When editing code with the Visual Studio Editor, you may have come across a very useful feature that allows for copying JSON or XML data to the clipboard, and then pasting new classes into your code based upon the structure of the data. For example, consider the following JSON data: {“employees”:[ {“firstName”:”John”, “lastName”:”Deere”, “age”:”25″},… Read more
Over the years, I’ve built more than a few project templates with wizard support. Usually for experimental purposes to help answer customer inquiries concerning templates and wizards. Lately, I’ve found myself regularly following steps similar to what I outlined in my previous blog entry: Creating a VSIX Deployable Project (or Item) Template with Custom… Read more
Every now and then, I get an interesting question or problem from a customer (thanks Uma) that highlights a need for some additional documentation, or at the least a sample or walkthrough to illustrate how to get from A to Z. In this instance, the question was “How do you localize a project (or item)… Read more
It took a bit longer than we’d have liked, but the VS team has finally gotten around to porting and posting the original VS SDK samples from VS 2010, over to VS 2013. Below is a listing of the samples and where they can be downloaded from. Build Progress Bar – VS 2013 A Visual… Read more
After adding support for a custom project type to a VS 2013 Isolated Shell project, you may encounter the following error dialog. This error message is displayed when the the isolated shell instance loads the wrong version of msbuild assemblies. In particular, the isolated shell’s .exe.config file (in my specific case, my MyShellony.exe.config)… Read more
Last night the VS team uploaded a new version of MPF_Proj for VS 2013 to CodePlex, which can be used to facilitate building custom project types for Visual Studio 2013. Links to earlier versions can be found in my earlier blog entry…. Read more
A recent post on the VS Extensibility Forum related to deploying a Single File Generator (also called a “Custom Tool”), inspired me to write a new VSIX Deployable Single File Generator Sample to the MSDN Code gallery. The existing samples were written a few releases back, and none of them take advantage of VSIX deployment…. Read more
This question posted to the VS Extensibility Forum recently caught my attention. Initially, I initially suspected this would have a simple answer, but it turns out the shell pulls this icon directly from a resource in msenv.dll. After examining the underlying IVsHierarchy implementation of the root solution node, it looked like the icon could be… Read more
The VS team recently released an update of the MPFProj sample sources to facilitate authoring custom project types for Visual Studio 2012. Including a link to each version below; as each is specific to a given version of the Visual Studio IDE. MPFProj for VS 2012 MPFProj for VS 2010 MPFProj for VS 2008 VS/MSDN… Read more
The goal of this blog is to highlight various topics and issues pertaining to extending the Visual Studio IDE, primarily through the use of the Visual Studio SDK. For this first post, we’ll list the various downloads, resources and support avenues that are at your disposal for issues pertaining to extending or customizing the Visual… Read more