How do you customize a button in a Visual Studio toolbar to run a certain executable?
I use VS2010, so a specific answer would be even better, although this might be the same cross versions...
Under Tools, External Tools add your executable.
To make it appear in the toolbar then click on the small triangle at the end of the toolbar and select Add or Remove Button, then Customize. Click Add Command and from category Tools select External command 1 (or another if you have multiple).
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I want to add a shortcut-button in Visual Studio 2015. Clicking this button should just emulate "Attach To Process" -> Select "w3wp.exe" -> Attach.
Does anyone know how to do it?
You can't do those two commands on one toolbar button click apart from creating or using an existing Visual Studio extension.
Creating a Visual Studio extension would be feasible but somewhat involved (as a complete project in itself).
Available Extensions:
The first extension you could use is Visual Commander (detailed below) to create a Macro.
Depending on your needs you could also use AttachTo which provide a one click option to attach to IIS.
Finally there is also Debug Attach Manager which can attach to specific process and then remember it.
Using a macro to achieve the desired effect:
As mentioned by #Sergey Vlasov, you can can install a Visual Studio Extension named Visual Commander that brings back Macros in Visual Studio. Then you can program a macro to do this for you. The code for the macro comes from another SO answer
Public Sub AttachShortcut()
For Each proc In DTE.Debugger.LocalProcesses
If proc.Name = "what you're looking for" Then
proc.Attach()
Exit Sub
End IF
Next
End Sub
Adding the shortcut button:
You can also easily add a button in your toolbar to add "Attach to Process..." if you prefer to have the button on your toolbar.
To do this go in the Menu under TOOLS. Then choose Customize.
There select the second tab "Commands".
The select Toolbar and choose the toolbar you want the button to appear in. For example "Debug" if you want it to appear during debugging.
Then press the Add Command... button and choose the Debug category. There you will find the Attach to Process.
This would make it more readily available if you prefer to use the toolbar.
This question relates to this ReSharper YouTrack issue.
In Visual Studio 2010 with ReSharper 7.1.1 installed, if I go to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard, there is a command called ReSharper_SilentCleanupCode.
I would like to bind this command to a toolbar button.
This seems to be impossible using Tools > Customize > Commands because the only commands available within this dialog are for actions that already have an associated menu item. The particular ReSharper command I'm interested in (Silent Code Cleanup) doesn't appear in any menu, so it cannot be assigned to a toolbar button using the "GUI".
Is there any other way to bind a keyboard-only command to a toolbar button? (One of ReSharper's programmers thought the "VS script editor" could be used, but I'm not having any luck finding info on this.)
Edit
I should have mentioned this in the first place. While azhrei's macro solution is great for Visual Studio 2010, it will break once I upgrade to VS 2012, because macros are no longer supported. If someone has a solution that will continue to work in VS 2012, that would be preferable. (Or perhaps VS 2012 toolbars don't have the same limitation in the first place?)
Add a macro that executes the command, then add the macro to a toolbar.
This works because it makes the keyboard-only command appear in the Macros menu in the Customize Commands dialog.
Details
Add a macro which does this:
Sub _ReSharper_SilentCleanupCode()
DTE.ExecuteCommand("ReSharper_SilentCleanupCode")
End Sub
Put this macro in a module which appears in Customize..Commands..AddCommand..Categories..Macros, such as Samples or MyMacros.RecordingModule, but not MyMacros.Module1 (the default when using the macro IDE).
Go to Tools..Customize..Command and select the Toolbar you want.
Now Add Command... and select the Macros category.
Select your Macros.Samples._ReSharper_SilentCleanupCode macro.
Click Modify Selection and change the name to #-) or whatever text makes you think ReSharper Silent Code Cleanup without being too long for your toolbar. :-)
I tried this with Visual Studio 2010 and ReSharper 7.1.2.
Edit
Visual Commander is a apparently way to get this going on VS2012 as well - see comments below for more.
