Chapter 11. Introducing the Automation Object Model
IN THIS CHAPTER
Visual Studio is built to be “extensible.” It ships with its own API to enable you, the developer, to control many of the pieces of the IDE.
The 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 macros and add-ins (discussed in Chapter 12, “Writing Macros,” and Chapter 13, “Writing Add-ins and Wizards”).
In this chapter, we discuss the layout and structure of the automation object model. We ...
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