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Aztic

✅ Menus and Submenus in VSIX Extensions

I'm quite new with extension development and i'm stuck in what is seems to be a simple element but i can't figure out what i'm missing.

I'm trying to accomplish a menu (submenu?) to put all commands of the extension like some already do (like aws toolkit, codemaid, etc). But no matter what i do, the commands are displayed just as a separated commands

This is the content of my vsct file
<?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" />
  <Commands package="guidSandboxVsixPackage">
  
    <Groups>
      <Group guid="guidSandboxVsixPackageCmdSet" id="MyMenuGroup" priority="0x100">
        <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDM_VS_MENU_TOOLS" />
      </Group>
    </Groups>

    <Buttons>
      <Button guid="guidSandboxVsixPackageCmdSet" id="TestCommandId" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
        <Parent guid="guidSandboxVsixPackageCmdSet" id="MyMenuGroup" />
        <Icon guid="guidImages" id="bmpPic1" />
        <Strings>
          <ButtonText>Test Command</ButtonText>
        </Strings>
      </Button>
    </Buttons>
    
    <Menus>
      <Menu guid="guidSandboxVsixPackageCmdSet" id="MyMenuGroup" priority="0x100" type="Menu">
        <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDM_VS_MENU_TOOLS" />
        <Strings>
          <ButtonText>Test Menu</ButtonText>
          <CommandName>Test Menu</CommandName>
        </Strings>
      </Menu>
    </Menus>

    <Bitmaps>
      <Bitmap guid="guidImages" href="Resources\TestCommand.png" usedList="bmpPic1, bmpPic2, bmpPicSearch, bmpPicX, bmpPicArrows, bmpPicStrikethrough" />
    </Bitmaps>
  </Commands>

  <Symbols>
    
    <!-- This is the package guid. -->
    <GuidSymbol name="guidSandboxVsixPackage" value="{ecf416eb-b745-4e9f-82b9-18e7032e9a09}" />

    <GuidSymbol name="guidSandboxVsixPackageCmdSet" value="{5e67b541-c9e2-459e-8eaf-da5fda34f6ed}">
      <IDSymbol name="MyMenuGroup" value="0x1020" />
      <IDSymbol name="TestCommandId" value="0x0100" />
      <IDSymbol name="MyMenu" value="0x9999" />
      <IDSymbol value="4129" name="cmdidTestToolWindow1Command" />
      <IDSymbol name="IDM_VS_MENU_EXTENSIONS" value="0x0091" />
    </GuidSymbol>

    <GuidSymbol name="guidImages" value="{bc41b49b-0ed7-4313-b16e-5d78d5c21357}">
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPic1" value="1" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPic2" value="2" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicSearch" value="3" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicX" value="4" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicArrows" value="5" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicStrikethrough" value="6" />
    </GuidSymbol>
  
    <GuidSymbol value="{55dea3b6-f9bd-4d6d-8ee7-35505a1d3669}" name="guidImages1">
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPic1" value="1" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPic2" value="2" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicSearch" value="3" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicX" value="4" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicArrows" value="5" />
      <IDSymbol name="bmpPicStrikethrough" value="6" />
    </GuidSymbol>
  </Symbols>
</CommandTable>


What i've tried so far:
(order or hierarchy)
- (tools) -> group -> menu -> command
- (tools) -> menu -> group -> command
- (tools) -> menu -> command

- Making the menu and the group have the same id (the current content: MyMenuGroup)
- Making the menu and the group have different ids
- Trying different types for the Menu (Menu, MenuController, etc)
- Specify different child elements like CommandFlag in the Menu attribute (since they said in the docs that was required)

At this point i don't really know what i'm missing. I've also tried to search for examples in this repo but without luck
https://github.com/microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples

Are there any docs / articles that can guide me in the right direction?
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GitHub
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