I wrote an AddIn that modifies the contents of the XSX file that is
generated by the DataSet generator and am trying to figure out how to
refresh the DataSet so it updates the design-time view (designer) of the
Dataset.  Currently, I am closing and reopening the DataSet (in the ...

I want to create a package in which user edit some xml file,the result
should be a single executable
in which the xml is embedded as a a resource and some code process the
xml

I am trying to add my controls into the toolbox using the DTE, ToolBoxItems
etc interfaces. I am using the classic COM object interfaces exposed by the
IDE. Everything workd fine upto adding of new tab. It shows up and all that
good stuff. When I try to add ToolBoxItem into ...

I wrote a macro to replace a bunch of private members that were moved from a
class into its base class.  There's like 70 files that need this macro run in
them.  When I run it, it renders to the screen very slowly (like 2 minutes),
then devenv.exe consumes around 1 gb of memory ...

I am migrating my VS2005 package to VS2008 using the VS2008 Beta 2
and the VSSDK2008 August 2007 build.
To do this, I have created a brand new extensibility project.
This package adds items to the VS Toolbox by means of

I have been working on a custom tool and editor and I have one way to
load the current project so that I can get to the references, but that
is only working with the custom tool. I need to acces the current
project from the custom editor. What I am currently trying is the

I really need some help!
I'm developing an VSIP package which has some toolwindows. I have one
class ToolWindow, which is inherited from ToolWindowPane and I'm
hosting all UserControls is need in such a ToolWindow instance (using

I also tried to ask this question in another forum, but I did not get
an answer there: I have the following problem: My C# VSIP Package
brings up some toolwindows. Each of it hosts a UserControl. I'm using
the following lines to create the toolwindow:

IVsLiteTree allows me to suspend updates to the solution explorer.
The problem, is that I can't find out where to acquire this interface.
Does anyone know how I can get my hands on this interface... either

We'd really like to use the isolated shell but there's a hard requirement
that we support clickonce deployment.  I know there is some documentation on
deploying COM apps with clickonce but will it be possible to clickonce
deploy an isolated shell along with our integration ...

I'm trying to use QueryEditFiles from the IVsQueryEditQuerySave2 interface.  
The problem I'm having is that this method gets called a lot when it
shouldn't be.  When Visual Studio is loading projects it gets called on the
project file a number of times.   If I start to edit a ...

I'm starting a new project based on VS 2008 beta 2 and the VS 2008 SDK
August 2007 CTP. We want to provide the VS Shell IDE in isolated mode for a
custom language that we have developed. I'm wondering whether I should start
with a VS IDE project to which I would add various ...

Is it possible to use Team System integration with the VS2008 isolation mode
shell?  My machine has Team System installed and it works fine from full
blown VS2008.  From within my basic isolation mode shell it is not available
though.

I'm trying to understand how to write packages and I found the sample how to
create your own editor and implemented IVsEditorFactory following way:
===cut===
// Instantiate a code window of type IVsCodeWindow.

For a C++ project, how do I access the setting for "C++ > Preprocessor > Preprocessor definitions"
from a VB macro?
I want to write a macro that verifies that all "Release" configurations have "NDEBUG" set.