PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

NEW POST: PowerCommands crashing VS2008 SP1

ScottCher — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:59:09 GMT

I'm receiving the same crash when trying to edit xaml pages. I've tried the config change but that didn't work. Anyone else not had that solve the problem?

EDIT -- Figured it out - should have checked where my PowerCommands were installed to, not "Program Files (x86)" but under "Program Files".

NEW POST: PowerCommands crashing VS2008 SP1

shatl — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:49:39 GMT

<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="office" publicKeyToken="71e9bce111e9429c" culture="neutral"/>
<codeBase version="12.0.0.0" href="PrivateAssemblies\Office12\Office.dll"/>
</dependentAssembly>

<!-NEW STUFF-->
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.PowerCommands" publicKeyToken="null" culture="neutral"/>
<codeBase version="1.1.0.0" href="C:\Program Files (x86)\PowerCommands\Microsoft.PowerCommands.dll"/>
</dependentAssembly>

Now you should be able to run PowerCommands with VS 2008 SP1 and XAML with no crashes. I guess there will be a fix when the next PowerCommands version comes out or on .net 4.0 .

Thanks MSFT!

This helped me on Vista 32 too :) ( I've installed PowerCommands into non-default directory)

NEW POST: Edit solution file

Eric_Delahaye — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:58:12 GMT

I suggest to add for the next version "Edit solution file".
Does the product support? Is anybody there?

NEW POST: PowerCommand and Resharper

Jayesh — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:58:35 GMT

Is anybody having this issue?

COMMENTED ISSUE: VS 2008 crashes when adjusting toolbox items

ikharus — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:12:37 GMT

When adjusting VS 2008 toolbox items (e.g. by adding Infragistics Windows Forms controls), the complete VS 2008 crashes and an event log entry is created:

".NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (72B05E00) (80131506)", event ID is 1023, event source ".NET Runtime"

After uninstalling Power Commands 1.1, the crash did not occur any more.
Comments: I confirm that the following work-around works, as suggested by rohancragg. Now VS still stay alive (hurray) if I try to add tool box items from the "Choose items..." menu item in the Toolbox view. Note that I had to change the path to the Microsoft.PowerCommands.dll. Ensures that you give a valid path. Thanks rohancragg!! Here's the work-around: " This is taken from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/e2434065-9921-4861-b914-9cc9d6c55553/ Through Microsoft's help they came up with a work around which is a simple modification to the devenv.exe.config file. This will exist in (64 bit systems) C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE Or (32 bit systems) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE Add this XML token to the dependentAseembly list. They had me add it after the office one, but im not sure if that matters. <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="office" publicKeyToken="71e9bce111e9429c" culture="neutral"/> <codeBase version="12.0.0.0" href="PrivateAssemblies\Office12\Office.dll"/> </dependentAssembly> <!-NEW STUFF--> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.PowerCommands" publicKeyToken="null" culture="neutral"/> <codeBase version="1.1.0.0" href="C:\Program Files (x86)\PowerCommands\Microsoft.PowerCommands.dll"/> </dependentAssembly> Now you should be able to run PowerCommands with VS 2008 SP1 and XAML with no crashes. I guess there will be a fix when the next PowerCommands version comes out or on .net 4.0 . "

COMMENTED ISSUE: Can't Open Web Project

ncoleman — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:23:34 GMT

After installing PowerCommands, when I open a file based ASP.NET project, VS starts to open but then just dissapears. No warning or messages. I uninstalled PowerCommands and the problem went away. I could open non-web project with no issues.
Comments: The exact same thing also happens to me. I can't open a web site running in IIS. VS2008 just closes down. very poor

NEW POST: VS2010 beta 1 support

ChrisRichner — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:10:11 GMT

any support for the VS 2010 beta 1?

NEW POST: Collapse all

good_alias — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:57:50 GMT

I agree, I would be very nice if this feature was improved a little bit. I'm stuck with a solution with 169 projects and those are grouped
in a lot of solution folders.
I used to have a macro for VS2005 that solved it, but it didn't work for 2008...

