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Support Visual Studio 2026 and write args to the active VC configuration #199

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46 changes: 45 additions & 1 deletion SmartCmdArgs/SmartCmdArgs.Shared/Services/ProjectConfigService.cs
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Expand Up @@ -349,13 +349,57 @@ private class CustomDebuggerRule
return list;
}

/// <summary>
/// Returns the VCConfiguration the debug settings should be written to.
/// <para>
/// <c>VCProject.ActiveConfiguration</c> is not reliable, it can return a configuration which is
/// not the one currently selected (observed in VS2026). The arguments themselves are selected
/// based on <c>Project.ConfigurationManager.ActiveConfiguration</c> (see
/// <see cref="ItemAggregationService"/>), so they have to be written to that very same
/// configuration. Otherwise they end up in a configuration which is not the one being debugged.
/// </para>
/// </summary>
private static dynamic GetActiveVCConfiguration(EnvDTE.Project project, dynamic vcPrj)
{
ThreadHelper.ThrowIfNotOnUIThread();

try
{
var dteCfg = project?.ConfigurationManager?.ActiveConfiguration;
if (dteCfg != null)
{
// VCConfiguration.Name has the form "Configuration|Platform"
var wantedName = $"{dteCfg.ConfigurationName}|{dteCfg.PlatformName}";

dynamic configs = vcPrj?.Configurations; // is IVCCollection
if (configs != null)
{
for (int index = 1; index <= configs.Count; index++)
{
dynamic cfg = configs.Item(index); // is VCConfiguration
if (cfg != null && string.Equals((string)cfg.Name, wantedName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
return cfg;
}
}

Logger.Warn($"GetActiveVCConfiguration: no VCConfiguration named '{wantedName}' found, falling back to VCProject.ActiveConfiguration");
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Logger.Error("GetActiveVCConfiguration: failed to resolve the active configuration via ConfigurationManager", ex);
}

return vcPrj?.ActiveConfiguration;
}

private static void SetVCProjEngineConfig(EnvDTE.Project project, string arguments, IDictionary<string, string> envVars, string workDir, string launchApp)
{
ThreadHelper.ThrowIfNotOnUIThread();

// Use late binding to support VS2015 and VS2017
dynamic vcPrj = (dynamic)project.Object; // is VCProject
dynamic vcCfg = vcPrj?.ActiveConfiguration; // is VCConfiguration
dynamic vcCfg = GetActiveVCConfiguration(project, vcPrj); // is VCConfiguration

if (vcCfg == null)
{
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions SmartCmdArgs/SmartCmdArgs17/source.extension.vsixmanifest
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<Tags>Commandline Command Line Arguments cmd project</Tags>
</Metadata>
<Installation>
<InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community" Version="[17.0, 18.0)">
<InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community" Version="[17.0, 19.0)">
<ProductArchitecture>amd64</ProductArchitecture>
</InstallationTarget>
<InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community" Version="[17.0,18.0)">
<InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community" Version="[17.0, 19.0)">
<ProductArchitecture>arm64</ProductArchitecture>
</InstallationTarget>
</Installation>
<Dependencies>
<Dependency Id="Microsoft.Framework.NDP" DisplayName="Microsoft .NET Framework" d:Source="Manual" Version="[4.5,)" />
</Dependencies>
<Prerequisites>
<Prerequisite Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor" Version="[17.0,18.0)" DisplayName="Visual Studio core editor" />
<Prerequisite Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor" Version="[17.0, 19.0)" DisplayName="Visual Studio core editor" />
</Prerequisites>
<Assets>
<Asset Type="Microsoft.VisualStudio.VsPackage" d:Source="Project" d:ProjectName="%CurrentProject%" Path="|%CurrentProject%;PkgdefProjectOutputGroup|" />
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