VSCommands 3.6.8.0 Released!

admin | April 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

New in this release:

Start Without Debugging (Lite)

New option available in Debug context menu will simply launch compiled version of your project or external program if configured in project properties.

Unlike Start Without Debugging command available in Visual Studio, this new feature works on any selected project (VS version works on startup projects only) and will not try to recompile your sources, so it will work even if instance of your application is already running.

Friendly Solution Name (Lite)

This feature will be useful for developers who often work on different branches of the same project at the same time.

This can quickly become frustrating because there is no quick way of finding which branch is open in which instance of Visual Studio.

Let’s say that you opened same solution from two different branches:

Now when you alt-tab between windows or use peek feature of windows 7 there is no way of telling which branch is opened in which Visual Studio instance:

There is also no visual clue in Visual Studio window itself once it’s open.

Friendly Solution Name feature allows you to specify a friendlier name for your solution which can be based on folder structure.

All you have to do is to specify a friendly name pattern and regex to extract branch name from solution path (new properties available on Solution node in Solution Explorer). Regex can contain any number of named groups which can be later referenced back in Friendly Name by using {groupName} placeholder:

VSCommands will then display this friendly name in the title of Visual Studio main window making it easy to see when you alt-tab between windows

or when you use peek feature of Windows 7

It will also add Friendly Name to Solution Explorer title bar

Open (Shell Command) (Pro)

This feature allows you to interact with files not supported natively by Visual Studio directly from Solution Explorer by exposing default shell open action for these files (such as Merge on .reg or execute on .bat files)

Solution Properties

Support for Web Application projects added

Select Folder Dialogs

VSCommands will no longer use old dialogs for folder selection when running on Windows Vista or Windows 7:

They all have been replaced with new, more user friendly versions:

Bug Fixes:

Show Assembly Details – fixed issue where data of some assemblies could not be retrieved and window was never shown
XAML Highlighting – fixed issue where self binding was not recognised
XAML Highlighting – fixed issue where referencing static converter was breaking the highlight
Tool Windows – fixed issue where tool windows provided by VSCommands did not initialize properly after Visual Studio restart

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