Visual Studio - external tools are invisible

Question

I have an employee who is trying to add a WCF test client to the tool menu in Visual Studio.

It adds tools just fine (just like mine, which work), but the tools listed in external tools do not appear in the tool menu.

I seem to remember that there is an opportunity to make them appear on this list, but I do not know where it is.

Does anyone know this?

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Since I did not believe my employee until she showed me, here are a few screenshots in case you do not believe me.

External tool window:

External Tools http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9438/externaltools.png

But even with everything that is filled, this is all that is in the tool menu:

Tool Menu http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/313/toolsmenu.png

Answer 1

Try the following: Go to Tools> Customize.
On the Commands tab, select Tools from the menu bar.
Select an item from the Controls list next to where you want to add the command.
Then click the "Add Team" button.
In the Add Command dialog box, select the Tools category.
In the Commands list, select External X Command.
Click OK.
The external command should now appear in the Tools menu.

Answer 2

I have the same problem. My fix was to add dummy commands (cmd.exe) and reorder the items in the dialog box until all my tools appear on the menu.

In my case, I needed two teams between the others, but I could not understand which ones would be displayed and why.

Answer 3

Tools → External Tools → Add

• change name to: WCFTestClient

• Command: C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 \ Common7 \ IDE \ WcfTestClient.exe

• Start Directory: $ (TargetDir)

this is what you get:

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Answer 4

Even in my VS 2010 I had to add dummy commands, the 6th element appears!

Answer 5

Go to Tools> Extensions and Updates ... A pop-up window will open and all add-ons will find your extension and enable it if it is disabled. You can remove it from there and install it again.

Then: