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Florian Moser
Florian Moser

Reputation: 2663

Add submenu to context menu in Visual Studio Extension

I want to add a submenu to the context menu in Visual Studio. Similar to what resharper does: resharper submenu

My setup is as follows: MyTopMenuGroup: contains Command1 and MyMenuController. The MenuController itself has again another group, which contains some other commands. Unfortunately the MenuController is not displayed.

My XAML:

<Groups>
  <Group guid="mypkg" id="MyTopMenuGroup" >
    <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDM_VS_CTXT_ITEMNODE" />
  </Group>
  <Group guid="mypkg" id="MySubMenuGroup">
    <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyMenuController" />
  </Group>
</Groups>

<Menus>
  <Menu guid="mypkg" id="MyMenuController" type="MenuController">
    <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyTopMenuGroup" />
  </Menu>
</Menus>

<Buttons>
  <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command1" type="Button">
    <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyTopMenuGroup" />
  </Button>
  <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command2" type="Button">
    <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyMenuController" />
  </Button>
  <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command3" type="Button">
    <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MySubMenuGroup" />
  </Button>
  <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command4" type="Button">
    <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MySubMenuGroup" />
  </Button>
</Buttons>

C# which adds the buttons to the menu:

OleMenuCommandService commandService = this.ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(IMenuCommandService)) as OleMenuCommandService;
if (commandService != null)
{
    var menuCommandID = new CommandID(CommandSet, Command1);
    var menuItem = new MenuCommand(this.MenuItemCallback, menuCommandID);
    commandService.AddCommand(menuItem);

    //etc, do this for all 4 Commands
    //no code to construct groups & menus (is this necessary?)
}

Command1 is displayed as "top-level" command as expected. The other commands and the Menu is not displayed at all.

Why is the Menu not shown and how can I make it visible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1347

Answers (1)

Sergey Vlasov
Sergey Vlasov

Reputation: 27890

Your XAML looks fine (I presume Buttons and Menus actually have Strings sections) and Command3/Command4 should be visible. Just make sure they have MenuItemCallbacks attached like Command1.

Upvotes: 1

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