I'm searching for a one-click way to inspect preprocessed or assembly output. It's just tedious to open file properties, change the respective setting, compile, go to the obj directory and open the resulting file by hand.
Does anyone know of any Visual Studio add-in, macro or whatever to automate this task?
EDIT: An extension for VS 11+ is available @ https://github.com/Trass3r/DevUtils
I solved it myself by creating a nice macro. It's way more sophisticated but basically works like this:
Imports EnvDTE Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine Dim doc As EnvDTE.Document = DTE.ActiveDocument Dim prj As VCProject = doc.ProjectItem.ContainingProject.Object Dim file As VCFile = prj.Files.Item(doc.Name) Dim fileconfigs As IVCCollection = file.FileConfigurations Dim fileconfig As VCFileConfiguration = fileconfigs.Item("Release|x64") Dim tool As VCCLCompilerTool = fileconfig.Tool Dim asmFile = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName + ".asm" tool.WholeProgramOptimization = False tool.AssemblerOutput = asmListingOption.asmListingAsmSrc tool.AssemblerListingLocation = asmFile fileconfig.Compile(True, True) Dim window = DTE.ItemOperations.OpenFile(asmFile, Constants.vsViewKindCode) Very useful in combination with AsmHighlighter.
Preprocessed file can be generated similarly with
tool.GeneratePreprocessedFile = preprocessOption.preprocessYes ' there's no separate option for this, so misuse /Fo tool.ObjectFile = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName + ".cpp"