Associating Editors with Projects and File Types

To associate an editor with projects and file types, you must register the editor and the associated file types. The following topics explain how to use the tools in Visual Studio SDK to create and register editor factories in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).

In This Section

• How to: Register Editor File Types
  Describes how to register file types that are handled by an editor.

• How to: Use the Managed Package Framework Classes to Register Editor Factories
  Describes how use the managed package framework (MPF) class attributes to register an editor factory.

• How to: Register Editor Factories
  Describes how to use Windows registry entries to register an editor factory.

• How to: Suppress File Change Notifications
  Explains how to suppress file change notification during operations that include programmatic changes to files.

Reference

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop
  TextManager provides general services for anyone wanting information about the active text views.

Related Sections

• Editors
  Introduces the different types of editors Visual Studio provides and explains how you can create custom editors.