The VSCT (Visual Studio Command Table) PowerToy is a read-only viewer that you can use to explore the commands associated with a VSPackage, and with Visual Studio itself. You can quickly search for any existing commands in the Visual Studio IDE. By browsing through the command groups, GUIDs and IDs, priorities, and other properties of existing commands, you can more easily place and integrate the commands of your own VSPackage.
- You can load and display command tables with these file extensions: .vsct, .ctc, .cto, .ctm, and .vsk.
- You can examine the command table resources embedded in any VSPackage. Once loaded, command table resources can be exported as .vsct files.
- You can see all the Visual Studio commands for any system registry hive. This is useful for placing commands on existing menus.
 Prerequisites All versions and all editions of Visual Studio command table file types are supported: the 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 versions of the standard, professional, and team system editions. The VSCT PowerToy is an unsupported utility and has only been tested when installed when Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 are already installed. The VSCT PowerToy is primarily a utility used by VSX developers who develop VS package extensions using the VS SDK. For more information about VSX and the VS SDK, refer to the VSX Developer Center at http://msdn.com/vsx/. Installation Before you install the VSCT PowerToy (VSCTPowerToy.msi), you must uninstall any previous version of VSCT PowerToy if one is already installed. Before you install the VSCT PowerToy, shut down any running instances of Visual Studio.
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