Wondering if anyone knows if the feature to allow add-in's for Visual Studio 2010 xml comment viewer was cut in the final release?? What I am talking about specifically is this:
I took this image from this page on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd722812.aspx) I can't seem to find even one addin with this functionality, anyone know?
Thanks,
Jeff Lundstrom
It was a prototype someone built, not intended to ship. As it stands, some people internally have played around with it, though still not with the intent of shipping it anytime soon. Sorry :(
(It could be written as an extension, as the prototype was, but I'm also not aware of anyone else, internal or external, who has).
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In visual studio, I can do a code review for someone and add comments to their code... In their instance of visual studio they can see those comments. All good so far.
But if you go to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Online, you can't see those comments at all. And if you make code comments in the tfs online web interface, those comments are not seen in visual studio.
I thought I would be able to see all comments across both visual studio and in TFS Online but it doesn't seem to work that way.
Is there a setting I'm missing, am I misunderstanding the functionality, or is this unimplemented?
Code Reviews and Lightweight code commenting are two complementing features, but also unrelated features. Yes they both allow you to comment on code, but as you've found out, the data between these two is not shared.
There isn't much you can do right now, except for going to the Visual Studio User Voice and explain what you'd love to see (or search for an existing suggestion and add your votes there).
Just installed VS 2013 (was previously on 2010) and I deeply regret it. I'm so glad the company picked up the tab!
I've read around a bit and found that a lot of people hate the VS 2012/2013 look & feel, and there are tools and tips to bring back the 2010 look & feel in VS 2012. However I couldn't find something like that for 2013 and wondering if I missed it or it just wasn't invented yet.
Edit: Two things I did find which someone else might be interested in too:
Disabling the ALL CAPS menus (this is is another SO question and found easily)
Disabling the file contents expanding (this appears to be less known and god knows how this guy even found it...
Edit #2: In the end I didn't use the themes in the provided answer. It seems that the "close to 2010" theme comes built-in in 2013 under the "Blue" name. I decided not to bother with icons and colors beyond that, to try and get used to these icons. The hacks above, coupled with VSCommands proved sufficient for me.
Here's a great tool for customizing your VS UI. It works with 2012 or 2013. There's also quite a few different themes available around the web, some of which mimic the UI of 2010.
Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor
Just wanted to know that how good is the Visual Studio 2010 for designing UI wireframe?
Is there any major shortcoming in VS2010 in this area.
The UI that i am going to create are the mock up UI but i intend to use the same in future for actual web application development.
Please help, as i am going to use it for the above mention work .
I would rather use visio or any other Mockup tool, see here: http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/18-great-examples-of-sketched-ui-wireframes-and-mockups
I don't think Visual Studio alone without any AddIn would be very useful in this.
If you want a microsoft product why not use sketchflow http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Sketchflow_Overview.aspx
AS you may already have blend installed.
I've started using the Balsamiq mock-up tool for quick prototypes, it's good for that early mock-screen stage but it might be too simple for what you want.
http://balsamiq.com/
There is a web-demo you can try, my favourite feature about it is that it doesn't look like a finished product so it keeps things looking suitably "prototypey". I've tried sketchflow after watching the incredible demo video but it was much buggier and unreliable when I tried it for myself and I spent more time fighting with it than I did coding so I just ditched it and went back to the Balsamiq tool.
Hey guys, I have a dilemma that I am uncertain about, as I not sure if it's is exactly possible for a Visual Studio Add-in to run its code automatically.
I need an add-in that can run passively, like a logger for Visual Studios. However, the Exec method that I know so far can only execute commandbar functionality, but I need the code to execute when the user right-clicks, or select a line of text.
I was able to make an automatic logger if i put my code in the "querystatus", but that would be considered bad programming, and it does not log when I simply select a piece of text.
Does anyone know how to make a passive or automatic running code in Visual Studios?
Unfortunately I think you may need to implement this as a VS Package, which is a much more powerful way to extend Visual Studio. I'd highly recommend looking at the MSDN documentation regarding the "Integration Architecture", it will give you a good idea about the VS extensibility model works and some of the concepts that it uses.
More specifically to your problem, it sounds like you want to extend the Visual Studio editor. There's quite a bit of documentation about extending the editor on MSDN.
Hope this helps!
When we write the name of a method that doesn't exist, Visual Studio 2010 asks us if we'd like to generate a method stub with that name. What I'd like to know if is it possible to replace that same code stub generating command with one made by myself. I never did any kind of extensibility programming for Visual Studio so I have a couple of questions:
How hard is it? Is it something I can learn in a couple of nights, or is it something that'll make me "lose" a lot of time?
It seems to me that there isn't a lot of support for that kind of programming, as generally people are not that interested in developing solutions that extend the Visual Studio IDE. I searched on SO and it doesn't appear to have many threads about extending Visual Studio.
I don't know how the generate method stub thing works in Visual Studio, but I just wanted to turn it into something a bit more flexible and useful. Has anyone dealt with these kind of things before, that can give me a pointer to where to start? I know of MS VSX site but that has a lot of resources and can be overwhelming for someone new to the subject as I am.
What technology will I need to use? T4? Maybe I'll need to know a lot about the code, like Visual Studio does, so I can know other method's type arguments, names, etc. Is that what T4 is for?
Thanks
I searched the web a bit and I don't see anything about customizing the "Suggested Fix." Your thought in #2 is probably spot-on.
You can modify the VS editor by reading through http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd885242.aspx.