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Chapter 4, Customizing Visual Studio
#33 Add an External Tool
HACK
ASPX files. For an ASPX file, this means changing the body tag to include the
namespace and giving it an alias:
<body xmlns:cc1="http://www.orbitalspacelaser.com/schemas/controls">
The cc1 will then be the alias for this namespace. If you are referencing a
custom control library, it should match the TagPrefix defined in the Regis-
ter directive at the top of the page:
<%@ Register TagPrefix="cc1"
Namespace="CustomControlIntellisense"
Assembly="CustomControlIntellisense" %>
Now when you wish to reference the control, simply open a tag with the
alias defined, as shown in Figure 4-24.
Visual Studio will now display your types in the list of available tags and will
provide IntelliSense for the defined attributes.
—Ben Von Handorf
HACK
#33
Add an External Tool Hack #33
Enhance Visual Studio by plugging in all kinds of external tools such as
ILDASM.
Visual Studio provides the functionality to include external tools in the
Tools menu. If you go to the Tools menu, you will see a listing of tools
including those like Error Lookup and Create GUID. These are all external
tools that have been configured to be listed in this menu. You can modify
the existing external tools and add your own external tools to this list quite
easily.
To modify the existing tools or to add new tools of your own, you simply
need to go to Tools
➝ External Tools. You will ...