Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter presented the many community options inside Visual Studio 2010. Developers can expect to feel part of a larger community that surrounds .NET. Microsoft has built in a community to .NET. You see it with the Start Page inside Visual Studio, in the options on the Help menu, and within the capability to search for, use, and create community content.

Don’t forget that being part of the developer community means giving back to it once in a while. Visual Studio provides the tools to make that happen. You can create and share project and item templates, code snippets, macros, add-ins, and controls. After you’ve created these items, Visual Studio provides the Visual Studio Content Installer framework and the VSIX project template ...