I have installed visual studio for c++
When i hover the mouse over a method or object, the studio offers to search the Internet for information about it. Is it possible to watch the documentation from ide, as in eclipse or intellij idea?
Yes. on the help menu there is the "set help preference" sub-menu that allows you to switch to a local help viewer. To use that you will have to download documentation sets you find of interest.
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Is there a help integration package that can make wxWidgets documentation available through F1 help in Visual Studio 2017?
To be specific, if I were to click on a wxWindow class in Visual Studio 2017's editor, it would be great if the wxWindow Class Reference page would just pop up.
I found some data online on integrating the wxWidgets help data into VS 2008, but as I recall the help subsystem has had an overhaul since then, and I don't want to do a bunch of download/install/grinding only to find that the result doesn't go into VS 2017.
Thanks in advance for knowledge you have on this.
Hello I am trying to create a “.resx” file and when I went to the menu add “new item” it doesn't show me the template for create resources file as it shows in the following image. But if I go to Visual Studio 2015 it actually shows that option available. So why if it is visual studio 2017 it doesn't come with that template by default ? And I want to know what are the steps that I have to take in order to install this template.
Note: If my question is incorrectly please AND YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE ME A DISLIKE make sure to GIVE ME A FEEDBACK Thank you for reading this.
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After having the same issue (I think). I found that you have to choose ".NET desktop develpment" when you install VS 2017 to get the resource template.
Search for visual studio installer in your menu and then choose modify.
Check ".NET desktop develpment" and click modify. After that you should be able to see the templates in VS 2017.
what about this one?
ResX Manager
When I right click on a type, for example int and click peek help I am always shown the same page:
Writing Code in the Code and Text Editor
How can I fix this?
I found the Custom Web Search Visual Studio extension to be a decent replacement for this functionality. However, it only supports Visual Studio 2017.
I made a custom Google search because the search function on learn.microsoft.com is less than desirable: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alearn.microsoft.com+{QUERY}, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alearn.microsoft.com+CreateFile.
I have already created a simple source code analyses tool for C/C++, but I wanted it to be an extension or tool for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 editions. It is written completely in C++. For this reason I created it using "Create an Add-in using Visual C++/ATL" option. And then under "Choose Add-in Options", I have some problems. I don't know which one or ones to select. I want it to have a name and icon under Tools section, but on the other hand, my code analyzer can be used from command line too. If someone can advice me which option(s) to select there I would be glad.
My second question is this, when I have opened a source file in Visual Studio, and if I go to Tools -> MyAddin, and press it, I want it to do its job and analyze the code, and show the results in the output section below.
And my last question is that, if I have a C/C++ project with few files let's say, and if I right-click one of the files, I want to see my add-in and be able to execute the add-in from there, not to go always to Tools -> MyAddin. And also the same thing to work if I right-click the project, then it should analyze the all files and show the problems in the output section.
Please note that I have already created the source code analyzer tool in C++, and I have it as a DLL. I can also use it in Linux from terminal, and if I want I can also create a GUI for it, which I plan to do later. But I'm not that much experienced with Visual Studio, especially about add-ins, that's why I need your help. As you can see my first question is a kind of advice, but I think my second and third questions require some source code. I know that it is very hard for you to give me some help without seeing my code, but if you would help me somehow I would be glad.
For Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 you should consider using Extensions, not Add-Ins. It is a new technology introduced in Visual Studio 2010. Extensions come in form of a VSIX packages and are automatically installed in all applicable versions of Visual Studio. If you are not targeting Visual Studio version prior to 2010, I strongly recommend using extensions.
From this point of view, I will not answer any of your technical questions about Add-Ins. Here are a couple of links to start using extensions instead:
Anatomy of a VSIX Package
Building and publishing an extension for Visual Studio 2010
VSX FAQ
Walkthrough: Creating an Options Page
I think you will find valuable information on this topic here: Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples
Is there a way to name(label) breakpoints in MS VS 2008?
I know 2010 has that feature but, I am still stuck with 2008 at work as I am not sure what would the overhead be to go from 2008 to 2010.
What tempted me to post this question here was that, there is a column called "name" wheich seems to be grayed out.
I'm guessing this would probably let me achieve what I want but I am not sure how to enable this.
Edit 1: I am trying working with C++ code.
According to the msdn documentation, no.
There is an msdn article about labeling breakpoints:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd293674.aspx
It describes how to do it for VS 2010. There is a dropdown at the top of the screen that says "Other Versions" and only allows you to select VS 2012. So no, you can't do it in VS 2008. Sorry!