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Chapter 4, Customizing Visual Studio

#33 Add an External Tool

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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

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#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 ...