Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

Editor Extension Points

The Visual Studio code editor has its own sort of API that it exposes via MEF. In MEF terms, the editor publishes a set of exports that you can then use within your own MEF parts to extend the editor in virtually unboundless ways.

With nearly 100% coverage of the editor’s features, the following feature areas are valid extension points that the Visual Studio editor exposes:

Content types—A content type in the context of a Visual Studio code editor is the type of text and syntax that the editor can parse and understand. If you think about this from a languages perspective, Visual Studio content types map directly to the ...