Extensible Markup Extension

Features!

• Create Solutionwide Commands shown in the the Toolbar
• Create Solutionwide Commands shown in the contextmenu of Projects inside the Solution Explorer

Commands can:

• Execute a single application
• Activate or Execute a single application
• Execute a batch of commandlines

Installation

First you have to install the Extension for Visual Studio 2022. After installation restart Visual Studio and open any Solution

Find the Settingsicon on the toolbar. If there is none please add the "Extensible Markup Extension" toolbar using the context menu. After clicking Visual Studio will open Commands.xml.

XSD Support

If you want full codecompletion in the config file you have to enable automatic schema download Goto Options-> Text Editor ->XML ->Miscellaneous-> Automatically download DTDs and schemas

When you finished editing, the saved Commands.xml will be automatically deserialized and you will immediately see your changes in Visual Studio.

XML Structure

The XML-Root just includes the reference to the XSD-Schema. The inner Commands node contains up to 20 XmlCommands (see Commands.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<XmlCommands xsi:schemaLocation="https://extensiblemarkupextension.heydorn.dev https://extensiblemarkupextension.heydorn.dev/ExtensibleMarkupExtensionSchema.xsd" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="https://extensiblemarkupextension.heydorn.dev">
...
</XmlCommands>

XmlCommand

<XmlCommand icon="SymlinkFile" buttonTitle="Build Backend" attachToToolbar="true">
   ...
</XmlCommand>

Attributes

Icons

Identifier	Icon
PowershellFile
JSScript
ExecuteDDL
Git
Play
New
LogError
Log
Output
Open
StartWebSite
StartupApplication
SymlinkFile
Sync
ASPWebSite
PackageDeployment
AzureWebSites
CSDynamicWebSite
Home
IntellisenseLightBulb
VisualStudio
Windows
WindowsAzure
Console
Refresh
Settings

XmlIncludeCommand

<XmlInclueCommand path="$(SolutionDir)Other.xml" />

Attributes

MessageBoxCommand

<MessageBoxCommand icon="Question" caption="Question" text="Are you sure?" buttons="OKCancel">
	<OnButtonClick button="OK">
			<MessageBoxCommand icon="Exclamation" caption="Question" text="you clicked ok" />
	</OnButtonClick>
	<OnButtonClick button="Cancel">
			<MessageBoxCommand icon="Exclamation" caption="Question" text="you clicked Cancel" />
	</OnButtonClick>
</MessageBoxCommand>

Attributes

RunApplicationCommand

A RunApplicationCommand is executing a single executable without displaying a console window

  <XmlCommand icon="Settings" buttonTitle="Setup new Commands" attachToProjectContextMenu="false" attachToToolbar="true" projectFilename="csproj" >
    <RunApplicationCommand workingDirectory="$(VisualStudioPath)" path="$(VisualStudioPath)" arguments="$(SolutionDir)Commands.xml /Edit" />
  </XmlCommand>

Attributes

OpenApplicationCommand

  <XmlCommand icon="Git" buttonTitle="Click here to create your first command" attachToToolbar="true">
    <OpenApplicationCommand  path="C:\Program Files (x86)\GitExtensions\GitExtensions.exe" arguments="browse $(SolutionDir)" windowTitle="ExtensibleMarkupExtension"/>
  </XmlCommand>

Attributes

BatchCommand

<XmlCommand icon="SymlinkFile" buttonTitle="Build Backend" attachToToolbar="true">
    <BatchCommand  workingDirectory="$(SolutionDir)">
        @echo off
        powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass $(SolutionDir)Foundation\Awesome.Core\link.ps1
        pause
    </BatchCommand>
</XmlCommand>

Attributes

Variables

You can use the these variables:

• $(SolutionDir)
• $(SolutionPath)
• $(SolutionName)
• $(UserOptionsPath)
• $(VisualStudioPath)
• $(ProjectDir)
• $(ProjectPath)

License

MIT