PowerCommands for VS 2008 v1.1 Released

Friday, April 11, 2008

"What’s New in PowerCommands 1.1
Enable/Disable PowerCommands in Options dialog
This feature allows you to select which commands to enable in the Visual Studio IDE. Point to the Tools menu, then click Options. Expand the PowerCommands options, then click Commands. Check the commands you would like to enable.
Note: All power commands are initially defaulted Enabled.
Format document on save / Remove and Sort Usings on save
The Format document on save option formats the tabs, spaces, and so on of the document being saved. It is equivalent to pointing to the Edit menu, clicking Advanced, and then clicking Format Document.
The Remove and sort usings option removes unused using statements and sorts the remaining using statements in the document being saved.
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Clear All Panes
This command clears all output panes. It can be executed from the button on the toolbar of the Output window.
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Copy Path
This command copies the full path of the currently selected item to the clipboard. It can be executed by right-clicking one of these nodes in the Solution Explorer:

The solution node.

A project node.

Any project item node.

Any folder.

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Email CodeSnippet
To email the lines of text you select in the code editor, right-click anywhere in the editor and then click Email CodeSnippet.

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Insert Guid Attribute
This command adds a Guid attribute to a selected class. From the code editor, right-click anywhere within the class definition, then click Insert Guid Attribute.
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Show All Files
This command shows the hidden files in all projects displayed in the Solution Explorer when the solution node is selected. It enhances the Show All Files button, which normally shows only the hidden files in the selected project node.
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Undo Close
This command reopens a closed document , returning the cursor to its last position. To reopen the most recently closed document, point to the Edit menu, then click Undo Close. Alternately, you can use the Ctrl+Shift+Z shortcut.
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Some cool new features added to the PowerCommands tool set.

I think my fav is going to be Undo Close. I suffer from the "lock and close the door just as you realize the keys are inside" syndrome and thereby I seem to click on the Close tab button just as I realize that I didn't want to close THIS tab... :/

The installer for v1.1 does force you to manually uninstall the previous version (i.e. a trip to the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, etc, etc). That always bugs me... It's not that hard to have the installer find and uninstall previous versions, even if you're using VS Setup Projects (all my setups do it, and if I can do it... yada, yada). Once I manually uninstalled v1.0, v1.1 installed with no issues.

Still that's a minor matter and I applaud the author for releasing the bin/msi's and source... Source is good. ;)