Most of the time, I don't care about searching for classes, and I do still want to see the recent files when I browse the other files in the project.
How do I just show recent files and files under search everywhere?
Something similar to how VSCode does it.
Clear Classes checkbox in filters popup:
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I started a project from the DirectX and XAML template and made some small edits to the Direct3D-only portion of the project.
Now I get a number of errors in the xamltypeinfo.g.cpp file, stating that the Common::NavigationHelper class doesn't exist. Hovever I can validate that it's definitely a class included in the template, but it looks like whatever generated these files didn't include it.
I don't want to go messing around with generated files, and I haven't touched any of the XAML code at all in the template.
I created another project walking through the steps I had performed, and ran a diff on the two projects. The entire Common directory (and namespace, which included NavigationHelper) was unique to the original project.
I then remembered that at one point I had accidentally added a XAML page. I promptly removed it, which seems to have left these files included but they weren't included by another other file. Visual Studio still generated references to them, thus the errors.
It looks like if you add any XAML pages that require navigation, pulling them out is not as simple as removing the file. You must also remove the navigation infrastructure as well, by removing all references to the Common folder that were added to your project.
I'm using the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ running on an iMac, OS X Yosemite.
In my C++ project, I want to hide certain files from the Project Explorer, YET they still be included in the project. I'm trying to run a series of tests for an empirical study I'm doing. Files I'm trying to hide are for test purposes and as such I don't want the participants to be able to see the contents of my test files.
I found the following StackOverflow thread, which does exactly what I want, except for the fact that when I do it, Eclipse excludes the files from compiling.
Eclipse: how to hide custom files in Project Explorer
How can I merely hide the files without excluding from compiling?
Thanks in advance!
W.r.t Project Explorer/Navigator view its not possible to merely hide the custom resources based on name patters.
Refer this post for more info : https://stackoverflow.com/a/2396496/1391924
However note that: In C/C++ Projects view you can hide resources based on your own file name patterns.
Refer this help.
I'm trying to understand a framework in C++, Visual studio by studying this framework's examples. All of such examples and framework are projects, and grouped in a solution in Visual Studio 2012. And each time, while reading an examples, I want to go into some classes the framework for more understanding and see where such classes located in filters in framework.
I searched in stackoverflow for highlighting filter in Visual Studio and I got two answers: link 1 and link2.
But my problem is I followed instructions in these two links, and they helped me highlight selected files, but they only highlight the selected file in the filter "External Dependencies". It do not highlight the source file at the right places, which is in other projects but in the same solution.
There's any way to do it?
If you would like to examine the declaration or definition (implementation) of a particular type you can right click on the name and select "Go To Declaration" or "Go To Definition". If they are available Visual Studio will open the appropriate file and take you directly to the item you want to examine. It may display multiple choices (i.e. there are a few forward declarations of a type) that will allow you to select which one to view. As long as the source for the framework is in a project loaded in the solution this should be more than sufficient for your needs. If the framework doesn't have a Visual Studio project it's quite easy to create one and add the source files to it. Features like Intellisense, class browsing, etc. will be available for the framework and the project doesn't even have to build without errors.
This may be a duplicate, but I haven't found anything that answers it thus far. My company passed a resolution that all files need to have a boilerplate comment header, with file name and copyright date among other things. I was hoping there would be an easy way to just create a header template that is added to the top of every new class (.cpp and .h files) added to the project with a couple of variables that are replaced based on the date, file name, etc.
Unfortunately, it seems like this is a much larger task that it seems it should be. I've looked into Manipulating Code using the Visual C++ Code Model and Manually Creating an Item Template and can't seem to get any of them to do what I want.
Sorry if this sounds like a "do my work for me" post, but to me this just isn't worth spending that much time on. If it's going to take a day to figure out the subtleties of extending Visual Studio, I can just manually add and edit the header for each new file, as it isn't done that often. Is there an easier method than those I was looking at, or a simple example on how to utilize those methods for my purpose?
This may not get you any further than you have already got, but Simon is close in that you can create C++ file templates in the way that he suggests, but the path to the C++ templates is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcprojectitems (note that on 32-bit machine it will just be Program Files).
If you edit the file NewC++File.cpp, the next time you add a new C++ file to a project your template will be used. Alternatively you can create your own files in this folder and they will appear in the Add New Item dialog.
This won't solve your problem around inserting the current date in the header (assuming you want that to be automatically determined), but you could update the template that you're using once a year, and that would be slightly less of a chore.
HTH
What you are looking for is called : Code Snippets
I personnaly use the snippets provided into VAssistX but it's a shareware so it's might not be a good solution for your company.
By the way if you are developing application on Visual C++ without VAssistX you are wasting a lot of time ;)
There is also a code snippets manager into Visual Studio, i never used it but i found some documentation on google :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d60kx75h(VS.80).aspx
and
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2009/01/17/how-to-write-your-own-code-snippets.aspx
I hope it's will be helpfull.
Update: Unfortunately, the C++ templates do not work in the same way.
I have left the text below as a reference to anyone who finds this, but it only works for C#/VB.
You can definitely edit the class template for C# (we have done it for exactly the same reason as you - to include a standard header), I would assume you can do it for C++ too.
Check out these two directories:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\"
Somewhere in each of those directories will be a class template folder. For C# it's in a zip file here:
...\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Code\1033\Class.zip
Extract the zip, edit the template to include your header and re-zip it. You will also then need to place an unzipped copy under the ItemTemplatesCache folder, (following the same path - ...\ItemTemplatesCache\CSharp\Code\1033\Class)
There are more details here.
(Sorry, I'm on my Linux PC now so I can't check if these paths exist for C++. If you get it to work, post the correct C++ paths back here, and I'll update this answer to reference them)
While evaluating Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I see that in the converted directory, my vcproj files became vcxproj files. There are also vcxproj.filter files alongside each project which appear to contain a description of the folder structure (\Source Files, \Header Files, etc.).
Do you think these filter files should be kept per-user, or should they be shared across the whole dev group and checked into SCC?
My current thinking is to check them in, but I wonder if there are any reasons not to do that, or perhaps good reasons why I should definitely check them in.
The obvious benefit is that the folder structures will match if I'm looking at someone else's machine, but maybe they'd like to reorganize things logically?
We intentionally pulled the .filter. file information out of the .vcproj when we translated to the .vcxproj MSBuild format.
One reason is exactly what you pointed out, that the filters are purely a logical view, and different team members may want different views.
The other is that sometimes the build is set up to check the timestamp of the project file, and trigger a rebuild if it has changed - because that may mean there are different source files to build, or different settings, etc. I don't recall if we actually shipped with the build trigging that way, but the idea was that we did not want to trigger a rebuild simply because the filters changed, as they don't affect the build.
Previous versions of Visual Studio (at least versions 6.0 and 2008) store that information in their own project file (.dsp and .vcproj files respectively), which of course is good to add to SCC.
I cannot think of any reason to not include this .filter files in SCC
I just found that if you use Git you can mark .filter files to be treated as a union for merging to make it simpler. Just add the line:
*.vcxproj.filters merge=union
to your .gitattributes file.
See Using .gitattributes to avoid merge conflicts for more details.
It should not be added in case you use CMake (or similar build tools) to generate files like *.sln, *.vcxproj, *.vcxproj.filters etc., because this files may contain full path to your Project Folder and other only your computer's specific folders.