VisualStudio 2010 setup project for winforms: I have a customer request to add a shortcut icon to the taskbar during install. I am not immediately seeing how to do this...
I have managed to create a desktop shortcut, a start menu item and a program folder shortcut. I have not found a way to create a shortcut on the Task bar, you could just ask them to drag and drop the shortcut from the desktop.
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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio (currently using 2013) to open the solution (or a project) in the Windows file explorer?
Currently, I normally have to open up the Solution Explorer, right-click on my solution or a project and scroll down to 'Open Folder in File Explorer', but this becomes a time consuming task as I have to do it often (TortoiseGit not integrated with my IDE).
An improvement over #Walt_Ritscher's answer I found was to assign a keyboard shortcut to the File.OpenContainingFolder.
Instead of having to first select a project or solution from the solution project I can simply press a desired keyboard shortcut while any file is in focus (without having to open the Solution Explorer) and it will open the file location in Windows Explorer. This saves time if the focus in my solution explorer is on a file deep in the structure of my solution explorer since I don't have to scroll all the way back up to select a project/solution before hitting the keyboard shortcut.
Yes, you can add your own keyboard shortcut to open the folder.
Open the Tools/Options/Keyboard dialog. In the Show Commands Containing textbox, type OpenFolderIn and you will see the OpenFolderInFileExplorer command. Select the command, then assign a shortcut key. Move your cursor to the Press shortcut keys textbox.then press your desired key combination. In my example I chose Ctrl+Shift+'. Be sure and click the Assign button to memorize the shortcut key
Press OK and you're done.
For visual studio vs2017:
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O
I have a code which detects the FACES from the image file (C++ file). I am using Visual Studio-2010 and OpenCV-2.4.10 for this project.
Now I want to create an EXE file and I want to give User Interface which will ask the user to upload an image and produces the Output image back on to the User Interface.
So how can I do this.
Please help me in this regards.
Thankz in advance.
To build a solution that's open in Visual Studio and selected in Solution Explorer, you can:
On the menu bar, choose Build, Build Solution.
Or, in Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for the solution and then choose Build Solution.
Or, press F7. (This is the default keyboard shortcut for the C/C++ development settings.)
Or, in the Command Window (on the menu bar, choose View, Other Windows, Command Window), enter Build.BuildSolution.
Or, in the Quick Launch box, enter build build solution.
To build a project that's selected in Solution Explorer, you can:
On the menu bar, choose Build, Build .
Or, in Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for the project and then choose Build.
Or, in the Command Window (on the menu bar, choose View, Other Windows, Command Window), enter Build.BuildOnlyProject.
Or, in the Quick Launch box, enter build project only build only .
You can then navigate to the build location, either /debug or /release depending on the option you have chosen, you will find your .exe there
You need to use Publish from right-clicked project in Solution Explorer
I have been researching around the web trying to figure out how to add Run As Administrator as the default menu item for a Visual Studio solution when you:
right-click the solution in Windows Explorer
right-click on a pinned application, such as Visual Studio 2013, to bring up the Jump List and then select the solution
The instructions that I have found so far:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-run-as-administrator-to-any-file-type-in-windows-vista/
show how to easily add the Run As Administrator menu item to an existing file type. You just have to find the right registry keys for the Visual Studio version that you're working with. For example, Visual Studio 2013's registry key for its solution file type is:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.sln.12.0]
Then you just copy the Open command under the shell key, then paste it in as a new key whose name is runas.
After that change, when you right-click on the solution in Windows Explorer, Run As Administrator is in the list of commands. But it is not the default.
To open the solution as Administrator from the Jump List menu, when you right-click on Visual Studio as a pinned icon, you have to right-click on the solution file in the Jump List, then select Run As Administrator.
But I couldn't find anywhere about how to make the Run As Administrator the default command in this menu.
So how do you do that?
Easiest way is doing this:
Right click visual studio and open file location.
(If it's the shortcut, right click then click properties. On the bottom click on "Open File Location")
This should lead you to devenv.exe.
Right click this and select troubleshoot compatiblity.
Select troubleshoot program and check off the box for "The program requires additional permissions" and select next.
Now if you open visual studio from where ever, it'll open it as an administrator.
It actually turns out to be one additional registry entry that needs to be set. In the shell key under the file type, change the value of (Default) to be the same name as the command in the registry under the shell folder.
For example, to set Run As Administrator to be the default, you would set the value of (Default) in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.sln.12.0\shell to be runas.
When exported, this setting looks like this:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.sln.12.0\shell]
#="runas"
Now when you right-click the solution in Windows Explorer, or when you right-click the solution after right-clicking to bring up the Jump List on the Visual Studio 2013 pinned icon, Run As Administrator is the default command instead of Open.
So you can confidently open the solution itself from Windows Explorer or the Jump List menu and watch as Visual Studio opens as Administrator.
Updating answer for Visual Studio 2015 (under covers version "14.0"). Tested on on Windows 10 Pro v1703 Creators Update. Picture below illustrates the first registry change. Second change goes one better - no need to right-click the jump list item at all.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;To add "Run As Administrator" to Visual Studio 2015 Taskbar Jump List solution right-clicks
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.sln.14.0\shell\RunAs]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.sln.14.0\shell\RunAs\command]
#="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" \"%1\""
;To make Jump List solutions open As Administrator by default
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.sln.14.0\shell]
#="runas"
VS2010 contains a ‘setup’ project that creates an installation package.
I need a short cut to the app that will be installed on the user’s desktop. The shortcut I know how to create with the setup/Install is a ‘special’ shortcut and I can’t use it to drop files onto it (and launch the app from it).
Anyone knows how to create a full-features-shortcut that will follow the user’s specified installation path (if he changes it)?
To create a shortcut in a Visual Studio setup project, you can try this:
go to the File System Editor
select "User's Desktop" folder
right-click in the right pane (the files list)
select "Create New Shortcut" context menu item
select the target file when prompted
I'm not sure what you mean by "special shortcut", but this is the only type of shortcut you can create with Visual Studio.
You probably have to disable advertised shortcuts with a tool like Orca. More info here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winformssetup/thread/d87e8737-dc71-4a5d-a3e7-6653888dd129/?prof=required
Where do I put the shortcut icon for my mobile application in the Installer project for a Windows Mobile project so that when the cab is installed the icon will show on the Programs Menu?
In the file system editor you can right click -> "Add Special Folder" -> "Start Menu Folder". Then you right click in the folder and select "Create new Shortcut" and select your application.