Add Functionality Anywhere in VS with PocketProd
I would describe this add-in as “External Tools on Steroids“, but Richard, from PocketNerd explains it in more detail below. - Josh
I first built the tool a couple of years ago so that i could add my own functionality to the IDE. As it was quite painful trying to get something into the IDE, i decided to make PocketProd - which is really a way of quickly adding functionality to any part of VS.NET. The aim of the tool is to make it easy to add supporting tools to the IDE – the tools that are added during installation such as the Security or XML tools are really just simple examples.
https://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProd/ASPX/Home.aspx?documentID=531D8580-B26E-4AAD-9046-A44BD6F31D3B
So, from within PocketProd you can add your own functionality to context menus, toolbars etc. You can see this in four examples where:
- Right click on a code window to add comments to classes, methods etc
- Highlight text in a code window, right click and get a search engine to search for the selected text
- Right click on a project or solution to run FxCop
- Right click on a project or solution to run NDoc
- https://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProdTools/ASPX/NDoc.aspx?documentID=CCA4BEC4-91DC-4BC1-B723-83B9CAEE90D9
- Of course it is possible to add any tool, not just FxCop and NDoc!
- There is a URL that takes you to descriptions of what PocketProd is and examples of how to customize the tool
- and there is a link to some of the tools that are added during installation