| Acknowledgments | xv |
| Introduction | xvii |
| PART I VISUAL STUDIO .NET AS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL | |
| 1 The Evolution of Visual Studio .NET | 3 |
| Moving to Visual Studio .NET | 3 |
| Developing for .NET | 4 |
| Unmanaged Development Enhancements | 6 |
| New Compiler Options | 7 |
| Updated Class Libraries | 8 |
| C++ Attributes | 9 |
| Standards Conformance | 9 |
| A New IDE | 10 |
| Visual Studio .NET Features | 10 |
| Editors, Designers, and Tool Windows | 11 |
| Visual Studio .NET File Paths | 21 |
| Visual Studio .NET Extensibility | 24 |
| Macros | 24 |
| Add-ins | 25 |
| Wizards | 26 |
| The Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP) | 26 |
| 2 Project Management in Visual Studio .NET | 29 |
| Overview of Solutions and Projects | 29 |
| Understanding Solutions | 31 |
| Solution Items and Miscellaneous Files | 32 |
| Solution Properties | 33 |
| Solution and Solution User Options Files | 35 |
| Projects | 39 |
| Project Items | 40 |
| Project Properties | 41 |
| Project Source Files | 50 |
| Project Dependencies | 56 |
| Building Projects and Solutions | 57 |
| 3 The Visual Studio .NET Editor | 59 |
| Documents in the IDE | 59 |
| It's All About Text | 60 |
| Typing and Shortcuts | 63 |
| The Zen of Tabs and Code Formatting | 70 |
| Syntax Coloring, Line Numbering, and Outlining (or, What the Compiler Saw) | 73 |
| Syntax Coloring | 73 |
| Line Numbering | 77 |
| Outlining | 79 |
| Programming Help | 81 |
| IntelliSense | 81 |
| Dynamic Help | 85 |
| Using the Command Window | 86 |
| Search, Replace, and Regular Expressions | 88 |
| Wildcards | 90 |
| Regular Expressions | 92 |
| Searching from the Command Window | 94 |
| Incremental Searching | 95 |
| 4 Visual Studio .NET Macros | 97 |
| Macros: The Duct Tape of Visual Studio .NET | 97 |
| Recording Visual Studio .NET Macros | 98 |
| Macro Commands | 100 |
| Editing Macros in the Macros IDE | 102 |
| A Simple Macro | 105 |
| Working with Macros | 106 |
| Manipulating Documents and Text | 107 |
| Moving Windows | 109 |
| Using Assemblies in Your Macros | 112 |
| Macro Events | 113 |
| Sharing Macros with Others | 116 |
| Exporting Modules and Projects | 116 |
| Turning Macros into Add-ins | 118 |
| PART II EXTENDING VISUAL STUDIO .NET | |
| 5 The Add-in Wizard and the Automation Object Model | 125 |
| The Add-in Wizard | 125 |
| Running the Add-in Wizard | 126 |
| The Add-in Project | 127 |
| Installing and Loading the Add-in | 134 |
| Debugging the Add-in | 136 |
| The Automation Object Model | 137 |
| Automation Objects | 138 |
| Object Model Guidelines | 139 |
| Automation Events | 140 |
| 6 Add-in Architecture | 151 |
| Writing an Add-in from Scratch | 151 |
| Compiling the Basic Add-in | 152 |
| Registering the Basic Add-in with COM | 153 |
| Registering the Basic Add-in with Visual Studio .NET | 156 |
| Add-in Events | 158 |
| The Add-in Event Sequence | 158 |
| The LifeCycle Add-in | 160 |
| The IDTExtensibility2 Interface | 162 |
| The EnvDTE Namespace | 162 |
| OnConnection | 163 |
| OnStartupComplete | 165 |
| OnAddInsUpdate | 166 |
| OnBeginShutdown | 170 |
| OnDisconnection | 170 |
| Add-in Registry Named Values | 171 |
| CommandPreload and the PreloadAddinState Key | 171 |
| LoadBehavior and CommandLineSafe | 174 |
| SatelliteDLLPath and SatelliteDLLName | 176 |
| FriendlyName and Description | 178 |
| AboutBoxDetails and AboutBoxIcon | 178 |
| 7 Commands | 181 |
| What Is a Command? | 181 |
| Locating Commands | 182 |
| Command Names | 183 |
| Executing Commands | 185 |
| Creating Macro Commands | 186 |
| Creating an Add-in Command | 186 |
| Handling a Command | 188 |
| Command State | 189 |
| How an Add-in Command Handler Is Found | 191 |
| The Command User Interface | 191 |
| The Command Bar Object Model | 192 |
| The Primary Command Bar | 193 |
| Adding a New Command Bar User Interface | 194 |
| Using Custom Bitmaps | 196 |
| Restoring a Lost Command and Its User Interface | 197 |
| devenv /setup | 198 |
| Custom Registration | 198 |
| Removing a Command | 202 |
| Command Parameters | 205 |
| Key Bindings | 207 |
| 8 Managing Solutions and Projects Programmatically | 213 |
| Working with Solutions | 213 |
| Creating, Loading, and Unloading Solutions | 214 |
| Enumerating Projects | 215 |
| Capturing Solution Events | 217 |
| Solution Add-ins | 223 |
| Working with Project Items | 225 |
| Enumerating Project Items | 225 |
| Adding and Removing Project Items | 228 |
| Working with Language-Specific Project Objects | 231 |
| VSProject Projects | 231 |
| Leveraging Visual Studio .NET Utility Project Types | 238 |
