How to add action to Visual Studio Solution Explorer?

Question

Please let me know how to add an action into the context-menu of "Solution Explorer" in Visual Studio?

I'd like to add my action into the context-menu of files listed in this explorer (see a screenshot for example), and then be able to launch my application (EXE file) that can get the filename (including its path) as an argument.

I currently use VS2008, however please let me know if that should be different with VS2010 and VS2012.

THANK YOU

Answer 1

Write your own visual studio Add-In take a look at that link this is good place to start. but its not easy...

Answer 2

You're going to have to write a Visual Studio Add-In.

Take a look at the code for the Xsd2Code addin on codeplex. Specifically the Connect class . This addin does something similar to what you want... it adds a context menu option that's available when you right-click on project items (in this case, only enabled for .xsd files).

Also, check out the Solution Explorer Context Menu sample within the Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples download.