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Visual Studio SDK

Editors

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The Visual Studio provides support for creating an editor that can be hosted in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Additionally, Visual Studio provides a customizable editor called the core editor. If you use the core editor, you have access to the interfaces that implement a custom language service. Editors can be developed to work with all project systems or to work with only your own custom project system.

In This Section

Editor Essentials: Describes the core elements and concepts for understanding and using editors in your VSPackages.

Types of Editors: Lists the types of editors available to you in Visual Studio and details the features of each editor.

Editor Design Decisions: Discusses the importance of selecting the correct type of editor for extending the environment and provides design criteria for selecting the correct editor.

How to: Create an Editor (C#): Describes how to create a standard editor using the Visual Studio Integration Package Wizard.

How to: Create an Editor for a VSPackage: Describes a more in-depth process for creating a standard editor for a VSPackage.

In-Place Activation: Explains how to implement your editor view as an ActiveX control or as an Active document data object if your view hosts ActiveX controls.

Simplified Embedding: Describes how to implement a simplified embedding editor.

Editor Factories: A conceptual overview of editor factories in Visual Studio SDK.

How to: Provide Context for Editors or Designers: Discusses how to provide context for an editor or a designer.

Language Service Context for the Core Editor: Discusses how to provide language service context for the Visual Studio core editor.

Document Windows and Editors: Discusses the purpose of document windows, defines the two types of editors that a document window can host, and discusses the two types of editor implementations that the IDE supports.

Core Editor: Describes the features of the core editor and provides details about how to customize the core editor.

Associating Editors with Projects and File Types: Describes how to create and register editor factories in the Visual Studio IDE by using tools available in Visual Studio SDK.

Editor Features: Explains how the Visual Studio SDK provides features to enable state-of-the-art editor implementations that take advantage of Visual Studio core editor functionality.

Advanced Editor Scenarios: Describes advanced features that the Visual Studio SDK offers to extend editors.

Editor Walkthroughs: Lists walkthroughs that illustrate how to customize editors

Editor Samples: Lists samples that illustrate how to customize editors

Editors Frequently Asked Questions: Contains responses to questions and issues about editors from the Visual Studio user community.

Related Sections

Core Editor: Lists the six components of the Visual Studio core editor that let you modify and query textual information.

Developing a Language Service: Provides links to features that provide customization capabilities to the Visual Studio core editor by adding support for a language service.

User Interfaces: Explains how to use Visual Studio services to create UI elements that match the rest of Visual Studio.