© Rishabh Verma 2020
R. VermaVisual Studio Extensibility Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5853-8_5

5. Developing Real-World Extensions

Rishabh Verma1  
(1)
Hyderabad, India
 

This chapter builds on the last chapter and continues our odyssey of developing Visual Studio extensions. In this chapter, we will develop a new set of extensions for displaying an information bar and custom code generation. While developing these extensions, we will also advance our knowledge and learn new aspects and concepts of Visual Studio.

In the last chapter, we saw that the ToolWindowPane class exposes infobar APIs. In the next section, we will see how we can make use of these APIs to display an infobar.

Visual Studio Extension to Display Infobar

Infobar is one ...

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