I am creating own Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Extension (Community VSIX Project), but currently I’m dyiing after couple of hours searching and testing different ways to do this very annoying stuff, which is putting my own menuitem exactly to the same group (line separated area under Tools menu) with Android, iOS and Archive Manager submenus.

I’ve brought it to appear under the Tools menu, but I want to put it here, above that Android submenuitem and this stackoverflow question didn’t help me at all (/questions/6475068/placing-menu-options-in-visual-studio-extensions).

Also theoretical situation: What happens then when user haven’t installed any Android or iOS developing workloads? Does my extension throw exception/do I have to then create my own group and put it there or does Visual Studio automaticly put it some rational location inside Tools section?

And here’s current contents of my VSCommandTable.vsct:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CommandTable xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005-10-18/CommandTable" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <Extern href="stdidcmd.h"/>
  <Extern href="vsshlids.h"/>
  <Include href="KnownImageIds.vsct"/>
  <Include href="VSGlobals.vsct"/>

  <Commands package="MyIngeniousVSExt">
      
      <!--This section defines the elements the user can interact with, like a menu command or a button or combo box in a toolbar. -->
      
    <Buttons>
      <Button guid="MyIngeniousVSExt" id="OpenDeviceManager" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
        <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDG_VS_TOOLS_CMDLINE"/> <!-- I also tested eg. guid="VSMainMenu" id="Tools.ExtensibilityGroup" which also worked and when the item was in the highest section of Tools menu.-->
        <Icon guid="ImageCatalogGuid" id="ToolWindow" />
        <CommandFlag>IconIsMoniker</CommandFlag>
        <Strings>
          <ButtonText>MyIngeniousVSExt</ButtonText>
          <LocCanonicalName>.Tools.MyIngeniousVSExt</LocCanonicalName>
        </Strings>
      </Button>
    </Buttons>
  </Commands>

  <Symbols>
    <GuidSymbol name="MyIngeniousVSExt" value="{d98c1a7e-c9dc-4b3b-b1cd-cc54c3e5e4df}">
      <IDSymbol name="OpenDeviceManager" value="0x0100" />
    </GuidSymbol>
  </Symbols>
</CommandTable>

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