Comments on: How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Derek Morin

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:08:33 +0000

Seems to work like a charm. Too bad it is flashy, but sounds like that is visual studios problem, and you’ve managed a good workaround.

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Peter Macej

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:43:00 +0000

Thank you Jimmy. You are right, the timer needs to be disposed when IDE closes. I have updated the code with your function.

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Jimmy

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:31:24 +0000

I solved all of the problems I mentioned in my Feb 5 post.

The crash on shutdown is due to the Timer not being Disposed(). I added the following to fix that:

Public Sub DTEEvents_OnBeginShutdown() Handles DTEEvents.OnBeginShutdown
If Not timer Is Nothing Then
timer.Dispose()
End If
End Sub

Since I wanted the macro to display information on the solution, I changed the event to be this:

Public Sub SolutionEvents_OnOpened() Handles SolutionEvents.Opened
SetupTitlebar()
End Sub

Private Sub SetupTitlebar()
Try
If timer Is Nothing Then
‘ Create timer which refreshes the caption because
‘ IDE resets the caption very often
Dim autoEvent As New System.Threading.AutoResetEvent(False)
Dim timerDelegate As System.Threading.TimerCallback = _
AddressOf tick
timer = New System.Threading.Timer(timerDelegate, autoEvent, 0, 1000)
End If

If DTE.Solution Is Nothing Then
ideTitle = Nothing
Else
Dim StartIndex As Integer
Dim EndIndex As Integer
Dim Found As Boolean

Found = False

ideTitle = DTE.Solution.FullName

StartIndex = InStr(ideTitle.ToLower(), “:\”)
If (StartIndex > 0) Then
ideTitle = Mid(ideTitle, StartIndex + 2)
Found = True

StartIndex = InStr(ideTitle.ToLower(), “dev\”)
If (StartIndex = 1) Then
ideTitle = Mid(ideTitle, StartIndex + 4)
End If
End If

If (Found) Then
EndIndex = InStr(ideTitle, “\”)
If (EndIndex > 0) Then
ideTitle = Left(ideTitle, EndIndex - 1)
End If
End If
End If

showTitle(ideTitle)
Catch ex As System.Exception
End Try
End Sub

This also fixed the focus problems with FindInFiles

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: yusheng

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:11:13 +0000

This article is very useful for me. I want to write a samilar macros, however, there are some errors.
when the WindowActivated event occurs, I want to adjust the activetated document window. I try to set the GotFocus.Width, it throws an Exception. Then I use the SetWindowPos for a try. But the value of GotFocus.HWnd is zero. The HWnd property is only used for Microsoft in MSDN. I’m not good at VB. I hope you can give me some suggestion about how to adjust the window in this situation. Please email me, yusheng9966@gmail.com

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Jimmy

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:20:58 +0000

I love this macro but I noticed it causes some undesirable side effects in the IDE:

1) Find in Files window has focus taken away from it when I click in it. The workaround is to first click the titlebar for the window and then I can navigate around in it, but the usability is really hampered here.

2) The IDE usually crashes on shutdown. The crash happens in the VS Macros host.

3) The macro only works if a source file is opened. Is there a way to have it use the path of the open Solution instead in that case?

Any ideas how these issues could be worked around?

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Peter Macej

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:05:16 +0000

You are right. You have probably set Option Strict On in your macros. The solution is simple. Just use:
SetWindowText(New System.IntPtr(DTE.MainWindow.HWnd), ideTitle & ” - ” & DTE.Name)
I will update the main post as well.

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: santosh

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:46:19 +0000

The Macro is not compiling [ok I am trying this for VS 2003]
SetWindowText(DTE.MainWindow.HWnd, ideTitle & ” - ” & DTE.Name)
HWND is integer whereas it is expected System.IntPtr.

Did you try this with 2003 as well? or is there some setting with that IDE?

Thanks for your time!!

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Charles

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:15:54 +0000

This is GREAT! It works well… now how about something similar for Visual Studio 6? For long paths, all I get is “[C:\…\DStringUtils.h]”

Charles.

Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: kyong

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:26 +0000

tried it out, but having to refresh every 200 milliseconds kills the mojo for me… maybe if there was a simpler way.. =) but nice work!!