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Hey,

We are trying to add a condition to the addin file which would ensure that a particular menuitem would automatically become enabled when a file with a specific extension is opened and become disabled otherwise. We have found the activeextension attribute in the condition tag but are not able to use it to get the desired result. Can anyone tell us how we should go about doing that? The code that we tried out (given below) results in the menuitem not being displayed at all because obviously a file with the ".aspx" extension is not open when sharpdevelop is started. 

Path name = "/SharpDevelop/Workbench/MainMenu/File">

<Condition activeextension="*.aspx"/>

<MenuItem id = "PreviewBrowser"

insertbefore = "Print"

label = "Preview in Browser"

class = "ASPDesignerDotNet.Src.PreviewBrowser"/>

</Condition>

</Path>

You need to specify the name of the condition type you want to use. ActiveContentExtension compares an extension, it does not try to do pattern matching, so you cannot use a * there. Also, the default action for a menu item where the condition fails is to make the menu item invisible. If you instead want to disable it, use action="Disable"

Example:

<Condition name="ActiveContentExtension" activeextension=".aspx" action = "Disable">

 
The available conditions are documented in SharpDevelop/doc/technotes/ConditionList.html (in SharpDevelop's source code download).