HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Oliver Sturm — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:57:00 GMT

May I take the wild guess that this doesn't work in beta 1? I wasn't able to find the ActionsPaneControl anywhere, for step 3. Or where am I to look?

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Paul Stubbs — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:47:00 GMT

Right the VST SmartTag feature was added post Beta 1. The ActionsPaneControl is a standard UserControl template. So you can also just create a UserControl. To add this just right clisk on the project and choose Add item, new item.

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Oliver Sturm — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:04:00 GMT

Hm... that may work, but I can't use much, if any, of the source code in the sample. There's no SmartTag object (just an interface of the same name) and no Action (just System.Action<T>, which isn't meant here, I assume?). All the namespaces are full of interfaces, but nearly devoid of any classes that could be instantiated. There's also no Terms property on the SmartTag interface.

Well, never mind. I reckon beta 2 will finally be available one of these days, I can try it then. Thanks!

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Oliver Sturm — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:44:00 GMT

Rereading your reply, I guess you were actually saying that the whole SmartTag support is just not there in beta 1. That's what I found, too :-)

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

Paul Stubbs — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:18:00 GMT

I believe that you could also use the March CTP build.

Menus for VSTO Smart Tags are dynamic

Misha Shneerson — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:53:22 GMT

One quick tip today. Since VSTO Beta2 we have added SmartTags support for document level customizations....

VSTO 2005 : un brin de fraicheur pour le beta testeur

The Mit's Blog — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:06:29 GMT

Menus for VSTO Smart Tags are dynamic

Misha Shneerson — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:54:18 GMT

One quick tip today. Since VSTO Beta2 we have added SmartTags support for document level customizations....

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

E.P. — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:38:57 GMT

Is this still valid code. I did everything as you said and it does not work.

The code is still good

Paul Stubbs — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:27:39 GMT

Yes. I just retested this code and both the C# and VB smart tags are working.

re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

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re: HowTo: Create a SmartTag in VB or C# in less than 10 lines of code

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Which VSTO version does what?

Wouter van Vugt — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:15:42 GMT

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