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Visual Studio Hacks
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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 6, Speed Hacks
#47 Build a Custom Tool
HACK
Write the Code
To create a custom tool, you first need to create a new project in the lan-
guage of your choice and then create a new class in that project. The next
thing you need to do is set your class to inherit from a class called
BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite.
In Visual Studio .NET 2002, this class was available in the Microsoft.
VSDesigner.dll assembly. However, starting with Visual Studio .NET 2003,
this class was made private and you could no longer inherit from it.
Thankfully, someone at Microsoft has made this class available for down-
load from GotDotNet, so before you can inherit from this class, you must
first download it from http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/
Details.aspx?SampleGuid=4AA14341-24D5-45AB-AB18-B72351D0371C.
Figure 6-3. The VSTweak Alias Manager
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The zip file downloaded from this link contains all the code for the class, but
all you really need is the BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite.dll. Reference this .dll
from your project, add the
using or Imports statement for the
CustomToolGenerator namespace, and then you can inherit from the
BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite class in your code.
After inheriting from
BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite, you will need to imple-
ment the abstract ...
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