Open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt Here Context Menu
- 1I have put together some registry keys to add a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt context menu when a user "shift + right-clicks".
Note: It is assumed that visual studio is installed in the default location on c:
(for new registry users: to install,
1: copy everything in bold and past into a new textpad file,
2: save the file as .reg
3: Open the start menu and run regedit.exe
4: Open 'File' > 'Import
5: Find file location and click ok
If the keys are added successfully you'll see a prompt saying so
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt]
@="Open VS2008 Command Prompt Here"
"Extended"=""
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /s /k \"pushd %V && \"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat\"\" x86 "[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt]
@="Open VS2008 Command Prompt Here"
"Extended"=""
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /s /k \"pushd %V && \"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat\"\" x86 "[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt]
@="Open VS2008 Command Prompt Here"
"Extended"=""
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /s /k \"pushd %V && \"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat\"\" x86 "- Edited bydevsuldier Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:11 PMnone
- Moved byJon LangdonMSFTSaturday, September 13, 2008 2:21 AMmore appropriate forum (Moved from Building Development and Diagnostic Tools for .Net to Visual Studio Extensibility)
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- 0Hi devsuldier,
Thanks for this! I noticed an error with the pushd %V command that caused it to not work on my Windows XP SP2 machine so I went ahead and modified your script a little bit (basically replacing pushd %V with cd \"%1\".
I added a batch file to automatically add the entries to the registry on startup (my current employer resets the registry at reboot :S). You can find more information on my blog (here).
Cheers,
Erik
