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New Post: Bugs and comments

brainslugs83 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:31:13 GMT

Is this the place we're piling up bugs?

Here's my 2 cents, the plug-in does nothing.

When I pop up a Shell Window (VSCmdShell) and type in ANY valid powershell commands, visual studio comes crashing down. LAME.

NEW POST: Termination of child executables when restarting shell.

DannyAsher — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:30:10 GMT

Hi,

I noticed than when I started a (long-running) process, restarting the shell would not terminate the spawned process. I think this would be desirable behaviour.

Many thanks,
Daniel

NEW POST: Support For Ctrl-C

DannyAsher — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:27:54 GMT

Is there any support for breaking execution with Ctrl-C?

I've tried to use VsCommandShell to spawn the executable for my testing framework, but being unable to terminate a run has made this less, rather than more convenient.

Keep up the good work!

Daniel

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

stimpy77 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:12 GMT

Thinking a couple months retrospectively... umm.. I think I removed the WiX references since I wasn't trying to run the installer but was going to xcopy the DLLs. I'd had WiX installed but it was a different version. StoneFree, if you can manage to clean that out you should be able to get it to compile for you.

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

StoneFree — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:50:24 GMT

Hi Stan,

How did you get it to compile? I don't have a lib directory under "Windows Installer XML\bin" and so the build cannot find wixui_featuretree.wixlib.

Where did you find these files as I have downloaded the WIX MSI file and Binaries ZIP, and neither contain it.

Peter

NEW POST: Empty Shell Selection List

pmural1 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:11:57 GMT

I installed 1.2 and I dont have an option to choose from the Shell Selection. It is just an empty dropdown. Can some one give me a solution to fix this..
I am running VS 2005 SP1 on Vista

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

staninprague — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:06:19 GMT

Hi Joel, as it is a month and no new release coming, I've just downloaded the code, compiled, closed all VS instances and copied Microsoft.VSPowerToys.VSCmdShell.PowerShellHost.dll from the compiled project to the Program Files\Power Toys for Visual Studio\VSCmdShell.

This resolved the problem, I think guys are busy :):)...

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

Joel — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:24:13 GMT

Will wait for a new build thanks.

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

mattgollob — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:03:19 GMT

Joel wrote:
I am experiencing the same issue on 1.2.
I am running VSCmdShell 1.2 and
Power Shell 1.0 (XP WindowsXP-KB926139-x86-ENU.exe )

I have been unable to Power Shell RC1, the pages seem to been removed

Joel -

I'm sorry for the trouble that you're experiencing. I have confirmed that the 1.2 release of VSCmdShell does in fact reference the wrong version of the System.Management.Automation assembly (which contains the PowerShell-related classes).

With any luck, a new build will be available soon and that would be your best bet for resolution to this issue. If you can't (or don't want to) wait, your next best option is to get and build the source. Finally, if neither of those options is attractive to you, you can add a "bindingRedirect" element to the app.config file for Visual Studio 2005. I don't recommend this third option, and hope it will be used only as a last resort. If you chose to do so, you can add the following to devenv.exe.config (typically located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE):

<dependentAssembly>
	<assemblyIdentity name="System.Management.Automation" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
	<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.9567.1" newVersion="1.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>

The dependentAssembly element should be nested inside of the configuration/runtime/assemblyBinding element.

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

Joel — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:29:49 GMT

I am experiencing the same issue on 1.2.
I am running VSCmdShell 1.2 and
Power Shell 1.0 (XP WindowsXP-KB926139-x86-ENU.exe )

I have been unable to Power Shell RC1, the pages seem to been removed

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

stimpy77 — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:32:58 GMT

It works, thanks. (Running Windows Server 2003 R1 SP2 w/ PowerShell RTM reinstalled.)

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

bertanaygun — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:00:56 GMT

stimpy77,

That issue should be resolved in the source and very soon we will be releasing VSCmdShell 1.2 that should contain the fix. It would be great help to us if you can download source code and build the latest version to try if VSCmdShell now works with latest version of PowerShell on your system as well.

Thanks,
Bertan

NEW POST: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

stimpy77 — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:07:01 GMT

Wow this is old. :(

NEW POST: Bug!!! 100% CPU usage after I restart VSCmdShell

mattgollob — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:08:15 GMT

I have been able to reproduce this issue and have created work item "Race condition in CommandShellHost when shell is restarted".

User Forum: Bugs and comments

PandaWood — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:35:04 GMT

A couple of bugs, comments If I install it twice, I get multiple menu items under the 'View' menu with '&&' in their name. If the project is currently building and I click on the VsCmdShell tab, Visual Studio hangs completely (SP1). The interface to get the Command Shell to work is barmy. I chose 'Custom' directory to start in, and at first it worked, then it didn't. I finally figured out that you have to set an 'ORDER' of preference. What the? I just want one, I don't see any point in choosing multiple different ones in order of some arbitrary failure priority.

User Forum: RE: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

bertanaygun — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:09:15 GMT

I have created the issue 5175 (http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell) for this problem. Because of changes in RC2, VSCmdShell is no longer compatible with the most recent version of PowerShell. If you want to continue to use PowerShell with VSCmdShell, you should use PowerShell RC1. Thanks, Bertan

User Forum: Problem setting PowerShell in Options dialog

nisiv — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:09:30 GMT

I am trying to use this plugin and use PowerShell as the default shell. I followed the instructions and did the following: 1. Selected Tool...Options menu item. 2. Selected PowerToys. 3. In the Shell Selection dropdown I selected and navigated to the Microsoft.VSPowerToys.VSCmdShell.PowerShellHost.dll assembly. I get an error stating that the assembly could not be loaded. Errors was: \nAssembly could not be loaded because of an unknown error. I am using Windows PowerShell 1.0 Thanks for the help.

Project Management Forum: RE: Requisition of a role in your project

bertanaygun — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:52:53 GMT

Hi Arun, Thanks for your interest in VSCmdShell. To have developer access you should fill out the agreement form (http://www.codeplex.com/Project/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell&DownloadId=577) and send it to us, more instructions can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell&title=VSCmdShell%20Assignment%20Agreement%20Instructions. Until then you are welcome to contribute changes to VSCmdShell anytime by attaching fixed source code to work items in the issue tracker. Once we receive the agreement from you, we will be able to give you developer access so you can check in code as well. Thanks, Bertan Aygun

Project Management Forum: Requisition of a role in your project

activearun83 — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:49:07 GMT

Hi All, This is Arun Sivakumar. I am from Coimbatore,India. I am working in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. I have worked in Visual Basic 6.0 in a product development. As I am confident that i can perform well in this development and also interested in contributing to challenging projects, I kindly request you to give me a developer position in this project. I am sure I can prove myself if I am given a chance.

User Forum: RE: Bug!!! 100% CPU usage after I restart VSCmdShell

bertanaygun — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:29:48 GMT

Could you provide steps to reproduce this bug so we can investigate the cause of it. Thanks, Bertan