Malcolm On one of my VS installations, I had no menu item either, for some reason. I added it myself byā¦ Right-click on the menu, choose Customize, go to the Commands tab, from the Categories list click Tools. In the right-hand list you should see it listed as Code Snippets Manager. Drag-and-drop it from there to wherever you want it in the menu. Works?
Interestingly enough, I can not find the āCode Snippets Managerā on my VS2005 Tools menu
Use the keyboard shortcut I mentioned in the post: CTRL+K, CTRL+B
Same issue with Team Developer installed. It doesnāt appear in the menus by default. This can of course be customizedā¦ Frederik described how to add it.
I can highly recommend IZArc [http://www.izarc.org/] which is freeware. It uncompresses most formats and can compress to zip, 7-zip and a bunch of others (not rar though).
I like the interface better than WinZip or WinRAR.
Maybe Iām missing something, but for me, installing these snippets using the Microsoft download was easy-peasy. I just added the root folder (in my case, D:\Documents\MSDN\Visual C# 2005 Code Snippets) in the Code Snippet Manager and everything ājust workedā¢ā. No manually adding each folder for me! Weeee!
I like 7-Zip just as it is. Sure, thereās room for improvements, but itās free and it basically does everything I need it to do.
Anyway, thanks for the āinstallerā. I did download Microsoftās MSI packages a while ago, but I didnāt install all of them for the same reason you describe.
I have looked and looked in vain, but I canāt see where this extra entry is stored in either the registry or in any configuration files in the VS 2005 directory. Iād appreciate any help anyone could give me.
I apologize for the bad links in the above post, if anyone wants to see the pics I will be glad to e-mail them to you.
The problem is this: when I type ctrl+k, ctrl+x to bring up the Insert Snippet pop-up in VS.NET 2005, the topmost folder in the list is 1033. If I bring up the Code Snippets Manager with ctrl+k, ctrl+b the 1033 folder is not listed (and therefore I canāt remove it).
I have checked both the registry keys referenced in the add-csharp-snippets.reg file, but I canāt see where this extra entry is coming from. It seems that VS 2005 is hiding the snippet paths somewhere else, but I canāt figure out where. If anyone has any suggestions, Iād love to hear them.
I agree that the snippet entries must be in the registry, but I canāt seem to find the one I need to remove this extra folder. I even went so far as to manually add ā%InstallRoot%\VC#\Snippets%LCID%;ā to both path keys under HKCU. While this did make the 1033 entry appear in the Code Snippets Manager, removing it from there did not make the problem go away.
Does anyone have any further suggestions? My OC is kicking in and that extra folder is really bothering me.
Joe, itās really weird that there is a mismatch between what the snippet manager shows and what shows up in the IDE! I have no idea whatās going on there, but triple check all those registry keys and sub-keys.
My own little rant, cut and pasted from an email
Everyone should be using 7-Zip. But the best way to get everyone using it is to get your friends to install TugZip. TugZip ( http://www.tugzip.com/ ) is the best windows archiver Iāve ever used. Its integration into the file manager is awesome, and itās completely free!
Not only does it allow right-click creation of archives and unzipping multiple archives at once (each into itās own directory), but it allows you to customize the icons for each type of archive that it supports, and lets you set the default compression level (including creating solid archives) for those right-click āadd to .7zā actions.
end rant
The only thing it CANāT do is CREATE rar archives (without rar.exe). But it does unpack them with no problems, which is all I care about, since Iām making 7-Zip, not rar.