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I am trying to automatically invoke a menu item in Visual Studio by writing an addin. How can I find the name of that event?

For example a compile command can be executed by using 

DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.Compile")

But I have a menu item that I have installed as a separate VSPackage and I'd like to execute that and I unfortunately do not know how to find the name of the command.

Mark
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You can set registry dword value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\General\EnableVSIPLogging=1 (12.0 is for VS 2013). Then pressing CTRL+SHIFT and hovering over or selecting a menu command will show you its name and id.

Sergey Vlasov
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The name of a command that you created in a package is in the .vsct file. Also, you can locate command names in Tools, Customize window, Keyboard button, "Show commands containing"

Carlos Quintero
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