nknusperer/betterconfigurationmanager

The Visual Studio Configuration Manager you always wanted since 2003.

Better Configuration Manager

The Configuration Manager you always wanted since 2003

Easy-to-use Configuration Manager for Visual Studio 2012 or later. Better Configuration Manager provides:

• A tool window! No longer mess with this annoying non-resizeable modal popup window.
• Apply a configuration for
• A single Project
• Every Project in the current Solution Configuration/Platform context
• Specific Solution Configuration and/or Platform
• Every Solution Configuration and/or Platform

• It's fast! Click trough different configurations and change settings in milliseconds.

Get it from the Visual Studio Gallery or the release section.

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betterconfigurationmanager's Issues

Cannot install on VS2019

installer fails on VS2019, see log file
dd_VSIXInstaller_20190731105114_2128.log

VS2022 support please!

This looks awesome. The current native one in vs is so bad.

VS 2015 Crashes when loading Wix Project in BCM window.

The solution I am working on includes a Wix install project called Setup. It seems that BCM crashes Visual Studio 2015 when it attempts to load this project. If I debug the VS process I get this info:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException was unhandled
Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

I'm not familiar enough to be able to provide more info on the specific error.

There is a workaround: Unload the affected project before opening the BCM Window.

Also, the documentation could be clearer on where to access the Better Configuration Manager Window, I was expecting it to appear in the Tools menu or to replace the regular configuration manager. It is not very clear that I have to find it in View -> Other Windows -> Better Configuration Manager.

Please upgrade for VS2017

Slow initialization

I just tried this plugin with a solution that has 177 projects and each project has ~20 build configurations. After everything is loaded the speed of the UI is great: very snappy, no delays and I can finally assign a configuration to every single project with one click instead of doing it one by one. The only issue is the initial load time. It took around 5 minutes of Visual Studio being unresponsive and one CPU core being maxed out until the configuration manager came up. Is there any way to optimize the load procedure?