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Add-ins extend Microsoft Visual Studio using the automation model (EnvDTE). Removed in Visual Studio 2015.

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Visual Studio 2008/2010: show method names in Find In Files results

I had a dream I could see constructor/method/property names along with search results (Visual Studio Find In Files feature), if applicable/available. For example, if I searched for _dreamProvider in Sleep.cs, I would get something like that in Find…
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Visual Studio add-on gallery?

i'm hoping to find some add-ons for Visual Studio to address some specific usability issues. Is there a Visual Studio addons gallery that contains a huge dumping ground of addons that every person, company, yahoo and hick have created? Kind of like…
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Why does Visual Studio 2008 forget where to dock my add-in's window pane?

I wrote a simple add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that opens a dockable window pane. You can download the source and a binary installer by clicking here. The nature of the add-in means that it is ideally going to stay docked next to where you edit…
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Visual studio save development state

Is there any Visual Studio addin/thing that will save the current set of open windows, bookmarks, and breakpoints, etc? Whenever I return to an issue, it takes a while to find reopen the appropriate classes, reset breakpoints, etc. Something that…
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Visual Studio AddIn: How do I Add Item Specific Commands to the Solution Explorer Context Menu

I've spent about 3 days now trying to get this working but to no avail. I'm fairly new to VS.NET extensibility and I find it hard to debug my problems. I've already tried the code here presented: Visual Studio Add-In - adding a context menu item to…
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VS 2010 Extensibility: Create a extension to automatically wrap selected text (code) in comments and adding a comment above it

I am trying to develop an extension that will work similar to the Comment toolbar button in VS 2010, but I want to mark all text as Commented Out and put a comment above it. Here's an example. I know it's simple, but it's just a lot easier. My idea…
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How do I extend the project properties screen in Visual Studio?

When u view a project properties in Visual Studio u get a number of tabs. The standard ones are "Application", "Build", "Build Events" etc. It is also possible to add custom tabs. For example view the properties of a WebApplication or a VSIX project…
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VSWindowManager replacement - need to switch VS2010 windows to/from dual monitor config

I am trying to find a solution that would let me switch between single and multi-monitor configurations in Visual Studio 2010. I see the VSWindowManager has not been updated - is there any other solution?
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C# structural highlighting in Visual Studio

Is there any way to make code blocks highlighting/collapsing in Resharper ? In CodeRush it is called "structural highlighting" feature: Or maybe other Visual Studio 2010 add-on(preferably free) which would do this simple job and would not…
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Adding ToolBoxTab and ToolBoxItems in Visual Studio through an Add-In

I have made my own control class by overriding base controls i.e. [ToolboxData("<{0}:TextBox runat=server>")] public class MyTextBox:System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox { public string myProperty {get;set;} } now for ease of use,…
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How to strip out robo-comments and #region from C#?

I've got some code I'm maintaining that has a good deal of machine generated comments and machine generated regions. (or created by a particularly misled developer) These are comments exclusively repeating the method metadata and space expansions…
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which one to choose? DXCore, Resharper or VSX?

I want to write a visual studio addon to do some code modifications for me (like some specific refactoring). I was wondering which one of these tools should I use and why? we have licenses for resharper, the other two are free and this is an…
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Visual Studio add-in API resources

Where can I find examples and API information, besides the MSDN, on creating add-ins for Visual Studio .net 2008?
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How to get programmatically the information displayed by Quick Info in Visual Studio

I searched without succes a method to get from my C# addin visual studio extension what displayed in the Quick Info when the mouse is moved over some code element. I hope that there's an elegant way to do it. Thanks.
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Is there an event triggered when dte.Solution.SolutionBuild.StartupProjects changes?

I am building a visual studio 2010 Add-in for internal use in my company. I would like to customize the main window caption to display the name of the current start up project. I can set the caption of the main window with the following code: …
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