Visual Studio SDK

Project Types

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Visual Studio includes several project types for languages such as Visual C#, Visual Basic, and Visual J#, and the IronPython integration sample includes a project type for the IronPython language. Visual Studio also lets you create your own project types.

In This Section

Project Type Essentials: Presents the important information that you must have to start working with project types.

Creating Project Types: Discusses the design of project types.

Walkthrough: Adding a Command to the Solution Explorer Toolbar (C#): Details the steps that you must follow to add a button to the Visual Studio Solution Explorer toolbar.

How to: Add Web Services to Project Systems: Shows how to integrate Web services into your VSPackage project system.

How to: Rename Project Hierarchy Nodes (C++): Shows how to rename a project folder hierarchy node.

Adding Project and Project Item Templates: Discusses how you can add templates to your project types so that users can create new projects and project items according to a pattern.

Opening and Saving Project Items: Provides information about how to manage the items your project type supports.

Managing Configuration Options: Discusses how your project types can support configuration options like Debug and Release that control how projects are built, debugged, and so forth.

Supporting Source Control: Provides information about how to add support for source-control systems to your project types.

Nesting Projects: Explains how your project types can support nesting, so that projects can be grouped together in Solution Explorer.

Upgrading Projects: Describes how your project type can participate in the Upgrade Wizard to upgrade project files from an earlier version of Visual Studio.

Project Types Architecture: Provides detailed technical information about project types.

Related Sections

Hierarchies and Selection: Provides an overview of how the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) displays a project as a hierarchy.

Project Subtypes: Provides links to project subtype topics. Project subtypes enable extension of most kinds of project types, including your own.

IronPython Project System Sample: Describes the project type provided in the IronPython end-to-end sample.

Projects (Visual Studio SDK): Describes how to extend the Visual Studio project system.