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Display the contents of certain text files in a solution folder in a pop-up when the solution is opened.
If a file called SolutionOpenPopUp.txt and/or ReadMe.txt exists in the root folder of the solution, the contents are shown in a pop-up when the solution is open - a handy way to share solution-specific gotchas, non-critical team messages, etc with colleagues and contributors.
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Use this extension anytime you want to see, or you want others to see, certain information when a solution is opened. As you cannot gaurantee other users will have this extension installed you should not rely on this extension to convey critical information.
For example:
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You're new to a company, have made some notes on a .Net solution, and it would be useful to see the notes each time you open the solution.
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You are planning to upgrade a solution to VS2017 in the next quarter, and you want to give the developers a heads up whenever they open the solution.
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The solution has some 'gotchas' (e.g. compilation, runtime or unit test related) which interested parties would benefit from seeing whenever they open up the code.
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The solution is simply a proof of concept and you wish to convey this to others.
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Your solution has its' own "ReadMe" file which all developers should view when they open the solution.
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You want to share a joke-of-the-day or coder-of-the-week announcement with colleagues.
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Option to show/hide the content of SolutionOpenPopUp.txt in root folder of the solution in a pop-up when the solution is open.
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Option to show/hide the content of ReadMe.txt in root folder of the solution in a pop-up when the solution is open.
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Excessively long lines of text are truncated according to a user-defined value.
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User-defined limit for maximum number of lines to be shown in pop-up.
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If maximum lines limit is exceeded and multiple files are being displayed, the content of each file is truncated pro-rata.
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Option to show/hide source file names in the pop-up.
Contributions to this project are welcome by raising an Issue or submitting a Pull Request.
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