Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Creating an Add New Item Wizard

Here are the basic steps for creating a wizard:

1. Create a new class library project; in this project, create a new class that implements the IDTWizard interface.

2. In the wizard class, write the code in the Execute method to perform the wizard’s tasks and display its UI.

3. Create a .vsz file for the wizard.

4. Create or edit a .vsdir file to reference the new wizard and the .vsz file.

To solidify these concepts, let’s look at them in action. We follow the development of a wizard from start to finish. In this case, the wizard is a C# Add Item Wizard. Its purpose is to collect some basic data from the user and then create a Tools Options page class (much like you manually did earlier in the chapter) that has ...