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I want to add one button on a toolbar in Visual Studio 2010 that will simply execute:
prog -m <mode>
Where <mode> is “Debug” or “Release” depending on the selected option.
What do I need to do it? Do I need to make an extension for VS, how?
You can configure an “External Tool” from the tools menu, and then you can add a toolbar button that invokes “External Tool n”.
I find these external tools very useful. You can pass in variables from the current project/file with the $(VariableName) syntax like you see elsewhere. From the top of my head, Debug/Release is in $(Configuration), but there’s a list you can call up from the dialog where you edit External Tools.
Edit: It’s actually $(ConfigurationName).
here’s the list of all variables available:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c02as0cs(v=vs.71).aspx