So I have a managed Add-In (VS 2005), where I create a tool window by CreateToolWindow2(...).
This works fine. However I want it to come up as a tabbed document as soon
as it is visible, but I ahve not found any way to do that? I can, after it
has become visible, make it as a ...

1. Are there new VS.NET 2005 automation samples avaliable? (or just use the
2003 samples?)
2. When will the RC VS SDK become available?
Thanks,

I've got a package that adds a command to the project context menu owned by
another package.  My package adds this command to the context menu and
handles the event of the user selecting the command.  It's possible to have
more than one of the projects in the solution explorer, ...

I can get a list of files for a project.  I can get a list of dlls produced
by a project.  How can I correlate them?
In particular, I want to know if a dll contains web pages or stuff from the
App_Code directory.

I'm not sure how to describe what I'd like to do, but I will try.  I have a
toolwindow that hosts a UIHierarchyWindow control.  The hierarchy inside this
control has many of its items delegate back to hierarchy items in the
solution explorer by means of the VSHPROPID_AltHierarchy ...

I am using ScanTokenAndProvideInfoAboutIt (from IScanner interface) to
scan all the tokens and return information about the position, color etc.
If there any other function in other classes (like
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.Source class) where these tokens are available

I want to write a macro for VS .NET, which uses EnvDTE for
automatically implementing a visitor pattern on a simle hierarchy of
classes. Here an example:
public abstract class Person{}

I've been looking through the extensibility documentation without much
success. I would like to add a menu item to the .Net IDE, and when clicked it
will run the project in debug mode with options specified by my add-on. ie.
the result should be as if the user has hit F5 but with ...

Since add-ins don't appear to be presently supported in VC++ Express Beta 2,
does anyone know how you can programmatically add a toolbar and put a toolbar
button in that toolbar corresponding to an existing External Tool ?  I used
to do this with an add-in in VS.NET 2003, but ...

i need to create a custom project in vs.net 2005.but all these versions of
beta and vsip is confusing me.
can somebody help as to what exactly i need(vs.net beta2,vsip,ctp) for it.
what exactly is a CTP

I'm creating my own project type (based on MPF
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.Project).  How do I get it to appear in the
list of valid file types in the Add Existing Project dialog (off the solution
node)?

I'm trying to list the checked files in the pending checkins window in
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, I can get a reference to the window but I have no
idea how to get to the items.
Can anyone help?

I'm developing a set of .NET components which I'm going to distribute in an
MSI installer.  
Once the software has been installed the user will obviously have to add the
components to their toolbox, but I'd like to avoid requiring them to have to

The blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2005/05/25/421798.aspx
describes how to get project properties using the automation model.  
What if the project system does not implement the properties part of

Sorry - still ramping up on VS integration...
I need to write a VS extension with the following partial requirements:
- Extension written as manged code (or as much as possible)
- Add-in will access user objects at run/debug-time (managed objects a