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
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I am having trouble finding the right-click context menu in Visual Studio 2015. I know that nothing is wrong with my project or the file I am working. I can find the right-click context refactor menu in Visual Studio 2013. However, in Visual Studio 2015 there isn't a refactor context menu in the right-click context menu.
Where did it go? How do I get it back?
Your suggestion cannot include menu Edit → Refactor.
I have tried to reset my Visual Studio settings back to default using menu Tools → Import and Export Settings and that didn't bring the menu back either.
Some of the refactoring tools have been relocated or are at least accessible in a different manner than they were previously.
Using the extract method refactor as an example, you can still use this function; it is just not done the same as before:
Right click
Quick actions
Click extract Method
I think they've changed it to feel more "ReSharper"ey. All of the functionality should still be there however.
Here's more information on refactoring in Visual Studio 2015 - hopefully this helps! Refactoring (C#)
You no longer need to access the refactoring using the mouse right click.
It is recommended that you use the keyboard shortcut keys within Visual Studio.
For all possible shortcut keys, see Default Keyboard Shortcuts in Visual Studio, Refactor.
You might need to build the project to get it to work.
See Code Editing ASP.NET Web Forms in Visual Studio 2013 | Microsoft Docs. (If it is missing then the point is that I am using an example provided by Microsoft.). In Refactoring and Renaming see To extract a method in a C# page. When I follow the instructions I cannot find the feature to extract the code to a method. When I tried the Edit menu it said I did not have valid code. Then I built the project and the feature to extract the code was available and worked.
If you change the name of the object you are refactoring, the light bulb then appears to the left which asks if you wish to change the name of the object (i.e. refactor) or generate a new constructor for the new named object.
Ctrl + . is the shortcut key for extracting a method in Visual Studio 2015 and onward.
Ctrl+M, R does not work anymore in new versions.
I'm trying to figure out how to do a VS2010 add in with gui, (like a simple popup with a few fields and an enter button)
I found stuff on stack that says Visual Studio (2010?) projects is what I need (instead of an addin) but all the tutorials I can find are for VS2008, and dont' apply to vs2010.
Is the answer outdated? what do I use?
Can anyone tell me what technology I need to use?
We have some powershell scripts that take parameters and generate code for us, I want to click on a menu item under tools (or a tool bar button) popup and ask for the parameter values, click ok, and then run the powershell. (someone else wrote the powershell, i just want to creat a built in gui for them)
As a bonus I'd like to add resultant files to the projects, but that's down the line.
Any hint or tutorials you can point me towards would be a great boon.
Does anyone know if it is possible at all to filter the Toolbox's items in Visual Studio using an add-in?
Visual Studio 2010 introduced the ability to search but I want to filter, for example: type in button and it must show all items containing "button", same as on this on this Delphi XE screenshot:
This is a very good answer for this question. I copied from the VS blog:
In VS 2010 Beta2, we’ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name. To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking in it, for example) and start typing the name of the control you want to find. As you type, the selection will move to the next item that matches what you've typed so far.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2009/10/26/toolbox-search.aspx
This is something not possible as microsoft does not reveal the secret of adding toolbox controls details completely. They make change the process for each platform and for each versions of visual studio. if we have a clear details of how they add, we can also do the similar kind of small application with search capability and add it as add-in.
Luckily Visual Studio 2012 now has that feature!
Let me elaborate, since the title was a little rough. I have been looking for a way to make a WCF service work with Silverlight for days now. Eventually I come across a mention of something called a 'Silverlight-enabled WCF service'. The only problem is, this doesn't exist in my Visual Studio 2010 (and I have looked).
Someone then asked me whether it appears in Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Silverlight\1033. Well it looks to be - there is a file called SLWcfService.zip.
Assuming this is the template I'm looking for, how do I get Visual Studio to add this to the list of item templates that I get when I select a new project?
Thanks.
I don’t about your specific case, but if you have an item up on VS and you want to save it as a template: Click on: File -> Export Template -> and then select Item Template.
I am trying to add button(s) to the Visual Studio / TFS2010 Work Item query results menu bar and also to the menu bar shown for individual Work Items (see image below) - is that actually customizable & doable and if so, how?
I would take a look at this post:
TFS 2010 - Adding a menu item to the Completed Builds context menu in the Build Explorer
It discusses the steps you need to take to add menu items to context menus.
To answer my own question (as the one by NGM was helpful but it did not directly answer it.) - no it is not possible as the Work Item & Query Windows inside Visual Studio, particularly their toolbars, are not callable as commands in a VS (SDK) sense.
Basically they are merely WinForms controls (well, were for VS2010, I think this has changed to WPF in VS2013 by now) placed inside a WinForms form hosted inside a VS ToolWindow. The toolbars I outlined above cannot be customised via the VS SDK.
This may have changed in VS2012 or VS2013, but for VS2010 there was/is no way to add custom items into the two toolbars I asked for back then.