Extending VS2010: Control your IDE Destiny
by Jeff Klawiter
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
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Microsoft has made a giant leap with Visual Studio 2010. Moving to a WPF interface and majorly overhauling the process of adding and managing extensions. The inclusion of the new VSIX package model and built in managed classes for interacting with the Editor. It has never been easier to integrate your interface ideas into your IDE. This track will cover VSIX packages, some of the editor Adorners, debugging your extension and implementing some more advanced features like Menu Commands and Tool Windows.
About the Author
Jeff Klawiter is a Senior .NET Developer at Sierra Bravo Corporation. After spending the 6 years of his professional career as a PHP programmer he fully embraced .NET. He has worked on projects in ASP.NET, .NET CF 1.-3.5, WinForms, Surface, Silverlight. Everything from handheld warehouse management systems, vending machines to multitouch surface applications. His ambitions in life are to learn all there is to know about programming before he dies and to one day make his own dragon with Biological Programming. He currently holds MCTS Windows and MCPD ASP.NET certifications.