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Danielku15 / BetterStartPage

A Visual Studio like start page which replaces the news section by a custom project dashboard.
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Drag and drop does not work. #6

Closed MrClyfar closed 9 years ago

MrClyfar commented 9 years ago

In "Edit Mode' I have added new group, where I've given that group a name.

From Windows Explorer, I drag a .sln file over to Visual Studio and drop it over the name of the group (in the textbox itself). Nothing happens.

I noticed that when I drag the .sln file into Visual Studio, the mouse cursors is a circle with a single diagonal line e.g. 'Unavailable" according to my mouse pointer settings.

It's not clear in the instructions whether I'm doing this right or not.

Cheers.

Danielku15 commented 9 years ago

If you drag the files over the group title in edit mode, you should see a dark overlay that confirms the drag area. Then the files should be added to the list.

MrClyfar commented 9 years ago

Hiya.

I tried the extension on a different Visual Studio 2013. When selecting BetterStartPage to be the default start page, I get this error:

System.Windows.Markup.XmlParseException loading "C:\Path to StartPage.xaml" The parameter is incorrect Exception from HRESULT 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG)

I had a similar problem on my other Visual Studio, but in that case I had to copy the Xceed DLL file to the Resharper 8.1 bin folder.

To anwer your last question, when I drag the mouse over the group title in edit mode, I do not see a dark overlay. I dragged all over the start page, just to check, but my mouse cursor was always the "Unavailable" icon. In other words, I could not drop the sln file anywhere. Odd.

stevehansen commented 9 years ago

When running Visual Studio in administrator mode (it will show [Administrator] in the title) you can't drag files in the process if your other process (e.g. explorer) isn't running as administrator.

I use Visual Studio by default in administrator mode (needed for Web projects running directly on IIS) so I have the same problem, would be useful to have some other way to add solutions to a group.

Danielku15 commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the useful hints. Due to security restrictions in Windows you cannot drag files into an Elevated Process. See: http://superuser.com/questions/59051/drag-and-drop-file-into-application-under-run-as-administrator. Regarding the Xceed error: I'll try to get rid of that dependency in the next version.

MrClyfar commented 9 years ago

Ahhh right. I will try by opening VS in a non-admin context.

Cheers for that.