I'm writing a Visual Studio extension, which allows editing specific type of files in the project. This file serves as a description for further automated code generation (similarly to, say, Entity...

In our project we use a lot of T4 code generation. We use an ORM called DataObjects.Net of X-Tensive. We have a bit a chicken-egg problem. We need to compile the classes of the ORM before we can us...

Is there a way to include folder into VC++ project programmatically via VCProject or EnvDTE interface?

I've read a fair amount about the improvements of the extensibility story in VS2010 being much improved (i.e. MEF based, etc.), but have yet to get my hands dirty. I've recently ran across a real w...

I am currently changing a company-internal VS extension to support Visual Studio 2012. What I am struggling with is how to make the UI adapting to the active VS theme dynamically. I found several ...

I am new to Visual Studio Extensibility and am try to implement one of the Microsoft Walkthroughs from the VS 2012 SDK (Displaying Statement Complete). I am having some difficulty with one class in...

I would like to add a button to the top of the list of options returned by Visual Studio's IntelliSense. When the button is clicked, my custom code will be executed (which will, among other things,...

I am trying to create a VS package in which, I have added a menu command to the context menu, so it appears when you right click an item in the solution explorer. Now on clicking the command, I wan...

While trying to develop my first VS Addin, I am having issues in firing DTE2 events. Basically, the DocumentOpened and LineChanged events don't fire for some reason. What important part did I miss...

Is there a way to get the HWnd pointer to the top window of Visual Studio 2010 from a VSIX extension? (I would like to change the title of the window).

I am writing an extension to Visual Studio intellisense and would like to get the type of the item just before the cursor in a C# editor. I currently have a ITextBuffer which I can use to get the ...

I'm trying to figure out how to get the visible lines in a IWpfTextView to place a ViewPort and/or Text Adornment based on visible lines. It seems that these 4 are involved in some way, at least t...

I am writing a customization package for Visual Studio 2010 (vsix). What I need to do is to add a context menu button to the Project nodes in Solution Explorer. I've managed to get the context m...

I have a custom output pane set up in a VsPackage similar to the following: ///-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /// <summary>This property g...

From a macro I am accessing a command that is on the toolbar: Dim name As String = "Macros.MyMacros.MyMacros.ToggleExceptions" Dim cmd As EnvDTE.Command = DTE.Commands.Item(name) How do I now ch...

C# unfortunately does not allow for extra user-defined syntax. But I was wondering whether it was possible to surpass this limitation by tapping into the visual studio onbuild-event. Suppose I hav...

When creating a Visual Studio Add-In, how can you utilise an app.config for the add-in. If I add one to the project and deploy it then when the Add-In runs and I programmatically try to access it v...

Given a type name, is it possible to use DTE to find the ProjectItem that the type is located in? Something similar to how the Navigate To... dialog works in Visual Studio 2010. The closest I coul...

I have some tools that perform updates on .NET solutions, but they need to know the directory where the solution is located. I added these tools as External Tools, where they appear in the IDE Too...

I have successfully created (and manually edited) an Item Template that will add a number of files in one 'shot'. I want these files to all be created under a folder that should be created at the s...