COMMENTED ISSUE: VSTO Crashing due to PowerCommands?

pintx — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:45:01 GMT

Has this been fixed?
My VSTO crashes on Outlook occasionally, apparently this is due to PowerCommands in some way.
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3074 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (6A4B1132) (0)
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/666b7ae2-6ef0-4f69-b31b-742a45df4c62/

Comments: I have the same issue. When I build an Outlook addin, it will crash VS 2008 and close without notice.

COMMENTED ISSUE: VS 2008 crashes when adjusting toolbox items

rohancragg — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:49:39 GMT

COMMENTED ISSUE: VS 2008 crashes when adjusting toolbox items

Palehorse — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:24:46 GMT

CREATED ISSUE: SolutionListener is registers for SolutionEvents in Dispose()

jeremysimmons — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:17:42 GMT

I could be wrong about the intended use of the API, but it seems like SolutionListener should not be calling Solution.AdviseSolutionEvents inside of Dispose. I think Solution.UnadviseSolutionEvents is correct.
in SolutionListener.cs around line 268, inside of private void Dispose(bool disposing)
// Intentional?
//this.Solution.AdviseSolutionEvents(this, out this.eventsCookie);
// Suggested?
this.Solution.UnadviseSolutionEvents(this.eventsCookie);

CREATED ISSUE: Email CodeSnippet Error

chris_jones — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:13:46 GMT

When I right click on some highlighted code in VS 2K8, and choose the "Email CodeSnippet" option from the Context Menu, I get the error in the attached file.

I have Microsoft Outlook 2007 installed on my machine and Outlook is working fine. Running Windows XP SP3 as the OS. All the latest SPs to everything (Office, VS, the OS) are installed.

COMMENTED ISSUE: Copy reference fails for File References

leeoades — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:13:21 GMT

When I attempt to use "Copy Reference" on a file reference (as in a reference that was added using "Add Reference->Browse Tab->Select File and OK") I get the message

---------------------------
Microsoft Visual Studio
---------------------------
Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

Just to be clear "Copy Reference" works on both Project and GAC type references, but does not seem to work on File References.
Comments: I also have this issue, and also do not have Resharper.

NEW POST: Wrong version info in About box

azurepalm — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:50:54 GMT

When I do Help >> About, then scroll down the list of "Installed products", I see PowerCommands listed as version 1.0 despite having installed the latest (version 1.1) of the tool. Thx.

COMMENTED ISSUE: Undo Close Tool Window keeps opening

Symo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:10:38 GMT

I went into the Tools -> Options -> PowerCommands -> Commands and unchecked the Enabled checkbox for the Undo Close feature. However, the feature will no go away. The Undo Close Tool Window keep poping up each time I open a project. Is there anything else I should do to disable this specific feature?
Comments: EDIT: stanev's reg hack works great :)

COMMENTED ISSUE: Undo Close Tool Window keeps opening

Symo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:08:23 GMT

COMMENTED ISSUE: VS 2008 crashes when adjusting toolbox items

Nikas — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:31:44 GMT

NEW POST: Feature Requests

cooperba3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:30:22 GMT

Can you implement the "Sort and Remove Usings on save" option to not run when you are building a solution? When the build happens, VS tries to save the files you modified, but you get a nasty cannot remove and sort on build error message each time you modify a file and try to do a build.

I understand that the build must not be broken in order to sort and remove using statements, but perhaps there is a way to intelligently implement a sort and remove pre or post build?

CREATED ISSUE: Copy References does not copy HintPath and SpecificVersion elements between .csproj files

Craigology — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:31:53 GMT

Take a reference such as this in a source .csproj file:

<Reference Include="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=4.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
<HintPath>..\..\..\Shared Binaries\x86\Enterprise Library\Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

The use the "Copy References" and "Paste Reference" Power Commands to paste into another .csproj file in the same solution and at the same relative path "depth". The result in the destination .csproj is only:

<Reference Include="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=4.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL" />