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Today I uploaded VsTortoise build 22 beta to codeplex. The most significant changes are support for Visual Studio 2010RC and the Solution Explorer integration.

Here is the complete changelog:

• New: Visual Studio 2010 RC support (VsTortoise for Visual Studio 2010 RC screenshots)
• New: VsTortoise integrates in to Solution Explorer context menus. The following commands can be found when you right click an item in the Solution Explorer now: Update, Commit, Add, Blame, Diff, Diff with previous version, Show Log, Resolve, Revert, Properties.
• New: OpenModifiedFileDialog: Assigned icons to context menu items
• Fix: Icons for VsTortoise Commands using a non en-US version of Visual Studio
• Fix: Hide VsTortoise.ActiveDocumentDiff Command when active document is unmodified instead of disabling it. This mimics the TortoiseSVN explorer context menu behavior.
• Fix: Don’t disable VsTortoise.ActiveDocumentCommit Command when active document is unmodified. This mimics the TortoiseSVN explorer context menu behavior.
• Fix: VsTortoise.ActiveDocumentBlame Command is not required to save the active document when executed
• Fix: VsTortoise.ActiveDocumentProperties Command is not required to save the active document when executed
• Fix: OpenModifiedFileDialog: Rearranged order of items to more match the TortoiseSVN commits context menu
• Fix: OpenModifiedFileDialog: No context menu when no item is selected
• Fix: OpenModifiedFileDialog: Slightly optimized scanning for modifications.
• Fix: Typo in Webupdate diagnostics output fixed (thanks Björn)
• Fix: The installer now also detects when Visual Studio is running on Windows Vista / Windows 7. (contributed by Malte)

Download the new version from http://vstortoise.codeplex.com/releases/view/41394

VsTortoise went open source under Apache License 2.0 (Apache) and the source code (C#) and installer scripts are available at codeplex.com now.

• Project website: http://vstortoise.codeplex.com

• Discussions: http://vstortoise.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx

• Issue Tracker: http://vstortoise.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx

I also wrote a document how to build and debug the add-in.

If anyone is interested in the project, feel free to contribute. Patches for the resources problem are welcome. I don’t have a german Visual Studio version which I could use to debug and identify the problem, it’s more like poking around in the dark for me.

VsTortoise has been downloaded about 100 times so far. One user reported VsTortoise displays a “Resource not found” error when he starts his german Visual Studio 2005 standard edition. I don’t understand what causes the problem yet, since I specified the en-US satellite DLL that comes with VsTortoise as ultimate resource fallback. I wonder whether this is a common problem or occurs on his computer only.

Does VsTortoise works with your (non-english) Visual Studio version?

Please leave a comment with your Visual Studio version, Visual Studio language and if it works for you. (javascript must be enabled to post comments)

Introduction

Over the past months I’ve worked on a TortoiseSVN add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 called VsTortoise. I work with Visual Studio and TortoiseSVN every day. Since TortoiseSVN integrates in the Windows Explorer, I’ve to switch from Visual Studio to Windows Explorer alot.

This is when VsTortoise add-in comes into play. You can use VsTortoise to invoke TortoiseSVN commands directly from the IDE, you don’t have to switch between Visual Studio and Windows Explorer for a lot of tasks anymore. Beside TortoiseSVN specific commands, VsTortoise provides features to help you to find uncommited modifications in your source code faster.

I’ve created a new page for VsTortoise where you can download it.

Screenshots

This version fixes an error when it comes to padding files. The previous version(s) always padded files, even ones that don’t need to get padded at all, which lead to bigger files than necessary.

Get your copy here and refer to the online documentation for the changelog.

I wrote some pages about configuration possibilities for VisualHAM, since it’s still pretty popular in the homebrew development community as the download statistics show. I thought it’s a good step to share my knowledge about it, so people who would like to use VisualHAM with a different SDK than HAM have a place to find information about this task.

Feel free to take a look at the Pimp my VisualHAM documents.

Hari Nair sent me an email to let me know how to setup Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition for HAM/HEL libraries. The express editions can be downloaded for free at microsoft.com, which should make them interesting especially for hobby-developers.

If you still use VisualHAM for your Game Boy Advance development, I recommend to transfer your project to Visual Studio 2005, because it offers so much more features. Go and read Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 as a Game Boy Advance software development environment if want to.

I just uploaded a new katie version. This one fixes a very bad alignment bug and introduces a couple of new features. Please check the changelog for details.

Today I uploaded a new katie version. Please check the changelog for details.

You probably noticed the lack of VisualHAM updates. The reason for this is I don’t work on this project anymore since 2003.

However, [yak] from NokiX thought the VisualHAM IDE perfectly fits into their Cellphone SDK, when it has a few improvements here and there. So [yak] made them!

The upcoming version 2.6 has lots of bugs fixed and even new features! The greatest new feature is dynamic sourcecode parsing. In 2.6 you’ll find your own functions, defines and variables in the code-completion list and intellisense!

I’m very happy with the new version and hope it’s ready to release soon! If you know of any bug in VisualHAM, the chances are good to get it fixed now. You are more than welcome to post your bug report in the VisualHAM bug tracker over at sourceforge.net. If you would like to see a specific feature in VisualHAM, give it a try and post your feature request in our VisualHAM feature tracker.