901221 - goto first error

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hi i need a global hotkey to go to the first error location in the error list and show it in the editor. i tried recording a macro, but it doesn't work properly. it just activates the error list window.
what can i do?
thx

Posted 11-Mar-12 6:03am

ilostmyid2

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Mohibur Rashid 11-Mar-12 12:21pm

What on earth are you talking about?

ilostmyid2 11-Mar-12 12:36pm

there's a window in Visual Studio called Error List. it may be shown by going to menu View, then Error List. when i build a project and it results in errors, the errors are listed in the window.
i need a global hotkey to go to the first item in the list.
ok?

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-03-11T06:53:00

Solution 1

[F8]

This line added to make the post long enough...

Posted 11-Mar-12 6:53am

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ilostmyid2 11-Mar-12 13:03pm

if u mean F8 may be the hotkey i'm looking for, i've to say that, no, it's not!
if i'm in the text editor and have already searched for something and currently the Find Window is active between windows which F8 goes to the next location in them, then F8 goes to the next found item. i need a hotkey which brings up the Error List window even though it's closed and goes to its FIRST item even though its fifth item between the whole ten items in it is currently focused. is THIS achievable?

OriginalGriff 11-Mar-12 13:16pm

AFAIK there is no standard key for that - but it shouldn't be too difficult for you to write an extension to do it.

ilostmyid2 11-Mar-12 13:48pm

i couldn't. would u show me how, please?
thx

OriginalGriff 11-Mar-12 15:29pm

Sorry - I don't have time to create an extension I'm not going to use! :laugh:
Have a look at the tutorial - it isn't that difficult to do.

ilostmyid2 11-Mar-12 15:55pm

i couldn't figure out what u meant by extension.
i also don't know what u mean by the tutorial.
sorry

Mohibur Rashid 11-Mar-12 20:51pm

Boy, please do not feel bad with my below words,

You are still a beginner. Now I can see that you are too lazy to simply open a error window. More over you do not need to open the window, whenever you compile VS itself open the error window. After that all you need to do is press ctrl+home. and the double click on the first error line. But it seems to me you don't want to do it either.

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ilostmyid2 11-Mar-12 23:29pm

i'm sorry that u think so! it's about 28 years i'm programming! beginner in what?! don't forget that many inventions are result of laziness. otherwise, we would not have washing machines, cars, calculators, even electricity, etc. the man always looks for a better way in life and facility for doing his works and u should not blame him for that! when i repeatedly build to fix a plenty of errors, i've right to expect to focus on first error by just a hotkey and have not to switch every time back to the error window by mouse, scroll it and double click on the first item. if u've experienced it, u know what i'm saying and that it's not a great expectation.
the VS doesn't automatically open the error list window until the compilation is done and i'm not going to wait until then! ideal is that i may go to the line of error in the editor as soon as it finds it. Borland C++ had the feature to stop compiling after hitting an specified number of errors which Microsoft is not going to implement it ever! what u want me to do and have no complain is to wait until the compilation ends, press Ctrl+Home and use mouse for double clicking the first item, and if i'm not easy with it, i'm a lazy person and a beginner in programming! i would like to know if others have the same opinion.
instead of finding a way for that and blaming Microsoft for not giving a user-friendly way, ur blaming me for a thing u call laziness!

Mohibur Rashid 12-Mar-12 0:04am

I am withdrawing my Comments

OriginalGriff 12-Mar-12 4:46am

Sorry, my fault - I could have sworn I pasted the link...:doh:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2009/06/01/visual-studio-2010-sdk-beta-1-is-now-live.aspx
It's for the beta version, but it gets you started.
It is possible you may be able to do it with a macro, but I rarely use them, so you are on your own there!

ilostmyid2 12-Mar-12 4:52am

thx, i didn't know that!
i will investigate on it further.