StickyNotes

NEW POST: A bug?

Ian — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:23:18 GMT

When I run my application within Visual Studio the StickyNote pops up near the top, left of the screen. It can't be moved or closed and obscures part of the code window.

NEW POST: Bug found

carlop — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:48:50 GMT

Launch VisualStudio, go to to tools and choose sticky notes, then start to write something.
VisualStudio crashes immediately.

NEW POST: Could not load file or assembly 'WindowsFormsIntegration'

Gabriel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:51:13 GMT

When I try to use Sticky Notes I ge the following popup:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Could not load file or assembly 'WindowsFormsIntegration, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
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OK
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I am running Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite on a Windows Vista x64. Not sure what this 'WindowsFormsIntegration' is for and where this file should normally be.

NEW POST: Improve merging

pablogaliano — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:27:40 GMT

Hi,

I am planning a next release with the following features:

Improved merging (in csproj file)
Possibility to save the notes in a separate xml file
Possiblity to apply skins to the toolwindow
Possiblity to change font style
Notification icon for project items with notes. (Same icon overlay as when you have an item checked in in TFS)

Also I am thinking about creating a project in codeplex for this tool. (It originally started as sample, but I think it would be cool to open it to the community)

Pablo

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

pablogaliano — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:25:15 GMT

Danny,

Thanks for this feedback, and you are absolutely right about fixed paths. I will found a workaround for the next release.

sfcsarge wrote:
Pablo,

I have determined why the stickynotes do not carry over between co-workers.

First It works only if both users have the same filepath folders on the local machine. Say developer one has the project stored at D:\Projects\stickynotestest and developer two has the same project folder on their local machine. both developers will see the stickynotes create by the other.

It does not work if both developer have different folder structures for their projects as they check them out of Team Foundation server. (i.e. Developer one uses: "FilePath="D:\Documents and Settings\pzz50h.AMER\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\StickNotesTest\StickNotesTest\Form1.vb" and developer two "FilePath="D:\Documents and Settings\jjc27m.AMER\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\StickNotesTest\StickNotesTest\Form1.vb". Both notes are created and saved, but only the ones with the same FilePath in the vbproj file are seen by both developers and the ones created in the users profile folder are not see by the other developer.

I do not know if you can get around this issue and depending on development policies at your place of work you may or may not be able to share notes.

But even so this is a great tool, In our case we just have to remember to create project on our local machine in a folder structure that will be the same on all development machines when we check in and out the project from Team Foundation server.

Thanks for the great tools!

Danny McNaught

NEW POST: How to personalize

pablogaliano — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:22:08 GMT

Hi Cristiano,
I will start the developing process of the next release soon.
Some features that I have in mind for the next release:

Improved merging (in csproj file)
Possibility to save the notes in a separate xml file
Possiblity to apply skins to the toolwindow
Possiblity to change font style
Notification icon for project items with notes. (Same icon overlay as when you have an item checked in in TFS)

Thats all for know...

Thanks for your feedback,
Pablo

NEW POST: How to personalize

kytto — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:52:11 GMT

In primis, my best compliment for this tool, perfect for my team; I have just a little question and a request:
- how can I change the font (type, dimension, attributes,...)?
- Is it possible to associate a particular icon in solution explorer to that files witch has a sticky note?

Thanks a lot,
Cristiano

NEW POST: Improve merging

pgrever — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:22:24 GMT

My team is also very large. An implementation that allows for clean merges would also be a must for us to use this tool. Are you planning a fix for this or are you releasing source so we can fix it ourselves?

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

pgrever — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:20:57 GMT

I'm not using Team edition (just Professional), but my group also has may developers and we don't all check things out to a fixed directory structure. It is "fixed" relative to the solution and project files, but to use this we would definitely need the path references to be relative, not absolute. Are you going to release a fix for this or release the source so we can fix it ourselves?

NEW POST: Shared vs per-user notes

kzu — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:02:51 GMT

Would be nice to add a "Just for myself" icon somewhere in the UI which would cause the note to be stored in the project users' file instead of the project globals.
This way, I can leave notes to myself and not have the rest of the team reading them ;)

NEW POST: Improve merging

kzu — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:01:32 GMT

Right now a conflict occurs everytime more than one team member changes any note in a project.
In order to increase chances of auto-merge to succeed, notes should be stored as separate properties in the project file, so that the only conflict would be two devs modifying the same note. This would make it much easier to merge even in teh case of conflicts.

