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Chapter 16. Extending the Code Editor

In This Chapter

The Extensibility Problem

MEF Architecture

The Visual Studio Editor and MEF

Creating Your Own MEF-Based Editor Extension

You have seen in the preceding chapter that Visual Studio Extension (VSIX) projects provide an easy way to extend the capabilities of the IDE with custom commands, custom ...

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