Clean Hive and Debug for Extension DevelopersVisual Studio 2015/2013 extension that enables extension developers to clean the experimental hive registry and directory before launching the extension in the experimental Visual Studio instance. |
Overview:This Visual Studio extension helps when debugging any VS extension that you are building. It adds a new menu item to the Debug menu in Visual Studio that, when clicked or run by the ALT-F8 shortcut key, cleans the expertimental instance registry hive and the user %appdata% local directory before it starts the debugging process. This enables you to start with a clean state for your experimental instance when trying to debug your extension. Update 10/6/2016 Added support for Visual Studio 2015
Update 9/24/2014 Added two additional menu item to enable/disable VSIP logging. When enabled this, upon clicking on a menu, display a dialog box with the VS menu information in it. Items like menu guid, menu id, group id, etc are displayed.
Source Code:The source is also available for this extension on github if you would like to recommend additional features or just generally browse/fork the code.
The github repo is available here at https://github.com/johnmcbride/CleanHiveAndDebugExtension My Contact Info:Twitter: @johnmcbride |