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Creating Add-ins and Wizards

Visual Studio 2012

You can extend Visual Studio by automating its features or by adding your own features. The Visual Studio Automation model can be used to extend the integrated development environment (IDE).

Important
You cannot create arrays or wizards with a Visual Studio Express edition.

In This Section

Extensibility Projects: Choosing an Extensibility template for an add-in.
Components of an Add-In Project: Default methods contained in an add-in project.
How to: Create an Add-In: How to create add-ins.
Add-In Registration: Registering an add-in.
Add-In Security: How to limit access to a project .addin XML registration file.
Displaying Add-Ins on Toolbars and Menus: Exposing add-ins on menus and toolbars.
Binding Add-In Commands to Keys: Connecting add-ins to keyboard shortcuts.
How to: Restore Add-In Commands to the Menu: How to restore commands that disappear from a menu.
How to: Control Add-Ins By Using the Add-In Manager: Loading, unloading, and controlling add-ins in the IDE.
How to: Deactivate and Remove an Add-In: Unloading an add-in and removing it from the Tools menu or the toolbar.
How to: Run Add-Ins on the Command Line: Configuring an add-in to load using Devenv command line.
Walkthrough: Debugging an Add-In Project: Debugging add-ins.
Walkthrough: Creating a Wizard: Creating a wizard.
Context Parameters for Launching Wizards: Starting wizards programmatically.
Configuring .Vsz Files to Start Wizards: Wizard (.vsz) files.
Adding Wizards to the Add Item and New Project Dialog Boxes by Using .Vsdir Files: VSDir files, and how they affect the Add Item and New Project dialog boxes.

Related Sections

Automation Object Model Chart: Shows a diagram that has the core elements of the Visual Studio automation object model.
Referencing Automation Assemblies and the DTE2 Object: How to reference the EnvDTE namespace and obtain an instance of the DTE object.
Visual Studio Commands and Switches: Describes how to control many Visual Studio features by using a command line.
Automation and Extensibility Reference: Links to reference topics about automation and extensibility in Visual Studio, for both shared and language-specific components.
Extending the Visual Studio Environment: Links to topics that show how to automate and extend Visual Studio.

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