Visual Studio Addin - add item to solution explorer context menu

Hi,

I've created a VS2008 addin project, and wish to add a context menu item for the following scenario: Right Clicking on an unloaded project within the Solution Explorer of visual studio.

Currently this context menu shows "Reload project, Edit {project name}.csproj, Edit, Remove".

I would like to add my own menu item here.

Can anyone help with how I can reference this menu? I can add to the "Tools" menu with:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBar menuBarCommandBar = ((Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBars)_applicationObject.CommandBars)["Tools"];

However I am unsure how to target the context menu within the Solution Explorer.

Any help / links / sugestions welcome.

Bilf

Re: Visual Studio Addin - add item to solution explorer context menu

Manually you can do this this way (maybe this helps you how to reference the context menu)

Click any tiny arrow at the end of one of your toolbar\add or remove buttons\customize\toolbars\check "context menus"\a new toolbar appears where you can customize any context menu.

Maybe there is also a "Context Menus" command bar(?) Enumerate Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBars to find out.

Re: Visual Studio Addin - add item to solution explorer context menu

Hi stmarti,

Sorry for the late reply.

I have iterated the collection of command bars, and have also exposed them as extra menu's via the macro IDE, however I am still unable to find the context menu associated with an unloaded project.

The closest match (context menu item names) was for a SVN "stub project", but sadly none for the "context menu displayed for an unloaded project"

Is there something I have missed?

Any help is much appreicated

Re: Visual Studio Addin - add item to solution explorer context menu

Perhaps this forum will help http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/threads

Re: Visual Studio Addin - add item to solution explorer context menu

Smashing - thank you for the pointer!