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CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005

It is time for a new version of coolcommands because I found 3 new coolcommands:

 
  • Thomas Freudenberg suggested the need of a menu item to each project item which spawns the command “explorer /e, /select,<filepath>” This opens the explorer and select the specified file.
 

For more about Command-Line Switches for Windows Explorer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510

 
  • Andres Aguiar suggested having a “Copy Reference” over a project so that you don’t need to open the Add References Dialog if you want to add a Project to Project reference; you just need to select “Copy Reference” over the project and after Paste Reference over the target.
 
  • The last one for this release is “Add Projects From Folder” over a Solution

Several times I need to add a couple of projects to a Solution and it is a bit heavy add them one by one. So this command scan the selected folder for projects and shows a dialog with the projects found, in this dialog you select what projects you want to add to the solution.

 

A last good new, I created a setup for coolcommands ;)

 Download CoolCommands

Posted: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:44 PM by GMilano with 53 comment(s)

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# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:43 AM

Hiya,

could ya give a full list of commands currently supported? I very much enjoy your tool but Im probably missing half of the new commands...

Besides that, it would be very nice to have a "close file" option on the context menu... Or, is there any way to do a quick "close file" (except ctrl f4).

When I right click to top bar (with the open files) I get "close this file", "close all files but this"... How handy would it be to have another option there "Close all files"...

Nathan Brouwer

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:10 PM

I use hotkeys for that. I mapped <alt>-x to "close this file" and <alt>-s to "close all files".

Brendan Segraves

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, May 12, 2006 7:45 AM

To quickly close the current file/tab, just middle-click on the tab-bar. It doesn't even have to be on the tab itself - anywhere on the tabstrip is fine. Just found out about it a few days ago and even blogged about it in joy and wonder. :)

Avner Kashtan

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, May 12, 2006 8:01 AM

@Avner
Nice one, didn't know about the middle button. I did read about it but I couldn't get it to work. Now I know that you have to middle click on the tabstrip...

Cheers for that...

@Brendan
Yes, you're right, I do have some mappings configured (ctrl-alt-shift-b = build page) and I could easily add another mapping...

Nathan Brouwer

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, May 13, 2006 6:47 PM

I have version 2.0 installed for Visual Studio 2005. How can I uninstall this version before installing version 3.0?

Jan Van Ryswyck

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:42 PM

Hi Jan, you can install the 3.0 version and just delete the old folder were 2.0 is. The registry keys for 3.0 are the same so your registry will be ok, without orphans keys.

GMilano

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Sunday, May 14, 2006 8:48 AM

Thanks for your help!

Jan Van Ryswyck

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Sunday, May 14, 2006 8:37 PM

Hi Gaston, nice to see my suggestion implemented. However, as far as I can see, "Open containing folder" really only opens the containing folder. The project item selected in the solution window is not selected in the explorer.

Thomas Freudenberg

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:03 PM

i installed coolcommands few times on my notebook
i opened vs 2005 and did not see any changes
no new options when i right click on solution , folder and more
do i miss something?

Dror

Dror Engel

# More Cool Visual Studio Commands @Monday, May 22, 2006 3:08 PM

Gaston did it again, and the new VS Cool Commands make my life much easier. &amp;nbsp;

Andres Aguiar's Weblog

# CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Monday, June 19, 2006 9:41 PM

CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005

ryanbarry.com

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:49 AM

Thanks for this useful addin, Gaston!

One suggestion: could you add something that would allow visually editing the path (HintPath) for references? Currently, the only ways to change the path for a reference are: edit the .csproj by hand or remove/add the reference.

Fabrice Marguerie

# Colin Neller - Developer Tools and Resources @Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:16 PM

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Colin Neller - Developer Tools and Resources

# Free Visual Studio 2005 Add-In's @Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:49 PM

I&#39;m just curious on the following subject, what other developers out there use Visual Studio 2005

Blake

# Arun Srinivasan &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Cool Commands for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:08 AM

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Arun Srinivasan » Blog Archive » Cool Commands for Visual Studio 2005

# Visual Studio Add-Ins: Cool Commands 3.0 &laquo; Arcane Code @Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:48 AM

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Visual Studio Add-Ins: Cool Commands 3.0 « Arcane Code

# totallydotnet Weblog &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; CoolCommands 3.0 @Saturday, December 30, 2006 5:16 AM

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totallydotnet Weblog » Blog Archive » CoolCommands 3.0

# An better approach to visualize build output - BuildConsole.NET @Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:09 PM

The nice and free tool from Gaston Milano(the author of CoolCommands addin ) that allow to visualize

.Net Adventures

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, May 19, 2007 1:14 PM

It seems as though the link at the top is dead, do you have a working one?

Lakario

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, June 01, 2007 4:58 PM

Hey thanks for the great tool. I have been using it for awhile now and I just recently started using a Vista machine. I am having issues getting the MSI to complete any suggestions?

Mike

# Managed Package Framework and VB.NET @Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:10 AM

I attended a session by Don Demsak (aka DonXML) on Visual Studio extensibility at Philly.NET's Code Camp

.NETicated

# CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, June 09, 2007 6:45 AM

This is a must for any C# developer using Visual Studio 2005. Because we have not yet transitioned over

Ryan

# CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:09 AM

This is a must for any C# developer using Visual Studio 2005. Because we have not yet transitioned over

RyanBarry

# CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:18 AM

This is a must for any C# developer using Visual Studio 2005. Because we have not yet transitioned over

RyanBarry

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:04 AM

Nice toolset!

Mike: The installer does take a while to complete. Note that if you have Visual Studio running when you run the installer it will block until all instances of msdev.exe have closed.

The "Resolve Project References" option is very cool. This will add all necessary projects to satisfy unresolved references.

