VS Shell Customization Points
Following up on my last post about VS Shell workarounds with the current VS SDK, I wanted to make a post about the customizations that you can do with the VS Shell. Most of these are done through the <projectname>.pkdef file that gets generated when you create a new VS Shell project.
The primary customization points of the Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) are:
· Splash Screen
· Application Title
· Application Icon
· Menus and Commands
· (Unregister packages)
· Command Line Logo
· Allow Add-ins
· Default Project Location
· Default Search Page
· Default Web Browser Homepage
· New Project Dialog Installed Templates Header
· Default Debug Engine
· Disable Output Window
· Allow Dropped Files on Main Window
· Solution file extension
· User option file extension
Try opening up your project' .pkgdef file and it should be pretty intuitive how you customize these.
thanks,
James
