Visual Studio Add-in Library

Introduction

It has been a long time I wanted to natively integrate all our tools into Visual Studio, but due to lack of time and desire, I always thought "OK, I'll see this later" and nothing was done... So this summer, I started to dig the Visual Studio plug-in APIs (EnvDTE), and while browsing CodeProject and more generally the Web, I discovered that in fact no one has a clear and simple solution to create add-ins for Visual Studio. For older versions, people where talking about packages and pure COM calls; for new ones (VS2005+), the Add-in Project template was used, and each article I read had its own implementation and limitation. More, even the MS documentation wasn't clear, giving sometimes samples with different implementations for the same requirement. So, this library is a compilation of practices (that work!) that I picked around and reorganized to simplify the creation of add-ins and the associated menu items/commands.

Using the code

First of all .. create a new plug-in project like in figure 1 (click Next until the end)!

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