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Dave Montgomery
Dave Montgomery

Reputation: 187

Where can I find PowerCommands for VS2008?

I am using VS2008 at work with no plans to upgrade in the near future. I sorely miss the features of PowerCommands that I have for VS2010+.

Here is the gallery but it references the archive.

All of the old links point me to http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands which has been retired. I couldn't convince archive.org to cough it up either.

Does anyone have a link to this addin anywhere?

Alternately, if anyone has some replacements I'd be just as happy.

The functions I miss most:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1818

Answers (2)

bdgroot
bdgroot

Reputation: 134

Contacting Microsoft did the trick for me. At https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=38EB61838A7224E1%21107, you can find what you need :) Besides the Visual Studio 2008 PowerCommands, you can find a bunch of other tools, fixes and packs over there.

Upvotes: 6

BartoszKP
BartoszKP

Reputation: 35891

Here's another thing I've found: CoolCommands, also described here. This add-in is PowerCommand's predecessor and, by the description, it includes:

Collapsing all projects in the solution explorer

Opening a Command Prompt at a location

Opening the project’s folder

Switching to a demo font

Using your mouse wheel to zoom

Sending code selections via e-mail

and copying references.

There is an important information on how to install them on VS2008. The "install.bat* file needs to be modified, to register within the correct VS version:

regpkg CoolCommands.dll /root:Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0 /codebase

or for VS2008 SP1:

regpkg CoolCommands.dll /root:Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 /codebase

(depending on your VS path).

Upvotes: 0

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