| Miscellaneous Files Project | 238 |
| Solution Items Project | 240 |
| Unmodeled Projects | 240 |
| Project and Project Item Events | 241 |
| Managing Build Configurations | 243 |
| Manipulating Solution Settings | 243 |
| Manipulating Project Settings | 251 |
| Build Events | 254 |
| Persisting Solution and Project Information Across IDE Sessions | 257 |
| 9 Visual Studio .NET Wizards | 259 |
| An Overview of Wizards | 259 |
| Types of Wizards | 259 |
| Creating the Wizard Object | 260 |
| Creating the .vsz File | 264 |
| Where to Save .vsz Files | 265 |
| Creating Wizard Templates | 268 |
| Using Template Files | 269 |
| Solution Filenames and the New Project Wizard | 271 |
| Replacements | 271 |
| Raw Add New Item Templates | 274 |
| Custom Wizards | 275 |
| Running a Custom Wizard Programmatically | 276 |
| Chaining Custom Wizards | 277 |
| The Wizard Helper Library | 279 |
| Wizard Variables | 283 |
| Wizard Helper Methods | 285 |
| Completing the WizardBuilder Sample | 285 |
| 10 Programming the User Interface | 287 |
| Window Basics | 287 |
| The Windows Collection | 287 |
| Using the Object Property | 290 |
| The Main Window | 291 |
| Explorer Windows and the UIHierarchy Object | 293 |
| The UIHierarchy Object Tree | 293 |
| The UIHierarchy Object | 295 |
| The UIHierarchyItems Object | 297 |
| The UIHierarchyItem Object | 297 |
| The Toolbox Window | 298 |
| Tabs and Items | 298 |
| Adding Items to the Toolbox | 299 |
| The Task List Window | 303 |
| Task List Items | 303 |
| Adding New Tasks | 303 |
| The TaskItem Object | 309 |
| Task List Events | 310 |
| Comment Tokens | 312 |
| The Output Window | 316 |
| Output Window Panes | 316 |
| The Forms Designer Window | 318 |
| The IDesignerHost Interface | 318 |
| Marshaling | 319 |
| Adding Controls to a Form | 319 |
| Finding Existing Controls | 320 |
| A Form Layout Sample | 321 |
| Creating Custom Tool Windows | 322 |
| Shim Controls | 325 |
| Setting the Tab Picture of a Custom Tool Window | 329 |
| Setting the Selection Object | 329 |
| The Options Dialog Box | 330 |
| Changing Existing Settings | 330 |
| Creating Custom Settings | 335 |
| 11 Text Editing Objects and Events | 341 |
| Editor Windows | 341 |
| The Window Object | 342 |
| The TextWindow and HTMLWindow Objects | 343 |
| The TextPane Object | 345 |
| Documents | 348 |
| The Document Object | 348 |
| The TextDocument Object | 353 |
| Point Objects | 353 |
| TextPoint | 353 |
| VirtualPoint | 354 |
| EditPoint | 357 |
| The TextSelection Object | 357 |
| A Comparison of TextSelection and EditPoint | 359 |
| Undo Contexts | 360 |
| Automatic Undo Contexts | 361 |
| Creating Undo Contexts | 362 |
| Stack Linkage | 365 |
| The LineChanged Event | 366 |
| Multiple LineChanged Event Handlers | 371 |
| 12 The Code Model | 375 |
| Discovering Code | 375 |
| A Quick Tour Through a Source File | 375 |
| Getting a CodeElement from a Point Object | 388 |
| Generating Code | 389 |
| Building a Source File | 389 |
| PART III DEPLOYMENT, HELP, AND ADVANCED PROJECTS | |
| 13 Designing Setup Projects | 397 |
| Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) Background | 397 |
| Creating Custom Installation Projects | 398 |
| File System Editor | 399 |
| Registry Editor | 404 |
| File Types Editor | 411 |
| User Interface Editor | 413 |
| Custom Actions | 421 |
| Launch Conditions Editor | 425 |
| Merge Modules | 431 |
| Setup for .NET Programs | 432 |
| 14 Visual Studio .NET Help | 441 |
| Navigating the Help System | 441 |
| Help Windows | 443 |
| Search and Index Options | 444 |
| Narrowing Search Results | 445 |
| Creating Custom Help Filters | 446 |
| Searching from the Command Window | 447 |
| Customizing the Dynamic Help Window | 448 |
| Using the XML Help Provider Service | 450 |
| Creating Custom Help Files | 454 |
| Registering Your Help Collection | 460 |
| 15 Advanced Projects in Visual Studio .NET | 463 |
| Visual Studio .NET from the Command Line | 463 |
| Building Projects and Solutions from the Command Line | 464 |
| Setting GUI Options at the Command Line | 468 |
| VSIP Options | 470 |
| Source Control with Visual SourceSafe | 470 |
| Setting Up VSS | 470 |
| Placing Files Under Source Control | 471 |
| Working with Files Under Source Control | 474 |
| Planning Your Solutions Carefully | 479 |
| Don't Break the Build | 480 |
| APPENDIX Code Model Reference | 483 |
| Code Model Objects | 483 |
| FileCodeModel and CodeModel | 483 |
| CodeElement | 488 |
| Specialized Code Model Objects | 491 |
| Generating Code | 507 |
| Common Parameters | 507 |
| Main Add Methods | 509 |
| Other Add Methods | 513 |
| Remove Methods | 516 |
| INDEX | 519 |
