Visual Studio VSX Developer help links
The following are some of the links that one of our good fellow developers had compiled during his period of work here with us.
Ordering the options page
=========> Set the Reg Key - Sort
[$RootKey$\ToolsOptionsPages\AVR Toolchain\GCC 8-Bit]
"Sort"=dword:00000000
[$RootKey$\ToolsOptionsPages\AVR Toolchain\GCC 32-Bit]
"Sort"=dword:00000001
[$RootKey$\ToolsOptionsPages\AVR Toolchain\Assembler]
"Sort"=dword:00000002
Show All Files in the project
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/3a2fea6a-9173-4f48-97ec-507c8b8b28df
Get all the configurations!
Dim proj As Project = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1)
For Each confname As String In proj.ConfigurationManager.ConfigurationRowNames
Dim conf As Configuration = proj.ConfigurationManager.ConfigurationRow(confname)
'' do your logical on the configuration.
Next
Miscellaneous Files folder in the project
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vsx/thread/5CBFD21D-44BA-48C8-9ED5-05B2F3CBF2E2
F1 help on Tools options page
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vsx/thread/1381AEDE-8FDD-4F38-8766-7DFD1444D363
Project properties Help
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/br/vsx/thread/697291ba-855a-4bce-acf7-ccc1ab5baa58
http://support.atmel.no/bin/customer.exe?=&action=viewKbEntry&id=677
About EEPROM in Assembler projects.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/fef208e7-b79d-4a0c-94fe-e6861196e1f5
Change the text in Status Bar and its icon
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/9b6010ce-5811-4411-b8dc-69fc796d2d1e/
Output to errorlist
string unformattedXml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><book><author>Lewis, C.S.</author><title>The Four Loves</title></book>";
string formattedXml = XElement.Parse(unformattedXml).ToString();
Console.WriteLine(formattedXml);
Format a string as XML...........
Invisible build output pane:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/717ed2f2-3dbe-4992-94f9-a2ef08e6f164
Options Page; Environment Node properties:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165643.aspx
HOWTO: Getting properties from the DTE.Properties collection of Visual Studio .NET.
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2005/MZ2005008.aspx
Get the return value of a thread callig method:
Force a project to Unload and Reload
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/49f69447-951a-4a9c-9c69-9a821f2a367c
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vsx/thread/E24A7146-5C41-49AE-A8B0-372EC5718D95
Set as Main
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/2b0cf6d8-d0f4-498b-97ec-d6599800af2c
Add frm file
Get current selected Project Item in the Solution Explorer
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/27342bf3-672b-455d-8155-3883ea3e0928/
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2006/mz2006004.aspx
Navigate files in the Solution
http://www.bitsbyta.com/2011/01/lock-and-unlock-folder-cnet.html
=> Lock and Unlock a folder
Capture Save, Close event - Opened document
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/is/vsx/thread/03a0db03-061f-41e1-8c20-3897e682b675
Package GUIDs for Visual Studio Features
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd891106.aspx