Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
Yesterday you learned about the extensibility options in Visual Studio .NET. By creating macros, you interacted with the integrated development environment (IDE) and you learned how to manipulate the text editor. Today, you take the next step in Visual Studio .NET automation and learn how to create add-ins. Add-ins are like macros in that they extend what you can do with the IDE. But when you use add-ins, you have access to more objects that you can use to control the environment. Today, you learn
- What add-ins are
- How to use the Add-Ins Project Wizard
- How to use forms in add-ins
- How to interact with the Toolbox through automation
• Table of Contents
• Index
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.