C#•4y ago

How to add command to right click context menu for solution explorer in VS 2022 extension

I am trying to create .vsix extension , i want to create command which shows up when i right click .razor file, but i wasn't able to find the correct id for parent to do this, can someone help me please?

Pobiega•8/11/22, 10:56 AM

adding stuff to the registry

Pobiega•8/11/22, 10:57 AM

this is what 7zip does when you install it

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 10:58 AM

i don't think i understand what do you mean

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 10:58 AM

i wan to add item to file right click menu

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 10:59 AM

something like this

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 10:59 AM

my problem is that i can not find the correct id

Pobiega•8/11/22, 10:59 AM

Oh, you want to do it inside your VS extension

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 10:59 AM

I am trying to create .vsix extension

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:00 AM

then yeah nevermind, I misread it and thought you meant the rightclick file context menu in explorer

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:00 AM

wel yes, but solution explorer

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:00 AM

You should probably include the VS version you are extending with too

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:00 AM

since vsix is for both vs code and vs, and all verisons of both

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:01 AM

but the code itself might be different

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:01 AM

vs 2022

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:02 AM

the best i can do is , but that still doesn't work

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:02 AM

I suggest you edit the topic to "How to add command to right click context menu for solution explorer in VS 2022 extension"

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:02 AM

Good luck

PPobiega Good luck

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:03 AM

thanks

Pobiega•8/11/22, 11:04 AM

@admsnyder has made extensions, so maybe he can answer if he is available

PPobiega @admsnyder has made extensions, so maybe he can answer if he is available 🙂

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:06 AM

hopefuly, because now it seems like i broke everything and it doesn't show up even at the default location

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:10 AM

@binto86 yeah, you can add context menu commands

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:13 AM

let me get to my pc and load a solution where i do that.

AAdmSnyder @binto86 yeah, you can add context menu commands

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:13 AM

i have deleted everything in debug folder and set the id to , rebuild and i see it under view-> other windows

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:15 AM

but when i did it again with i still see it under view-> other windows

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:20 AM

i wonder if there aren't examples online.

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:21 AM

all i found after 30 mins of search was

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:21 AM

which doesn't work, even if i rebuild its still under view->other windows

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:24 AM

let me have a look...

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:24 AM

did you look in here?
https://github.com/Microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples

GitHub

GitHub - microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples: Samples for buildin...

Samples for building your own Visual Studio extensions - GitHub - microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples: Samples for building your own Visual Studio extensions

AAdmSnyder did you look in here? https://github.com/Microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:26 AM

nope thank you that looks very usefull

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:26 AM

ii still have a problem with running it

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:26 AM

it looks like its running some older version of the files

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:27 AM

when i delete all from debug folder, rebuild etc it still shows the old stuff

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:27 AM

sometimes you gotta ++ the version in the vsixmanifest

AAdmSnyder sometimes you gotta ++ the version in the vsixmanifest

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 11:31 AM

now it looks like it works, but if i try to show it under solution explorer, it doesn't show up, but i guess that i have wrong id, thanks for your help

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:32 AM

there's a sample for how to build your own VSS provider in the archived samples... i know that there, solution explorer context menu entries are created - that's where i'd look.

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 11:33 AM

i know that, because i used that sample for my vss extension...

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 12:42 PM

i have managed to add my command to the context menu, thanks for all your help

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 12:43 PM

now i just need to figure out how to show it based on file extension and i can start working on the real extension

AdmSnyder•8/11/22, 5:23 PM

what is your extension supposed to do?

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 5:24 PM

i wanted to try to do something similar to winforms designer but for blazor

Binto86OP•8/11/22, 5:32 PM

i still don't have filter on file extension tho

AdmSnyder•8/12/22, 10:25 AM

do you have sketches on how the UI should look? because webforms is a thing and people don't seem to like it...

AAdmSnyder do you have sketches on how the UI should look? because webforms is a thing and ...

Binto86OP•8/12/22, 11:50 AM

Nope just general idea for now, also i don't care much, even if i should be only person to use it, i want to quickly drag and drop some stuff, to get general idea how it should look and change details in the code

Binto86OP•8/12/22, 4:16 PM

@admsnyder my problem is that it looks like any of the code runs after i click the button, so i have no idea how to check for file extension in code, i am trying to do something with the tag in .vsct file, but not successfully

Binto86OP•8/12/22, 5:37 PM

ok i got it working to show up only on .razor files!