Add submenu to context menu in Visual Studio Extension

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I want to add a submenu to the context menu in Visual Studio. Similar to what resharper does:

My setup is as follows: MyTopMenuGroup: contains Command1 and MyMenuController. The MenuController itself has again another group, which contains some other commands. Unfortunately the MenuController is not displayed.

My XAML:

<Groups> <Group guid="mypkg" id="MyTopMenuGroup" > <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDM_VS_CTXT_ITEMNODE" /> </Group> <Group guid="mypkg" id="MySubMenuGroup"> <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyMenuController" /> </Group> </Groups> <Menus> <Menu guid="mypkg" id="MyMenuController" type="MenuController"> <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyTopMenuGroup" /> </Menu> </Menus> <Buttons> <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command1" type="Button"> <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyTopMenuGroup" /> </Button> <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command2" type="Button"> <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MyMenuController" /> </Button> <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command3" type="Button"> <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MySubMenuGroup" /> </Button> <Button guid="mypkg" id="Command4" type="Button"> <Parent guid="mypkg" id="MySubMenuGroup" /> </Button> </Buttons>

C# which adds the buttons to the menu:

OleMenuCommandService commandService = this.ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(IMenuCommandService)) as OleMenuCommandService; if (commandService != null) { var menuCommandID = new CommandID(CommandSet, Command1); var menuItem = new MenuCommand(this.MenuItemCallback, menuCommandID); commandService.AddCommand(menuItem); //etc, do this for all 4 Commands //no code to construct groups & menus (is this necessary?) }

Command1 is displayed as "top-level" command as expected. The other commands and the Menu is not displayed at all.

Why is the Menu not shown and how can I make it visible?

The setup was fine, a reboot fixed my problem. For others struggling with this, I've written a small introduction on how to archive this: blog.famoser.ch/visual-studio-extensions-commands — Florian Moser
– Florian Moser, Commented Sep 3, 2016 at 15:14

Sergey Vlasov · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-02 12:58:32Z

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Your XAML looks fine (I presume Buttons and Menus actually have Strings sections) and Command3/Command4 should be visible. Just make sure they have MenuItemCallbacks attached like Command1.

answered Sep 2, 2016 at 12:58

Sergey Vlasov

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Florian Moser Over a year ago

You were right, the setup was fine. Sometimes all you need is a reboot.

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