Application #96. Create a Visual Studio .NET Add-In

During a development project, you might find yourself creating assorted utilities to perform various coding or resource management tasks. Often, these utilities end up as stand-alone applications that require you to leave the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to use them. Add-ins provide a powerful way for you to incorporate custom functionality into the IDE. The Add-ins can even interact with and modify the IDE.

Building Upon...

Application #4: Try/Catch/Finally

Application #7: Object-Oriented Features

New Concepts

Visual Studio .NET provides a set of classes that allow you to automate and extend the IDE’s features. The EnvDTE and Extensibility assemblies ...

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