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I have a Visual Studio extension that show red error squiggles. I also like to provide squiggles with other colors, for example yellow for warnings. Creating red squiggles can be done by extending the ITagger class, along the lines: internal sealed class MySquigglesTagger : ITagger<IErrorTag> { public IEnumerable<ITagSpan<IErrorTag>> GetTags(NormalizedSnapshotSpanCollection spans) { foreach (IMappingTagSpan<MyTokenTag> myTokenTag in this._aggregator.GetTags(spans)) SnapshotSpan tagSpan = myTokenTag.Span.GetSpans(this._sourceBuffer)[0]; yield return new TagSpan<IErrorTag>(tagSpan, new ErrorTag(

I created a new VSIX extension project in Visual Studio 2012, and wrote a MEF classifier (as a test) that should simply highlight all text in a .mylang file. Here are the relevant parts of my .NET 4.5 code: internal static class MyLangLanguage { public const string ContentType = "mylang"; public const string FileExtension = ".mylang"; [Export(typeof(ClassificationTypeDefinition))] [Name(ContentType)] [BaseDefinition("code")] internal static ContentTypeDefinition MyLangSyntaxContentTypeDefinition = null; [Export] [FileExtension(FileExtension)] [ContentType(ContentType)] internal static

Context: I'm writing VSIX Extension for Visual Studio 2017 which needs connection to REST API that requires user authentication. I decide to use VSPackage to provide service for my extension. To be able to connect and authenticate users I would like to store somewhere user credentials, it could be either username and password or OAuth token - doesn't matter. Question: What will be the best place to store credentials information for VSIX? Requirements: Credentials should not be stored as plain text Should not be stored in text file Should be stored per user (We can have more then one windows

When u view a project properties in Visual Studio u get a number of tabs. The standard ones are "Application", "Build", "Build Events" etc. It is also possible to add custom tabs. For example view the properties of a WebApplication or a VSIX project you get different (extra) tabs. So how do I write a VSIX addin that adds a custom tab to the project properties windows? Check out this article: How to: Add and Remove Property Pages . You create a page like so: class DeployPropertyPage : Form, Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IPropertyPage { . . . . //Summary: Return a stucture describing your

I have to enabled diagnostic mode of MSBuild project build output verbosity to see this: 1>Done executing task "EnableExtension" -- FAILED. (TaskId:81) 1>Done building target "DeployVsixExtensionFiles" in project "myextension.csproj" -- FAILED.: (TargetId:93) ... 1>Build FAILED. 1> 1>Time Elapsed 00:00:01.27 ========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== My problem is I cannot debug the Visual Studio extension package I'm working on, as the build output says something has failed. What's wired, the obj and bin folders with all content inside (including vsix package), has

We have a Visual Studio extension, currently installed with MSI, since we need to perform certain tasks after the installation (ngen, registering certain COM servers, etc). In the end of the installation, we run devenv.exe /setup (more specifically, devenv.exe /setup /nosetupvstemplates to make it a bit faster) to register the extension in Visual Studio 2012 and above (in 2010 this step was not required, since VS2010 would rebuild the extensions cache on every startup). We're currently looking to move to a partial VSIX installation, but there are certain issues: We have a certain folder

I am writing a Visual Studio 2012 extension, for internal use, which requires that all assemblies have a strong name. I am dependent on RestSharp (and a few other dlls), and since it is not strongly named, I am adding a strong name to it by following this . Everything works according to the output of the process, and even visual studio claims it is strongly named if I look at the properties of RestSharp.dll in the project references. However, when I go to use my extension I get a FileLoadException claiming: Could not load file or assembly 'RestSharp, Version=104.1.0.0, Culture=neutral,

I'm using a Visual Studio Private Gallery to publish a VSIX internal to my company. My VSIX shows up in the "Online" section of "Extensions and Updates" in Visual Studio 2012 and I can install it from there: However, once it's installed, I can't figure out how to update my extension in a way that makes it show up in the "Updates" section of that same dialog box, nor can I figure out how to make Visual Studio notify me that an update is available. I've tried various combinations of the following: Increasing the version number in the VSIX itself and in the atom.xml Changing the updated tag