The Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples are now available for download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/code/automation/default.aspx It includes new samples for VS 2005 and samples updated to use the new VS 2005 .AddIn mechanism. Please...

In Visual Studio 2005, managed add-ins are allowed to get loaded from a website as long as you enable it in Tools Options Add-in/Macros Security page and also fully trust the add-in assembly from the URL. To load an add-in from a URL, you need to: ...

Users of the Code Model may be alerted of significant changes of code by listening for events with a CodeModelEvents object. The CodeModelEvents object is in EnvDTE80, you get it by casting DTE.Events to EnvDTE80.Events2 , e.g. in VB, it is like CType...

The Visual Studio Code Model can be used to read and edit the structure of the code in a file. The model gives you the ability to interact with files from different langauges in a common way without parsing the code. With this model, an automation client...

In previous version of VS, if you want to create a ToolWindow hosting a .NET user control by using Windows.CreateToolWindow , you'll have to use a shim control to support it. Now with VS 2005, you don't need the shim any more. It is so handy by using...

Add-ins can get resources such as strings, icons, and bitmaps from satellite DLLs which separates resources from your add-in. The first time I tried to get add-in resources from its satellite DLL, I easily find out how to do it for resources like strings...