Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Create attach to process shortcut in VS 2008

Tools -> Attach to Process... -> wait for the dialog -> < select the process > -> press on attach
who has the time and the patience to follow this step every time we want to debug an internt application.
I'll show u how to attach to process in one shortcut press.
for generate the shortcut, follow the steps below:

  1. Open Visual studio

  2. Press Alt+F11 to open MyMacros

  3. Right click on MyMacros-> Add-> Add existing item and browse to this file(change the file extension to .vb)

  4. Now, we have make a shortcut key to this macro, you should go to Tools -> Options and choose Environment -> Keyboard pane

  5. To find our macro we can search for the word macro in the search text box, and select the macro we want(in my case: Macros.MyMacros.AttachingToProcess.AttachToInternetApp)

  6. Choose a shortcut keys for this macro and insert them in the 'Press shortcut keys' text box, i choose ctrl+\ (u have to press them together)

  7. Press on Assign button, and ok, that's all, we finished