I downloaded the trial of Resharper and installed it today. The first thing it asked me was that version of shortcut keys I wanted to use. It asked me if I wanted to override some standard Visual Studio shortcut keys. My answer was ##$# no!
However, the first thing I did was a Ctrl-Dot on a class reference that was missing an import. Immediately, the Resharper context menu came up which is similar to the VS one, but is missing the item for automatically adding the import.
How do I keep Resharper from usurping VS functionality?
Edit: Ouch! After using this thing for a couple of hours, I've realized that it has totally overridden loads of VS functionality. This thing is awful. I just want to use the toolset, I don't want a completely new IDE. If I wanted a different IDE, I'd go out and buy one. How do I turn off all Visual Studio integration except for the menu that lets me run the tools?
There are a lot of different settings you can turn on and off to allow Visual Studio to behave more like Visual Studio when Resharper is in action. What's I've learned to do is just turn it on when I want to use it, and turn it off when I want to use Visual Studio.
Tools -> Options -> Resharper Ultimate General -> Suspend / Resume Now
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I saw a lot of good comments about ReSharper. So I gave it a try and I really like it. I even suggested to my team to use it and to put some money in this tool. But they sad "We better put the money in updating Visual Studio because newer versions come with almost all ReSharper features" as we are using Visual Studio 2010.
Is ReSharper useless in Visual Studio 2015 or 2017?
This might not be an answer, just my own opinion.
VS2017 is doing very well without R#. however, some important functions are still not there in VS2017, e.g. renaming namespaces, and here R# role arises.
Some where else, I find R# make the things bad, for example, I don't like how the R# renames the properties, it gives and new popup window, where VS2017 renames it immediately.
So what I mean, sometimes R# might be useful, but if you are not using it, you are absolutely safe and productive.
I am still waiting for any video or article where it is described, what are the flagship killers functions in R# which VS2017 doesn't have (except renaming namespaces ;)).
UPDATE:
What I actually suggest is, install use the refactoring suggestions of R# because they are awesome, but keep the default key mapping of VS2017.**
UPEATE 2:
I have been working for 1 year without resharper, and I am very ok and do not miss any function, except renaming namespaces.
UPDATE 3:
I miss the function of extracting a method to an existing interface in Visual Studio 2017, which already exists in ReSharper.
ReSharper is not useless in newer versions of Visual Studio, but there are a lot of features and shortcuts that come baked right into VS. My opinion would be that if you are new to developing in VS, look into the features it already has and make the best use of them. After all, what good is a Porsche if you cant drive? Here are a couple of links you should check out.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/da5kh0wa.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366750(v=vs.90).aspx
Let a "Breakpoints" window (by default opened by Debug>Windows>Breakpoints [ctrl+B, D]) serve as an example. Basically I select few breakpoints in it and I would like to know in my add-in which elements in this window are selected. I am aware that I can get collection of breakpoints in project but I would like to know what elements are selected in "Breakpoints" window.
"Is it possible to get selected items in window or even access its content at all?"
Also I am not sure whenever or not should I post a separate question for this but is there actually a way to capture user activity in IDE like for example capturing an event when user sets (adds) a breakpoint?
Originally I also asked if is it possible to achieve certain things in Visual Studio Express Edition. But this part is irrevelant.
Conclusion:
(after reading jessehouwing's answer)
I guess it is not possible using an Add-ins. Use VSPackages isntead. Also Add-ins are deprecated as of Visual Studio 2013 version.
As mentioned in my comments, what you're trying to accomplish is explicitly prohibited in the Visual Studio Express edition and is a violation of it's license. To extend the product, you need to have at least Visual Studio Professional Edition. many of the extensibility points will actively refuse any communication with 3rd party add-ins.
Almost all the things you're asking are possible using Visual Studio Extensibility once you've installed the professional edition. Products like OzCode show that almost everything is possible. Remember that most features inside visual studio are themselves extensions of the product.
Your question, indeed a whole list of questions, is indeed not the way to ask something on StackOverflow. I can give you some pointers to the documentation, which you've probably already found, and maybe to some open source products that themselves extend parts of Visual Studio that can serve as examples, but from there you'll have to piece something together until you're able to ask more specific questions.
Events you can subscribe to, the breakpoints are a CommandEvents I suspect.
Manipulating windows inside Visual Studio
Projects that extend the debugger that might serve as an example:
PyTools (debugger for Python inside Visual Studio)
Node.js tools for Visual studio (extending the Immediate Window)
But there is no easy answer to your question that fits inside this window. I'd suggest you use a tool like Reflector to look at how Microsoft accomplishes certain things (most of Visual Studio Extensibility is written in .NET anyways) and to look at open source projects that extend visual studio behavior. There are quite a few out there on Codeplex.
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to accomplish and how it's different from the Breakpoints features inside Visual Studio Professional and up.
I suggest you ask your question in the Visual Studio Extensibility forums over on MSDN, which is in a collaborative forum format, instead of a Q&A format, allowing people to answer your question bit by bit.
I have used code snippets in VS 2005, VS 2008 like: {code snippet},{TAB},{TAB}. Since I migrated to VS 2010 I cannot use the 2 TAB combination anymore. How can I access it? I feel like a real noob :)
Edit:
I guess it works, but not for all of them... I tried for the get and didn't do anything. Maybe I should check what is with the get inside code-snippet manager.
The Tab+Tab combination is still the way to insert code snippets in Visual Studio 2010. It's likely another setting which is breaking this behavior. I would try reseting my Visual Studio settings and see if that fixes the issue
Tools -> Import / Export settings
Navigate through the wizard
Use the profile of your choice
It should be the same combination as before (tab-tab works for me!). It may be worth checking for any extensions you've installed that might override shortcuts...
I have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate installed. It includes a lot of features that I rarely use, mostly around Team Explorer and Architecture and Modeling Tools. These things have a ton of commands and menus and context menu items that really clutter my display and probably slow down VS launching etc.
Is it possible to deactivate these components without uninstalling Ultimate and installing Pro instead? I do use these components on rare occasions and don't want them completely gone, just temporarily disabled.
I looked at the installer's "change" options, and it only has high level options like "C#" and "Visual Basic", nothing about the modeling tools. These components also do not show up in the addins or extensions lists.
(I'm fine with a hacky solution, like renaming a folder or editing an XML file.)
Adam Driscoll to the rescue.
http://csharpening.net/?p=640
He wrote a tool called VSTweaker that does exactly this.
We're using Visual Studio 2010 (Premium edition if it matters), and pretty happy with it. However, We're never going to use the TFS features that's included in the IDE. (We're using Jira and Subversion, as it's not just Visual Studio that we work with, but also IntelliJ and a couple other IDE's.)
Is there any way to disable the TFS portions of the IDE? It's not a big deal or anything, just for the sake of "keeping things neat."
In Visual Studio 2010, go to Tools->Options In the list, select Source Control. Set your Current source control plug-in: to None
The main "TFS" parts of the IDE are in Team Explorer - Just don't install it.
Anything else you don't want/use, I'd advise you to simply ignore - VS has support for hundreds or even thousands of different things that you will probably never use, and you can't easily "clean" them all away.
In my experience the more you alter your installation of Visual Studio the more problems you will have with it. Every custom Option you set is another thing you have to repeatedly set every time you get a new PC or install a new VS. (Although it has improved a lot since import/export options became available and reliable). I used to spend about half a day setting up a visual studio to "work well", and now I just install it and use it. Ultimately I found that it was easier to just adjust my working practices (e.g. by relearning a few keyboard shortcuts etc) than to try to bend VS to my will.