Add button to the Visual Studio unloaded project context menu (Can't find the CommandBar its name)

Question

NuGet package restore does not play well with the PostSharp package, this is of great annoyance to me and manually editing the csproj files is quickly becoming old.

I want to make a small Visual Studio AddIn that fixes the project for me by adding an extra button to the unloaded project context menu.

The problem I am facing sounds simple but haunts me: I somehow can't locate the CommandBar for the unloaded project context menu.

Thus, summarizing the question: What is the CommandBar name for the unloaded project context menu.

Many thanks!

Since an unloaded project is not well accessible through the envDTE, someone wrote a good solution for this (opening the solution, and use that to use MSBuild to open the project): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/707107/library-for-parsing-visual-studio-solution-files — Dennis Smit, Jan 04 '12 at 22:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

Apparantly: "Stub Project". Found in the list at: CommandBar names

To sum up the OnConnection method to register this:

    public void OnConnection(object application, ext_ConnectMode connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom)
    {
        _applicationObject = (DTE2)application;
        _addInInstance = (AddIn)addInInst;
        if (connectMode == ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup)
        {
            object[] contextGUIDS = new object[] { };
            Commands2 commands = (Commands2)_applicationObject.Commands;
            string toolsMenuName = "Tools";

            //Place the command on the tools menu.
            //Find the MenuBar command bar, which is the top-level command bar holding all the main menu items:
            Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBar menuBarCommandBar = ((Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars.CommandBars)_applicationObject.CommandBars)["MenuBar"];

            //Find the Tools command bar on the MenuBar command bar:
            CommandBarControl toolsControl = menuBarCommandBar.Controls[toolsMenuName];
            CommandBars cmdBars = (CommandBars)(_applicationObject.CommandBars);
            CommandBar vsBarProject = cmdBars["Stub Project"];
            CommandBarPopup toolsPopup = (CommandBarPopup)toolsControl;

            //This try/catch block can be duplicated if you wish to add multiple commands to be handled by your Add-in,
            //  just make sure you also update the QueryStatus/Exec method to include the new command names.
            try
            {
                //Add a command to the Commands collection:
                Command command = commands.AddNamedCommand2(_addInInstance, "FixNuGetPostSharp", "Fix NuGet PostSharp", "Executes the command for VsextensionTest", true, 0, ref contextGUIDS, (int)vsCommandStatus.vsCommandStatusSupported + (int)vsCommandStatus.vsCommandStatusEnabled, (int)vsCommandStyle.vsCommandStylePictAndText, vsCommandControlType.vsCommandControlTypeButton);

                //Add a control for the command to the tools menu:
                if ((command != null) && (toolsPopup != null))
                {
                    command.AddControl(vsBarProject);
                }
            }
            catch (System.ArgumentException)
            {
                //If we are here, then the exception is probably because a command with that name
                //  already exists. If so there is no need to recreate the command and we can 
                //  safely ignore the exception.
            }
        }
    }

Add button to the Visual Studio unloaded project context menu (Can't find the CommandBar its name)

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