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Work Item Type Designer for Visual Studio Team System

While read post on Rob Caron’s blog, I’ve found work item type designer for Visual Studio Team System. It’s “a DSL Tools based Designer (Modeling tool) that allows you to visualize Work Item Type definitions exported from Team System and enables easy modification and creation via a graphical modeling tool instead of the XML document [...]

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Unattended installation of Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer

    If you have a team working on a dotnet project having members more then 5, installation of Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer would be a time consuming process. So you’ve probably gonna love following trick With the help of following comman-line parameter, you may create an ini file that shows how to install Team [...]

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How to Pause Visual Studio Splash Screen

Here is a simple yet usefull swith for visual studio to test your VSPackage’s splash screen support: /splash    With that switch, Visual studio simply displays a dialog saying “click OK to continue” which pauses VSFollowing commandline can be used to pause vs for exprimental enviroment: devenv /rootsuffix Exp /splash

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Generating Registery Entries for Your VSIP package Installer

If you have finish development of your package; you should probably looking for ways to create installer. Simply create an install project on VS; add output of your package. Finally you should insert some registery entries to register it on client’s machine.    To do so is quiet simply; just open a Visual Studio command [...]

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Null DTE when VSIP Package is Auto Loaded on Startup

In my VSIP package, I’ve mark with the following attribute to indicade it should load at startup: [ProvideAutoLoad(UIContextGuids.NoSolution)] You can find details about other auto load options on my other post. And then in initialize function I’ve try to get DTE object with the following code . DTE dte = GetService(typeof(DTE)) But DTE is allways [...]

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Quick Open Add-in for Visual Studio

Quick Open Add-in for Visual Studio

Introduction While working on a project, I don’t like to use the mouse very often. But some tasks like opening a project file in Visual Studio need to use the mouse. So I decided to implement an add-in that doesn’t need any mouse strokes (but is optional) and assigns a shortcut "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N". Here is my [...]

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