Building Visual Studio IDE Extensions from SDK download to Gallery upload

Jason Zander's WebLog - VS2010 Tutorial: Building VS Extensions with the Beta 1 SDK

“The SDK is used to create extensions to Visual Studio itself like those you can find on VS Gallery.  You can download it here.  The installation is done on top of an existing install of VS 2010 and gives you a set of build tools, templates, and a short cut for debugging devenv.exe (VS) that can be used for testing your new extensions.

Once you get the SDK installed, you will find a new set of templates.  Let’s start by doing File, New Project.  Type ‘editor’ in the search box to find example editor extensions:

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As you can see, loading new items, creating new items, etc is very straightforward.  I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with.”

I thought there was a number of interesting points in this point, such as how the extension debugging gets hooked up and a look into the .vsixmanifest designer…

 

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