Can I add my add-in into "analyze" section of Visual Studio menu?

Question

Visual Studio main window top menu contains "Analyze" item that upon expansion shows items such as "profiler", "run code analysis", etc. If I want to add my add-in command invokation into any Visual Studio menu I need to craft a command table (.vsct file) and declare that my command belongs to a specific section by specifying its id.

The problem is MSDN only lists menu IDs for sections other than "analyze" - "analyze" section is never mentioned.

Is adding my add-in to "analyze" section allowed?

Answer 1

You'll need this in the <Symbols> portion of your .vsct:

<GuidSymbol name="guidDiagMenuGroup" value="{CD68F8E6-2842-4F7E-AF7B-5A019631CEB5}">
  <IDSymbol name="IDM_DIAG_TOPLEVELMENU" value="0x0001"/>
</GuidSymbol>

Then your parent for your group should be:

<Parent guid="guidDiagMenuGroup" id="IDM_DIAG_TOPLEVELMENU"/>