Visual Studio Extend IDE - the Exception Assistant

Question

The aim here is to incorporate StackOverflow popular answers into Visual Studio's Exception Assistant.

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I have trawled the web without luck, the only information I could find about customizing the Exception Assistant is this link below that shows how to add links to the "Troubleshooting Tip" area:

http://abhijitjana.net/2011/01/07/exception-occurred-get-troubleshooting-tips-from-your-favorites-blogs/

My question is it possible to tap into other areas of the Exception Assistant such as: Actions, View Details?

I also found that adding links to Troubleshooting Tip area is limited: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vsx/thread/3b045e98-081c-4540-b27b-3121245e53ee,

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I have posted the idea on Microsoft's Visual Studio suggestion site, vote for it if you like the idea: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2847295-exception-assistant-exstensibility-to-tap-into-t

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UPDATE (May 2015):

Microsoft is doing something similar with Developer Assistant, just need to tap into the error assistant with StackOverflow in the same way: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-4a48-a5fd-504ff4ad1b65

Drummer

Gave you three votes for the idea. – Scarper

Answer 1

I wanted to extend it as well. Doing a bit of research it seems its not possible.

Unfortunately this is not possible. We will consider this when we do our future planning for the Visual Studio debugger though.

Thanks,

Brad Sullivan - Program Manager - Visual Studio Debugger (source http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/3b045e98-081c-4540-b27b-3121245e53ee/)

Scarper

Thanks @Tom, obviously when it becomes available I'll extend it and integrate Stack Overflow into the VS Exception Assistant... – Drummer

Haha, that was exactly what I wanted to do for my 10% time at work. I have a few other possible ways of doing it. Up for teaming up some time? – Scarper

Yeah for sure, lets keep monitoring and jump on it when it becomes available :-) – Drummer

I really hate the way the closed source commercial IDE deals with these type issues. With Eclipse this type of customization is so easy!! – Oilcloth

@MasudRahman, I would love to see a version of this idea in Eclipse as well as other IDE's beside .Net and Java one's. A language neutral polymorphic implementation that could be ported to all/most languages implemented via abstract functions so that a core API could evolve would be ideal. – Drummer

Actually, I tried to do something in the pro-active mode of SurfClipse. Once an exception encounters, it automatically searches for relevant web pages and gathers within the IDE. youtube.com/watch?v=LTIkFYrnllY – Oilcloth

I just saw this now @MasudRahman - WOW man!! That is really impressive. Well done. Any chance you will make it open source? – Drummer

@JeremyThompson, although the web service is off due to its costs, you can fork the Eclipse client from here : github.com/masud-technope/SurfClipseClientGH – Oilcloth

Answer 2

I've started the project, its very much WIP and needs contributors.

Contribute to GitHub Stackoverflow Exception Assistant:

Drummer