I have been able to get some code from one of my colleagues and Extensibility support specialist, Ed Dore, that may help with the Toolbox control installation in Visual Studio 2005. I must remind you that the code that I post here comes with a Disclaimer...

The Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples are now available for download. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/code/automation/default.aspx Please feel free to download the samples and try them out. The samples consists of examples of how...

If you have the SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP or SQL Server 2005 , then it is overwriting some registry key settings. The workaround for this is: Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{36839529-3AF3-47fa...

Have you ever wondered if it was possible to just go on coding without having to always first go and write the using or the Imports statement in C# or VB or J# or how about just fully qualifying the class names in place by using a keyboard shortcut. Well...

In Visual Studio 2005, any Task that is added from an Add-in or a Macro using the TaskList automation object appears under the ‘Add-ins and Macros’ provider drop down in the TaskList. Currently there is no direct way, using the Automation Object Model...

In the Displaying custom bitmap for VS add-in command button from satellite DLL , Huizhong showed how to create a Managed Satellite dll. The steps for creating the Satellite dll need to be performed everytime your make a change to the resources. And it...

Craig Skibo has just posted an updated version of the Community Content Installer Power Toys. These are tools that will help you build, uninstall community content. If you haven't yet then give it a try. The download is available at http://workspaces...

The Visual Studio Content Installer allows users to install community content such as add-ins, toolbox controls etc. The Visual Studio Content Installer uses a Visual Studio Installer (VSI) file which contains the content to install. Each VSI file contains...

In the past with Visual Studio 2003, it was possible to programmatically add .Net or Managed toolbox controls using the DTE. With Visual Studio 2005 this method of programmatically adding the controls has been deprecated in favor of using one of the following...

I am a member of the Visual Studio Extensibility Team and mainly responsible for the quality of the Automation Object Model in addition to Add-ins, Macros and anything else related to extensibility. Other things that interest me and I help drive in...