How-Do-I: Create and Edit Macros
In this video Duane Laflotte will demonstrate how to create and edit macros, how to assign macros to hotkeys, and how to pass parameters to code in the background.
View ArticleHow-Do-I: Add Commands to Menus and Toolbars
In this How To we describe how to create a VSPackage Command type. We also show you how to manipulate the code executed by commands, where the command is positioned in the IDE as well as what ICON will...
View ArticleHow Do I: Write to the Output Window?
In this sample, we learn how to leverage VSPackages to create a tool window that gives us the functionality of writing out strings of data directly to the output window. This sample helps show how to...
View ArticleHow Do I: Add a Right-Click Menu Item in Visual Studio?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows you how to add new items into existing menus in Visual Studio. See how to make use of the IDTCommandTarget interface to define when your new menu item is available...
View ArticleHow Do I: Add a Custom Tool Window to the Visual Studio Environment?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows how to build and add a custom tool window into the Visual Studio environment. Once the tool window is in place, the video then goes on to add a toolbar with a...
View ArticleHow Do I: Iterate Through the Items in the Visual Studio Task List?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows you how to iterate through the items in the Visual Studio task list, and add new tasks pulled from a Web service to this list in code. The video also covers adding...
View ArticleHow Do I: Add an Options Page to a VSPackage in Visual Studio?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows you how to configure your VSPackage by adding and customizing a standard Options page with a property grid. Then he demonstrates how to add a more advanced custom...
View ArticleHow Do I: Create a Basic Editor in Visual Studio 2005?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows how to create a basic editor in Visual Studio 2005 to allow you to edit custom file types. He uses the Custom Editor Wizard to show how it registers custom file...
View ArticleHow Do I: Add Branding to the About Window and Splash Screen in Visual Studio...
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows how to add branding information about your Visual Studio Integration Package into the Help>About box in Visual Studio 2005, and how to add these details into the...
View ArticleHow Do I: Sign Up for the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow shows how to sign up with the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program in order to obtain a Package Load Key required to distribute a VSPackage. See how to...
View ArticleHow Do I: Deploy a Visual Studio Package?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow discusses the key concepts of deploying a VSPackage and shows the final output of a deployed package. Then, he demonstrates how to use a Setup and Deployment project to...
View ArticleHow Do I: Create Additional Help Files for Visual Studio?
Learn how to create a Help file for a Visual Studio extensibility package and then integrate the Help into the package. During the process, specific Help topics and keywords will be associated with...
View ArticleHow Do I: Create a Multi-View Editor in Visual Studio?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow demonstrates how to create a multi-view editor that saves and loads two linked files in the same editor window in Visual Studio.
View ArticleHow Do I: Create a Language Service?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow illustrates a simple working Language Service. He begins by building a simple scanner for colorising based on regular expressions, then expands on this to implement the...
View ArticleHow Do I: Create Custom Project and Item Templates for Visual Studio?
Visual Studio templates are one technique to help develop consistency and reusability across projects and project items.
View ArticleHow Do I: Learn About the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio...
In this video, Rob Windsor discusses the new features and changes to the IDE in Visual Studio 2008. See the updated Web page editor, WPF form designer, CSS editor, and more.
View ArticleHow Do I: Create and Consume a Windows Communication Foundation Service?
This walkthrough will demonstrate how to create a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service and how to use that service from a Windows client application.
View ArticleHow Do I: Use JavaScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2008?
In this video, Chris Pels provides an overview of the new IntelliSense features for JavaScript in Visual Studio 2008, and demonstrates the integration of XML comments for JavaScript.
View ArticleHow Do I: Create and Use an AJAX-Enabled Web Service in a Web Site in Visual...
In this video, Rob Windsor shows you how to create an AJAX-enabled Web service and use its methods from client script running in a separate Web application.
View ArticleHow Do I: Use the LINQ-Enabled XML API in Visual Studio 2008?
In this video, Chris Pells shows you how to load XML from disk or create XML in code with XML literals in Visual Basic or XElement in C#, and how LINQ queries can be executed against the XML to extract...
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