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| jmihalicza |
Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 09:24:22 AM
I often have the same project opened of different development branches, and on the task bar I only see the name of the project.
I tried general window renamer tools, but VS sets the title on setfocus.
There is a macro workaround, but I don't feel it a clear solution and they talk about hangups at exit so I am not convinced:
http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32
It would be nice to have a nicer solution, possibly through VA, to say a setting where I could give a text pattern for the title, containing variables like $solution_name, $current_fname etc.
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| kevinsikes |
Posted - Mar 13 2010 : 10:00:02 PM
One thing I do when testing different versions of our product in multiple virtual machines is to create an arbitrary menu item via right click | customize | drag a benign command to the menu (I use the VA options dialog command as it has no side effects.) Then I set the text of the menu item to the version number of the software.
This gives me a consistent, easily seen indicator of the current build I'm testing. While this is not a dynamic solution to your problem, the menu text is easily changed (right click | customize | right click again | set text). I bet there's even a way to set the text through a DTE macro if you can get the ID of the new menu item. Then you'd assign that macro itself to the menu item, so to change its text, just click it!
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| jmihalicza |
Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 1:31:12 PM
I haven't tried the macro because of this in the last post:
"Unfortunately I have been unable to completely fix the hang on shutdown problem"
Indeed, solution name is the same, but had such a feature I would set "Branch A $solution_name" and "Branch B $solution_name".
My VS sessions are running even for weeks, so setting this once is not a problem, but helps quite a lot.
(Well, that means the hangup problem wouldn't be that big a harm for me actually  .)
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| feline |
Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 1:05:55 PM
I am not sure what to say here. Given your situation I can see the appeal, but solution name on its own is unlikely to be helpful enough. I would assume you have the same solution name in different development branches.
Have you tried the macro? From the comments it is relatively stable. |
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