I'd love this!

That would be awesome!

Xamarin Studio has this

+1 would be great to have this

Thanks for the awesome suggestion! 👍

BTW, there's already code in place to handle menus and commands. The package adds context menus in the "Connections" area like this - https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/blob/master/src/GitHub.VisualStudio/GitHubPackage.cs#L51

@shana @avanderhoorn Has this feature been implemented yet? I'm willing to make a PR for this if no one else has started.

As far as I know, no work has started on this.

Happy new year everyone!

Indeed, work has not been started on this. Not enough hands and omg I needed a rest after last year! I would LOVE a PR on this, these are the little things that really make coding easier.

I've created a new branch for this feature and added some things you will need to get this working, to start with: https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/tree/feature/link-to-vs. The branch adds the "Get Link" context menu and a handler for it, and gets the file name and line from VS, as an example.
You can create a PR targeting this branch and base your work on it 😄

Here's some thoughts on how to do this:

The link can be to a commit hash, so no need for branch information. No need to even check if the local file matches the remote version, I agree, just generate the link with the line and let people sort it out if they don't match exactly.

You can use AddDynamicMenuItem instead of AddTopLevelMenuItem to selectively hide the context menu entry in case the repo is not on github. There's a canEnable callback there. You can get the active repository like so:

var activeRepo = ServiceProvider.GetExportedValue<ITeamExplorerServiceHolder>().ActiveRepo;

If it's not null, ActiveRepo is guaranteed to be a git repository, but not necessarily one that is on a remote server. Check if CloneUrl is not null and if CloneUrl.RepositoryName is not null. If it has a RepositoryName, chances are high that it is a github repo, or a repository with a remote url that matches the github convention of domain.com/owner/reponame url. That's enough to decide whether to show/hide the context menu.

In the command handler of AddDynamicMenuItem, get ActiveRepo (again). If it's not null, then you'll get a ISimpleRepositoryModel. Add an extension method to get the current commit hash in https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/blob/master/src/GitHub.Exports/Extensions/SimpleRepositoryModelExtensions.cs (see HasCommits)

From the CloneUrl property in ISimpleRepositoryModel, build the line url in the same way as

Get the IVisualStudioBrowser service from the ServiceProvider to open the url in a browser! I don't have a service to copy to the clipboard I think, so that might need some code.

@shana Wow, thank you for all the information! I'll go ahead and get started. If we

just generate the link with the line and let people sort it out if they don't match exactly

this doesn't seem too complicated.

I have completed a basic implementation for the opening of a single line or a group selection.

https://github.com/austin94/VisualStudio/blob/069dc802a65fe21bf1ebcb2616efdebd6a51564c/src/GitHub.VisualStudio/GitHubPackage.cs#LL76-L97

Above is a sample link that it made.

Before I dive into the nested menu controller to include the copy to clipboard feature, are there any current examples in the app so I can match that coding style?

@austin94 For the copy link command, just add another button/idsymbol/pkgcmdid entry for it and then call System.Windows.Clipboard.SetText(text) in the handler instead of opening in the browser.
Don't worry about showing a notification about it right now, I'm working on something for that so we can add it later.

BTW, I'm on a GMT+1 timezone, so delays in replies may occur :-P

@shana I probably should have waited to share the link above until I had finished refactoring! I've implemented the comments you made along with the addition of the 'Copy Link to Clipboard' feature. You can view the commit here: https://github.com/austin94/VisualStudio/commit/d4d77627b33a5bad4c3d27696594f58d97e04d36

I'm confused - when will this make it in to the extension?

I just started using this other extension in the meantime: https://github.com/neuecc/Open-on-GitHub

@dmorrison This has been out for a few months already

@shana, great! Where is this menu?

Ah - nevermind, kind of... So I see the command here. Is it supposed to be exposed by default in any menu or default shortcut?

@dmorrison When you right-click in the editor on a file, there's a GitHub menu with the submenus for links.

We didn't actually put it in the context menu of files in the solution explorer, just when right clicking on the contents in the editor. We should probably do that :-P

Hmm, I don't see it when I right click (that "Open on GitHub" item is for the other extension I mentioned), and I think I'm using the latest extension: http://screencast.com/t/Wbvp04lhp. Also, I'm using GitHub Enterprise, so maybe that's it?

Sorry for the confusion, and thanks!

That's odd. I assume the project is published to github (or enterprise)? Can you post a screenshot of the Team Explorer home page so I can see if it knows it's a github repo? Or send it to windows@github.com if you'd prefer to send that privately.

Yes, it is published to our internal GitHub Enterprise server. Here's the Team Explorer home page.

So just to confirm, this is not working with Git Enterprise? We have some private repos and I would love to use this.

@bsivanov, correct - it didn't work for me in GitHub Enterprise.