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Anyone know of any good resources for getting up and going with Visual Studio Extensibility (tutorials, etc.)? There seems to be little around the net as far as I can see. Or mayabe I'm just using the wrong keywords in Google.

What I'm generally having trouble with, at the moment, is navigating through a solution and accessing code files.

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Not sure what you mean exactly by 'code-model'. A good place to start is MS VSX learning center. A complete chart of the exposed object model is here. There's also a chance that what you're after is FileCodeModel, in which case you can google it directly (or alternatively ProjectItem.FileCodeModel), and you'd get many examples and references.

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  • This is pretty much what I had in mind. Working with this API is a real bitch though! – Thiru Sep 08 '09 at 21:17
  • I've spent a few hours on MSDN website and still can't understand how to create a simplest VSIX extension from scratch. For example, add a menu item. MSDN is full of usual crap no one needs to read about and has no quickstarts. What a hell? – Ivan G. Apr 21 '11 at 21:19
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Here's a fantastic resource with a ton of HOW-Tos: Resources at MZ-Tools

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  • +1 Looks like several of those are out-dated, compared to VS2008. And then there is VS2010 just around the corner, which changes a lot. – eduncan911 Jan 29 '10 at 04:10
  • There's a lot there so I'm not surprised. If you have any good links feel free to add an answer or list them here so I can add them to the list. – Thiru Feb 09 '10 at 21:58
  • could you find a tutorial how to create a vs2010 extension from scratch? That wizard-generated poo doesn't make any sense to me. – Ivan G. Apr 21 '11 at 21:21
  • Sorry I've stopped working on my VS extension (for 2008). I don't have any good resources to point you to outside of what you'd get from a simple Google search. – Thiru Apr 27 '11 at 03:05