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Harmeet Singh - 13 Aug 2004 17:07 GMT

Hi

I had extended Visual Studio 6.0 to view my custom data structures with an
Add-In. For example, instead of doing quick watch on a contour structure to
see {startx, starty, width, height, num_points, ...}. I would click on my
custom watch toolbar button and see the contour as a bitmap in a custom
add-in viewer.

I can't find how to port it to Visual Studio 7.0

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Harmeet

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Carlos J. Quintero [MVP] - 17 Aug 2004 10:27 GMT

You have a lot of resources to get you started with VS7 addins in the Files
section of the forum below:

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> Harmeet

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"Ed Dore [MSFT]" - 18 Aug 2004 23:58 GMT

Hi Harmeet,

The addin architecture is different enought in VS .Net that you're probably
better off creating a new addin with the VS .Net project wizard, and adding
back the functionality a piece at a time, using the new DTE automation
features.

In addition to the newsgroup Carlos pointed out, I can recommend a couple
additional resources:

"Inside Visual Studio .Net 2003" from MSPress.
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3ff9c915-30e5-430e-
95b3-621dccd25150&displaylang=en

That last link is to a good number of addin samples that are written in
C++, C# and VB .Net.

Sincerely,
Ed Dore [MSFT]

This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Carlos J. Quintero [MVP] - 19 Aug 2004 09:21 GMT

The book and the URL that you mention were already included in the Files
section of the Yahoo forum. In fact, I have included pointers to most
resources (books, articles, docs, samples, etc.) that I have found in the
last 2-3 years. But it is worth to mention the book explictly because it is
a must have.

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> In addition to the newsgroup Carlos pointed out, I can recommend a couple
> additional resources:
>
> "Inside Visual Studio .Net 2003" from MSPress.
> http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3ff9c915-30e5-430e-

> 95b3-621dccd25150&displaylang=en
>
> That last link is to a good number of addin samples that are written in
> C++, C# and VB .Net.

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