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Adding Strongly Typed Collection to Project

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

There's not too much to explain about strongly typed collections. There are many articles describing how to implement them. However, there are not so many add-ins or macros that can generate them automatically for you. I needed these collections in my projects as well so I wrote a macro which asks you for item type, [...]

How To Customize Context Menu in VS .NET

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

You already know that you can customize main menu and toolbars and you can place commands or macros on them. Unfortunately you cannot customize context (shortcut, right-click) menu this way in VS .NET 2002 and 2003. You simply cannot invoke context menu in Customize mode. You can do it easily in VS 2005.
For VS 2002/2003 [...]

Multiline Search and Replace in Visual Studio

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I was cleaning my older VB .NET project some time ago. I just wanted to "refactor" some code to look more readable. All I needed was several replaces of multiline text. VS 2002, 2003 nor 2005 is unable to perform multiline search/replace. So I wrote a macro that can do it.

As you know, you [...]

Macro for Adding New Property

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 contains many sophisticated tools but it misses one of the most important - new procedure/property builder. MZ Tools add-in makes a great job here.
If you only need to create new property, I'll show you a simple macro which will help you. It will ask you for property name and type [...]

How To Import/Export VS .NET 2002/2003 Settings

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Unlike VS 2005, there is no Import/Export Settings function in VS .NET 2002 and 2003. This is really useful if you want to backup your IDE settings (fonts&colors, toolbars, external tools, editor settings etc.) for the case you'll need to reinstall Visual Studio. Or you might want to share IDE settings among all users.
There is [...]

 

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