Visual Studio extensibility development extending Visual Studio IDE for productivity, quality, tooling, and analysis
Learn the extensibility model of Visual Studio to enhance the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). This book will cover every aspect, starting from developing an extension to publishing it and making it available to the end user. The book begins with an introduction to the basic c...
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[United States]
Apress
2020
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Visual Studio Extension to Display Infobar
- Starting the Infobar Extension
- Displaying the Infobar
- Writing an Infobar Display Class
- Modifying the Event Handler
- Running the Extension
- Visual Studio Extension to Generate Code
- Starting the Code Generating Extension
- Generating the Code
- Writing the Code Generation Class
- Updating the Command Class
- Running the Extension
- Summary
- Class References
- Infobar Type System
- Code Generation Types
- Chapter 6: Developing Real-World Extensions for Visual Studio Editor
- Visual Studio Editor
- Editor Subsystems
- What Happens When We Say That We're Building the Code?
- How Do We Use MSBuild in Visual Studio?
- Async Await
- NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn)
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Getting Started
- Creating Your First Visual Studio 2019 Extension
- Open Packaging Convention
- VSIX
- Grokking the Structure of a Boilerplate Extension
- VSIXAnatomyPackage.cs File
- Source.extension.vsixmanifest File
- References
- Properties
- Anatomy of Extension
- Examining the Files
- [Content_Types].xml
- Catalog.json
- DumpExtensions.dll
- Extension.vsixmanifest
- Manifest.json
- VSIXAnatomy.dll
- Chapter 4: Developing Your First Extensions
- Extensions to Aid Development of VS Extensions
- Visual Studio Extension to Perform Search
- Starting the Extension
- Adding the Command to the Menu
- Adding an Icon and Keyboard Support
- Writing the Search Functionality
- Testing the Extension
- Tool Window Extension to Show DTE Object
- Starting the Extension
- Adding a ToolWindowPane
- Writing the Extension
- Running the Extension
- Summary
- Class References
- DTE
- Document Interface
- TextSelection
- DialogPage
- ToolWindowPane
- Chapter 5: Developing Real-World Extensions
- VSIXAnatomy.pkgdefs
- Examining the Other Parts of the Extension
- Language Packs
- Dependencies and Other References
- How Does Visual Studio Discover and Load an Extension?
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Extending Visual Studio
- Know Your IDE
- Visual Studio 2019 User Interface
- Visual Studio Extensibility Model
- Extending Menus and Commands
- Tools Menu Extension
- Extern
- Include
- Define
- Commands
- Menus
- Groups
- Buttons
- Combos
- Bitmaps
- The Condition Attribute
- The VSCT File Continued
- Running the Code
- The AsyncPackage Abstract Class
- FAQs
- Summary
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Basics Primer
- Why Should I Extend Visual Studio?
- Compiler
- What Is an SDK (Software Development Kit)?
- Recap of Tree Data Structure
- Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
- XML and JSON
- Serialization and Deserialization
- Revisiting Visitor, Abstract Factory, and Factory Design Patterns
- Design Pattern
- Factory Design Pattern
- Abstract Factory
- Visitor Pattern
- MSBuild Basics
- What Is Code Compilation?