1) There is no direct way in the extensibility model to manage regions, you
need VSIP SDK. As workaround, maybe you can move the cursor rto the regions
and then invoke the VS.NET commands (DTE.ExecuteCommand(....)), not sure.
2) You can take any add-in sample (in the forum of below there are a lot of
resources) but I am not sure if VB.NET standard will have the needed
assemblies that you need to reference, namely EnvDTE.dll and VSLangProj.dll.

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> Hello All,
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> 2) I wish to write addins for visual basic.net however since i am using vb.net standard and not visual studios, i do not have the addin template.
How can i get around this?
> WStoreyII