August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed
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Summary
In this chapter, we described how to leverage the power of Visual Studio’s automation APIs to create add-ins and wizards.
You investigated the nearly unlimited potential for extending Visual Studio by using add-ins that call into the automation API and expose their interfaces in a variety of ways, including custom tool windows and dialog boxes.
And you also saw how to once again leverage the ubiquitous automation object model and the built-in wizard engine to create your own custom wizards for adding new projects, adding new project items, or executing nearly any other type of step-by-step process within Visual Studio.
In the next chapter, we explore another, final way to extend Visual Studio using the Managed Extensibility Framework. ...