Home >> Macros and Add-ins >> DevStudio Add-ins Useful Managers By Mike Melnikov An add-in for Devstudio that provides tag indexing and search, window, bookmarks, session and other managers    VC++ 5.0-6.0, NT 4.0, Win95/98/2000   Posted 19 May 2000 Articles by this author Send to a friend Printer friendly version

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Introduction

"Useful Managers" (UM) is an add-in for Microsoft Visual C++. It is a collection of functions which are not implement by Miscrosoft but exists in other tools or can decrease working time of developers. It was made to simplify my own work and then work of my friends. I think it can be useful to other people too.

The UM add-in is provided for free, with full source code.
 

Main Features.

• Tags Manager
• Bookmarks Manager
• Windows Manager
• Sessions Manager
• Favourites Manager
• Building only needed projects
• Save files when switching tasks
• Find tags, using regular expressions
• Auto inserting necessary headers
• Registry Tools

All in only a 56K DLL!

Installation

1. Close all instances of Visual Studio.
2. Extract all *.dll files and UsefulManagers.reg from the .ZIP file.
3. Double-click on UsefulManagers.reg file and answer "Yes".
4. Copy all *.dll files to your DevStudio\SharedIDE\Addins directory (Visual Studio 97) or Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Addins directory (Visual Studio 6.0).
5. Open Visual Studio.
6. Go to Tools->Customize->Add-ins and Macro Files.
7. Click the check on Useful Managers add-in.
8. Click Close.

Refer to the included HELP file feauture and usage details.

Tech note: Debugging DevStudio Add-Ins

To debug a DevStudio Add-In, you must load DevStudio with the Add-In disabled (i.e., go to Tools|Customize|Add-Ins and disable the add-in). When you load DevStudio the next time, the add-in will not be in memory, so you will be able to overwrite the .dll file when you compile the project.

After the compilation, execute the program. Since the add-in is nothing more than a .dll, you will be prompted for a program to run. Specify the full path to MSDEV.EXE. You'll get a warning message specifying that your program has no debugging information, because MSDEV.EXE itself has none. This warning can be safely ignored.

Once MSDEV.EXE is running under the debugger, you can reactivate the add-in from the Tools|Customize|Add-Ins dialog. The add-in will be loaded with it's debugging information (if you compiled a Debug build), and you should be able to set breakpoints and debug at will. The next time you run MSDEV.EXE from the project workspace, the add-in will get loaded with it automatically.

Latest Updates

Make sure to check out my homepage which is more likely to have updates and betas:    http://zmanagers.chat.ru/

Users of previous versions are encouraged to check out my homepage for a full list of new features and bug fixes in the latest version.

About Mike Melnikov

Mike has been programming in C/C++ for 11 years and Visual C++/MFC for 4 years. His background includes pure and applied mathematics, engineering and physics, and he is currently based in Moscow, Russia.

Click here to visit Mike Melnikov's homepage.

Hint: For improved responsiveness, use Internet Explorer 4 (or above) with Javascript enabled, choose 'Use DHTML' from the View dropdown and hit 'Set Options'.   Keyword Filter   View Normal Preview    Per page 10 25 50   Messages since 12:00 1 Jan 99 Last Day Last Week Last Month Last 6 Months Last Year All New thread Messages 1 to 3 of 3 (Total: 3) [First] [Prev] [Next] [Last] Subject  Author  Date    Fixed problem with CPU usage and some bugs - visit web site.   Mike Melnikov  10:44 23 May 00    Re: Fixed problem with CPU usage and some bugs - visit web site.   Preston L. Bannister  13:23 4 Jun 01    Very useful, but causes the CPU to max out at 100%   Peter Kenyon  23:47 21 May 00  Last Visit: 12:00 Friday 1st January, 1999 [First] [Prev] [Next] [Last]