Visual Studio Add-In Programming

Local

• Cursor Position, how to get it
• Documentation, where to find it
• GUIDs, Special

External

• Automatically putting breakpoints at every function in the file in the editor
• http://devresource.hp.com/technical_white_papers/codemodel1.pdf
• "Visual Studio Extensibility Center" (MSDN)

GUIDs, Special

Original info from ...mono-devel-list/2003-June/001103.html

Cursor Position, how to get it

TextDocument objTextDocument = (TextDocument) applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument");
EditPoint objEditPoint = objTextDocument.Selection.AnchorPoint.CreateEditPoint();
// objEditPoint is at the Cursor Position
objEditPoint.Insert( "/* JBP Test */");

Menu item is missing from Tools Menu

Change the part of OnConnection() that decides when to add the control from something like this:

if( connectMode == Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup)

To:

if( (connectMode == Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup) ||
    (connectMode == Extensibility.ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_AfterStartup) )

Documentation, where to find it

• In the help Contents in Visual Studio: Visual Studio .NET | Developing with Visual Studio .NET | Reference | Automation and Extensibility Reference or maybe here
• "Manipulating the Development Environment" MSDN
• "Visual Studio .NET SDK" (MSDN)