As I learned today, DTE events are different. Event handlers that are local are marked for garbage collection when the handler goes out of scope. That means the event handler is likely to be fired at most once or never.

I was trying to implement an AddIn that modified the context menu for project items. Specifically, C# files. After poking around for a couple of hours, I succeeded. Adding a menu item (or CommandBarControl) is relatively simple. What was complicated was...

I found an interesting feature when creating a Visual Studio project template. (Details about how to create a template is left to a forthcoming post.) I was working on a wizard for the project template. In the IWizard::RunStarted method for the wizard...