Visual Studio 2013 Extending Solution Explorer Filter

Question

I'm trying to create a VsPackage with a custom filter for the solution explorer. I followed the walkthrough on https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh966591.aspx to the latter, I see the button and I can click it but the filter is never applied. And I can't even debug it because no single method in the filter class is ever called. Does anyone have experience writing a custom filter or maybe just had the same problem?

Answer 1

The command handler doesn't need to do anything, in fact you can remove the command binding, the filter is bound through the Guid/Id parameters of the SolutionTreeFilterProvider(guid, id) attribute.

Your case seems a bug of VS 2013 because in VS 2012 it works.

I have opened a bug report in MS Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1131606

UPDATE: it's a bug in the documentation sample of VS 2013 that it's correct in VS 2012:

The first parameter should be of type SVsServiceProvider and not IServiceProvider:

  [ImportingConstructor]
  public FileNameFilterProvider(**SVsServiceProvider** serviceProvider, IVsHierarchyItemCollectionProvider hierarchyCollectionProvider)
  {
     ServiceProvider = serviceProvider;
     this.HierarchyCollectionProvider = hierarchyCollectionProvider;
  }