Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

Creating Your Own MEF-Based Editor Extension

You have now learned all the ingredients necessary to build your own extension. Let’s walk through a simple example, end to end, and build an extension that displays some basic code metrics in a window in the corner of the editor. Functionally, you need to accomplish the following:

Compute the required code stats by parsing the currently loaded code file

Expose a set of properties on a WPF user control to hold those metrics (and which also displays those metrics)

Display the WPF user control as an ...