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An extension for Visual Studio 2013+ that enables the use of macros in the IDE. The extension can record most of the features in Visual Studio including text editing operations.
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Allow writes to Ouput panels #28

Open fspafford opened 8 years ago

fspafford commented 8 years ago

Please consider adding the ability to write to a "named" Output panel.

I have used VB macros where I can write macro output to an Output panel, with a name like "My Ouput Name". The output can be viewed just like "Show output from: Build".

jon-freed commented 7 years ago

These new macros can set the status bar text with code like the following:

dte.StatusBar.Text = "display this text in the status bar";

And, they can write text to the Output panel with code like the following:

var outputWindowPane = dte.Windows.Item("{34E76E81-EE4A-11D0-AE2E-00A0C90FFFC3}").Object.ActivePane;
outputWindowPane.Activate();
outputWindowPane.OutputString("display this text in the output window panel");

Note that the output code may fail as is described here.

Other functionality that is available via the "dte" object may be reviewed here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/envdte.dte.aspx