I've only tried a few other options but seems like they have a few issues.

Add projects from folder just seems to want to add all projects in a folder, regardless of whether I ticked them or not.

Collapse projects is very useful but doesn't work for projects that are in a solution folder.

It's been a while since the last release so I guess these issues are unlikely to get fixed. Understandable, it is a free download after all :)

Matthew

MrToes

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, June 22, 2007 11:31 AM

Weird, my last comment never showed up.

On Vista:

The MSI would error out after giving user control to devenv.exe.

In order to get it to install I created a batch file containing msiexec /i "PATH_TO_CoolCommands30.msi"

Then I ran the batch file it as administrator and it installed fine.

Mike

# My Favorite Visual Studio 2005 Add-Ins @Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:39 PM

I have been using Windows Vista on my laptop for two solid years. I thought it was about time to dual

Blake Niemyjski

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Sunday, July 01, 2007 5:19 PM

Couldn't get an active connection/link to the download above.  I think the server is down.

Adron

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Monday, July 02, 2007 1:34 AM

Your download is not working. The file or folders cannot be found.

Mladen Mihajlovic

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, July 05, 2007 6:36 AM

Downloadlink seems to be broken...

Is there an alternative d/l?

Alex

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Monday, July 09, 2007 5:11 PM

The correct download link is currently:

download.deklarit.com/.../coolcommands40.zip

AndyM

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:48 AM

This should have a product page with a list of features - it's hard to compile a comprehensive list of features.

Also, this doesn't seem to install on vista correctly.  The above suggestion that includes the .bat file works, though.

One other thing - comments don't seem to work on your blog anymore when I use IE7, I have to use Firefox.  There's no email address for you posted, either.

Sorry for all of the complaints.  This is a great product, though.  Thanks!

Anderson Imes

# developers.toolstage.de @Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:11 AM

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developers.toolstage.de

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, July 27, 2007 8:51 AM

The download at downloads.deklarit.com/.../CoolCommands30.msi doesn't appear to be there anymore.

Derek

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, July 27, 2007 5:44 PM

Derek, look 2 comments up -- the 4.0 MSI is the current download.

Mike

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:09 PM

Hello,

I just tried to download and try your addin, but I got a 404.  Do you need some extra hosting?  I could throw your MSI onto my FTP (1&1 hosted) and give you a personal login/password for the updates.  Just a thought (that I hope you'll take me up on!)...

Justin

Justin Robinson

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:00 AM

WRONG URL

The wright download URL for CoolCommands 3 is :

download.deklarit.com/.../CoolCommands30.msi

Denis Sauve

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:26 AM

The download link:

(downloads.deklarit.com/.../CoolCommands30.msi)

doesn't seem to be working, is there any other way I can get this tool?

Thanks!

Máximo Besteiro

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:38 AM

Can you please make an .msi installer of coolcommands40.zip (which gives me the option to uninstall it too) please?

Thanks!

DieHard

# CoolCommands for VisualStudio @Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:48 PM

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DotNetKicks.com

# Be smart - use right tools, save your time&#8230; &laquo; Varely&#8217;s Weblog @Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:08 PM

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Be smart - use right tools, save your time… « Varely’s Weblog

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:47 PM

Does the current version of Cool Commands work with VS 2008 RTM?

Claudio Lassala

# Visual Studio 2008 : open in explorer @Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:54 AM

Visual Studio 2008 : open in explorer

BlogTech

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:03 PM

Yes, that specific option is there. However, I'm not aware of VS 2008's versions that compare to some features in Cool Commands:

Copy / Paste reference

Collapse all Projects

Visual Studio Prompt Here

Find in Solution Explorer

Claudio Lassala

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, December 28, 2007 7:02 AM

I don't understand if Cool Commands work with VS 2008 RTM, doesn't it ?

mathmax

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:37 AM

What about this?

download.deklarit.com/.../coolcommands40.zip

A newer Version?

Robert

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:18 AM

The 'Open Containing Folder' command is quite helpful. Couldn't you provide this for the solution node and for folder nodes ('Open Folder') in the solution explorer as well?

Another thing that I would appreciate is if there would be a command in the solution explorer's context menu to close all open files of a certain project.

You may want to think about it. Anyway, thank you for this little helper.

Robert S.

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Saturday, February 02, 2008 2:13 AM

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olesja

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Friday, February 22, 2008 12:17 PM

Here's a post on getting Cool Commands 4.0 to work in Visual Studio 2008

geekswithblogs.net/.../coolcommands-in-visual-studio-2008.aspx

John

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:14 AM

Wow. Great work! Love the collapse projects command! Is the source code available?

M88

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:22 AM

Is there an msi for version 4.0?  I just can't get it to install with the setup.bat

I have vs 2005 and vs 2008 installed (plus each sdk).  I tried specifying the proper versions of regpkg.exe, codbase switch and devenv.exe but cool commands does not show up in either version of visual studio.

It's an add-in right?  Is there some step I'm missing?

Thanks.

Steve

Stephen Caffo

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:05 AM

well, I'd like join Thomas Freudenberg remark about the file selection in explorer after openning it. It will be nice to select the file in question, especially for the folders with a nig number of files.

#   re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Sunday, May 14, 2006 8:37 PM

Hi Gaston, nice to see my suggestion implemented. However, as far as I can see, "Open containing folder" really only opens the containing folder. The project item selected in the solution window is not selected in the explorer.

serhio

# re: CoolCommands 3.0 for Visual Studio 2005 @Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:43 AM

I mapped a keyboard shortcut (ALT+L) for "Locate in Solution Explorer" - very handy feature for people having this turned off by default. You have to look for the command "OtherContextMenus.EasyMDIDocumentWindow.LocateinSolutionExplorer"

Thx for this great little helper!

Nico

Nico

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