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External tools are a mechanism within Intellij-IDEA to provide a shareable process.

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Add a custom command in Visual Studio Code Command Palette

Is it possible out of the box or using extensions to add a custom command in the Command Palette in Visual Studio Code like "External Tools" as in the IDE from JetBrains or in Visual Studio? I would like to be able to run custom bash/cmd command…
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Where are the external tools launch configurations in Eclipse

I usually install and uninstall different versions of Eclipse for fun. I don't want to install many plugins. I prefer to start with fresh install to test the IDE. The problems comes when I have to config all the external tools that I always use…
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Share or Export External tools without using jar-file

I created custom "run configuration" and used in him "external tools" my problem is that "external tools" are located locally and other developers of the project will not receive it, how can I add it to the project? One solution is to export the…
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How to add buttons linked to your external tool in IntelliJ IDEA

I created some batch work and integrated it as ExternalTool to the IntelliJ IDEA. as described here: Configure Intellij IDEA to run batch file But how can I add buttons to my toolbar that will activate the batch that defined as external tool?
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Passing $(Configuration) as parameter to External Tool in VS2010

I am trying to pass the $(Configuration) macro as a parameter to an external tool (batch file), however, it apears to be empty. I tried by calling a simple test.bat that echo's the %1 parameter and pass the $(Configuration) macro as a param. Nothing…
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Visual Studio - External Tools not visible

I have a co worker who is trying to add WCF Test Client to the Tools Menu in Visual Studio. She adds the tools in just fine (exactly the same as mine that are working) but the tools listed in external tools are not visible in the Tools Menu. I seem…
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Before launch, run external tool asynchronously?

Is it possible to create run configurations where it doesn't wait for the external tool to exit before launching? I'm currently trying to get Dart's pub serve to run on my project directory before opening the Dartium browser on localhost:8080 but it…
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Integrating an external code processing tool to the RAD Studio IDE

Early Borland IDEs (TP, TC) has a mean to execute an external tool, process its output via filter and present an user navigable view with messages associated with corresponding file name and line/column number (protocol has been described here). Is…
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Pycharm edit a file in a tab opened with ansible-vault

I have ansible files that are encrypted using ansible-vault. I want to decrypt, edit, and save encrypted these files from within an IDEA IDE, in this case, pycharm. I have created an external tool in pycharm that will decrypt the files and open them…
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Using javah -jni with an Eclipse project structure

I need to know if I'm doing the things in a wrong way. I have the following project structure (a pretty standard one): then I've configured javah as external tool like this: When I run the external tool on OSManager4Windows.java I was expecting to…
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How can I customize the "macros" in an Intellij external tool

I'm hoping to leverage the external tool capability that intellij provides since I want generic tools to share with other developers. The macros option seems quite limited though and very static. I have a tool with which I run by using maven…
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How can I add an external tool to Visual Studio with a script or similar?

We want to deploy some external tools to Visual Studio for our developers. Is there a way to automate it through a script or similar or should all of them do it manually?
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environmental variables for jetbrains IDE external tools

I created webstorm external tool which throws some errors but running the same task from terminal works fine.I understand that this is because when run in webstorm the $PATH variable is set different from that of the terminal case. There isn't any…
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Pass project build path to External Tool in Eclipse

I would like to set up an External Tool in Eclipse that does some custom compilation of classes in the project by calling javac directly. For this, I need to pass javac the classpath parameter so it knows where to go looking for dependencies. Is it…
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Visual Studio 2010 External Tools \obj\Debug vs \bin\debug

I'm trying to set up a third party library's signing tool as an external tool. The arguments are supposed to be as follows: sign.exe "c:\projectdir\bin\debug\exename.exe" "c:\projectdir\bin\debug\exename.lic" I have the arguments configured like…
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