Add-ins extend Microsoft Visual Studio using the automation model (EnvDTE). Removed in Visual Studio 2015.
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Writing Visual Studio Add-Ins in C++
Would you consider it a reasonable idea to implement a Visual Studio 2010 add-in in C++ because it's the language you know best/that's normally used in-house/that gives you the full power to do even rare things? Today C++ seems quite unpopular in…

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How to make a Visual Studio addin set a control's Visible property in the designer
I have written a Visual Studio 2008 addin that adds controls to a Form. I want some of those controls' Visible property set to False so they're hidden during runtime, so I do this:
If hiddenControls.Contains(.ColumnName) Then 'hiddenControls is…

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Visual Studio auto version commenting on save
Is there a Visual Studio add-in which adds a line of comment at the top of the source file on save with someting like below?
/* Modified @ 2011-08-18 12:00 by John Smith - #some text */
Asking for "some text" or confirmation would be nice.
ty!

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Custom Visual Studio Context Menus
I want to use T4 templates to automatically create some code but I want to add a user input box (to ask for a name, for example) similar to the MVC3 "Add View" / "Add Controller" dialog when you right click on a specific folder. Is this possible…

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Visual Studio 2010 XML Comment Visualizer
I've seen references to this addin but it looks like this addin has been lost in the internet void but i've seen another sample like this that is a bit more greyed out. Does anyone know of any addin's like this that auto hide xml comments and…

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Visual Studio add-in : How to add a command to visual studio's tab context menu?
I've built a Visual Studio 2008 add-in . I want to add a command to the context menu of the code window's tab . The thing I didn't know is how to get the tab context menu in this way:
CommandBars cmdBars =…

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How to change/refresh appointment organizer data to add-ins task pane
I am working on Outlook add-in and i added the extension point of add-in from appointment organizer command surface. I have to execute some functionality in my add-ins so for that I have parsed required information from appointment organizer.
After…

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Transparent icons for Visual Studio Addin
I'm working with this tutorial:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228771.aspx
But it says, images MUST be 16x16, bmp.
I was wondering, is it possible to use transparent icons, and if how?
Also, is it possible that VS2010 (wpf and all) still…

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Outlook addin: Get elements from a selected calendar
I'm creating an Outlook add-in and i'd like to know how to get elements from a selected calendar?
For exemple, i need to get all Appointments items from a calendar named "myCalendar".
Now, i can just get all appointments items from ALL…

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Visual Studio Extension capturing event before stopping the Debug Process ( IVsDebugProcessNotify BeforeStopDebuggingProcess)
I am currently experimenting with Visual Studio Extensions.
I need to subscribe to an event that gets called before the actual Debugger is stopped.
Basically I am just Attaching to Managed Process (not running via F5). The problem is that Stop…

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What type of extension for VS (and how) to make, to generate C# or C++ code from some text [more so a model]?
I am new to Visual Studio Extensibility and want to make an addin/extension which shall do the following:
It should read all the files with a specific file extension (assume "*.ump").
It should process the text/code/whatever in the files.
It should…

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Addin for enumerating source files
I've been asked to develop an addin that goes through a C# solution and extracts all the documentation from the source files and export them to an HTML file. We can't use normal document generators since the export needs to be in a specific…

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Visual Studio Addin - Adding a Command to the file->new menu
I have a menu item in the Tools menu, but it needs to go in the file->new menu, however even changing "Tools" to "File" in the pre-generated visual studio code does not give the expected result!!!?

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vscode / sublime text make post request on save
For the purpose of rapid development I would like to REST POST (or websocket) changes to my server every time I save a css file. Is there an existing extension that can help me?

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Missing CommandBars.Item
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars;
In the following sample.
var applicationObject = (DTE2)application;
var allCommands = ((CommandBars)applicationObject.CommandBars);
Simple question: Why am I missing allComands.Item[]?

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