VSCommands for Visual Studio 2010

I love the friendly solution name which conveniently use a regex to parse the solution path. However, i would also like to embed some environment variables to the name. Is there a way to do this?

Hi Kifui,

There's no way to do this at the moment but I can try to put something together after next release.
Can you tell me more about how exactly would you like it to work?

Cheers,
Jarek

Since the friendly name field is in the format "{Solution Name} - {BranchName} Branch", perhaps you could add to specify symbol name with a '$' prefix. Such as "{Solution Name} - {$branchname} Branch" which would get the value of the environment variable $branchname instead of grabbing the value of the regex'ed path.

Thanks for the details.
Just to confirm, by environment variable you mean windows environment variables which can be read using System.Environment.GetEnvoronmentVariables() ?

Yes, just plain windows environment variables. In my environment i have a "ID" environment variable which i can set to different values when working on the same branch/solution (set in system environment which VS2010 will use) so this value is not part of the path and i would like to see it on my title bar.

Thanks for the quick answer :)

This will be available in the next release.
You will be able to access environment variables using {env:XXX} placeholder (e.g. {env:COMPUTERNAME})

Thanks for the suggestion!

After my review i've got an anwser (See reviews).

Version 3.7.0.7 solve my problems. 
I will change my review.

Is it possible to attach the project to local iis site automatically if projectname and applicationppolname are same?

Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment but I created a feature request here: http://getsatisfaction.com/dpstudio/topics/attach_to_iis_automatically  if you want to add additional comments or vote for this feature to be included in future versions.

Thanks!

Short of uninstalling VSCommands, how do I turn off the VSCommands Search/Replace dialog? I want the regular VS dialog.

Thanks

Hi Eric,

VSCommands does not provide Search/Replace dialog, you are most likely getting it from Microsoft Productivity Power Tools (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef)

Hope it helps,
Jarek
 

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1
VSCommands 3.7.0.6
144DPI (150%)
Windows 7 64bit

Thanks for reporting, I'll try to reproduce and fix asap.

Thanks for reporting! I'll try to reproduce and fix asap.

Version 3.7.0.1 makes Visual Studio crash completely when opening an XML document without at least a root element (e.g. if you create a new one in VS). This might have to do with the File Structure feature (which I was actually testing when this occurred), but also happens when the File Structure window is not open.

Other than that, while I still have to spend more time with it, I love the inclusion of this feature. A tree view of an XML document's structure that is updated in a live fashion while you edit the document is something not even most dedicated XML editors offer.

Thanks for reporting this issue, latest version should fix it.

Hi

Is their a way to use VSCommands but turn off it's custom XAML formatting? I use Jacob Johnston's XAML Regions extension, which I rely on heavily, but if VSCommands is installed that doesn't work. It would be great if I could use VSCommands but just turn this one feature off. I particularly like the new File Structure view and would love to use it!

Riko

Hi, can you confirm that this problem still occurs in 3.7.0.5 release?
If so then XAML files processing can be turned off from Tools | VSCommands | Options | IDEEnhancements | Text Editor

Hi! I just received the 3.7.0.1 version of the VSCommands addin, and my VS has destabilized. At irregular intervals I am getting a NullReferenceException which result in VS freezing up a little bit later. Any ideas?

Closer scrutiny seems to indicate a connection with .g.cs files, which sometimes open in conjunction with debugging and application exceptions. I uninstalled VSCommands and so far I haven't gotten the problem, further evidence that it is indeed this extension that has a problem. (I'd really like the extension back in though...)

Hi there! I wasn't able to reproduce this behavior with .g.cs files during debugging but will keep an eye on it. If you could send me a memory dump from when it happened then it would help me a lot. You can upload it to ftp://ftp.vscommands.com using user name: vsc2010 and password: VSCommands2010

As a temporary workaround for this problem you may disable C# files processing from Tools | VSCommands | Options | IDEEnhancements | Text Editor

With all my VB.NET projects now VisualStudio frezzes, with message "microsoft visual studio is busy...", so I have to kill the devenv process.
Only solution was to uninstall the extension, since it doesn't even allow you to just disable it.

Sorry for the problem, I'm currently working to resolve it.
For the time being you can get latest version and disable processing of Visual Basic files from Tools | VSCommands | Options | IDE Enhancements | Text Editor

I am trying out this software because we could really use some of the features, such as the "Friendly Solution Name".   I have Win7 64-bit, Visual Studio 2010, SP1, and when I set the friendly solution name, it works for the first instance of VS2010, but when I open another instance of the IDE and load up another solution, it's using the same name.   Is this how it is supposed to work?    

Hi, this is not how it's supposed to work :)

I will need a little more information from you to help with this issue.

First of all, are you setting Friendly Solution Name on global level (from Tools | VSCommands | Options) or on solution level (from properties of a solution file in Solution Explorer). If it's on a global level then you will need to restart all other instances of Visual Studio for changes to take effect. If on the other hand it is on Solution level then the settings are stored in solution file (.sln) and branches will start using your settings once solution file is merged or you modify .sln files for all branches manually (look for VSC__SolutionFriendlyName in GlobalSection(ExtensibilityGlobals)).

Hope it helps and if you're still having problems then let me know either here or, to ensure quick response, at vscommands.com/community or at support@vscommands.com

I am setting it on a global level.   There is no UI I can find for setting it at a solution level.   Can you give me specific directions?   Right-clicking on the solution in Solution Explorer does not have a related context menu item for the solution name, and when I look at the Property Pages (when selecting properties from the context menu) there is no solution name option there either.   Thanks for the quick reply.

It's in properties of a solution file in Properties Window activated with Ctrl+W, P. Sorry for not being specific enough before. You can see which window I mean here: http://vscommands.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/image_thumb14.png

What is the regex that your're using there? maybe there's a typo or illegal character?
You'll have to escape some characters for it to work (for example use '\\' instead of '\').
If you modify your Solution Path Regex and tab away from text box it will display any errors in VSCommands output window.

Thank you!  That worked.  I was not using a regex, just plain ol' alpha chars.