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Taking the Next Step with Add-ins

As you can see by the simple add-in that you wrote today, there's a lot you can do with add-ins. The next step in add-in development is to study the other objects that you can work with in add-in projects and the EnvDTE namespace.

To start becoming familiar with those objects, search Dynamic Help for the various objects that you can interact with. They might include

• CommandBars object

• OutputWindow object

• TextWindow object

• TaskList object

• CodeDom namespace

Each of these objects gives you access to the IDE. CodeDom is a super-powerful namespace that helps you create methods to add language-specific code to the Code Editor. To see how you would look up the TextWindow object in Dynamic Help, Figure 17.15 is an example ...