I'm looking for arguments which will help my boss decide to buy Visual
Studio instead of Delphi 2005 :D
Any help would be appriciated.
What are the possibilites of adding some extra features to this product?

I am using VSIP to create a language service. I implemented the colorizer,
hidden regions, and hooked into the code window context menu and hi-jacked
the Go To Definition and Go To Reference commands to make them do what I want.
I am now trying to add another command button to the ...

I'm writing a message regarding VStudio's extensibility.  I'm mostly
interested in what I heard long ago before I started using Visual Studio
.NET.  Are developers able to extend it to the point of adding their own
language, for whatever purpose, exposing their language to the ...

I wish to open a document window without attaching it to a file. How can i
do this?
For example, i would like to click on a toolbar button to open the document,
without attaching a file to it (i wish to present a data that is already in

The steps that used to work for getting access to the IDesignerHost for a web
form no longer seem to work in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1.  Below is the code
that works on 2003.  When running this code in 2005 the cast to IDesignerHost
always returns null.

I have the version of Whidbey from MSDN (Version 8.0.40607.16) and am having
problems trying to convert a VS2003 Add-In.
If I ask for ...DTE.CommandBars, I get an object, but don't seem to be able
to cast it to anything useful like a CommandBars collection.

I've written an VS 2003 .NET add-in that i've sent out to some people.
For all of them, the addin is installing without errors.
But for one of them, the addin's menu item under the Tool menu is not
being displayed. The addin IS appearing in the add-in manger window and

I need to trap Ctrl-Break event from my code and can't find any clues in
documentation. Has anyone done it? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone know of a good tool for static analysis of Managed C++ code??  Already
have several for plain C++, need something for Managed (.NET) C++, and I
don't care if it's integrated or not with VS.NET.

I have written following code in my VisualStudio.NET addin to retrieve the
line number where the cursor is placed.
TextSelection selection = (TextSelection)
this.applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Selection;

I have created a custom commandbar with commandbarbuttons. The
commandbarbuttons have click events. Everything works fine as long as I click
those buttons in the context of console applications. If I unload console
application and load  winforms or web applications, click events ...

I'm trying to obtain a PLK for VS2005, but the maximum alternative is VS
2003(http://www.vsipdev.com/plkregister.aspx).
We are about to release a version of our product and we will need a PLK.
ttapsa

I wanted to create a Visual Studio Add-in that does some sort of custom
code-generation. This is just a small internal project(mostly
proof-of-concept), and does not involve any product based on this. I am
confused about whether the VSIP Affiliate program allows me to do that.

This is in reference to
http://groups.google.ca/groups?start=50&hl=en&lr=&group=microsoft.public.vsnet.v
sip&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&selm=OYKIjUBpEHA.2784%40TK2M
SFTNGP14.phx.gbl
The reason why linking fails is that the C++ files in
dbgmetric[d].lib libraries ...

It took me around 20 minutes to create a new project type.
First off, well done VSIP team - you've made an elegant class library;
VSIP 8 is about a million times easier to use VSIP 7.1.
On omission, however, seems to be source control.