Visual Studio

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Posted on Feb 4, 2012 | Updated on Feb 4, 2012 | 73 words | ~1 min

I have written the second article in my series on Extending Visual Studio. In this article I describe how to create a Visual Studio Addin that allows you to switch between cpp/h files, WinForms code and designer, XAML and codebehind and so on. You can find the article on the CodeProject here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/324611/Extending-Visual-Studio-Part-2-Creating-Addins There is also a direct download page on this blog, you can get Switch from dwmkerr.com by going here:

Extending Visual Studio Part 1 - Code Snippets

Posted on Nov 30, 2011 | Updated on Nov 30, 2011 | 30 words | ~1 min

I have published the first of a series of articles on extending Visual Studio on the CodeProject. Part 1 deals with Code Snippets, the article link is below, enjoy! http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/extendingvisualstudio1.aspx

How to Debug a Visual Studio Extension

Posted on Nov 28, 2011 | Updated on Nov 28, 2011 | 169 words | ~1 min

Here are a few tips for debugging Visual Studio Extensions. Visual Studio 2008/2010 If you need to debug your Visual Studio extension, you may find that Visual Studio itself locks it. This is a real drag - to resolve this issue, add the following as a pre-build step: if exist "$(TargetPath).locked" del "$(TargetPath).locked" if not exist "$(TargetPath).locked" if exist "$(TargetPath)" move "$(TargetPath)" "$(TargetPath).locked" This will ensure the locked file is moved out of the way first - very useful!