Visual Basic® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 54. Introducing Visual Studio Extensibility

In This Chapter

• Introducing Visual Studio Extensibility

• Building a Visual Studio Package

• Deploying Visual Studio Extensions

• Managing Extensions with the Extension Manager

• Managing Add-Ins with the Add-In Manager

• Extending the Code Editor

Visual Studio is with no doubt a great application, offering hundreds of integrated tools that cover hundreds of aspects of the development experience. It is also a complex and composite application, made of many components. For example, each tool window is a single component developed separately and then put together with the rest of the environment. Developing Visual Studio components and then putting them together is something made possible ...