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Peter Macej - lead developer of VSdocman - talks about Visual Studio tips and automation

Archive for the 'Visual Studio Tips' Category

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

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I saw an interesting request on discussion forums today. A user wants to show the full path of currently edited file in the IDE main window caption. This used to be case in VS .NET 2003 but VS 2005 shows only solution name.

I thought it had to be easy to write macro which does the [...]

How To Disable Any Specific Warning in VS 2005

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

VS 2005 generates many types of compile warnings. The most annoying ones are those underlined directly in the source code (all in VB .NET). We cannot get rid of all warnings. For example, our VSdocman allows XML comments also for namespaces. VS doesn't like this and gives the following warning:

XML comment block cannot be associated [...]

Collapse All XML Comments in VB .NET or C#

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Today, a user of our VSdocman has asked me for interesting functionality in Visual Studio. He wants to collapse all XML comments in the file with one click. There is no such command in VS so I wrote a macro that does the job. The macro only works in VS 2005 and higher and only [...]

VS 2005 Service Pack 1 Released

Friday, December 15th, 2006

The SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 is out. Enjoy!

New blog about VS extensibility

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Carlos Quintero of MZ-Tools has started his blog subtitled as Visual Studio Extensibility: macros, add-ins, SDK packages. You may already know Carlos from several newsgroups related to VS extensibility
microsoft.public.vstudio.extensibility
microsoft.public.vsnet.ide
MSDN: Visual Studio Extensibility.
Or from vsnetaddin group which discusses how to write Visual Studio.NET add-ins, wizards, and macros using the IDE automation model and VSIP interfaces.
Or you [...]