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Writing an add-in for VC++ .NET 2002

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spider907 - 30 Dec 2004 12:31 GMT
I have Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2002 Standard edition and I wish to write an
add-in for the IDE. In the documentation it says that there should be a
wizard ("Visual Studio Add-In Wizard") in the new project selection that
should allow me to do this but it is not there! I am guessing that because I
own the Standard edition, it doesn't come with this wizard but is there any
other way that I can create an add in for the IDE? Is there any way that I
could obtain the wizard?

Thanks in advance
Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP] - 03 Jan 2005 11:29 GMT
The add-in wizard, in case that standard edition has it (which I am not
sure), should be in the Other Projects, Extensibility Projects node of the
Project Types treeview of the New Project dialog.

If the standard edition doesn?t have it, you can still build add-ins since
the wizard is just a code generator. Basically an add-in is a Class Library
project with some references to Extensibility.dll, EnvDTE.dll, etc. and a
class which implements the interface Extensibility.IDTExtensibility2.

I would recommend you the book "Inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET",
Microsoft Press, by Craig Skibo and others, whose chapter 6 "Add-In
Architecture" is exactly about how to write an add-in without the add-in
wizard. And in any case it is a must have book about developing add-ins for
VS.NET...

You can get also a lot of resources (docs, samples, articles, knowledge
base, books, etc.) about add-ins in the Yahoo forum below (free join),
specially in the Files section:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vsnetaddin/

My web site (below too) has also a list of MSDN Knowledge Base Community
Articles that I have written about bugs, problems and howtos that you can
find interesting.

Best regards.

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