I really hoped to get Regionerate running quickly on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

Unfortunately, since there are several breaking changes with Visual Studio 2010’s extensibility model, I found myself messing around with it too much.

I’m not giving up, but I just need to clear an afternoon for it. Meanwhile, Since I’ve been getting a whole bunch of requests for quick support for 2010, here’s a quick workaround:

1. Go to “%programfiles%\Regionerate”.
2. Make a copy of “Regionerate.VS2005.AddIn” and call it “Regionerate.VS2010.AddIn“.
3. Open it with notepad, change Extensibility/HostApplication/Version to 10.0 and save the file.
4. Open up regedit.exe.
5. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visual Studio\10.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders.
6. Add a string key named “C:\Program Files\Regionerate\” (or wherever you had Regionerate installed)
7. Start Visual Studio 2010 and go to Tools/Regionerate Settings.
8. Turn off Automatically collapse regions after Regionerating. (Yes, they won’t collapse until I fix it)

Update: Thanks for Mr. Bungle for reminding me to add step 4-6. Mike Patton enthusiasts FTW!

Add your comments here if you have any problems using this workaround.

When you hit Ctrl+R (or whatever you had your shortcut set to), the active document is Regionerated. But if you hit Ctrl+R and keep the Ctrl button down, you will be presented with the Code Layout Browser.

The Code Layout Browser is similar to the Alt+Tab window browser in Microsoft Windows. It allows you to choose which Code Layout to apply on your code.

You can browse through the different Code Layouts using the shortcut key (typically “R”) while holding down the modifier key (typically Ctrl), similar to Alt-Tab.

The first item is always the Primary Code Layout (the one you chose in the settings form, be it the standard Code Layout or your own custom Code Layout). The first item is the most accessible item and is the one selected when hitting Ctrl+R without browsing.

The rest of the items are gathered from the “My Code Layouts” directory under your installation folder.

If it worked with Beta 1, no reason it shouldn’t work with Beta 2, so nothing new here. Just wanted to make it clear

Not much to elaborate on, choose any combination of Ctrl/Alt/Shift with a single character and go wild.

At the moment, this is only available to Visual Studio users, #develop users, hang on, its coming.

Up until now, running Regionerate on entire projects & solutions was only available via the command line utility or NAnt task, but now it is available through your IDE as well.

Right-clicking a solution and clicking “Regionerate This” will parse the .sln file and process every C# project inside. In the same way, right-clicking a project and clicking “Regionerate This” will parse the .csproj file and process every .cs file inside.

At the moment, there is no way to set ignored projects & files (as in the console application & NAnt task) and all C# projects & C# code files within the selection will be Regionerated.

#develop users – stay tuned, hopefully this feature will be shortly available to you as well.

By the way, you can read more about this extensibility experience in my personal blog: Tapping Into The Solution Explorer & Tapping Into The “Projects” Pad.

I’ve been getting some hints that users might appreciate it if Regionerate worked on Visual Studio 2003, What about you? Please vote.

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