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Writing Add-ins for Visual Studio .NET (Expert's Voice) (Paperback)

by Les Smith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 523 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS (1 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590590260
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590590263
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.7 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,108,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Visual Studio .NET is the most extensible development environment Microsoft has released to date. Organizations create add-ins for many purposes: to speed common tasks, to ease code reuse within an organization, and to enforce rules and consistency among developers. Effective use of add-ins can dramatically improve developer efficiency and reduce costs. Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET is designed to get add-in developers up to speed in developing ad-ins in Visual Studio .NET and to teach add-in development to developers who want to learn to write add-ins. Author Les Smith also provides enough real code examples to challenge even experienced add-in developers. Smith's book begins by teaching readers how to use the Add-In Wizard to create the basic add-in framework. From there, he covers the manipulation of code in windows and controls, and the manipulation of projects. Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NETexplores in detail, how to create an add-in user interface, including toolbars, toolbar buttons, and multiple-level menus, as well as how to create a user interface in the system tray. Smith also addresses the migration of add-ins from VB 6.0 to VB .NET for those developers who have previous experience in writing add-ins. One of the great challenges that add-in developers will encounter is finding the right classes from among the 3,400 classes in the .NET Framework. Smith teaches and demonstrates use of the Visual Studio add-in object model to show readers how to use the methods and properties and respond to events in order to enhance the power of the integrated development environment (IDE).
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 25 Sep 2002
By Andrew Maggs "Andy Maggs" (Redditch, UK) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book in order to get a handle on creating add-ins for VS.NET and being an experienced add-in developer for VB6 I had high expectations, sadly not met. If you've never written add-ins before then this book will be useful to you because it provides useful information on how to add menus and toolbars to the IDE (always poorly documented in the MSDN), however, if you have you will be annoyed at the following:

1) No explanation as to how to create your own dockable tool windows. (you need to create a user control and an ActiveX component to host it - MS provide a good sample on how to do this).

2) Very poor coverage of automation event handling, adding virtually nothing to the MSDN documents and sample.

3) Poor explanation as to why VB6 add-ins don't work in .NET (I'm not convinced that they don't yet) - I get the impression that the author has never developed add-ins in VB6 (only VB5) because his description of the extensibility interface methods refers to IDTExtensibilty, yet VB6 created add-ins implement IDTExtensibility2 (at least those created using the designer do).

Overall I get the impression that the author lost interest in the subject part way through the book or at least lost interest in solving the problems he obviously encountered. As I said, this book is good for beginners but not good enough for anyone with experience.

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