Project System: Add Item menu support for Winforms and WPF

[davkean]

From @davkean on January 14, 2016 21:34

This is tracking Add Item support including WinForms and WPF menu items:

Copied from original issue: dotnet/roslyn#7965

[MgSam]

In a similar vein to #134, it would be nice if there were an option in VS to disable these framework-specific context menu items. I never use them (I use the add-item dialog instead) and all they do is waste screen real-estate and make the context menu harder to parse.

[davkean]

@MgSam We're looking at two things that will make this better;

1. We're plan on improving Add Item experience via a most recently used feature: Add Item MRU #104
2. We're looking to simplify Add Item, so that you don't need to open the dialog to add a class, etc: Simplified Add item #136
3. We're looking at making the "existence of these menus" entirely based on whether you are using/referencing the technology.

Would that help?

[MgSam]

Yes, I think all of that helps, but it still would be nice to toggle off context menu items that I'll never use. Perhaps that's a more general-VS wide feature? Being able to add/remove context menu items in the same way you can with the toolbar?

[davkean]

@MgSam We already have this feature, and have since VS 2010. :)

1. Tools -> Customize -> Commands
2. Choose Context menu, pick Project and Solution Context Menus | Project | Add
3. Click the command you want to remove and choose Delete

[MgSam]

Whoops! Thanks for the clarification!