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Visual Studio Shell is used to create custom tool having an integrated development environment (IDE) similar to VS.

Visual Studio Shell is used to create custom tool having an integrated development environment (IDE) similar to VS.

The Visual Studio Shell provides a hierarchal project system, integration with editors and designers, source code control, and many other features that support and enhance your custom tool. In addition, the Visual Studio Shell provides a familiar user interface that may reduce the learning curve for end users.

You can create your own Visual Studio-based application in either integrated or isolated mode.

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Updating ClassificationFormatDefinition instances when Theme changes

I have a problem similar to the issue described in this post: How to change a ClassificationFormatDefinition I tried implementing this in my application but when the theme is changed, the font/color changes defined by my…
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Test Explorer in VS Shell Isolated to use existing features

I'd like to program my own little software using the VS Isolated Shell 2015. My question is, is it possible to add e.g. existing packages/features such as Test Explorer to the isolated shell? I figured out, that i would need to add the GUID and…
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Load CPS project in integrated shell

I have a custom language and debug editor extension for Visual studio, that I'd like to be able to distribute using the visual studio integrated shell. However, I am unable to open the custom project files using the integrated shell…
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Visual Studio Integrated shell example

It seems there is very limited documentation on creating a Visual Studio Integrated shell application. I am looking for any pointers both for documentation and an example of creating such app.
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Visual Studio Shell 2015 does not use custom icons in solution explorer

I have upgraded my application from VS Shell 2013 to Shell 2015 and the custom icons for my editor extensions are not visible in the solution explorer. During the upgrade the wix is also upgraded to 3.10 The icons are installed with Wix through the…
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VSPackage theme-colored

I built a VSPackage for VS2015. How can I get the current theme colors to color my elements appropriate? I tried things like xmlns:vsfx="clr-namespace:Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.14.0" …
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enable-migrations not woking in Entity Framework 5 using Visual Studio 2013

I am trying to learn MVC4 with entity framework 5 using visual studio 2013 ultimate edition (Update 4) in code first approach, But in enable-migration command , i am getting following error System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or…
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How can I bind my VS 2003 / XP Mode Project to the appropriate Server folders location with TFS?

Somehow my project got its source control bindings mixed up, and I'm trying to bind the local files to the correct place on the server. I am trying first to unbind the project, but when I then try to set up the binding anew and "Add Solution to…
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How to select which Visual Studio version is launched for a .vcproj file?

We are still using VS2005 for C++ development (upgrading is planned!) The problem is we also have VS2010 shell installed to work with TFS. If I double-click a .SLN file, VS2005 launches correctly, but if I double-click a .vcproj file VS2010 is…
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Template not found for VS Shell Isolated IDE

When I try to create a Visual Studio Shell Isolated project, I get an error that says the specified template cannot be found. I have downloaded and installed the shell and VS SDK setups, and Google yields no results on my search. How could I start…
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Deploy visual studio isolated shell app with chained installer

I have developed a visual studio isolated shell application. When deploying that application, I first have to make sure that the redistributables for the isolated shell are installed. I have the exe containing the redistributables (which can be…
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How to add support for a new file format in Visual Studio 11

My company has a 30yo hypermedia system, based on SGML. It's somewhat similar to HTML. Now some of the customers want to use Microsoft VS to write their screens. I'm new to .NET and have no idea where to start. I'd like to have syntax highlighting,…
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Tabular view for enumeration on TwinCAT3

There is a visual problem as I declare an enumeration on TwinCAT3 as has been shown in the following: here is my simple declaration; VAR state:(init , operate, stop);//a simple example of enum declaration END_VAR and here is the code that I faced…
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Shell (Isolated) - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application

Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application. I unstalled all the C++ redistributables, repaired the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Shell (Isolated) and again installed the redistributables but no success found. This error…
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"Reference manager" missing in custom project type (in VS IsolatedShell)

I'm working on a VS IsolatedShell 2015 application; my current goal is to enable project references. However when right-clicking the 'references' node in a project there are basically no options available, most notably for my case the reference…
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