July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1026 pages
27h 59m
English
Content preview from Professional Visual Studio® 2008
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Chapter 52. Add-Ins
Among the most popular and well-known extensibility options in Visual Studio 2008, and one of the two main automation options, are add-ins.
Add-ins are a built-in part of the Visual Studio IDE, so you can start developing add-ins by installing one of the commercial editions of Visual Studio. Some of the other extensibility options require the installation of the Visual Studio SDK to work.
Moreover, add-ins have been with Visual Studio for a long time and along with macros are one of the most common extensibility and automation options in this IDE.
One of our goals in this part of the book is to get you started with these two automation options (add-ins and macros). In this chapter you will find a good introduction to add-ins teaching you how to develop them, deploy them, and start using them.
The topic of add-ins is much broader than a single chapter can cover, so if you want to step into real development of add-ins, you may need to refer to more resources to learn more about the topic. As you read in Chapter 51, the key point in your success with add-in and macro development is learning about the automation model and how to use the Development Tools Extensibility API to write good add-ins or macros.
Some of the major topics covered in this chapter include:
An introduction to add-ins
A step-by-step guide to using the Add-in Wizard in Visual Studio
The anatomy of an add-in
The structure of .AddIn files
How to start developing an add-in
How to debug your add-ins
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