Helixoft Blog Comments http://www.helixoft.com/blog Peter Macej - lead developer of VSdocman - talks about Visual Studio tips and automation Mon, 20 May 2013 09:20:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: User http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-649 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:03:20 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-649 Works gr8 with VS2010. thnx dude. Works gr8 with VS2010. thnx dude.

]]> Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: dratengon http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-545 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:55:48 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-545 where do u put these code? where do u put these code?

]]> Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: dratengon http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-544 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:54:06 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-544 Kevin Whitefoot, "If s1(i) s2(i) Then" is "s1(i) > s2(i)" or "s1(i) Kevin Whitefoot, “If s1(i) s2(i) Then” is “s1(i) > s2(i)” or “s1(i)

]]> Comment on Assigning a Keyboard Shortcut to Macro in VS by: Lelala http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/8?n=assigning-a-keyboard-shortcut-to-macro-in-vs#comment-324 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:24:58 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/8?n=assigning-a-keyboard-shortcut-to-macro-in-vs#comment-324 Thanks, especially helpful if you have to connect to IIS explicitly for debugging reasons - a macro for such cases is good example how you can safe time with very simple tricks. Regards Thanks, especially helpful if you have to connect to IIS explicitly for debugging reasons - a macro for such cases is good example how you can safe time with very simple tricks.
Regards

]]> Comment on How To Create and Run Macro in Visual Studio .NET by: Dylan Parry http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/6?n=how-to-create-and-run-macro-in-visual-studio-net#comment-317 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:23:38 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/6?n=how-to-create-and-run-macro-in-visual-studio-net#comment-317 @Khalid It seems that macros aren’t supported by VS 2012 at all. They’ve totally removed the feature as it turns out that less than 1% of users used macros so they decided not to implement it in the new version :( @Khalid It seems that macros aren’t supported by VS 2012 at all. They’ve totally removed the feature as it turns out that less than 1% of users used macros so they decided not to implement it in the new version :(

]]> Comment on Multiline Search and Replace in Visual Studio by: Tyson http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/15?n=multiline-search-and-replace-in-visual-studio#comment-312 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:11:33 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/15?n=multiline-search-and-replace-in-visual-studio#comment-312 You are a life saver! Thank you! You are a life saver! Thank you!

]]> Comment on Multiline Search and Replace in Visual Studio by: Yuval http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/15?n=multiline-search-and-replace-in-visual-studio#comment-310 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:37:08 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/15?n=multiline-search-and-replace-in-visual-studio#comment-310 a few tweaks. 1. insert selected text in the search box: add this code in the MultilineSearchForm constructor, after this comment: 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call Dim objDocument As EnvDTE.Document Dim objTextDocument As EnvDTE.TextDocument Dim objTextSelection As EnvDTE.TextSelection Try 'Get the active document objDocument = DTE.ActiveDocument 'Get the text document objTextDocument = CType(objDocument.Object, EnvDTE.TextDocument) 'Get the text selection object objTextSelection = objTextDocument.Selection 'Set the text Me.FindBox.Text = objTextSelection.Text Catch ex As System.Exception End Try 2. now it would be very useful to make the macro available in the context menu http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vseditor/archive/2004/12/14/301111.aspx you'll be able to highlight a piece of code, right click, execute the macro and the text you highlighted is already in the search box 3. the resizing doesn't work properly. add these lines before each comment: ' 'FindBox ' Me.FindBox.Anchor = CType((((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom) _ Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left) _ Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'Label2 ' Me.Label2.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'ReplaceBox ' Me.ReplaceBox.Anchor = CType(((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left) _ Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'FindBtn ' Me.FindBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'FindInFilesBtn ' Me.FindInFilesBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'ReplaceBtn ' Me.ReplaceBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'ReplaceInFilesBtn ' Me.ReplaceInFilesBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) ' 'CancelBtn ' Me.CancelBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles) a few tweaks.

