Is there a way to set a reminder on certain projects/solutions in visual studio 2010?
something like a pop-up message that show up whenever the project opened
Would something like this be suitable?
Here is a screenshot of the plugin being used to do something similar to what you're asking, just in VS2008 instead:
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Is there an on solution open event in visual studio? Something similar to the Pre/Post build events for projects, but instead only fires when the solution opens. I would like to add a command to run when the solution opens, but can't seem to find anything that will allow me to do that.
I am hoping to put a toolbar button (or configure a keyboard shortcut) for the Set StartUp Projects... solution context menu item.
If the solution is selected in Solution Explorer the Project menu has solution context items, but I cannot seem to find this command anywhere. I can only find single Set as StartUp Project and similar.
Does anyone know if I can do this?
EDIT: I found this extension which allows me to do what I want quite easily (define different combinations of start up projects): https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f4e1be8c-b2dd-4dec-b273-dd88f8818571
It is the one command Project.SetasStartUpProject that works differently depending on whether a project or the solution is selected in Solution Explorer. To select the solution and then call Project.SetasStartUpProject you can probably use Visual Commander or Macros for Visual Studio 2013.
This extension does exactly what I required. It has linked versions for other editions of VS. It uses json config files to start multiple projects nicely.
Please let me know how to add an action into the context-menu of "Solution Explorer" in Visual Studio?
I'd like to add my action into the context-menu of files listed in this explorer (see a screenshot for example), and then be able to launch my application (EXE file) that can get the filename (including its path) as an argument.
I currently use VS2008, however please let me know if that should be different with VS2010 and VS2012.
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Write your own visual studio Add-In take a look at that link this is good place to start. but its not easy...
You're going to have to write a Visual Studio Add-In.
Take a look at the code for the Xsd2Code addin on codeplex. Specifically the Connect class. This addin does something similar to what you want... it adds a context menu option that's available when you right-click on project items (in this case, only enabled for .xsd files).
Also, check out the Solution Explorer Context Menu sample within the Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples download.
I'm building a console based app. By default it's output extension is .exe. I want to change it to .com. Presently I'm able to do it by adding <TargetExt>.com</TargetExt> in .csproj. But I'd like to know how to do this via Visual studio 2010 UI.
This isn't natively changeable in the UI. Your best option, other than what you have done, is to add a postbuild command that renames the file, but if the csproj change is working, there is probably no reason to do that.
I was looking at examples that showed you could echo $(TargetExt) in the Post-build event. So, I wondered if you could set TargetExt=.com in the Pre-build event. As it turns out, you can.
Are there any decent to-do list extensions for VS 2010? I like using the ReSharper To-do Explorer and comment regexes, but for some reminders/tasks etc. I don't want to have to add a comment to code, especially if the task is general and not specific to any one piece of code. The VS 2010 Task List is very primitive and clunky for other tasks though.
Visual Studio will actually allow you to just add new items to the "Task List" pane. You don't have to add a comment that clutters up your code. To do this:
Make sure that the Task List is displaying "User Tasks" by choosing it from the drop-down box.
Click the little clipboard-with-a-checkmark icon to add a new task.
A new item will be added to the list box below; just type your task or comment.
I have no idea if this is any good but I am looking for something similar and found this:
http://www.tasktop.com/products/visual-studio
I also tried this - the developer suggests it will work with VS2010 but I could not get it to work with VS2010 Premium
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1160239-a1ce-426e-9f01-0e4282fd7acb
Maybe you would have more luck