My VS2010 won't allow me to visually edit AXML files. I want to configure the "Open With..." feature in VS to run the visual editor.
The "Open With" feature is available by right-clicking a file in the solution.
Another one of my VS installations has this feature so I know it's possible. There must be something in the Xamarin install that this feature doesn't get setup some times.
Does anyone know how to set this up manually via the "Open With..." selection dialog?
Right now, I switch back and forth between Mono Develop and VS...what a pain...
This should not be the case you should just be able to select the file from the Resources/Layout folder and have the option of either the Source/Design view. If you are unable to do this just use the Xamarin Studio as you have been doing but it might also be a idea to use the DroidDraw website www.droiddraw.org/ in order to have a GUI to design your interfaces.
Hope this helps,
James
I'm using AnkSVN within Visual Studio 2010, and it covers ~95% of my SVN needs. The biggest missing feature is that I can't find a way to blame a file from directly within VS. The workaround I currently use is to right click on the file within the tablist, and select Open Containing Folder, and then right clicking on the file in Explorer to call Blame.
It's called Annotate in AnhkSVN.
Subversion -> Annotate in the context menu.
I didn't like AnkhSVN's Annotate feature. So I used the following:How to integrate TortoiseSVN into Visual Studio.
Content from above url:
If you're using Visual Studio, you can integrate TortoiseSVN commands to various context menus.
The first step is to add the TortoiseSVN commands as external tools, under the menu TOOLS->External Tools....
Add the name of the command, the path to TortoiseProc.exe and then the parameters for the command.
Use the VS variables wherever needed. Since I add my commands to the context menu of the open file tab, here's the parameters I used:
/command:blame /path:"$(ItemPath)" /line:$(CurLine)
/command:diff /path:"$(ItemPath)"
/command:log /path:"$(ItemPath)"
Notice the /line: parameter: this will make TortoiseBlame automatically scroll to the same line the cursor is located in the opened file in Visual Studio.
Now to add those new commands to the file tab context menu, go to TOOLS->Customize..., select the Commands tab, click the radio button Context menu and then select Other Context Menus | Easy MDI Document Window.
Now you have to select the commands. Problem is that the custom commands are not shown with their title but only as External Command X with X being the number of the external command.
In my case, the commands were number 9-11, you might have to do some trial-and-error here. Just add the commands you think are the ones you added and then check if the right ones show up in the context menu.
NOTE: In Visual Studio 2010 to add a command to the right-click menu of a document’s tab, first you’ll need to right-click on a Visual Studio document tab to work around a Visual Studio bug. (Otherwise the Easy MDI Document Window context menu doesn’t show up in the Customize dialog.) Source
I've deleted a tool from ToolBox by accident. How I can get it back if possible?
The standard way is to select the tab in the toolbox and select "Choose Items", this opens a window that allows you a list of controls to add, or you can browse to find the control in it's assembly if it is not there.
You can also restore the toolbox to the original configuration with a Right Click on the Toolbox and select "Reset Toolbox" (WARNING: This will give you the VS defaults. If you loaded any control libraries, you will lose them and have to reload them with their installer or "Choose Items").
Just right click any tool and select reset toolbox....you will get the deleted tool.
Disclaimer: This is based on memory.
Right click on Toolbox, you should get properties/configure or Add Control option. Select that option and a dialog box will appear listing all types (.net, COM) of control. Select the control that has gone missing and it should be back to your toolbox.
If reset toolbox does not help please try the following:
- right click on the blank toolbox area and select the option "Add/remove Items";
- click on the browse button;
- if 'Windows Forms' controls are missing navigate to:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\vx.xxxx\System.Windows.Forms.dll
- if 'Web' controls are missing navigate to:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\vx.xxxx\System.Web.dll
- and press OK.
The controls should then appear on the relevant tabs.
For Visual Studios or other visual stuff, to reset the toolbox and other tools click windows then go to reset windows layout.