Custom features dev tools - continue...
While developing a feature developers often need to generate GUIDs, get assembly full names, alter XML's etc.
One of the most helpful tools is available from Andrew Connell. After I managed to make it work (uninstalling any reminder of visual studio 2008 from my machine) it worked great and did make my life easier.
The only problem with the solution are the pre requirements - Refactor Pro! & CodeRush.
Both are great extensions for Visual Studio, only they cost 250$ and we are not planning at the moment (or the one after) to buy licenses to all our developers.
All that led me to start building the dev tools, project templates and add-ins for making things easier. Two of the add-in features I'm currently working on are the "New GUID" & "Assembly Name" buttons I'm adding to the context menu:
Clicking the "New GUID" button simply adds a new GUID to the code and it can be used with a shortcut as well to make things super comfortable. (I know you can go to Tools ->Create GUID->...->...->... and paste your new GUID, but that's too much work! )
As for the full assembly name, well, so far I managed to get the full assembly name of the Add-in itself which is not much of a help.
So,
If you have any idea how can I get the current project's full assembly name from an add-in context - please leave a note.