Chapter 5. The Add-in Wizard and the Automation Object Model
The Add-in Wizard provided by Microsoft Visual Studio .NET makes creating add-ins as easy as taking a Sunday drivejust choose a few options, and the wizard generates a road-ready add-in that you can take for a spin in the integrated development environment (IDE). Of course, you won't drive very far if you can't find the add-in's clutch, stick shift, and steering wheel (not to mention the gas pedal), so in the first half of this chapter we'll show you how the different parts of an add-in work together to make it go. Think of it as "driver's ed" for wizard-generated add-ins.There's no point in taking your add-in out on the road without a worthwhile destination in mind, so we've chosen one for you. In the second half of this chapter, we'll map out a scenic route through Visual Studio .NET's programming interface: the automation object model.