How to add an item to the TFS source control explorer contextual menu.

Question

Can somebody please help me with adding my own items to the contextual menu in the TFS source control explorer? I have seen several "answers" to this question in the forums. None of them are very clear though on how exactly to do it.

I have a control I wrote called 'AutoBranch' that I would like to open when somebody right-clicks on a folder in source control explorer and selects a custom item in the context menu named 'Open AutoBranch'. How do I get the item named 'Open AutoBranch' to appear in the contextual menu?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi AndrejsM,

Thanks for your post!

I think you can use this article for the beginning:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/team_foundation/archive/2010/06/24/extending-work-item-tracking-context-menus.aspx

And then refer to the content in the following link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3861946/vs2010-add-in-adding-a-command-to-a-context-menu

Hope it helps!

Best Regards,

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Cathy Kong [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Thank you Cathy, I'll give it a try.

Answer 3

Hi, I looked here;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc826118.aspx

But there are no GUIDs and IDs of context menus. I accidently found out that "IDM_VS_CTXT_CODEWIN" is the codewindow context menu. Where can I find a list of the rest of the context menus in VS? Thanks.

Answer 4

Hi AndrejsM,

Thanks for your feedback and sorry for the delayed response!

Do you mean you want to know the VsMenus Fields? Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.shell.vsmenus_fields.aspx

Please feel free to let me know if it works!

Best Regards,

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Cathy Kong [MSFT]
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Answer 5

Hi Cathy. Thanks a lot for your patience and trying to help me out. I have included a picture to help explain. As you can see, I have right-clicked the 'MAIN' folder item in the Source Control Explorer. What I am trying to do is have my own custom item appear in the context menu. I have written an extension called 'Autobranch' that I would like to appear there. I can get 'Autobranch' to show up in the 'Tools' menu in the main menu ribbon at the top of Visual Studio. However, I don't know how to get it to show up in the context menu in the image below. Can you shed any light on that? Thanks.

Answer 6

Hi AndrejsM,

Sorry for the delayed response!

Could you refer to the following blog about how to add a command to the Source Control Explorer context menu?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/phkelley/archive/2009/02/12/adding-a-command-to-the-source-control-explorer-context-menu.aspx

Hope it helps!

Best Regards,

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Cathy Kong [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us