Very cool! This is something I think you actually don't need all that often, but everytime you do, you ask yourself "Why the hell doesn't VS offer me to add that reference when it has already figured out which one I need ?!"
Excellent plugin, but I just got bombarded by a barrage of VS popups to update this plugin, which basically made my instance of VS unusable. I had to shut it down using task manager. NOT COOL.
Guys, please let's use the "Q and A" section to post your support questions, so we can follow up, etc.
@Jontatas: it will be very weird that Quick Add Ref is causing this as it is just an editor extension although I don't know what the Oracle extensions are about. Are the public and available to download so we can try to repro? URL to the version you're using?
@guaike: sorry we haven't done any testing on non-english VS. are you getting an error? any stackcall you can share? or it just doesn't work? you can reach us with more info at wovs@clariusconsulting.net
It's not working for me. When VS 2010 loads it gives an error saying: The 'Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .Net' package did not load correctly.
The problem may have been caused bu a configuration change or by the installation of another extension.
So I guess it's a no-go to use this if one want's to use the Oracle dev tools.
We would love to see Microsoft implement a similar feature for VS 11. But that really depends on them and not us (Clarius). You can cast your vote here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/611077/offer-the-chance-to-add-assemblies-references-right-from-within-the-code-editor
If this gets lots of votes that will help Microsoft considering it for a vNext.
I have voted. But I'm wondering if your plugin could be made to work with VS 11? Or does it already? I haven't tried because above it states it support VS2010.
Hi Curious George,
We are now offering a VS 2012 compatible version. It's not free but it is $2.99 only. You can purchase it from here:
http://www.devstore.com/Products/Details/32a5981e-ecbb-4cd2-b14f-ad5f121d28cf?
Or right within from Visual Studio if you have the DevStore bits installed:
http://www.devstore.com/Products/Details/e92c94ef-92e0-4a79-b4a7-654959e09cf4?
By purchasing this extension you will be encouraging and helping the team to develop fixes, new features, etc.
Thanks.
No plans. The feature is already built-in VS2012. See http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExtendingTheVisualStudio11WebBrowserChooserAndBrowseWithMenuToIncludeDeveloperProfiles.aspx
Sorry for the confusion, we thought the question was about Default Browser Switcher :(.
We do plan to port this extension to VS2012. No concrete ETA yet, though.
Stay tunned!
Thanks for your interest
Hi,
We are now offering a VS 2012 compatible version. It's not free but it is $2.99 only. You can purchase it from here:
http://www.devstore.com/Products/Details/32a5981e-ecbb-4cd2-b14f-ad5f121d28cf?
Or right within from Visual Studio if you have the DevStore bits installed:
http://www.devstore.com/Products/Details/e92c94ef-92e0-4a79-b4a7-654959e09cf4?
By purchasing this extension you will be encouraging and helping the team to develop fixes, new features, etc.
Thanks.
Greetings, I took a windows-form project, remove the reference to System.Windows.Forms, did a build (got errors of course), tried to use your extension but no options appeared. This is an English release of VS2010. Also tried it with Newtonsoft.Json.Dll, same issue. Any ways thought you might like to know this.
Hi, here i am again (see post of Jun 29,2012 beneath)...
The bits have expired error is back again (today). I did try the workaround mentioned on http://blogs.clariusconsulting.net/kzu/how-to-fix-the-beta-bits-have-expired-dialog/, and at first it looked like this worked. But is does not.....
Hi, when starting VS with the latest version of this extension installed (v0.9.8), we are getting the message: "The bits have expired, please download an updated version from the Extension Manager dialog (Tools -> Extension Manager)."
But there are no updates for this extension showing in the update screen. Also the installed version is v0.9.8 and the latest version on this page is also 0.9.8.
Hi stratnl, sorry about the inconvenience. We hit an issue uploading the latest version but it is now up. Please update to version 0.9.9 and it should work. Thanks for reporting this.
I installed this extension to VS2010 Ultimate. I can see it installed in the Extension Manager also but it does not work.
If I type .Net framework class name whose reference I have not added explicitly, it does not show the DLL which contains the class definition when I hit Ctrl "period" on the classname.
I have restarted VS 2010 multiple times and also uninstalled/installed this extension twice, but no success.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Does this happen with only one type? Or is it not working at all with any types you try? Can you let us know which is the full class name of the type you describe above? Thanks.
This happens with all types. I tried creating objects of variety of classes like WebMethod, WebHttpRequest, Choices. Each one of them is in a different DLL whose reference was not added to the project. The popup that appears on Ctrl-Period did not show any options except "Generate class for...."
I think I believe was happening. This extension comes built-in with a small cache for some common types. And the way it works is it "learns" about new types/DLL once you have added the assembly reference to your project by hand at least once. Can you please try adding by hand the DLL containing the type in question then work some time with it (the extension will add on the background the types of that DLL to its own type cache), then create/open a new solution where that DLL is not there and try Ctrl+. with a typename in that DLL? Thanks.
I found that this extension unable to use in non-English Visual Studio 2010. When I switch to English locale, then this extension become available. Is this a bug?
FYI.
How I switch to English language is using:
1. Tools menu > Options > Environment > International Settings
2. Choose Language to "English"
There is only "English" can show up "WoVS Quick Add Reference" options.
Hi guys, our current test scope only covers the English language, sorry. I'll log a bug into our database for the team to take a look at what may be causing it to stop working on non-english versions, although I can't really promise this will get fixed... Thanks for reporting it.
Hi knarf,
We don't have the resources right now to properly develop and test this extension against non-english languages... we know this pretty much sucks if you're not using english... sorry about that.
Thanks
Apparently this is the same problem as with the last update for the default browser switcher extension. When I'm trying to update to 0.9.4 I receive a "digital signature mismatch" error and the update is not installed.
