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CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008

After installing VS2008, I quickly noticed the absence of some of my favorite IDE helpers.

  • How do I copy project references between projects?
  • How do I locate the current document in the solution explorer, without turning on that annoying "track active" option

No problem.. I'll just reinstall CoolCommands, or as I like to call it "Commands That Microsoft Should Have included, but didn't" 

For the uninitiated, learn about coolcommands here -->http://weblogs.asp.net/GMilano/archive/2006/02/27/439208.aspx

so first of all, I had a heck of a time finding a version available for download.  Luckily I know some one who's much better an googling than I... CoolCommands download is available here --> http://download.deklarit.com/files/gmilano/coolcommands40.zip. I've mirrored the setup.zip on my site as well

There is an issue with the install.bat however.  This version was meant to install into vs2005.  To install coolcommands for VS2008, modify the setup bat file. Replace the line that begins regpkg    with this

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

run the setup and start up vs2008 and off you go.

I'm back in CoolCommand splendor.

posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:13 AM

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# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 1/3/2008 3:51 PM Rob
Great post! It was a pain living without CoolCommands.

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 1/8/2008 9:29 AM Morten
Perfect! A great relief

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 1/24/2008 3:00 PM Jan Van Ryswyck
You just saved the day! Thanks a lot.

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 2/12/2008 3:57 PM Claudio Lassala
Rock on!!! I've been looking for that fix for quite sometime now. This week I was already considering using the DXCore and write my own plugins to do that. Glad to know I won't have to spend any time on that. :)

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 5/4/2008 11:43 AM Gadgets on Iron Man
Thanks for the tip!

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 5/8/2008 12:33 AM HTC Touch Diamond Review
Right on! Thanks!

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 5/13/2008 1:31 AM Dmitry Pavlov
There is an 'official' version of CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2008. Now it's named Power Command for Visual Studio 2008.

Link: http://www.vsgallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=df3f0c30-3d37-4e06-9ef8-3bff3508be31

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 5/13/2008 7:56 AM wtfChrisD
Power Command is similar to Cool Commands but is not a true updated port. For example, Power Command is missing the "Locate in Solution Explorer" command, something I can't live without.

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 6/6/2008 10:30 AM Oliver
Great tool - also for SharePoint developer. Just added it to sharepoint-tools.de:
http://www.sharepoint-tools.de/ShowTool/33/PowerCommands_for_Visual_Studio_2008.html

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 6/25/2008 10:44 AM marco
Thank you for the tool....
Can I install CoolCommand for vs2005 and vs2008 on same machine?
Thanks for the response

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 6/26/2008 12:10 PM wtfChris
Yes you can run the tool in side-by-side installations of VS 2005, and VS 2008.. You just need to run the setup twice; once using the out-of-the-box, unmodified setup.bat, and then modify the setup.bat as outlined above and re-run it.


# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 7/3/2008 3:44 AM marco
Well done, now it work on both version of Visual Studio.
Thank you very much !!

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 7/31/2008 5:08 AM glia
Hi, can anyone tell me how to modify the setup.bat when my path contains blanks? Using quotes like /root:"Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0" does not work.

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 2/9/2009 6:27 PM El
glia, unzip into your C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
folder and you shouldn't have any path problems.



# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 2/9/2009 7:53 PM wtfChris
You could always use the 8.3 notation of your path
for example

"progra~1/Microsof~3"

to get 8.3 notation, drop to a command prompt
at the command prompt, type: dir /x <location>
it will show you the 8.3 notation for your folders.


# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 4/9/2009 4:04 AM Piotr
It didn't work for me unfortunatelly. I've modified the bat file, run it successfully (no errors), but then when I open any solution in Visual Studio I don't have "Locate in solution explorer" option in drop-down menu. Which is the most important feature for me. Have you run into such problem? Was able to fix that?

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 4/17/2009 1:19 PM Andrés Gonzales
You are a life saver! Thanks!!!

# re: CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008 6/13/2009 12:42 PM Suneet Nangia
It did not work for me as well for first time. This is what I did to fix-

Run the setup.bat file from visual studio 2008 command prompt with Admin rights.

It worked like magic then. :)

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