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Make long diagnostic messages in the Dependencies tree easier to consume
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Description
When a project or package reference has an error/warning, the message is shown in the Dependencies tree as a child item (modulo #3780 which will be fixed soon).
Some diagnostics are very hard to read when presented this way, depending upon the format of the message produced by NuGet.
We should have a general way to make consuming these messages easier.
The error text is available in both the Error List:
And the browse object:
Customer [feedback](https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/963841/fix-this-very-long-error-in-solution-explorer-tree.html) is that the Error List is not discoverable enough, and I expect the same is true of the properties panel.
Ideas:
- If the message is a single line of text, wrap the tree item's caption at a fixed number of characters.
- Add a context menu item to copy the text to the clipboard.
- Produce a richer tool tip (this will be possible once #5697 is complete)
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