I'm writing a custom tool for Visual Studio and am currently using the IVsSingleFileGenerator interface. This works for the most part, but now I'd like to generate more than one file output.
Does anyone know how do go about doing this? I'm really hoping there is just a different interface to implement.
Creating a Custom Tool to Generate Multiple Files in Visual Studio 2005
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/VsMultipleFileGenerator.aspx
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I have the following task: Make a visual editor in Visual Studio (not the core of today's question) which results in a text file, on a custom format. This file will then be used as input for code generation resulting in C# code. For this, I've been looking at:
T4
Visual Studio Extensions
Visual Studio Project Templates
Visual Studio Item Templates
I feel the solution is there somewhere, but I can't quite figure out how best to do it. As I see it, the main problem is somehow to automatically generate code for all files with a given extension. Does anyone know of any tutorials or descriptions on how to do this?
Thanks in advance!
To automatically associate a code generator with all files of a given extension, you need to
Create a Visual Studio package
Implement a custom IVsSingleFileGenerator. The easiest option is to subclass the BaseTemplatedCodeGenerator and override its GenerateCode method to supply your own T4 template as the "inputFileContent".
Use the ProvideCodeGeneratorAttribute to register the generator.
Use the ProvideCodeGeneratorExtensionAttribute to associate the generator with a file extension.
Create a VSIX with your package and generator and have your users install it.
I'm trying to write an extension to visual studio.
I need to get a list of all the interfaces types found in all the projects in the current opened solution.
So far i have tried doing this using the EnvDev namespace.
Is there a way of doing this without parsing the project's .cs files ?
Thanks,
Chai.
I'm creating a Visual Studio 2010 extension package (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package) that needs to analyze all of the projects and those project's references. I would assume that this is done with a service (e.g. Package.GetService(typeof(IMenuCommandService))). What I need is the interface that contains the functionality to get a list of projects and references for those projects. Also, any advice on where to find a reference that contains the available interfaces within visual studio would be much appreciated.
Note that I've seen multiple people trying to do something similar using DTE from a macro. That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do the same thing from within a Visual Studio Extension.
So even though you're doing this as part of an extension, you'll still need to use the DTE APIs to get all of the information you want. It may seem backwards but that's just how it works. You should grab the DTE object via (EnvDTE.DTE)Package.GetService(typeof(SDTE)). Once you have a EnvDTE.Project, access it's Object member and cast that to a VSLangProj.VSProject if it's a C# or VB project. This has the reference information you need.
I am new to Visual Studio Extensibility and want to make an addin/extension which shall do the following:
It should read all the files with a specific file extension (assume "*.ump").
It should process the text/code/whatever in the files.
It should create new Class/Code file with some code in it. [The code will be produced in step 2, just need to know how to do it?]
Yet, I have been racking my brains through extensibility, saw the single file generators .... and addins which go through ProjectItems and can detect the file extension,
BUT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND a complete tutorial, guide or explanation as to how or what to do!!
Please help...
You don't want to read all files with a specific file extension in Visual C++ project nor standard Visual C# project. You may do that with hand-made MSBuild project (included in the solution).
In Visual C++ projects, there is a way to define custom tools. They are run as separate processes, so you can implement them in anything you want. Studio will ask you whether you want to define a tool (they are defined in special xml files; studio has dialog for editing them) when you add a file with extension unknown to it. In Visual C# projects, just manually write a MSBuild tasks and insert them into the project.
Do whatever you want. IIRC the generated files will have to be included in the project though. Well, for MSBuild, just tweak the project to your heart's desire, but in Visual C++ they have to.
You can combine MSBuild (csproj,vbproj) and VisualC++ projects in a single solution, so I recommend using separate.
If you ever find out you need to compile for different target where you can't use Visual Studio, you'll be glad that you have stand-alone tool you were just calling from Studio and not something that embeds in it.
I've updated my default templates in Visual Studio for classes, interfaces, code files, etc. I removed the default namespaces and added a copyright header blurb.
Is there a way to use a variable or something in the template so I don't have to zip/unzip and re-run the vs installer to change the copyright header? (I'm a consultant, the code-owner isn't always me or my company).
Yes, you can. The documentation for this sort of thing is part of the Visual Studio SDK. There are already many variables you can use.
If you find you want to get fancy, look into the Guidance Automation Toolkit. A template using GAT can accept user input as well as information from the project and environment, can unfold one or more templates, filling in placeholders with the data gathered, and then can execute various actions against the unfolded templates, the project, or whatever.
You can get the complete example implemented here: Multi-Project Templates with Wizard: Visual Studio 2010 Sample