After a bit of playing around I was able to figure out a solution to my problem: I can see that an extension is added to the experimental instance of Visual Studio when you successfully build the project (I’ve found no other way of installing the extension (VS2013)). If you try to build the project … Read more
So in Visual Studio 2010 and later, the extensibility APIs you want to at are under the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Languages.IntelliSense namespace. At a high level, you want to MEF export a ICompletionSourceProvider which will provide the items you need. There are two good blog posts here and here that demonstrate the basic technique. There are two problems … Read more
1) In a C# or VB project, open a code file and put the cursor where you want to insert the code snippet. 2) Bring up the code snippet menu in one of three ways: Press CTRL+K, CTRL+X. On the Edit menu, point to IntelliSense, and then click Insert Snippet. Right-click the mouse and then … Read more
I had the exact same question and now have browsed the web several hours until I was being able to understand and explain how you’d need to start with such an extension. In my following example we will create a small and dumb extension which will always add “Hello” to the beginning of a code … Read more
Note: For VS <2015, the following works only for the VB.NET code editor. In VS 2015+, apparently the C# code editor is also supported. While there are no default keyboard bindings to jump between methods, you can set them up yourself: Go to Tools → Customize…, then Keyboard…, and do the following: Search for the … Read more
Extensions (if deployed as VSIX) will be installed to the user´s profile; each extension will be installed into a folder with a random name, for instance: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions\s5lxc0ne.1kp If you want to obtain the package installation path at runtime, you can obtain that information from the assembly that defines the Package class. static string GetAssemblyLocalPathFrom(Type type) … Read more
Try this plugin (C# Outline Extension): VS2010 VS2012 VS2013 VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
Visual Studio Extensions can be debugged like any other application. You just need to setup the debug experience to launch devenv with the loaded extension. Try the following Right click on the project and select Properties Go to the Debug Tab Click on the radio button for Start External Program. Point it to the devenv.exe … Read more
Run the following from an elevated Powershell prompt: gwmi Win32_Product -Filter “Name LIKE ‘Microsoft Advertising%'” And it should show the culprits: IdentifyingNumber : {6AB13C21-C3EC-46E1-8009-6FD5EBEE515B} Name : Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8.1 – ENU Vendor : Microsoft Corporation Version : 8.1.30809.0 Caption : Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8.1 – ENU IdentifyingNumber : {6AC81125-8485-463D-9352-3F35A2508C11} Name … Read more
Except for reinstalling, the only way to successfully clear the caches is to delete the files manually from your AppData directory. Delete the solution folder that’s giving you grief in the following locations: %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\ReSharper\v7.1\SolutionCaches\ %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\Transient\ReSharperPlatformVsXX\vXX\SolutionCaches\ for newer versions. Note that the version numbers in the paths may be different depending on the ReSharper version that … Read more