Compare option not showing in folder view

[hcasanova72]

The "Compare" option does not shows when working in folder view

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open a folder
2. Select 2 files
3. Right click them
4. Notice that the "Compare" options is missing

Expected behavior The "Compare" option should be displayed

Screenshots

[hcasanova72]

Hi, I'm doing it in the Solution Explorer in Folder View.

Cheers!

From: Michael Hofer @.> Sent: martes, 28 de marzo de 2023 15:45 To: madskristensen/FileDiffer @.> Cc: hcasanova72 @.>; Author @.> Subject: Re: [madskristensen/FileDiffer] Compare option not showing in folder view (Issue #33)

When you say, "Open a folder", are you doing this in File Explorer or Solution Explorer?

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[tp-eallen]

I see this same issue. When solution explorer is in folder view (says "Solution Explorer - Folder View" as the title instead of just "Solution Explorer") the menu for doing compare isn't available.

For normal things that open as solutions like a solution that includes c# projects this isn't really much of an issue as I don't really need folder view but some things are just a bunch of config files in a folder that aren't in a solution.

[tp-eallen]

My guess (I never worked on any vs.net addins) is this needs an extra item to add the compare menu: FileDiffer/src/VSCommandTable.vsct

  <Menus>
     <Menu guid="guidDiffFilesCmdSet" id="FlyoutMenu" priority="100" type="Menu">
       <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDG_VS_CTXT_ITEM_SCC"/>
       <Strings>
         <ButtonText>Compare</ButtonText>
       </Strings>
     </Menu>
     <Menu guid="guidDiffFilesCmdSet" id="EditorFlyoutMenu" priority="100" type="Menu">
       <Parent guid="GitPackage" id="GitEditorContextGroup"/>
       <Strings>
         <ButtonText>Compare</ButtonText>
       </Strings>
     </Menu>
   </Menus>
   

but searching for what possible values to use for Parent isn't coming up with much. I would have hoped there would be a list of possible value and what menus they are for. Also might not know where to look as I don't see much here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/internals/guids-and-ids-of-visual-studio-commands And the guid for git isn't showing up the sdk file <Visual Studio SDK installation path>\VisualStudioIntegration\Common\Inc
(not needed in terms of fixing this but to understand to maybe create my own addon for other uses)