a particular message in your source code. Just double click the line with your message in the output window and VC's editor will jump to that location.... |
| | Total Hits: 78 | Today: 0 | Author: Edwin Evans | Rating: |
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Visual Studio .NET has a cool feature that it will automatically synchronize the Solution Explorer with the open file. One problem though is that if you have a large number of projects, the number of branches can soon get out of control - you can't see the trees for all the branches, so to speak. This is a very simple macro that you can use to collapse all the project nodes in the Solution Explorer.... |
| | Total Hits: 84 | Today: 0 | Author: Michael Sheinin | Rating: |
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The most annoying and blatantly absent feature of Visual Studio .NET 'extensibility' is the incapacity to insert a custom window into the IDE. Obviously, the Extensibility Object model was deliberately castrated in the interest of Microsoft salesmen, since the VSIP (Visual Studio Integrated Products) package is distributed and sold separately. This article and supplied code will provide you with essential knowledge and the means to implement a customized Visual Studio .NET package - the software... |
| | Total Hits: 46 | Today: 0 | Author: exDreamDuck | Rating: |
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Commenter is a plugin for CodeRush, which is an addin for Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008 are supported). Basically Commenter will help you to comment your code and make it easier to navigate through your code. Currently Commenter supports only C#, but C++ might work too (but may need some additional testing). Support for VB.NET might be added if requested, don't know if VB guys would like such a feature. The project files use Visual Studio 2003, but you can convert them t... |
| | Total Hits: 73 | Today: 0 | Author: Serkan Inci | Rating: |
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The goal of this article is to simplify the process of programmatically adding custom controls to Visual Studio .NET control toolbox. The accompanying sample will be helpful for component developers, who want to deploy their custom controls to their customers in a package. There is also a sample console application, which demonstrates the techniques presented in this article. This console application can be run from the command line with parameters allowing it to be launched during installations... |
| | Total Hits: 91 | Today: 0 | Author: hitch | Rating: |
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This is a VS.NET add-in sample project that I wrote so that I could do a Find and bookmark of all occurrences of a text selection in an open code file. I'm somewhat lazy. So, I thought it would be convenient to have this functionality available on the code window context menu, instead of having to open the Find window or learn a bunch of new keyboard key sequences.... |
| | Total Hits: 43 | Today: 0 | Author: Stuart Carnie | Rating: |
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This article is not so much an introduction to writing add-ins as it is just simply sharing a utility I found very useful for Visual Studio .NET. I primarily use VS.NET / C++ for development, however all our client applications are developed in Delphi 7.0, and I find the GExperts IDE enhancement suite for Delphi very good. Specifically, the ability to go to a function within the current source file. When you invoke the add-in, the above search dialog prompts you to enter a search string. As you ... |
| | Total Hits: 58 | Today: 0 | Author: Brandon Sneed | Rating: |
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Version number maintenance is a hassle. I think this is a key contributor to why so many people do it so many ways. Some update the version at various milestones, others just when they feel like it, and still others only on a full release. Then there�s the group that doesn�t do it at all unless asked. I won�t say which I fell into, but it isn�t a problem for me anymore.... |
| | Total Hits: 178 | Today: 0 | Author: Gary Blatt | Rating: |
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The Enterprise Library is a collection of Application Blocks released by the Patterns and Practices group within Microsoft. It is an update to the previous Application Blocks for .NET that includes complete architectural changes for most of the blocks. An Application Block can be thought of as an add-on to the .NET development environment. They are reusable components that encapsulate Microsoft best practices in each area. Each block is well-documented and includes complete source code. In fact,... |
| | Total Hits: 2 | Today: 0 | Author: Gil Fink | Rating:  |
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When you want to alert the user in the client side of a web application, probably you are embarrassed jQuery Alert Dialogs Plug-in(or you don't give a damn) when you use JavaScript built-in alerts. I know I do. JavaScript built-in alerts are very ugly IMHO and therefore I try to use alternatives instead. In this post, I'll show a very useful alternative that I've been using lately in more then one project – the jQuery Alert Dialogs plug-in.... |
| | Total Hits: 1 | Today: 0 | Author: Scott Swigart | Rating: |
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The "Paste as..." functionality in applications like Microsoft® Word has become indispensable for me. I often copy something from the Web and want to paste it into a document without all of the HTML formatting. Paste as is the tool for the job.... |
| | Total Hits: 6 | Today: 0 | Author: mikem8 | Rating: |
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CodeWinPos is a simple plugin (VSIP) for Visual Studio 2005/2008 which opens *.h files on the left half of the IDE workspace and *.c/*.cpp files on the right. It works with either the tabbed or MDI window layout options in Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE.... |
| | Total Hits: 9 | Today: 0 | Author: Miguel Santos | Rating: |
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In this article, we will use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 C# to create an Excel Add-In that implements each of the tasks listed below for Excel 2007:
- Task 1: Copy sheet contents to a new sheet.
- Task 2: Reverse string in current cell.
- Task 3: Calculate the maximum value of a numerical range selection.
- Task 4: Save as xls file
- Task 5: Save as csv file... |
| | Total Hits: 11 | Today: 0 | Author: Robert Green | Rating: |
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Contoso Auto Sales is a fictitious automobile dealer specializing in high-end automobiles. Contoso has computer systems to talk to suppliers, to generate an invoice when a customer purchases an automobile, to bill for service visits and to pay employees. It wants a system to manage the day-to-day interaction with customers and improve its level of pre-sales customer service.... |
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