PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

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Friday, January 08, 2010
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by LowerAI | June 11 2010

安装此插件后,打开空项目,选择主菜单“工具”->“选择工具箱项”,然后整个VS就会自动关闭,并且没有报任何错误;卸载该插件后这一问题就消失了,不知道这算不算bug

by mafutrct | March 31 2010

Open Command Prompt was already enough to convince me that this is a must-have. I just tried it and found it awesome. Why isn't this integrated by default?!

by Richard C2010 | January 05 2010

I would give it 5 stars for its collapse-projects feature, but since it causes VS2008 to crash whenever I open an aspx file, it's completely useless!

Please fix this!!!

by Karl Fleischmann | September 22 2009

Great commands and useful almost every day.

by MSDerick | September 02 2009

Heh one quirky (odd ball) behaviour I noticed. How come I can't seem to permanently close nor disable the undo close window? :-)

I hide it, hit the X .. sometime later it pops back up. Guess it uncloses itself?

by Mike Yeager | August 13 2009

This add-in simply rocks. There are some that I don't use, but many I use every day. Collapsing an entire solution is priceless!

by jacobcoens | May 26 2009

Couldn't use it as Visual Studio exited when opening a solution.

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A035E00) (80131506)

by hazzoom | April 04 2009

Hope to enable running the output exe file assembly out of VS from the same context menu (no debugging indeed).
Like: Run Output Assembly!

Thanks

by Steven Wilssens MSFT | December 23 2008

I really love the PowerCommands. I think this is a must-have for all VS users. My favorite commands are Clear Recent Project List and Edit Project File.

by ganton | November 12 2008

I have a new development machine since three weeks. I thought that I have all configured but It wasn’t. Today, I need to collapse all projects in the solution and to copy a project path and I realized that I’ve not installed PowerCommands for VS2008. From my expirience before to install the package you should close all VS instances. I had a bad experience with this some time ago. I installed the package and commands didn't appear in my VS even after I restarted it. After I closed all VS instances and re-install the commands I got them into VS. I also ran into a problem when I open some aspx page into the designer VS2008 is automatically closed and I lost all changes.

by Paul Speranza | November 04 2008

It was great until I tried to add controls to the toolbox using choose items. This would cause VS 2008 to just close with no error. After googling I found an entry that said this was caused by Power Commands. I uninstalled them and I was able to add items to the toolbox. It is toobad, I really liked the features.

by José Carlos GC | October 31 2008

Was nice, but I had to deinstall because VS2008 got closed when opening xaml files.

by tedka | September 30 2008

Downright awesome!

by Ronald Garlit | August 21 2008

Fantastic! I got this a couple weeks ago. It is worth the download just to colapse the projects in the solution window in one click of the mouse. Better yet.... copying those references from one project to another with out having to deal with the add reference dialog over and over again.

by kmccaa | July 11 2008

Thanks for all the time saving features.

by Matt01SS | July 07 2008

Some features were nice, half of the features didn't seem to work. Disabling/enabling features would not remove them from the IDE.

by zffl | June 29 2008

for it is free!!!

by Dalt Wisney | June 10 2008

Looking at a file's properties just to find the physical location gets old really fast! This little add-in is worth it for the Open Containing Folde alone!

by James Lau1 | June 09 2008

I really love the PowerCommands. I think this is a must-have for all VS users. My favorite commands are Clear Recent Project List and Edit Project File. Within the IDE, there is no way to clear the MRU project list without PowerCommands. Seeing out-of-date projects on the MRU list annoy me, so I like being able to remove them. Editing project file is very convenient if you need to tweak the project file in the editor. Without this command, you will need to unload the project first before you bring it up in the editor.

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  • Database projects
    1 Posts | Last Post: August 12, 2010
    • Something else that doesn't work with database projects :( why doesn't Microsoft care about db projects? If you just use the basics they are actually quite useful why to work.
  • Where is the VS2010 compatible version?
    6 Posts | Last Post: April 21, 2010
    • Any plans to have this available anytime soon??
    • Yes. We are working on updating the Powercommands to work with Visual Studio 2010 but they won't be ready for the Beta. We don't have a firm date yet on when these will be ready but we'll try to post them as soon as possible.
    • The VS 2010 Beta 2 version is now available.
      Try it out!
      http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/e5f41ad9-4edc-4912-bca3-91147db95b99
    • Where is the 2010 Rc1 version? The above link says project has not been published yet.

      Missing it!!
    • Any idea when the 2010 version will be back?
    • Cammon people, that was a low blow. VS2010 comes out and you guys pull PowerCommands out. Not good. It sucks to not have the ability to copy references between projects right when we are trying to update library version and so on. Why take the download out? That sucks.
  • how to uninstall from my visual studio IDE
    1 Posts | Last Post: February 11, 2010
    • hks
      I am having a hard time finding on ways to remove powercommands from my IDE. Currently it does not let me add any new tab in toolbox and choose items.

      Any help on removing or uninstalling it from my IDE would be greatly appreciated.
  • error hresult e_fail has been returned from a call to a com component
    1 Posts | Last Post: October 31, 2009
    • Hello.

      When I attempt to copy references (or a single reference) between projects using PowerCommands for VS2008 I get the following error:

      error hresult e_fail has been returned from a call to a com component

      Any ideas?
  • Be able to organize PowerCommands into a submenu
    1 Posts | Last Post: October 06, 2009
    • After installing Team Explorer, PowerCommands and a few other tools, I get a contextmenu list on project items which no longer fits on my screen (1680x1050). So would it be possible to add a configuration option for each menu to show it in a submenu?
      So if the option is enabled, it should have another checkbox stating 'show in submenu'. All items that have that checkbox checked should then appear in the same submenu 'PowerCommands' of the contextmenu. Similar to how the Add or Debug submenus work on the contextmenu of a project.