Customizing Visual Studio 2010

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Ray C — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:05:22 GMT

I see "future release" didn't mean Visual Studio 2012. WTF?

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

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re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Robert A. — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:17:18 GMT

Did you also not have enough time to make it so it remembers new button groups (seperators) ?

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Ivan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:30:48 GMT

I stumbled upon this blog while searching the internet for information how to implement such functionality in WPF, I hoped it was built in somewhere in WPF (like it was in Delphi), but unfortunately there is no such framework, so any chances of you open sourcing this part of Visual Studio (Toolbar building framework ? or something like this ?), or maybe just writing a blog entry about how you did it? (no need for others to reinvent the wheel). Thanks.

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Alin Constantin - MSFT — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:53:57 GMT

@Anders: > "What bothers me (and many others, it seems) most is that the abaility to set custom icons for macros etc. is now gone. Please bring it back!"

We will be looking into having this functionality back in Dev11. Meanwhile, try the nice extension done by Ryan that adds this functionality for Dev10: blogs.msdn.com/.../command-image-changing-extension.aspx

Alin

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Anders — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:33:37 GMT

It's sad that the drag-and-drop features are gone, but I could have lived with that as long as the options would still be available in some other way. Unfortunately, that is not the case. What bothers me (and many others, it seems) most is that the abaility to set custom icons for macros etc. is now gone. Please bring it back!

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Paul Harrington [MSFT] — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:51:05 GMT

@Karl Botts,

Thank you, Karl, for your candid feedback.

To ensure your feedback and bug reports reach the right people, please submit your feedback through the Connect site, connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio or by selecting "Report a Bug" from the Help menu within Visual Studio 2010.

In addition to bugs reports, you may use Connect for suggestions and feature requests, but please ensure your feedback is actionable and not just emotional. Your opinion counts and a well-thought out and balanced business justification for your decisions counts even more.

If you still can't get what you need from Connect, then please contact me directly at Paul.Harrington@microsoft.com

Thank you,

Paul Harrington

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Alin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:48:48 GMT

@Karl: > And in the new GUI I cannot change them [sizes of comboboxes]. I like to set short text strings instead of icons on most of my buttons: now I can't change those either.

I don't know exactly how you tried to do these, but both the above should be possible in VS10.

E.g. To make toolbar buttons display text only - in Tools/Customize dialog, select Commands tab, select the Standard toolbar in the toolbars combo, select one of the buttons in the toobar, click Modify Selection button, and pick "Text only (Always)" style. You can also rename the button's text by editing the Name in the same context menu and type a shorter text.

If you select a combobox in the Controls list then drop the ModifySelection menu you'll also have another menu item there which allows you to change the Width of the combobox.

Granted, it's not as easier as it was in VS2008, but it should be possible to do these customizations; we hope to make things easier in Dev11.

> Yes, VS2010 imported my VS2008 settings, but it changed the sizes of the combo boxes, making them absurdly wide.

I tried an import of VS settings where I customized previously the size of comboboxes and I was not able to reproduce the problem. Can you please open a bug on connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio and attach one of the vssettings files that made VS10 to incorrectly import the comboboxes sizes?

Thank you,

Alin Constantin [VS Shell development]

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Karl Botts — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:05:47 GMT

If, by chance, you would like to discuss the above, I am willing. Just give me some way to give you my email address without posting it publicly on the Web.

re: Customizing Visual Studio 2010

Karl Botts — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:53:48 GMT

I too have a completely customized set of VS toolbars that I have used for years. I too find that you have broken them all. Yes, VS2010 imported my VS2008 settings, but it changed the sizes of the combo boxes, making them absurdly wide. And in the new GUI I cannot change them. I like to set short text strings instead of icons on most of my buttons: now I can't change those either. As those above have described, the entire customability of the menus and toolbars have been removed. I am _extremely_ pissed.

I have questions for you: If WPF is so inflexible and difficult to program that you cannot implement your own successful GUI design in your own flagship app for programmers, why the hell did you use it? Do you seriously think this is how to evangelize its use to the people who build the apps that bind your customers to your platform?

You have resoundingly confirmed my existing suspicion that WPF is worse than useless. I work on the server side, but have had indirect experience with WPF. We have (or had) a rather trivial app (a glorified chat client, really) which was ugly but functional. We turned it over to a lightweight programmer for enhancement. He, seduced by your WPF marketing circa VS2008, decided that the wave of the future was to reimplement the GUI with WPF. He spent several months screwing around with toolbars and fonts and XML layout, and produced an unstable mess that cannot paint its own windows correctly in finite time. Our users are now migrating back to AIM and Trillium.

Granting the inexperience of our developer, I was willing to give WPF some benefit of doubt for awhile. But if the VS dev team can't do what they need to do with WPF, who can? I figure WPF poured about $100K of my budget down a rathole. I promise you, there will be no further experiments with it in this shop. If you desupport Windows.Forms, you will lose our desktop apps with it.

OK, so much for your GUI: now comes the serious part. I am about to port several heavyweight, highly successful, .NET implemented, realtime trading system servers to .NET4.0 using VS2010. I am branching first (in Subversion, natch: your revision control systems are all also useless, and I _do_ have direct experience with them). If I encounter any more half-baked half-finished nonsense, I will dump it and move all our servers to Mono and Linux. Now is the time: before I become dependent on .NET 4 language features. I have the ability and the authority to do it. And I am damned tired of rebooting Windows.