I'm using Zend Studio 9 and would like to use the tasks feature by adding tags in my code such as #todo etc. When I open the tasks view, there is a huge list of existing tags from other libraries that cause so much clutter the list becomes too cumbersome to use. Also, the list displays task tags for all my projects at once, which adds even more clutter. How can I display task tags for the one project I'm currently working in and hide tags from third party libraries? Thanks!
This works for me in Zend Studio 10:
Click on the triangle pointig down in the upper right corner of the tasks window.
Select "Configure Contents" (There can be two. The right one is the opening dialog with "Show all items" as the first control.)
You can define here a working set, not including the folders containing the third party solutions.
I hope this helps.
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I'm new to Visual Studio, but have used several other IDE's over the years. I'm stunned by the poor out-of-the-box management of files, filters and "presentation" of coding, and now trying to find if there's a way to customize it the way I've found to be optimal for me.
First off, when programming C++, I'd like for the IDE to use a vertically split automatic view. Dragging and dropping a view to the right side giving me a "static" split is no problem, but that file will stay there untouched until I open another file while in this active view.
What I want is to make it so that when I click a .cpp-file in the explorer, it will show up in the left view - and its corresponding header-file will show in the right view. Likewise, when clicking a header-file, I'd want it to be presented in the right view and the corresponding .cpp-file to show in the left view. If either doesn't exist, just show a blank screen on its side.
When ctrl-clicking a class name, I'd want both the cpp and header-file to be presented, cpp on left and header on right.
Is this not possible?
The second thing that grinds my gears is the solution explorer. I simply don't understand the value of the filter system. I surely do not want every single .cpp file lined up alphabetically under each other, and every single header-file alphabetically another place. I want the explorer to replicate the folder structure as-is. And let me create a file in "src/my_folder/" by right-clicking "my_folder" and add->new item.
I've found that I can click "Switch views" and select "Folder view", but doing this seems to also invalidate the "Solution" and any configurations etc. The solution is literally gone, and the Build/Run-command switches to "Current document" and is completely detached from the project itself.
The closest option I've found is to be in "Solution view" and select "Show all files". The problem is that this shows literally all files and folders, including "output-folders", "hidden" and completely irrelevant files and folders that I don't want here. And I'm naturally not able to "hide" these files, as this is an option to "show all files".
Xcode on Mac has both of these features (and more snacks) pretty flawlessly implemented, and is my all-time favorite IDE per now.
Is there any way to replicate these features in Visual Studio?
I have number of projects in one visual studio solution and want to see tasks for one of them. Is it possible to do this in better way then search "//TODO"?
Upd:I know that there is a "Task List" (Ctrl+W,T) to show all tasks, question is how to display tasks for one project.
Just saw this while looking for a different problem.
Answer is yes you can.
In the task list window, hover over the Project header. A filter icon appears. Click it. Uncheck "all" then check the project(s) you want to view.
Every time I check out my solution from the SCM I have to collapse manually each project in my solution to get a good overview of it.
I know that the collapsed settings are stored in a .suo file, which is binary. I don't want to commit this file to the SCM, instead I am looking for a xml tag that I could put in the .sln file so when I open it all projects are collapsed.
How to do that?
Install DPack for Visual Studio and use the "collapse all projects" context menu item ;-)
Install Productivity Power Tools and use Solution Navigator instead of Solution Explorer:
Solution Navigator is a new tool window that acts like an enhanced Solution Explorer. With it, you can:
* Expand code files to navigate to its classes, expand classes to navigate to their members, and so on (C# and VB only)
* Search your solution, all the way down to class members
* Filter your solution or projects to see just opened files, unsaved files, and so on
* View related information about classes and members (such as references or callers/callees for C#)
* Preview images by hovering over them, or preview rich information by hovering over code items
* We've also added support for multiple selection and drag & drop. (New!)
It also haves a collapse all button.
The smallest plugin that helped me is Collapse Selection In Solution Explorer
This is how I expected the toolbox to work:
Let's say I add a custom Tab to the Toolbox called "Ajaxtoolkit." To add controls to the new tab, I right mouse click and select "Choose Items" and browse to a file, Ajaxtoolkit.dll, that is of a particular version number.
I would expect that when I save and reopen the solution, that the Ajax Toolkit custom tab would still be in my Toolbox and that it would contain the same controls that were there last time, the controls that were in the dll that I referenced when the controls were added.
If I created a brand new web app, I (possibly) wouldn't expect to see the same Ajax Toolkit custom tab. However, I could perform the same steps as above and add a "Ajax Toolkit" tab and perhaps, this time, select a DIFFERENT VERSION of the tookit, and the state of the toolkit would be retained with each solution file.
Another possibility would be for the original Ajaxtoolkit to be retained when the 2nd web solution is created, and perhaps, if I wanted to mix versions of the toolkit across diffreent web sites in my solution, I should start naming my custom toolkit tabs with version specific names like "Ajaxtoolkit 4.0," etc.
...But instead, the Ajaxtoolkit tab disappears when I close VS2010 and reopen it.
Why? Is this desirable behavior or a bug?
You know VS2010 is a fully customizable IDE, may be these features conflicts your toolbox customization.
Is there any way to associate a web page with a project in Visual Studio, and have it load up in the IDE? For example, I have a project who's task list is maintained on a web site. It would be ideal to see those tasks within the IDE instead of a separate page. I can accomplish that now by following these steps:
Press Ctrl-Alt-R to open a Web Browser page
Change the URL to my desired path
Position the page as desired (like in its own tab group, off to the right of my code)
It would be nice to have a link somewhere in my project that I could click and open this page in the IDE without changing the URL every time. I have several different projects that would benefit from this. Any ideas?
Something like this happens with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. The various documents and guidance associated with your current Team Project area accessible from within Visual Studio, in the Team Explorer window.
You can also create a Guidance Package to apply various commands and pieces of documentation at appropriate places within your projects. see Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit.
Nice idea. The only thing that I can think of is via Visual Studio Extensibility. Basically,
Define an MSBuild property in the project file or a custom field in the solution file that has the project url.
Write a VS package that subscribes to the solution load event or something similar (I am not familiar with VS object model but I am sure there is an event like that) and looks for that custom field and extracts the url if it exists in the solution or the project file and then opens a web browser within VS that points to that url.
Here's my quick hack around this problem:
Create a text file in the project. I called my "notes.txt", and I use it to store notes, ideas, etc. that don't have a home elsewhere in the project.
Add the web link to the top of the file.
Open the text file in the IDE and put it in a new tab group. I put mine in a vertical tab group off to the right.
Drag the separator as far over as it will go to "hide" the tab group. This way it's always open and available but not taking up much space.
When you want the web page, "show" the tab group (i.e. drag the separator back) and ctrl-click the link.
This has the added benefit of opening the web page in the same tab group as the text file, so you can push them both aside when not using them.
I'm sure there's more that could be done by writing packages as others have suggested, but this was a low-effort way to get me close enough to what I wanted. I'd love to hear other suggestions or modifications that might make this setup better.