ide improvement :-)

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Artur Muszynski

Hello, sorry for a little offtopic subject.
Idea is to replace hungary notation for variables with icon. Icon should be
defined individually for each type and will be automatically placed to the
left of variable name in source code editor. User types could have
predefined icon in XML autodoc (or maybe in assembly resource?).
Is this possible to make such plugin for vstudio.net?

arturm
 
Artur said:
Hello, sorry for a little offtopic subject.
Idea is to replace hungary notation for variables with icon. Icon should be
defined individually for each type and will be automatically placed to the
left of variable name in source code editor. User types could have
predefined icon in XML autodoc (or maybe in assembly resource?).
Is this possible to make such plugin for vstudio.net?

arturm
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..Net uses Camel-case and pascal-case notation...

Jamie
 
Nicholas Paldino said:
The extensibility of the IDE isn't at the point that would allow you to
do something like this, but it might be in the future.
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Is that definite? CodeRush puts icons all over the place, and it seems
to have plenty of information about the source code.

Admittedly I wouldn't want such a feature myself, but I suspect it's
*possible* - even if it's very difficult.
 
I haven't seen CodeRush. It may be possible, and CodeRush might be
performing some valid operations to do it, but from what I have experienced,
the extensibility model doesn't look to me like it would allow arbitrary
access to the visual surface where the code is displayed (at least in the
standard code editor). Now, if they are doing it, and it's not supported
(maybe they are getting window handles, or something of that nature, not
really working through an interface supplied by the extensibility model),
then that's not an option I would really recommend.
 
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