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Chapter 12, Extending Visual Studio
#89 Writing a Visual Studio Add-in
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Visual Studio also adds a great deal of the boilerplate code to the Connect.cs
file for you. If you open it, you will see all of the required methods already
created with default code. You could actually run this add-in already, and it
would handle the command—it just wouldn’t do anything.
Add Menu Item
Since you checked the Tools menu option in the project wizard, Visual Stu-
dio will have already added the command for your add-in to the Tools
menu, but you usually want to also have a menu item somewhere else. In
this example, I want to have a menu item also on the right-click menu. To
do this, you will need to modify the default code that the wizard generated.
When your add-in is loaded, Visual Studio calls the
OnConnection method—
this is where you will need to add commands. Here is the default code cre-
ated by the wizard:
public void OnConnection(object application,
Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode connectMode,
object addInInst, ref System.Array custom)
{
applicationObject = (_DTE)application;
Figure 12-12. New projects in Solution Explorer