How to add custom form to the Add options

[VBCrazyCoder]

Does anyone know how to add a Custom Form (say myCustomForm) to the Add dialog box that you get when you right click on your project and select "Add New Item"?

Thanks.

[Slow_Learner]

Have you tried Add -> Add Existing Item... and then browsing for your form? I dunno, maybe I am not understand what you're asking.

[VBCrazyCoder]

I would like to be able to Add my custom form just like you add a new form to a project. Instead of browsing, etc.

So when you right click on the project in the Solution Explorer I would have the option of adding my custom form right from the menu that pops up

OR

When you right click on the project in the Solution Explorer I would select the option of add item, and then my custom form would be one of the options to add.

Hope that is clearer.

Thanks!

[Slow_Learner]

You want to customize the context menu for Solution Explorer? You probably can but I can't find the menu option for it. I don't see a command for Project -> Add Existing for that matter. ^_^ Hope you figure it out.

[Slow_Learner]

I dug around in the macro recorder a bit and found that the internal command to add existing is:

DTE.ItemOperations.AddExistingItem("[path+filename]")

If you record/write a macro with this command in it, it's a simple matter to assign that to a keyboard command (you probably know this) - how to get it to appear in the context menu I don't know.

[Cander]

It has something to do with the files in the VBProjectItems folder under the vb7 directory of the VS .NET directory.

Takie a look at them and see if you can make heads or tails of them.

[VBCrazyCoder]

Thanks for the input - I will see what I can do. Will let you know...

[Cander]

here is some how to info. It is for html templates, but it is the same thing

http://aspfree.com/aspnet/vstemplate.aspx

[VBCrazyCoder]

Thanks for the input - it is working great!!!

[Cander]

Cool.