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Professional Visual Studio Extensibility

Whether you want to integrate optimized builds, enhanced programming tools, or other rapid application development features, this unique resource shows you how to develop customized extensions. After a quick introduction of basic concepts, this book delves into the automation model and add-in development with the help of a case study, numerous examples, and sample code. You ll discover how to take advantage of the Add-in Wizard, manipulate solutions and projects, work with text in documents and programming code, create Tool Options Pages, and more.

Biography

Keyvan Nayyeri is a software architect and developer who has a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics. He was born in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, in 1984.
Keyvan’s main focus is on Microsoft development technologies and their related technologies, such as markup languages. He also has a serious passion for community activities and open-source software. As a result, he has authored many well-known .NET communities and has published various articles and tutorials on them. He is also a team leader and developer for several .NET open-source projects, where he increases his knowledge in many areas, including writing code for special purposes. As an old ASP.NET developer, Keyvan is also a big fan and follower of Telligent products and holds an MVP award for Community Server as well. Before this book, Keyvan recently co-authored Wrox Professional Community Server (Wrox, 2007).
When he’s not writing code, he enjoys blogging, reading technical books, listening to music, and playing video games. You can check out his blog, which contains his thoughts about matters both technical and personal, at www.nayyeri.net.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: What Is Visual Studio?

Chapter 2: The .NET Framework.

Chapter 3: Quick Tour.

Chapter 4: The Automation Model.

Chapter 5: Add - In Wizard.

Chapter 6: The Anatomy of an Add - In.

Chapter 7: Manipulating the Solutions, Projects, and Project Items.

Chapter 8: Manipulating Documents.

Chapter 9: Manipulating Code and the Build Process.

Chapter 10: The User Interface.

Chapter 11: Tools Options Page.

Chapter 12: Debugging and Testing Add - Ins.

Chapter 13: Deploying Add - Ins.

Chapter 14: Localizing Add-Ins.

Chapter 15: Visual Studio Shell.

Chapter 16: Domain - Specific Language Tools.

Chapter 17: Extending the Debugger.

Chapter 18: VSPackages.

Chapter 19: Code Snippets.

Chapter 20: Templates.

Chapter 21: MSBuild.

Chapter 22: Macros.

Appendix A: Third - Party Add - Ins and Extensions.

Appendix B: Resources.

Index.

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