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Ivo	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 2:12:01 PM Hi, I have a custom add-in for VS 2003 using that DTE automation. It issues "Edit.Copy" and "Edit.Cut" commands with the following code: CComPtr<EnvDTE::Commands> pCommands; m_pDTE->get_Commands(&pCommands); VARIANT str; memset(&str,0,sizeof(str)); str.vt=VT_BSTR; str.bstrVal=_com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR("Edit.Copy"); CComPtr<Command> cmd; HRESULT r=pCommands->Item(str,0,&cmd); SysFreeString(str.bstrVal); if (r==S_OK) { BSTR guid; cmd->get_Guid(&guid); long id; cmd->get_ID(&id); VARIANT vin,vout; memset(&vin,0,sizeof(vin)); memset(&vout,0,sizeof(vout)); pCommands->Raise(guid,id,&vin,&vout); SysFreeString(guid); } The problem is that the text being copied is not added to the Ctrl+Shift+V paste menu. What am I doing wrong? Note: It is added to the native Ctrl+Shift+V clipboard ring, just doesn't work with Visual Assist's replacement. Can someone help? Thanks Ivo
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Ivo	Posted - Feb 28 2006 : 01:26:11 AM Well, Craig Skibo from the VS team suggested a much simple solution: m_pDTE->ExecuteCommand(CComBSTR("Edit.Copy"),CComBSTR("")); The new code works much better with Visual Assist. Serves me right for not reading the MSDN first... :)
support	Posted - Feb 26 2006 : 2:00:26 PM VA X is intercepting the copy before Edit.Copy is run. Unfortunately, you can't prod VA X into adding code to its clipboard ring.
Ivo	Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 4:48:49 PM Thanks for the reply. I don't know how to access the edit menu and trigger a command from it, at least not in a documented and robust way. The menus are user-editable and the command may not even be there. I posted a question to the MSDN extensibility forum. Hopefully they'll tell me there is a better way of executing an IDE command than the way I'm doing it. BTW, here's the full source of my addin: http://www.codeproject.com/macro/VSHelper.asp
feline	Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 4:28:03 PM i am somewhat out of my area here, but is it possible to trigger the edit menu followed by the copy command from your addin? a bit more long winded, but if this both works and is correctly picked up by VA then perhaps you can move forward from here in stages.
Ivo	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 4:17:07 PM No, my addin doesn't do anything to intercept the copy/cut events (intentionally :)). The code above is executed from another command (Ctrl+Shift+C). If I use the regular Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X the text goes to VA, no problem. I'm trying to invoke the regular Edit.Copy from my addin, and I want VA to add the text to the paste menu, just like when I invoke the command with a Ctrl+C shortcut.
feline	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 4:00:22 PM at a wild guess the copy and cut events are going to your addin, and VA does not know about them. i will ask support about this, since there is nothing i can personally suggest.

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