1. insert selected text in the search box:
add this code in the MultilineSearchForm constructor, after this comment:
‘Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
Dim objDocument As EnvDTE.Document
Dim objTextDocument As EnvDTE.TextDocument
Dim objTextSelection As EnvDTE.TextSelection
Try
‘Get the active document
objDocument = DTE.ActiveDocument
‘Get the text document
objTextDocument = CType(objDocument.Object, EnvDTE.TextDocument)
‘Get the text selection object
objTextSelection = objTextDocument.Selection
‘Set the text
Me.FindBox.Text = objTextSelection.Text
Catch ex As System.Exception
End Try

2. now it would be very useful to make the macro available in the context menu
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vseditor/archive/2004/12/14/301111.aspx
you’ll be able to highlight a piece of code, right click, execute the macro and the text you highlighted is already in the search box

3. the resizing doesn’t work properly. add these lines before each comment:
‘
‘FindBox
‘
Me.FindBox.Anchor = CType((((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom) _
Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left) _
Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘Label2
‘
Me.Label2.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘ReplaceBox
‘
Me.ReplaceBox.Anchor = CType(((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left) _
Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘FindBtn
‘
Me.FindBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘FindInFilesBtn
‘
Me.FindInFilesBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘ReplaceBtn
‘
Me.ReplaceBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘ReplaceInFilesBtn
‘
Me.ReplaceInFilesBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)
‘
‘CancelBtn
‘
Me.CancelBtn.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)

]]> Comment on Collapse All XML Comments in VB .NET or C# by: Vineet tiwari http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/30?n=collapse-all-xml-comments-in-vb-net-or-c#comment-309 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:58:36 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/30?n=collapse-all-xml-comments-in-vb-net-or-c#comment-309 This code is more helpful for me if it collapse all comments inside the property or Fucntion/Method thanks and advance This code is more helpful for me if it collapse all comments inside the property or Fucntion/Method
thanks and advance

]]> Comment on How To Disable “A first chance exception of type…” Messages in VS 2005 by: Tony http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/24?n=how-to-disable-a-first-chance-exception-of-type-messages-in-vs-2005#comment-306 Fri, 18 May 2012 00:45:30 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/24?n=how-to-disable-a-first-chance-exception-of-type-messages-in-vs-2005#comment-306 Thanks for that. You're right though, there are times when turning this off is most appricated; especially where you have to work with COM libraries that cause exceptions to be thrown. If you want to know what exceptions are happening then just Break your code when any exception is thrown. You can then filter down the range of exceptions on which to break as desired. Thanks for that. You’re right though, there are times when turning this off is most appricated; especially where you have to work with COM libraries that cause exceptions to be thrown. If you want to know what exceptions are happening then just Break your code when any exception is thrown. You can then filter down the range of exceptions on which to break as desired.

]]> Comment on How To Show Full File Path (or Anything Else) in VS 2005 Title Bar by: Kevin Whitefoot http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-303 Mon, 07 May 2012 08:04:17 +0000 http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32?n=how-to-show-full-file-path-or-anything-else-in-vs-2005-title-bar#comment-303 I made a couple of changes, the most important for me was to display the solution path as well. In order to conserve space I also split the common substring of the solution and file paths to show that first: ... Dim sSolution = GotFocus.Document.DTE.Solution.FullName Dim sDocument = GotFocus.Document.FullName Dim iPrefixLen = CommonPrefixLength(sSolution, sDocument) Dim sPrefix = sSolution.Substring(0, iPrefixLen) ideTitle = sSolution.Substring(0, iPrefixLen) & " - " & sSolution.Substring(iPrefixLen) & " - " & sDocument.Substring(iPrefixLen) ... Private Function CommonPrefixLength(ByVal s1 As String, ByVal s2 As String) As Integer Dim iMax = Math.Min(s1.Length, s2.Length) For i = 0 To iMax - 1 If s1(i) s2(i) Then Return i End If Next Return iMax End Function I made a couple of changes, the most important for me was to display the solution path as well. In order to conserve space I also split the common substring of the solution and file paths to show that first:

…

Dim sSolution = GotFocus.Document.DTE.Solution.FullName
Dim sDocument = GotFocus.Document.FullName
Dim iPrefixLen = CommonPrefixLength(sSolution, sDocument)
Dim sPrefix = sSolution.Substring(0, iPrefixLen)
ideTitle = sSolution.Substring(0, iPrefixLen) & ” - ” & sSolution.Substring(iPrefixLen) & ” - ” & sDocument.Substring(iPrefixLen)

…

Private Function CommonPrefixLength(ByVal s1 As String, ByVal s2 As String) As Integer
Dim iMax = Math.Min(s1.Length, s2.Length)
For i = 0 To iMax - 1
If s1(i) s2(i) Then
Return i
End If
Next
Return iMax
End Function

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