Chapter 13. Introducing the Automation Object Model

In This Chapter

• An Overview of the Automation Object Model

• Solution and Project Objects

• Working with Windows

• Command Bars

• Documents

• Command Objects

• Debugger Object

• Automation Events

Visual Studio is built to be extensible. It ships with its own application programming interface (API) to enable you, the developer, to control many of the pieces of the IDE.

This API is called the Visual Studio automation object model, and understanding its capabilities is the key to unlocking your ability to program and control the IDE itself by writing code in the form of add-ins (discussed in Chapter 14, “Writing Add-Ins and Wizards”).

In this chapter, we discuss the layout and structure of ...

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