Visual Studio Hacks

Preface

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Chapter 10, Work with Visual Studio Tools

Visual Studio includes a number of different tools that are not part of

the normal IDE. This chapter covers how you can access a special com-

mand prompt, stress test applications, and generate code and UML, as

well as obfuscate code with the various tools included with Visual Stu-

dio.

Chapter 11, Visual Studio Tools for Office

Visual Studio Tools for Office give you the opportunity to extend Office

applications using the .NET language of your choice. This chapter cov-

ers the basics of using these tools, including a sample Word application

and a sample Excel application.

Chapter 12, Extending Visual Studio

The nice thing about an application like Visual Studio is that, because

its target audience is developers, the application authors know that

those developers will want to write code that extends the functionality

of the application. Visual Studio provides a number of different ways

that you can extend its functionality. This chapter covers the Visual Stu-

dio extensibility model and how to create Visual Studio add-ins, as well

as how to extend Visual Studio through normal Windows applications.

Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

A large number of add-ins and applications that enhance the functional-

ity of Visual Studio are available. This chapter covers some of the better

add-ins and applications that have not already been covered in other ...