I'm using outlook 2003 and using flags to define different followup categories. However in-build 'Red Flag', 'Blue Flag' labels are not useful, I need to define custom labels. To do that, I went through following link
I successfully completed first 3 steps. While on step 4, when I right click a flag in new toolbar, I get default menu so select toolbars.
Has someone any idea about this problem and how can I fix it?
Are you right-clicking the Flag icon? It looks like you right-clicked the toolbar item itself.
Sometimes, it difficult to tell. The screenshot looks like a list of your available toolbars.
This is not the context menu for the icon.
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I'm trying to build an extension to Visual Studio with a couple of custom commands. It is well documented how to add commands to VS Menu/Toolbars. There are also many samples how to add custom button to the Project Explorer Toolbar. The problem is that best (most suitable) toolbar for my command is those on the top of Output Window.
So, there are two questions:
Is it possible?
If yes then how to achieve this?
1) It is really possible. It looks like any toolbar and any menu could be extended by any command.
2) The method of extending is the same for all toolbars (and menu). What you need to know is toolbar's ID. ID could be found in file vsshlids.h placed in your installed VSSDK inc folder. For output window toolbar this ID is IDM_VS_TOOL_OUTPUTWINDOW.
I have a toolbar with some actions linked to macros in Personal.xls. I want to use the toolbar in Excel 2010 under Win7, but it insists C:\Documents and Settings\user\App...\PERSONAL.XLS doesn't exist. Quite right, they've changed the %AppData% location to C:\Users\user... And I can't put a copy of PERSONAL.XLS in the old place because C:\Documents and Settings\ is special-cased in Windows 7, and it's a forbidden place to everyone.
My question: How can I reset the macro linked to the toolbar buttons?
You used to be able to access
the Commandbars collection to get a command bar
The Controls collection of the command bar to get a control (button in this case)
The OnAction property of the control to identify the linked macro.
But OnAction doesn't seem to be a supported property for Excel 2010.
Any suggestions?
I'd much rather relink the toolbar than create a new custom ribbon tab. The toolbar buttons don't waste the APALLING amount of space custom ribbon items take up, and the custom icons on my toolbarare meaningful. Subsiduary question: Are there simple ways to create custom designs for custom ribbon items?
Looks like I didn't investigate closely enough. "OnAction" might not appear in the Object Browser, but it is available, and can be used to reset the associated toolbars. It didn't seem to work using the Immediate window, but does work within code in a module.
Cheers folks...
I am trying to add a shortcut to the exectuable in the user's start menu.
There are many answer on StackOverflow that detail how to do this.
However, the all say something along the lines of 'Right click in the right-hand pane to...'
So I understand you all have an interface that looks something like:
I don't have the panel on the extredme right - entitled 'Name' containing the Primary Output.
I have gone through every menu option I can find to enable this pane, but can't find it.
Anyone know how to show this window?
I am wondering wether or not the splitter has been dragged all of the way to the right. Try collapsing all of your side menus like the solution / property / toolbox etc.. to make sure that the File System editor is filling the entire window then look if you can see a splitter to the right. I have not found any way to delete that panel yet. You can also try right clicking on the File system Tab and tell it to float then make it go full screen to see if the splitter is visible then.
I had the same problem, tried to find another splitter but couldn't, got the 2nd detail pane by opening Visual Studio 2010 using the 'Run as administrator' command.
I've created a MACRO in visual studio 2010 that builds my project and attaches it to several processes. Unfortunately, unlike in vs2008, I can't add it to a toolbar so I can run it with a press of a button; after looking it up I found out the guys at Microsoft left the option of adding a macro button out of vs2010:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/vsx/thread/87455de6-2a7d-42dd-b51f-ddd442c3e3fd
Am I wrong and there is a way/workaround that can solve this?
It's possible. Tools + Customize, Commands tab, Toolbar radio button. Use the combo to select the toolbar you want to change. Add Command button, Categories = Macros, select the macro in the Command list. Modify Selection to alter the button properties.
What you can't do is select an image for the new button. That's indeed stunningly lame, looks like they just didn't have time to get it done. You can add your vote to this feedback article. But surely on the todo list for the next version already.
Has the menu & toolbar customization functionality in VS2010 been reduced?
I can't seem to be able to select an icon for an added command, nor set it to be icon-only. Previous versions of Visual Studio supported this functionality and even allowed the creation/editing of custom icons.
Is this something that has suffered as a result of the move to the WPF-authored UI or am I missing something?
Seems like this functionality was cut from Visual Studio 2010. This post has some info in the comments: Customizing Visual Studio 2010
Specifically - "Unfortunately assigning or editing icons to commands through Customize dialog is not possible in VS2010. It is one of the features got cut for lack of time. This is however something we'll consider adding back in next version."
The reply also has a longer explanation of a workaround.
As noted in the link mentioned in the answer from #Gordon Mackie JoanMiro, the REASON for the reduced functionality is that the VS Shell team migrated the entire UI (shell and command system) from Win32 to one based solely on WPF. This was a gargantuan task, I would imagine. However, a couple workarounds are now available:
You can export previously saved settings from VS 2008 and import them into VS 2010. That includes command bar customizations (as noted by #Don)
A more recent blog-post contains detailed instructions for using a new extension to VS2010 (available on Visual Studio Gallery) that allows users to change the images on the command UI. (Note that the old drag&drop customization interface is still not supported in this new extension.)
If you have custom icons, any attempt to make ANY changes to the tool bar will result in the custom icons disappearing and being replaced by text when you restart VS2010.
The only way I found to get my custom icons without text into VS2010 is to open VS2008, set up all of the tool bars the way I want, including custom icons, then export the settings (Tools| Import and Export Settings). Then open VS2010 and import those settings. Tedious, I know, but it allows me to have a down arrow icon that searches for the next instance of the word my cursor is on.
I have been trying to customize VS2010 toolbars/keyboard and what took a few minutes in previous versions takes hours now. The new system looks real pretty but is useless in practice. Apart from the fact you just can't do (like change the appearance of buttons as mentioned above) the things you can do are extremely time-consuming and annoying.
Why is it every new version of VS loses something really useful? Other examples:
VC++5 introduced a new HTML help system. Pressing F1 on a function name used to immediately show help for that function. After VC++5 getting context help became annoyingly much slower, and is still very slow (and inaccurate).
VS.Net (aka VS2002 or VC++7) had a useless bookmark system compared to VC++6. VS2010 bookmarks are better but not perfect.
VS.Net removed the search state buttons "whole word", "case sensitive" etc. These were possibly the most useful buttons ever as they quickly allowed you to see why a search may have failed.
I found a great extension: CommandingImage
It does not have an icon editor, but you can create your images as 16x16 png format (for transparency) and import it (I recommend Paint.Net)
Dave, here's how to add toolbar buttons:
1) in the IDE, find the down arrow looking thing on the far right of a toolbar and click on Add Remove Buttons, Customize
2) in the Customize window select the Menu Bar radio button then select the appropriate menu bar that you want to add a button to
3) click the "Add Command..." button
4) select the appropriate Category and Command button that you want to add, then click OK.
The command button you selected will be added to the menu bar you selected. You can move the button up or down.
I think this is what you are looking for.
Good luck!