Welcome to the Visual Studio.NET add-in list. This list discusses writing add-ins, wizards, and macros for the Visual Studio.NET IDE using the automation...
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David Jeschke
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Jul 19, 2001 8:47 pm
The beta 2 add-in samples were omitted from the CD set. However, they have been posted to http://beta.visualstudio.net/Secured/Downloads.aspx?DirectoryID=2. I...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 19, 2001 9:07 pm
This list just started so we don't know what the frequently asked questions will be. And I certainly don't have any answers. But in starting this list I do...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 19, 2001 9:38 pm
I'm hoping that, in addition to discussing the Visual Studio.net automation model and techniques for writing add-ins, that this mailing list can be a forum for...
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roberthachtel@...
Jul 19, 2001 10:14 pm
Below is code that in an addin will add a menu to the menu bar. It will also add a submenu to the toolbar. I haven't figured out yet how to add a submenu to...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 19, 2001 11:03 pm
My beta2 add-in manager dialog lists an add-in called "reflection test" with a description of "Explores VS.net automation model through reflection". However,...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 20, 2001 5:03 pm
I just started this group yesterday and today we're up to almost 30 subscribers! Fantastic. I'm looking forward to some really good discussion of add-in...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 20, 2001 9:36 pm
I still can't download add-in samples from the beta.visualstudio.net site, but the alternate ftp url that Sean mentions below works fine for me. "Sean Laberee...
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Robert Hachtel
roberthachtel@...
Jul 25, 2001 11:27 pm
I haven't had a chance to install and try out your addin yet but looks interesting. Did you have to do anything unique to create your installation. We are...
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David Jeschke
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Jul 26, 2001 12:56 am
I only have one Visual Studio.net machine at the moment, so I have not installed the add-in on a different machine. Nobody has reported problems installing...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Jul 26, 2001 1:14 am
Hi gurus, One of the things that I am looking forward to with the Visual Studio.NET product is writing some extensions that are represented as new types of ...
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James Naftel
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Jul 26, 2001 1:34 am
You can do almost anything with the add-in object model and macros in VS.Net. What parts do you think you may have trouble with? James ... From: Mitch Denny ...
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David Jeschke
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Jul 26, 2001 1:37 am
The good news is that the Visual Studio integration program is available for people adding new languages to the Visual Studio family. ...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Jul 26, 2001 6:16 am
David, Thanks, I've shot an e-mail off to them to see how it all works. I'll let you all know if I get a response. ... - Mitch Denny - http://www.warbyte.com -...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Jul 26, 2001 6:26 am
James, If you browse the site that David just posted up you come across the following points which are pretty much what I want to do: Creation of new project...
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Sean Laberee
sean@...
Jul 26, 2001 11:58 pm
This information from the Late Breaking Known Issues on the Beta 2 Website (http://beta.visualstudio.net) might solve your problem. Sean 1.2.1 Installation of...
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roberthachtel@...
Jul 27, 2001 10:03 pm
I did two things. I moved the project to folders without spaces and removed all of the dotnet components from the dependency list and the install now works. ...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 28, 2001 1:10 am
I'm doing a potentially long operation during OnConnection. I want to put up the wait cursor during the operation so the user doesn't think my add-in is...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Jul 28, 2001 1:11 pm
David, After doing a quick surf over the EnvDTE namespace I couldn't find a method or property that you could use to lock the interface out which is probably...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 28, 2001 4:52 pm
Thanks, Mitch. All of the time is taken up by a call to a COM component which launches a speech recognition program. There aren't any callbacks that would...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Jul 28, 2001 10:43 pm
David, Over the past few days I've had to launch myself into multithreaded programming to solve a particular business problem. So far I think the...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Jul 30, 2001 3:43 pm
When you add a named command using EnvDTE.Commands.AddNamedCommand the sixth parameter indicates what icon to display when that command is added to a menu item...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Jul 31, 2001 4:11 am
I think this corresponds to the icon resource in a compiled file, so all you need to do is what file contains the smiley face and bingo you have a real life...
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jsklam@...
Aug 1, 2001 5:57 pm
Hi All, To fix the time bomb set on August 1, 2001 for the Visual Studio .NET professional beta 2: - Go to the "Control Pannel-Add/Remove Programs" - Select...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Aug 2, 2001 4:17 pm
Um... I tried this fix. Once I clicked "Change/Remove" it did not give me the "Service Releases" option. It just went ahead and uninstalled Visual ...
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David Jeschke
david.jeschke@...
Aug 3, 2001 2:20 am
ProjectItemsEvents is a collection of events that are supposed to fire when you add a file to a project, remove a file from a project, or rename a file in a...
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Craig Skibo
craigs@...
Aug 6, 2001 5:59 pm
The only events that you should see with the way the sample is built are MiscFilesEvents and SolutionItemsEvents. These are fired when you do a ...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Aug 6, 2001 11:01 pm
Craig, Why is the Visual Studio.NET object model so out of whack with the suggested standards in the Framework SDK Reference Documentation? I mean for...
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Craig Skibo
craigs@...
Aug 7, 2001 12:04 am
We are not a managed component, we are a COM object that has tlbimp run over the type library to generate metadata that allows you to call the COM object from...
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Mitch Denny
mitch.denny@...
Aug 7, 2001 5:45 am
Craig, I'm kinda disappointed at the way Visual Studio.NET has come together, I knew that it wasn't 100% managed, but I didn't know that it was all COM with...
