Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Setting Add-in Parameters

The Add-in Wizard collects all the information necessary for defining the core parameters for the add-in project: the language you want to develop in, the application host, runtime information about the add-in (such as a description), and information for the About box. Let’s briefly examine each of the wizard pages.

Selecting a Language

After an initial welcome page, the first piece of information you need to provide is the language you want to use for developing the add-in (see Figure 15.2).

Figure 15.2 Picking the add-in language.

The list of languages available depends on two things:

• The languages installed as part ...