NEW POST: Outstanding 'Plugin'

aamador — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:32:36 GMT

Great tool! I use one note for most of my notes this really cool because it is integrated with the tool and simplify the endless notes and the associated management. Plus it does not get in the way.

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

sfcsarge — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:20:22 GMT

Pablo,

I have determined why the stickynotes do not carry over between co-workers.

First It works only if both users have the same filepath folders on the local machine. Say developer one has the project stored at D:\Projects\stickynotestest and developer two has the same project folder on their local machine. both developers will see the stickynotes create by the other.

It does not work if both developer have different folder structures for their projects as they check them out of Team Foundation server. (i.e. Developer one uses: "FilePath="D:\Documents and Settings\pzz50h.AMER\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\StickNotesTest\StickNotesTest\Form1.vb" and developer two "FilePath="D:\Documents and Settings\jjc27m.AMER\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\StickNotesTest\StickNotesTest\Form1.vb". Both notes are created and saved, but only the ones with the same FilePath in the vbproj file are seen by both developers and the ones created in the users profile folder are not see by the other developer.

I do not know if you can get around this issue and depending on development policies at your place of work you may or may not be able to share notes.

But even so this is a great tool, In our case we just have to remember to create project on our local machine in a folder structure that will be the same on all development machines when we check in and out the project from Team Foundation server.

Thanks for the great tools!

Danny McNaught

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

sfcsarge — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:26:03 GMT

Pablo,

I thought of the control option as follows:

Current the stickynotes change each time I click on a different class object in the Solution Explorer, But if you look at the object in "Class View" as you click though the objects stickynotes if possible could provide stickynotes for each object (Control, Method, component, etc. I do not know where you would save the stickynote information so it was just a thought.

Thanks,
Danny McNaught

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

sfcsarge — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:18:37 GMT

Pablo, Thank you for your quick response. I am using this tool a lot so keep up the good work.

I see the stickynotes in the vbproj file under "ProjectExtensions\VisualStudio\UserProperties\Notes" and it has information. I may have not done it right but as a test outside of Team Foundation server, I copied the entire project folder to a thumb drive and give it to a co-worker whom first installed StickyNotes and then copied the project to his machine and loaded the solution but his stickynotes were blank. I will try it again tomorrow and see if something else was blocking them or that I gave him the right project files.

As far as the control level. Lets say that I have a button control and a textbox control on a windows forms application the stickynote shows for the form1.vb and for each of the other class files as I move in Solution Explorer but it would be nice to have stickynotes for the button control on form1.vb.

I see where this would require saving the note outside of the vbproj file since form controls are not stored there but are maintained in the form1.Designer.vb and form1.resx files so it may not be worth the effort. I just though it would be nice to be able to write stickynotes not only for the container (form class) but the contents of the container as well. Yes the stickynotes for the form1 container class could just as well include comments about the controls on the form, I just was thinking about having smaller notes that were object specific.

Thanks,
Danny McNaught

UPDATED WIKI: Home

pablogaliano — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:18:58 GMT

Introduction

StickyNotes is a Visual Studio package that provides sticky notes capabilities to project and project items inside Visual Studio 2008.

Links

Releases	January 2008 CTP release

Screenshot

WPF based UI: (iphone based)

Requirements

Visual Studio 2008 (Professional / Team Suite)

Contact

Information about StickyNotes and VSX related via my blog: http://www.clariusconsulting.net/pga

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

pablogaliano — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:18:04 GMT

Hi,
The info is stored in the project file (csproj or vbproj) in xml format. So once you check in the project it will be available for other team members.
What do you mean by down to the control level?

Thanks,
Pablo

NEW POST: Outstanding 'Plugin'

pablogaliano — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:17:01 GMT

Hi,
The info is stored in the project file (csproj or vbproj) in xml format.
I will publish the source code later this week.
Thanks,
Pablo

NEW POST: Outstanding 'Plugin'

Merlin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:08:49 GMT

I have to thank you for this nice VSP. It is almost exactly the addin i was looking for for VS. My only question is as to where the 'info' is stored...

Also, is the source code availible? I would like to learn from the the project.

NEW POST: Team StickyNotes Support

sfcsarge — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:03:05 GMT

I would like to suggest an enhancement. Since I work in a Team Envirnoment it would be nice if the StickyNotes added were saved with the project files so that when checked out of Team Foundation server by other developers they could see the StickyNotes assigned to the project Objects. Also maybe take the StickyNotes down to the control level so that controls could have comments also.