How to enable menu “Create GUID” in Visual Studio 2008

by Vitaly Zayko 29. July 2009 18:05

If you need to create a GUID in VS2008 but this menu is disabled then you are facing the same problem as I did. Probably some options were disabled during installation. Fortunately it is easy to fix.

Copy two files guidgen.exe and Uuidgen.Exe form
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools
and you don’t even need to restart your Visual Studio.

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Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 (CTP)

by Vitaly Zayko 27. October 2008 23:21

Download Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework.

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Do you know how to get a Visual Studio command GUID?

by Vitaly Zayko 22. October 2008 10:55

I have met this problem when I worked on some Visual Studio add-ins:
VS Add-in Wizard does all work around to insert your add-in to Visual Studio menu "Tools" but if you want to make your add-in available in other menus, let say in context menu of Solution Explorer, you have to know some additional information about the place.
To get this know you need to add Registry value DWORD EnableVSIPLogging to  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\General and set it to "1". Then just press Ctrl+Shift and do an operation you interesting in. You will get a dialog box, similar to this:

Don't forget to switch it to "0" (zero) when you will no longer need it because Visual Studio has many commands that start from Ctrl+Shift.
It works in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or higher.

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